[New-imc] Online form: Proposed new IMC! (Lawrence IMC)

[boud]

hey hudson,
   Please look up 

http://newimc.indymedia.org
http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/NewImcPageImprovements

and it would be good if you could develop good communication
(publicly archived mailing lists + face-to-face meetings) with
the IMC Arkansas 

http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-ar

and the Kansas City, Missouri people who are just starting
to organise:

http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/new-imc/2002-December/003194.html

since i think you're geographically close to one another, and you can
better understand each other and guide each other through the initial
organising and then through making a real, functioning, grassroots,
but still non-hierarchical, network, if you start contacting each
other and developing trust now rather than later.

There may be other IMCs close to you. Check out 
http://www.indymedia.org/contact.php3

There's also the question of scalability. If non-US new-imc people
have to handle US new IMCs, we'll quickly be smothered under the
workload.

solidarity
boud


On Tue, 4 Feb 2003 hhluce at earthlink.net wrote:

>  Submitted by: Hudson Luce <hhluce at earthlink.net> on Tuesday,
> February 4th, 2003 at 10:55:44 pm (-0800)
 
> imc_name:
> Lawrence IMC

> state:
> Kansas

> contact_email:
> hhluce at earthlink.net

> supporting_groups: we have 14 people so far, after 1 week of
> organizing. we\'re working on groups and will advise as soon as we
> get some

> outreach: We\'re currently holding public meetings every week right
> after the end of our local peace demo. Last week, 250 people
> attended the demo, and 14 people came together in the first
> Indymedia meeting. In addition, I\'ve passed out about 200 handbills
> advertising our meetings. Both processes will continue for the
> foreseeable future.

> 
> introductory_statement:

>  1. to serve as a focus for local organizing, kind of like the North
> Carolina IMC. We envision IMCs for not only Lawrence, but also
> Topeka, Salina, Manhattan, Leavenworth, Kansas City, Ottawa, and so
> on. Kansas is a rural state, but with good net connectivity. (so
> maybe we should call it the Kansas IMC...)

>  2. to serve as a place to spread news not reported on in the local
> corporate (and \"public\") media - to serve as a clearinghouse for
> information about not only local byut also national and
> international events.