[New-imc] [Imc-india] Disturbing development (fwd)

[boud]

<crosspost to a few global lists; cc to imc-india>

hi everyone,
   Anyone with experience in dealing with sabotage campaigns of racist
posts (IMC Belgium, IMC Palestine, ...) please offer help at 
imc-india at lists.indymedia.org 

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> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 18:50:48 +0100 (BST)
> From: "[iso-8859-1] Montgomery Cheddar" <ganeshmukti at yahoo.ie>
> To: imc-india at lists.indymedia.org
> Subject: [Imc-india] Disturbing development
> 

> The Hindutva backlash has arrived in the most sickening form. There
> have been a number of posts offering child prostitutes on the
> newswire. If this continues, then I recommend the newswire be
> frozen. I fear this could mean I and others will be prosecuted for
> incitement to rape children. Unless people come forward to help
> administer the newswire, then we will get more of this. This cannot
> rely on the resources of just one person.
>
> If you support Indymedia, then please offer practical support and
> save it from these warped Hindutva fanatics.
>
> Ganesh.

BACKGROUND:
My point of view of what's happened on IMC India is more or less
the following. 

Since at least Jan 2003 there have been hate posts on the IMC India
newswire:
http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-india/2003-January/000722.html
http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/new-imc/2003-January/003207.html
 
In Aug 2003, several new people were extremely angry at the intensity
of hate postings, contacted the network, and learnt how to auto-organise:

http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-india/2003-August/
http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-india/2003-September/

In the absence of any communication from the Madurai collective for
several weeks (still no contact) - apart from the daily hiding of
certain articles (including clearly acceptable articles) by someone
who remains anonymous, some new people proposed an emergency editorial
policy for IMC India:

http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/public/imc-india/2003-August/001008.html

which was consensed on without further concerns being expressed.

IMHO, the new people are doing excellent work - any support from
people with experience with this sort of sabotage campaign on other IMCs
would help them while they're trying to find what can be sustainable in
the long term.

The "local vs global" question: ganesh lives in Calcutta (despite the .ie
email address) - and the question has been discussed - see the archive for
details.

solidarity
boud