[New-imc] Online form: Proposed new IMC! (Louisville IMC)

[charmingruins at yahoo.com]

Submitted by: mike d <charmingruins at yahoo.com> on Friday, September 19th, 2003 @ 2:20:31 pm (-0700)

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imc_name:
Louisville IMC

city:
Louisville

state:
Kentucky

country:
USA

contact_name:
mike d

contact_email:
charmingruins at yahoo.com

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issue_focus:
yes

event_focus:
yes

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resources:
We have access to two, possibly three, servers. All being run and maintained by people interested/involved in the imc project and other alternative media projects. We also already have two imc tech volunteers who want to work on getting the site up an running soon. We weren\'t sure about bandwidth at our last meeting, so we will have to get back to you on that one.

outreach:
We are still in the begining stages of organizing. Thus far we have done outreach at local coffee shops. At our last meeting we discussed attending community organization meetings and monthly open-mics to talk about starting an imc.

introductory_statement:
There is virtually no coverage of important community events. For example, last week a community organized campaign to stop toxic air pollution began a week long study of the toxins released into \'fenceline\' neighborhoods by chemical corporations, with the help of Greenpeace.You would think that with the introduction of such an internationally know environmental group the local media would have atleast covered it. But they chose to ignore it like they have the rest of their campaign. So we would like to focus a lot on this capaign as an IMC. We also see the IMC network as an important networking tool for local activists. As of now we have no place to make announcements about events taking place in our community. With the open-publishing newswire we could do that. Since we are so isolated geographically we would also like to have a place that activists outside of Louisville could check out and see what\'s going on.