[New-imc] Status on perth...

[boud]

gday shayne, sandgropers,

On Wed, 12 Feb 2003, Shayne O'Neill wrote:

> Is any motion possible yet on moving from the new-imc to imc-process
> scenario.

How about preparing draft editorial policy + draft answers to
the membership criteria

http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/MembershipCriteria

post them to your list with a deadline for comments or blocks
(if someone in the group feels the draft is fundamentally against
what IMC Perth is about), then post them to new-imc, and we should
be able to propose you for 3-day internal approval. After that
there'll be a 7-day deadline on imc-process/imc-communication.

Please see
http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/NewImcPageImprovements
for comments about h. and i., global communication methods.

You can point to URLs on the imc-perth list and/or on the draft 
site to show your answers to various questions. 

Groups with poor internet access and non-native English speakers
generally do this, so i think that in a country of native Strine
speakers with one of the best internet penetration rates in the world,
it shouldn't be too hard to get your answers written up and posted.
 
> We've had a meeting of the kids, and we recon we agree pretty much on the
> editorial process & principles & stuff , are now generating big interest
> from local activist groups and its all good, and are working on the
> critiques we've been given (All constructive and positive so far! Yipee!)

Great! 

> The main concern is with the impending IRAQ war(one hopes not tho!) the
> unions are promising general strike and it'd be nice to get it all
> 'official' and syndicating up to worlds of big-imc to give these folks
> some newscoverage other than the normal "Union thugs disrupting our
> precious army boys" crap that the mainstream media will do.

Official recognition only gets you to the left-hand
column. Syndication (more info at
http://www.indymedia.org/syndication.php3 ) only gets you to the
right-hand column. 

However... if you want "world" coverage in the centre column, you
don't need to be official, but you do need to propose, discuss.  Maybe
what you really want urgently would be to propose a "global" feature
to the features working group about unions in Oz, US, everywhere
opposing the war:

http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/PublishingFeatures  - how to
http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/www-features - mailing list

i suggest including references to stuff like:
http://www.uslaboragainstwar.org/
http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=51&ItemID=2872

i don't know much about how www-features works. Read the info and
you'll quickly know much more than i do. i just know the results are
pretty decent. :)  Find more URLs to unions around the world opposing
the war, and www-features might be pretty happy.

Of course, you're still welcome to write up your editorial policy and
membership criteria quickly, since you seem ready for it. (BTW, this
includes contributing some people to the global communications process,
which is pretty messy at the moment, but see above.)

seeya
boud