[New-imc] Funding IMC-Iraq ourselves

[flow]

El mi? 23-07-2003 a las 17:33, Justin Alexander (Jubilee Iraq) escribió:
> Marhaba,
> 
> There has been quite a bit of debate about from whom IMC people would
> be happy to see the guys in Iraq accepting funding. This is all rather
> acedemic since organisations are not currently lining up to fund
> Al-Muajaha, and frankly I think it will be difficult to get external
> funding, and particularly to get it quickly (within a month or so,
> since Al-Muajaha needs help now). I’ll let everyone know what comes
> out of my meeting with the director of the BBC World Service on
> Friday, but I suspect that the most they (and others like IWPR) will
> offer is help with journalistic training – something Majid has
> stressed is very important.

hi all

im not used to write here for other imcs points, but i would like to
tell you something.

i dont think journalistic training is so important. maybe you can
communicate better with journalist lenguage, but thats not what IMHO
indymedia pretends we to do.
I dont know if you like or you need journalist lenguage but i think it
isnt important and it isnt needed for becoming IMC
> 
> However, if every person on this list (I’m guessing there are 20-30,
> maybe more) donated $500 – something most people in US or Western
> Europe can earn in a week –that would provide for all IMC-Iraq’s start
> up costs. I think we’d all agree it would be best if Al-muajaha was
> funded from within the Indymedia movement itself.

i prefer what blicero suggests (and i would like to earn 500$/week ;)
maybe they can talk to western countries iraq support groups as in spain
CSCA (comité de solidaridad con la causa árabe
(http://www.nodo50.org/csca/).

in solidarity, flow
-- 
"It is not proper to think of networks as connecting computers.
Rather, they conncect people using computers to mediate. The great
success of the internet is not technical but in human impact". RFC-1336,
David Clark, MIT.

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