[New-imc] "supporting groups" question

[evan]

I disagree. By putting a request for what other groups people have  
contacted it encourages them to think of indymedia as both an  
organization but also a coalition and network. This helps us drive off  
people who just want to start an imc because they will get a prebuilt  
reputation. It also helps remind folks that indymedia isn't about being  
the voice of one particular perspective but rather being a force for  
democratization of the media as a tool for the breadth of social  
movements.

When an imc fails, more often than not it's because it's an isolated  
small group who has very few contacts with real social movements in  
their community, either because they are progressive journalists or  
because they are anarchopunks who refuse to talk to people who don't  
think exactly like them.

in solidarity,
evan


On Tuesday, March 11, 2003, at 11:52  AM, Arc wrote:

> I've been wanting to raise this as an issue for awile.. alot of  
> people, when they go and read that form, believe
> that they need a local coilition of groups to approve the IMC.. or  
> that the IMC should be founded by another
> group.
>
> I'd personally like to see a diversity of backgrounds of those who are  
> organizing the IMC's founding, which this
> question somewhat covers, but I think the process is confusing enough  
> that implying they need to get formal
> support of local organizations before applying to become an IMC is  
> unnessesary.
>
> Bringing this up as a discussion item, I have no specific ideas in  
> mind on how to fix it other than the
> nessesary to change it in my view.
>
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