[New-imc] PROPOSAL: IMC-Pilipinas (Philippines)

[Alexander Martin Remollino]

Dear friends at new-imc:

Greetings from the Philippines!

On behalf of my colleagues in the
Indymedia-Pilipinas collective, we hereby
formally PROPOSE the establishment of an
Independent Media Center-Pilipinas (Philippines).

Open and transparent discussions regarding the
documents could be found at
http://lists.indymedia.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/imc-pilipinas

The members of the Indymedia-Pilipinas collective
are: Aubrey Makilan, Hetty Alcuitas, Alexander Martin
Remollino, Emil Cinco, Kalovski Itim, Bonn Aure,
Tonyo Cruz, Margot Bartolome, Edwin Licaros,
Joel Garduce and Alvin Firmeza.

They come from various political persuasions.
Some belong to the Computer Professionals Union
(a group advocating use of open-source) and the
Philippine Punk Movement.

Join us in making the Philippines an integral
part of the global Indymedia network.

Thanks and hoping for your speedy consideration.

Alexander Martin Remollino
Indymedia-Pilipinas collective

Here is the full text of the  Mission Statement:

IMC-PILIPINAS MISSION STATEMENT

Media for, by and of the Filipino people: This
is the long term mission of Independent Media
Center-Pilipinas. As such, Indymedia-Pilipinas
shall chronicle, push forward and help win the
various national and international struggles for
meaningful change. Indymedia-Pilipinas shall be
for the people or it is nothing.

Here is the full text of the Principles of Unity:

Principles of Unity of IMC-Pilipinas

1. IMC-Pilipinas aims to establish and maintain a
non-profit, non-corporate, pro-people Independent
Media Center for the Philippines that will uphold and
advance the struggle against oppression and
exploitation (especially by forces of imperialist
globalization and war), a fight shared by the Filipino
and the world’s peoples.

2. IMC-Pilipinas draws special inspiration from the
long and continuing history of anti-colonial and
anti-imperialist struggle of the Filipino people and
from the distinct role of patriotic and democratic 
propagandists, writers, journalists and netizens in
social change.

3. IMC-Pilipinas upholds the rights to free speech,
free expression and free flow of or access to
information.

4. IMC-Pilipinas shall provide an information
infrastructure for people and views that are deprived
of access to the airwaves, tools and resources of
corporate media. This includes text, audio, video,
photography, Internet distribution and any other
communication medium.

5. IMC-Pilipinas respects the right to privacy of
persons and parties who avail of its open web-based
publishing medium.

6. IMC-Pilipinas shall be committed to the use of free
source code, whenever possible, in order to develop
the digital infrastructure, and to increase the
independence of the network by not relying on the
proprietary software.

7. IMC-Pilipinas shall promote collective work and the
sharing of resources including knowledge, skills and
equipment.

8. IMC-Pilipinas shall practice mutual respect, mutual
benefit, consensus, consultation, and the independence
and initiative of all persons and parties interested
in joining or supporting it. No person or party or
political belief shall arbitrarily impose its will on
any or all the others.

9. IMC-Pilipinas shall – by way of consensus and
consultation – choose a spokesperson who can and would
represent it in global decision-making 
processes of Indymedia.

10. IMC-Pilipinas shall be committed to the principle
of human equality, and shall not discriminate,
including discrimination based upon race, region,
gender, age, class or sexual orientation. As such, it
shall not act in a manner that endangers, intimidates,
or physically harms any member of the group, including
by sexual harassment or acts of violence. It shall
strive to act in a respectful manner to its members as
well as the public.

Here is the full text of the Editorial Policy:

IMC-PILIPINAS EDITORIAL POLICY


The IMC-Pilipinas is an non-profit, open-publishing
center for news, analysis, features, and commentaries
pertaining to Filipino experience and participation in
the struggle against imperialist globalization,
military intervention, and wars of aggression and for
sovereignty and social justice. It shall especially
give prominence to angles either missed or
deliberately left out by mainstream media.

Anyone is free to post material that meets the
editorial criteria of IMC-Pilipinas. As much as we
value contributions, however, content might be edited
by IMC-Pilipinas.

Open Posting Guidelines:

The editorial team shall correct inaccurate posts,
i.e. posts containing incorrect information.

The editorial team shall hide posts of these types:

- Discrimination : posts using language, imagery, or
other forms of communication promoting racism,
fascism, xenophobia, elitism, sexism or any other form
of discrimination.

- Repeated : content that is reposted or text that was
originally a comment posted as a report.

- Advertising : posts with personal or product
promotions.

- Disruptive : contributions by individuals who
habitually publish above-mentioned discouraged
content, or comments unrelated to published articles.

- Copyrighted : reposts from commercial media.

- Inappropriate : posts that do not meet the
principles of unity of IMC-Pilipinas.

- Libelous : maligning a person or group.

Sections on IMC-Pilipinas

Features: The editorial team highlights and organizes
valuable content through features, which are shown on
the central column of the front page. Features group
text, links to articles and media-files about a
similar topic or event together and are made by
IMC-volunteers.

Newswire: IMC-Pilipinas adheres to the open publishing
ethos. Everybody is free to post on the newswire or
add comments to newswire articles. However,
IMC-Pilipinas volunteers take the liberty to hide
postings which are not in accordance with the
editorial criteria. Hidden postings and comments are
visible in the View all posts section. You can click
to read them. 

Comments: Everybody can add their own comments at the
end of each article. Comments are subject to the
guidelines for hiding. They can be used to: 

o	State an opinion about any given posting. 
o	Add information. 
o	Correct inaccurate or malicious information. 
o	Rectify misinformation. 

·	Calendar: Please list all announcements and upcoming
events on the Calendar. 

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