[New-imc] Indymedia Baghdad? Kabul?

[Crystal Allene Cook]

Proposal for Indymedia At Large

Some Radio IMC and other folks here in Los Angeles, on the tail of what has been created with electronicIraq.net and electronicIntifada.net are interested in the possibility of creating/moderating an Indymedia At Large.  Although we are still in the process of what this proposal may actually entail, we are interested in helping facilitate Indymedia possibilities to militarized zones or sites of U.S. Military aggression and/or occupation through creating opportunities for the the people there to have access to bearing witness and entering the process of posting to a global audience, even if they cannot rely upon a secure site, server, or functioning group in their immediate situation or environs.

Some proposals include:

A) Using whatever technology available to submit information to Indymedia At Large, moderators would then take responsibility for posting to the site.  IMC At Large participants would garner support to help people on the ground in these sites access this technology.  This could be done through outreach here, directly going to those areas to provide support, etc. all towards the eventual goal that the people on the ground at these sites would, as able, form an actual functioning IMC, moderating their own site.

B) Our initial interests include At Large to: Baghdad, Kabul, Colombia, and the Philippines, etc., stretching as far and wide as U.S. Military Aggression.  We have begun dialogue with Voices in the Wilderness (www.vitw.org), Iraq Peace Team, and ElectronicIraq. net toward creating the possibility for an Indymedia Baghdad.  As a fully-functionin IMC, adhering to all the principles of IMC, would be difficult to create there, an Indymedia At Large would serve as a bridge between the intial steps of independent voice and independent moderation.  

Please respond with any ideas, comments, overlapping suggestions, etc.  We are in the process of waiting on response for local members to possibly go to Baghdad, as well as working to support ElectronicIraq.net   Although this is not an Indymedia site, these people are doing important work and would be worthwhile highlighting through the main IMC site.

Thanks so much!

Crystal Allene Cook

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