[New-imc] CARBONDALE, IL (U.S.)

[Jay]

Hi Kristen (and the new-imc working group by cc),

Thanks for filling out the new-imc form!  This is Jay from the Philadelphia 
IMC.  I also am involved with the new-imc working group and help with 
U.S.-based new-imcs.  I'm e-mailing to let you know we received your 
information.  Ideally someone from the new-imc working group who lives in 
the mid-west U.S. will step forward to help you through the new-imc process.

Any takers from the new-imc working group?

Jay

At 11/16/2003, you wrote:
>Submitted by: Kristen Kordecki <shawnee1 at siu.edu> on Sunday, November 
>16th, 2003 @ 2:56:22 pm (-0800)
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>imc_name:
>Muddy Media Project
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>city:
>Carbondale
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>state:
>IL
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>country:
>US
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>contact_name:
>Kristen Kordecki
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>contact_email:
>shawnee1 at siu.edu
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>contact_phone:
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>tech_name:
>Steven Hirschberg
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>tech_email:
>s_hirschberg at hotmail.com
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>tech_phone:
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>supporting_groups:
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>event_focus:
>yes
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>critical_dates:
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>resources:
>A number of folks participating in the Muddy Media Project are experienced 
>organizers and activists.  A number of us have worked with Heartwood, 
>Ruckus Society and various local environmental and social justice 
>organizations.  Our strengths are in our abilities to effectively organize 
>large events and meetings.  We also have strong networking skills and can 
>draw upon resources locally, regionally as well as nationally with 
>ease.  We project renting a space by March 2004 that will give the 
>opportunity to coordinate and incorporate the larger community at a 
>central hub.
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>outreach:
>The Muddy Media project has been working together for 8 months. Our 
>publication is in its 8th issue.  We distribute 1500 copies monthly to 
>Carbondale and the surrounding area. Community members and activists write 
>articles about local events and redresses issues corporate media 
>manipulates. We also show indy films monthly to appeal to different 
>interests.  We have shown This is Traffic, some Doug Hawes-Davis docs, 
>Guerilla News Network shorts and because there is a strong film 
>department, local shorts.  We also have a weekly radio show on our 
>community radio station and utilize the professors at the university for 
>technical support. The 2 hour show addresses news items from independent 
>media sources and the politics of independent music and features local to 
>international indy bands and singer/songwriters. The radio show also gives 
>us an opportunity to reach people who don\'t come into town often. We get 
>the wattage to the cottage. MMP has supported and co-sponsored Indigenou
>  s People\'s Day by contributing to a large benefit  and video documented 
> Winona LaDuke\'s visit.  We are currently offering some technical support 
> for a local film maker\'s attempts to make a documentary about her 
> experience as an Indigenous women.  With assistance from an alternative 
> energy/solar panel tech., and a local photographer we were able to create 
> the Muddy Mobile Unit.  We built a box that  holds batteries charged by 
> solar panels, a 1000 watt converter and a 35mm projector .  We used 
> images of the people of Iraq and effects of depleted uranium on humans 
> and with the help of a photographer superimposed text over them ("Are you 
> shocked?  Are you awed?"  "We just bombed them.").  We put the box in the 
> back of a truck and drove around projecting the images on buildings, 
> including the Federal Building, retail businesses (the bar crowd just 
> loved us after a few drinks) and homes.
>
>All of these events required skills and creativity from seasoned and 
>beginning organizers, artists and techies.
>
>MMP is a collective of students, professors, professionals, full-time 
>mamas, and various riff raff you really can\'t label.  We\'re amazed at 
>our talents, frankly.  Our core members are made up of a Radio/Television 
>graduate Photography grad student, a theatre student, an editor for the 
>local mainstream paper doing it on the sly, a local reporter for another 
>local mainstream paper doing the same, a plant biologist who throws 
>amazing RAVEs, two lawyers, a radical librarian/film maker/tech assistant, 
>a recent MA grad from the Multi Media program, a hip-hop DJ and professors 
>from the History, Cinema/Photography, Journalism, Radio Television and 
>Mass Communication and Media Art departments.
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>introductory_statement:
>Muddy Media Project was created as a test run to determine if we could 
>function as an Independent Media Center.  Our initial goal was to create 
>an IMC that would allow for the activist and larger community to 
>participate in creating non corporate media.  We have a strong arts 
>community, but often, the connection to the political movement does not 
>happen. MMP believes an IMC would bridge the gap between the arts 
>community and those involved in politics and community building.  Southern 
>Illinois also suffers from a geographic dissociation between folks living 
>out of town and the espresso sucking pavement dwellers.  It\'s often 
>evident in the political topics of those who live in Carbondale (peace 
>issues, Green Party , the Bush regime) and those who live rurally 
>(forests, organic farming, sprawl).  It was agreed an IMC and a physical 
>space would help alleviate the distance between issues and create a 
>central location where information can be readily accessed and networking can o
>  ccur with even greater ease.
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>Southern Illinois has a crew of dedicated and impressive activists and 
>community builders.  In 1997, the environmental groups were the first to 
>stop all commercial logging on a National Forest that went unnoticed 
>except in the forest protection community in the US.  We draw speakers and 
>singer/songwriters from all over the country.  People here work hard to 
>create a well informed and participatory community.  We have skills to 
>offer other people and information to share.  A space on the IMC website 
>would allow people in Southern Illinois to interact with others in a 
>central and reliable place.  The international link could create a larger 
>space for folks in Southern Illinois to obtain information, share skills 
>and foster broader working relationships.
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