[New-imc] ATHENS, GA, USA

[Jay]

Hi Todd,

This is Jay from the Philadelphia IMC.  I'm also part of new-imc working 
group, the Indymedia group that helps new IMCs get through the process of 
becoming part of the network.  Glad to meet you!

Sounds like things are going well in Athens!  I assume you've already 
looked extensively at the new-imc documents 
(http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/NewImcHowTo).  Going through those 
documents, you should be able to figure out where you are in the organizing 
process.

Have you been in touch at all with IMCs in your general area, like Atlanta 
and North Carolina?  Maybe someone from one of those IMCs could work with 
you to help you through the new-imc process.  Or, if they can't, I'd be 
willing to answer any questions you may have.

Either way, keep up the organizing.  Sounds like you're very much on the 
right track.

Feel free to send any questions my way,

Jay


At 9/4/2003, tfraley at uga.edu wrote:
>Submitted by: todd fraley <tfraley at uga.edu> on Thursday, September 4th, 
>2003 @ 9:50:59 am (-0700)
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>contact_name:
>todd fraley
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>contact_email:
>tfraley at uga.edu
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>tech_name:
>scott eustis
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>tech_email:
>thurston at uga.edu
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>supporting_groups:
>Athens Common Ground
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>regional_focus:
>yes
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>issue_focus:
>yes
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>event_focus:
>yes
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>critical_dates:
>Sept 11th Showing of GNN\'s Sept 11th analysis and other
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>resources:
>We don\'t have many computer or silicon-network resources,
>although the university holds those resources, yet to be
>sufficiently tapped; we are just beginning to accumulate
>technical resources for ourselves for the purposes of
>deconstructing the corporate media bias.  We will try,
>however, to use our newbie status to our advantage, by
>showing everyone we can how to generate media, in order to
>foster local voices who are able to critique media from the
>perspective of those who have generated it.
>
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>outreach:
>For now, we hope to help coordinate volunteers and workers at local and 
>alternative media outlets, such as Athens Weekly News and WUOG 90.5fm, in 
>order to foster and spread local and alternative voices.  We also have a 
>community focus, sponsoring events and screenings at bars, clubs, and
>restaurants; perhaps more than other IMC\'s; but we feel that there is a 
>lot of work to be done internally in Athens to bring political discourse, 
>opinion, and discussion down from our resident ivory tower and into the 
>bars and plazas, and from the plazas into our homes and lives.
>
>We are planning public showings of films to which all are
>invited--publicly by flyering; we are also affilitated with
>Common Ground Athens, a imminent 501c3 Activist and Community Resource 
>Center / Infoshop coordinating local community centers and issue-focused 
>community and activist groups.  one of the principles of Common Ground 
>Athens is to promote public political discourse across the multitude of 
>lines drawn onto and that one can draw around oneself in the United 
>States, including culture, class, race, gender, and political 
>affiliation.  We hope to help our Common Ground find its voice.
>
>
>introductory_statement:
>During this most recent bombing run and subsequent media
>spectacle in Iraq, it has become apparent to us how
>purposefully blind the corporate media can be to items that
>may be politically unpleasant, and how we must speak out
>ourselves if no one speaks for us, on the street and over the
>airwaves.  The movement of the FCC to consolidate the
>corporate media of the u.s.a. even further is cause for even
>more alarm.  We in AthensGAusa have worked to attain access
>to venues and media outlets in our community; we seek to
>strengthen ties among the expert voices within the university
>that are ignored or misconstrued; and also recognize the
>importance of empowering ourselves and others to become the
>grassroots media; in order to foster the free flow of
>information into, within, and out of our community--that free
>flow of information so necessary for democracy.
>
>In becoming an IMC, we wish to strengthen our fledgling group-
>-and though ourselves, our community--with an existing and
>growing network of like-minded individuals around the globe.
>Athens is a town with a high turnover of young people who
>could participate in local and alternative media, and the
>Indymedia name is one that is either generally known to or
>readily accepted by people with the values we seek and seek
>to instill into the mind-space of our town, and through our
>town, to all of yours.  Thanks for being, Indymedia!
>
>
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