[New-imc] new-imc volunteers in US needed urgently!!!

[Jay]

As boud says, I will be able to help with U.S.-based
new-imcs, starting this Sunday night.  He's definitely
right that one person isn't enough.  Help will be
greatly appreciated.  Thanks, Arc, for offering.  If
at least one more person joins in, we may be able to
work with the U.S.-based IMCs as well as help relieve
pressure on those who have so kindly been dealing with
IMCs in the rest of the world for the last few months.

Jay

--- boud <boud1 at wp.pl> wrote:
> hi everyone,
> 
> ####
> SUMMARY
> We now have (at least) seven (7) pending
> applications 
> for new IMCs in the USA, without any new-imc
> volunteers to
> help them.
> The new-imc working group urgently needs US (or at
> least
> N.America) based volunteers to help guide new imc
> applicants
> in the US.
> Please redistribute this call to US Indymedia
> collectives. 
> ####
> 
> We now have (at least) seven (7) applications for
> new IMCs in the US
> from groups who are eager and enthusiastic and have
> already created
> websites and/or mailing lists and contacted the
> new-imc working group
> since December: 
> 
>
http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/new-imc/2003-February/003442.html
> 
> Several of their requests have simply gone
> unanswered.
> 
> i've just helped IMC Arkansas through the process,
> despite the fact
> that i'm badly placed to judge local conditions and
> will be less
> affected by the recognition of an IMC Arkansas than
> Indymedia groups
> and people in the US (i'm an IMC Poland volunteer).
> Apart from michael
> albert's recommended "decide according to the extent
> to which
> you would be affected by a decision" principle,
> there's also the
> practical fact that approving new IMCs will not be
> scalable if we
> do not find new volunteers.
> 
> jay has turned up and is likely to help, but he's
> only one person
> and it's unhealthy to rely on just one person.
> 
> The new-imc process has been described here:
>
http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/NewImcHowHelpUs
> 
> and there are several other new new-imc
> meta-documents at:
> http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/NewImc
> 
> NIMC is growing exponentially (i.e. doubling each
> year, rather than
> adding the same number each year) and the number of
> new US
> applications per month is not going to decrease.  If
> noone talks
> them through the process, they're either going to be
> frustrated 
> and give up or else they'll reinvent the wheel and
> develop some
> other de facto new-imc process.  Or the new-imc
> working group might
> feel pressured to internally approve groups which
> will turn into
> sects or have other pathological problems which
> distract everyone
> from more constructive stuff.
> 
> solidarity
> boud
> 
> 
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