[New-imc] Fw: [IMC-Cairo] URGENT

[Wael Khalil]

My Name is Wael Khalil, Local from Cairo.

I'm part of wide network of activists who have been part of the huge anti-war mobilisation on 20-21 March, 2003. I was the first to suggest launching IMC Cairo immmdiately to cope with the new events
We need it Urgently



Hello everyone,

Below you can find the reply that I got from Jay yesterday after telling him that we need the cairo.imc domain ASAP and that we urge that to support us to the maximum possible.

I forward this to you because I want a) to remind you to let Jay know how urgent this is and b) to write him (if you didn't find the time yet)--and show him that the IMC-Cairo is everything but "western dominated" (see second paragraph and what I highlighted there).

Thanks so much,
best, salam,

Chris


(forwarded message from Jay:)

Chris,

Thanks for the message.  I'm definitely convinced!
Seems like there's a lot of support in the new-imc
working group to support the immediate set-up of a
temporary site for the Cairo IMC group -- perhaps at
cairo.indymedia.org, but preferably at either
cairo-imc.org or something like
cairo-tmp.indymedia.org.  You can follow the
discussion in the archives of the new-imc working
group, (go to lists.indymedia.org, scroll down to
"new-imc" and you'll see the link to the archives.

As I told Ian, something you could do to help would be
to e-mail the new-imc at indymedia.org working group and
let people to know about the relationship of your
group with local activists.  That's really the main
concern about creating a permanent Cairo IMC, that it
seems to be dominated by western visitors to Cairo
(perhaps long-term visitors though, and/or
western-born permanent residents, which does make a
difference).  That shouldn't get in the way of
creating a temporary site.

I'll keep pushing.

Jay


Jay


--- "Christoph A. Borucki" <boruschi at web.de> wrote:
> Hi Jay,
> 
> I am working closely together with Ian here in Cairo
> regarding the IMC.
> 
> Taking current events in Cairo and the IMC platform
> into consideration, I think it is very urgent that
> we can gather all our efforts, reports, pictures,
> anger, ... with an "official" cairo.imc... website.
> Please support us and make this possible AS SOON AS
> POSSIBLE.
> The situation regarding news coverage and, more
> broadly, the freedoms of expression or assembly
> respectively the (implicit, yet unstated) right to
> be informed call for immediate action on our side
> (which we work on)--and on yours' to make this
> feasible, more respectable, trustworthy, authentic,
> global,... (which we hope for).
> 
> Thank you so much for supporting this so needed
> grassroots movement in this authoritarian state.
> 
> Best regards,
> Chris
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