[New-imc] Re: Arguments for a subject-based IMC

[boud]

hi arc,

On Thu, 2 Jan 2003, Arc wrote:

> Chuck0, I would have to agree with the others that have already spoken
> against this.  Issue-based IMCs don't tend to work because there's a
> need for people to organize face to face.  This is especially true when
> organizing for homeless issues.
> 
> If you are truly dedicated to this cause, what I would suggest is using
> your resources and outreaching to other cities throughout the world,
> prehaps coordinating through existing IMCs, and get a network of people
> to represent homeless issues worldwide.  Yes, I realise what I'm
> suggesting is nearly impossible, however if you feel you can do it then
> I wouldn't let anything here stop you from trying.
>
> I also don't believe, by any stretch of the imagination, that anyone
> would block an IMC if you had successfully organized a worldwide IMC on
> this issue.  Even if it simply consisted of members of existing IMCs,
> like a global working group, who were dedicated to making this happen.

Thanks for saying that, arc, i think you express this well.
 
> I believe that what you are hearing, as far as the negetive feedback and
> voices against such a project, is a strong doubt that such a thing could
> be done.  What I believe many of us feel is that this would end up being
> a project oriented almost exclusivly in one or two cities, or even just
> the US, and thus not represent the issue as a whole.  At the same time,
> IMC's worldwide do a pretty good job at representing their own issues.
> 
> I have an alternative proposal, however, that I think is both realistic
> and would solve the problems that have been raised:
> 
> As an alternative to "Issue IMCs", have alternative pages on global for
> different issues.  No publishing, just a center column for homeless
> issue features from different local IMCs (similar to how the global
> features newswire works) and a newswire consisting of all the local
> newswire stories under those catagories.  To publish, people are
> directed to go to their local IMC and publish marking it as being on
> that topic.. depending on the codebase, some IMCs could allow one
> article to be marked as being for several different topics, etc.  

thanks - i added a version of the last paragraph to the TWiki.

boud