[New-imc] ATHENS, GA, USA

[clara]

hoi,

great to see yet another new IMC getting up.

I suppose you heve seen that there already is an IMC Athens from Greece, so 
you might want to think about a name or a way to make sure that you are not 
getting confused with them.

Love and solidarity,
Clara
(one of Indymedia Netherlands)

At 22:53 15-9-2003, Jay wrote:
>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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>>imc_name:
>>imc athens
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>>city:
>>athens
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>>state:
>>ga
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>>country:
>>usa
>>
>>contact_name:
>>todd fraley
>>
>>contact_email:
>>tfraley at uga.edu
>>
>>contact_phone:
>>
>>
>>tech_name:
>>scott eustis
>>
>>tech_email:
>>thurston at uga.edu
>>
>>tech_phone:
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>>
>>supporting_groups:
>>Athens Common Ground
>>
>>regional_focus:
>>yes
>>
>>issue_focus:
>>yes
>>
>>event_focus:
>>yes
>>
>>critical_dates:
>>Sept 11th Showing of GNN\'s Sept 11th analysis and other
>>
>>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.
>>
>>
>>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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