[New-imc] IMC BEIRUT imc-process approval DEADLINE Mon 24 Feb 2003 23:59 GMT

[boud]

hi everyone,
   IMC Beirut have passed internal new-imc approval.

imc-process/imc-communication deadline Mon 24 Feb 23:59 GMT

Here are their membership criteria, including mission statement and
editorial policy.

http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/new-imc/2003-February/003358.html

new-imc internal DEADLINE Mon 17 Feb 2003 23:00 GMT

Please also note the comments from petros.

liberté, égalité, solidarité
boud


> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2003 17:50:03 +0200
> From: Petros Evdokas <petros_cyprus at burleehost.net>
> To: new-imc at lists.indymedia.org, imc-beirut at lists.indymedia.org
 
> -------------------------- 
> 
> Boud, thanks for taking this initiative! *and* for your
> much- needed sense of lightness and humour.  And I
> certainly agree with your proposal. If only we had
> taken this step earlier....
> 
> I feel that imc-Beirut has been ready to be a member of
> Indymedia for more than a few months now, and has been
> artificially held back due to our own errors,
> especially in terms of allowing mixed messages to
> filter toward the group from imc sources which helped
> disorient, rather than help to focus. 
> 
> The recent messages from the group also show that there
> is a good sense of group cohesion, internationalist
> politics, and (unfortunately), still a confusion
> between a website and a membership to imc (this is
> something that all of us in the new-imc working group
> need to keep working to clarify, to all new imc
> groups). It is *our* responsibility that our colleagues
> in Beirut are still being told by imc sources,
> erroneously, that having an imc group and having a 
> website is the same thing. We need to give relief to
> our Beirut colleagues from this terrible dilemma which
> has been placed on them. The group *is worthy and
> ready* to be a member of indymedia, even if it never
> gets a chance to publish online (due to the current
> level of development, there are technical difficulties
> to render text in arabic); free access to community and
> radical media can take many forms, for example radio,
> print, video, etc, and the Beirut group already has
> enough combined political and journalistic experience
> and community roots to more than qualify as an imc - it
> will find its own appropriate medium of expression and
> publication at its own terms and its own rhythm. 
> 
> Again, thanks to Boud, and my very best wishes to
> everyone in the imc-Beirut group to continue with the
> great work. 
> 
> The next step will involve sending the application
> "upstairs" to the imc-communication group, where there
> will be a period during which we might hear comments,
> suggestions, questions, etc. 
> 
> Everyone I know of in the Eastern Mediterranean imc
> community (most of us are in imc groups also stuck with
> computer + language problems *and* still begging for
> technical help) are eager to see the imc-beirut group
> become a member of the network. If any discussions
> break out at imc-communication regarding the
> application of imc-beirut, you will find there is some
> sense of dependable solidarity among us.
> 
> Thanks,
> Petros
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