[New-imc] IMC-Valparaiso, Chile Documents

[Pablo A.]

Salud

Here is the translation for our documents.
The documents in spanish are here:
http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/new-imc/2004-April/004987.html

We are looking forward to have our process done as soon as possible.

Thanks!

Pablo
IMC Valparaiso/Chile

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EDITORIAL POLICY - Centro de Medios Independiente - Valparaíso, Chile

I. Editorial Philosophy
a. In correspondence with its points of unity, the CMI-Valparaiso will have
a policy of open newswire policy on its Web page. This will serve as a
decentralized forum for voices and points of views that are usually
suppressed or distorted by the corporate and/or governmental press.
b. The CMI-Valparaiso will serve to open access to technology so all groups
can speak for themselves.
c. The CMI-Valparaiso purports to create an alternative to corporate and/or
governmental means of communication.

II. Editorial Mission
a. To provide an open newswire in accordance to our points of unity.
b. To maintain the newswire and the Web page as a community space, that
foments the participation, debate and exchange of information.
c. To create virtual and real networks that involve individual citizens and
grassroots organizations and/or NGOs, so facilitating their involvement in
social, environmental and political issues, which affect communities at a
local, national and international scale.
d. To create a mediated space that respects and foments the right of each
person to establish an open and free discourse.
e. To preserve the quality of the Web page as a useful and valuable
resource.

III. Editorial Collective
a. In accordance with its points of unity, the CMI-Valparaiso will have a
policy of open newswire on its Web page. In order to maintain the due
purpose, the organization, an the relevance of the newswire, the
CMI-Valparaiso will establish an Editorial Collective which will monitor the
newswire as to promote articles to the center column and to other CMIs, and
to hide any article or message outside the parameters established in the Edi
torial Policy.
b. The Editorial Collective should have a minimum of three members. Anyone
interested can join the Editorial Collective. It is suggested that the
Collective be kept at a realistic and practical size. (It is expected that
in the evaluation of this policy, after a year of its ratification, a
maximum number of members of the Editorial Collective be established, if it
is so deemed necessary.)
c. The Editorial Collective will decide, autonomously, the distribution of
its workload among the members, especially the responsibility of regularly
monitoring the open source.
d. The Editorial Collective will have the responsibility of informing the
organization of its performance, achievements, problems and of any
controversial decisions. At least one of its members should be present at
the CMI-Valparaiso general meetings.
e. The Editorial Collective has the responsibility of categorizing, hiding,
or promoting articles to the center column.

IV. Procedures and guidelines for categorizing and promoting open source
articles
a. The CMI-Valparaiso will determine relevant categories that will function
as  thematical subdivisions to the open source.
b. Suggestions:
I. Culture
II. Students
III. Local Politics
IV. Human Rights
V. Ecology
VI. Economy
VII. International
VIII. Community Groups

c. The Editorial Collective will classify the articles according to these
categories
d. The Editorial Collective will have the responsibility of promoting, to
the center column of the web page, well-written and relevant articles. The
EC will promote to the center column investigate reports written by members
of the CMI and/or, that offers alternative perspectives to those presented
by the corporate press.
e. The Editorial Collective should also share relevant articles with other
CMIs and other independent media.
f. Articles that should be fomented and promoted:
I. Investigative articles, well sustained and relevant.
II. First hand coverage of mobilizations and/or protests.
III. Media analysis.
IV. Stories that affect groups or places usually invisibilized by the
corporate media.
V. Reports of initiatives and/or projects in favor of change and social
justice.
VI. Articles that link the local reality with national and/or global
dynamics.

V. Procedures and guidelines to hide articles
a. The person the Editorial Collective selects to be in charge of monitoring
the open newswire should remove the following types of messages:
I. Duplicated articles.
II. Any commercial events, products or services.
III. Illegible or blank postings.
IV. Spam attacks.
o The person monitoring the open source should hide the following types of
messages and immediately notify the Editorial Collective list. The members
of the Editorial Collective will have 48 hours to object to the decision of
hiding an article, post or message:
I. Event announcements, that are not press releases or investigative
reports, should go in the calendar section of the page.
II. Messages seeking contact with or directed towards an individual or to
the CMI-Valparaiso. The email contact for the CMI-Valparaiso is:
imc-valparaiso at lists.indymedia.org
III. Defamatory, libelous or personalist messages that reveal private
information or threaten an individual.
IV. Impostures, false facts, disinformation or personifications by a third
party.
V. A request by an activist who wants his/her photo removed.

b. If an unexpected problem occurs (not included in the list above) about an
article or a posting, and the person monitoring the open newswire
understands that such should be removed, the procedure will be: hide the
message and notify the Editorial Collective list. The Editorial Collective
will then have 48 hours to discuss and object to the removal of the article.


(The CMI-Valparaiso can, following the consensus model, revise any decisions
made by the Editorial Collective. It is recommended that after 6 months of
the ratification of this policy, the existing collective should evaluate its
applicability and functionality.)

Note:
This editorial policy is based on the CMI-PR policy, which is based on the
editorial policy of Aotearoa IMC, whichs is base don the editorial policies
of IMC Western Massachussets and IMC San Francisco. It was also used, as a
reference, the editorial policy of CMI Brasil.



IMC MEMBERSHIP CRITERIA - DRAFT Each IMC and Global Working Group is
expected to:

a. Agree in spirit to the NIMC Mission Statement and Principles of Unity,

We agree to the NIMC Mission Statement and the Principles of Unity, as
written in our documents.

b. Have a committed membership substantial enough to sustain a functional
IMC,

We have a collective able and motivated to sustain a functional IMC.

c. Have open and public meetings (no one group can have exclusionary
"ownership" of an IMC),

During the last 10 months we've had open and public meetings.

d. Work toward developing a local Mission Statement or Statement of Purpose.
Network Mission Statement may be adopted or used on an interim basis,

We have completed a document with our Mission Statement and our Principles
of Unity, attached in this e-mail.

e. Establish and publish an editorial policy which is developed and
functions through democratic process, and with full transparency,

We have written up an Editorial Policy, attached in this e-mail.

f. Agree to the use of Open Publishing as described in the NIMC Editorial
Policy [editorial collective comments: "We did agree that the term "Open
Publishing" was one that is still being defined by the Global Network
Collective, and we would wait and see what the results were before rewriting
this criteria],

We agree to the use of Open Publishing, as shown in our Editorial Policy.

g. Adopt a decision-making policy that is in alignment with consensus
principles which include open, transparent and egalitarian processes,

We have  non-hierarchic organization, and we follow a consensus model in our
meetings.

h. Have a spokesperson(s) willing and capable of participating in the global
 decision-making process and meetings as a rotating liaison/representative,
with a clear understanding of the responsibilities that come with this role,

We do have a person with this responsability, and we have contact with some
other IMCs.

i. Participate in the key IMC Network Communication Methods that pertain to
the health and vitality of the Network and that contribute to the work of
the IMC. Assure that at least one person from your local IMC participates at
any given time on the IMC-Communications list,

Currently, someone from our collective is in the imc-communication list.

j. (NOT FINALIZED): Have no official affiliation with any political party,
state or candidate for office (comments: but individual producers have
freedom to do whatever they like and local IMCs can "feature" stories about
various political parties and initiatives),

We agree with this point, and it is emphasized in our Principles of Unity.

k. IMCs shall in no way engage in commercial for-profit enterprises. [We
could add: The IMCN is committed to the decommercialization of information
and will disassociate from any local IMC that decides to become a for profit
media corporation.]

We agree with this point, and it is emphasized in our Principles of Unity.

l. Display a ³local version² of the IMC ³i² logo on your website and
literature.

Our logo is being developed, and we will send it as soon as possible.

m. Include the IMC Network current ³Cities List² on your site, preferably on
the front page.

We will do it that way.


I. Principles of Unity

a.The CMI-Valparaiso, or Indymedia Valparaiso, subscribes to all the Points
of Unity of the Global Network of IMCs, and as so all our work is voluntary
and in no way will CMI-Valparaiso embark in commercial enterprises that
would benefit its members.

b.The CMI-Valparaiso is an open, democratic and non-hierarchical
organization that seeks to create new ways and new spaces for the exchange
of information between citizens of our area and the rest of the world.

c.The CMI-Valparaiso will be organized and self-directed by way of open
meetings, be them real or virtual, in which participants will enjoy the same
rights and opportunities to be heard and to influence in collective
decisions following the consensual deliberative model. The collective is
formed by those people that regularly participate in the meetings and chores
of the CMI-Valparaiso.

d.The CMI-Valparaiso is based in that society must be different and, thus,
we embrace the social change towards a free society. The development of
capitalism, racism, sexism, imperialism, fundamentalism, homophobia,
authoritarianism, fascism, militarism; obstructs social change and
intervenes in the unequal development of non dominated societies.

e.The CMI-Valparaiso understands diversity as a strength and not a weakness.
The collective will operate from diversity and as so will not discriminate
against anyone for reasons of gender, sexual preference, ethnicity, class,
age, physical or sensorial limitations. The CMI-Valparaiso is open to people
of all political and religious beliefs, as long as those beliefs do not
negate the basic postulates in favor of social change expressed in the
previous point. The CMI-Valparaiso will not be, under any circumstance, a
difussion organ for any religious or political party, although members of
the collective, as ndividuals, have the liberty to cultivate any political
and religious bonds.

f.The CMI-Valparaiso understands, and is so confirmed by the recent global
events and the history of our country, that there are repressive forces in
our society whose mission is to prevent the social change in which our model
is based. As so, we respect the decision of any of our members to remain
anonymous or to use pseudonyms. We are compromised to protect, with maximum
effort, the identity of any person that solicits it.

g.As an organization that is simultaneously local and global, the
CMI-Valparaiso has the responsibility to watch its local growth fomenting
the creation of CMIs in the different regions of Chile that will constitute
autonomous parts of this project. On a regional lever it is our duty to
collaborate with the existing CMIs, and to foment the creation of other
CMIs. In the same fashion, the CMI-Valparaiso has the responsibility to
participate in the discussion and activities of the Global IMC and to
collaborate in a diversity of ways in the reproduction and growth of this
communicational project. Some of this ways can be the development of
knowledge and of technology, and to provide human, social and economic
resources.

h.We believe in the processes of collective intelligence in a local and
global level. As so, we foment the use of practices and technologies open to
the participation of all citizens (like open sources and open publishing).


II. Mission

a.The Independent Media Center of Valparaiso is a collective of voluntary
work that is based on the principles of decentralization and openness to
create new ways and spaces for the exchange of information between the
citizens of our country and the world.

b. Our objective is to analize and publish information of interest usually
omitted by the corporative media or presented in a slanted way by them.

c. To be a plataform of formulation and concretion of projects of mediatic
resistance. To help our local community with intelectual and material
resources for the facilitation of the former.

d. To strengthen the local community work, creating links and networks of
communitacion and participation.
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EDITORIAL POLICY – Centro de Medios Independiente – Valparaíso, Chile

I.	Editorial Philosophy
a.	In correspondence with its points of unity, the CMI-Valparaiso will have a policy of open newswire policy on its Web page. This will serve as a decentralized forum for voices and points of views that are usually suppressed or distorted by the corporate and/or governmental press.
b.	The CMI-Valparaiso will serve to open access to technology so all groups can speak for themselves.
c.	The CMI-Valparaiso purports to create an alternative to corporate and/or governmental means of communication.

II.	Editorial Mission
a.	To provide an open newswire in accordance to our points of unity.
b.	To maintain the newswire and the Web page as a community space, that foments the participation, debate and exchange of information.
c.	To create virtual and real networks that involve individual citizens and grassroots organizations and/or NGOs, so facilitating their involvement in social, environmental and political issues, which affect communities at a local, national and international scale.
d.	To create a mediated space that respects and foments the right of each person to establish an open and free discourse.
e.	To preserve the quality of the Web page as a useful and valuable resource.

III.	Editorial Collective
a.	In accordance with its points of unity, the CMI-Valparaiso will have a policy of open newswire on its Web page. In order to maintain the due purpose, the organization, an the relevance of the newswire, the CMI-Valparaiso will establish an Editorial Collective which will monitor the newswire as to promote articles to the center column and to other CMIs, and to hide any article or message outside the parameters established in the Editorial Policy.
b.	The Editorial Collective should have a minimum of three members. Anyone 
interested can join the Editorial Collective. It is suggested that the Collective be kept at a realistic and practical size. (It is expected that in the evaluation of this policy, after a year of its ratification, a maximum number of members of the Editorial Collective be established, if it is so deemed necessary.)
c.	The Editorial Collective will decide, autonomously, the distribution of its workload among the members, especially the responsibility of regularly monitoring the open source.
d.	The Editorial Collective will have the responsibility of informing the organization of its performance, achievements, problems and of any controversial decisions. At least one of its members should be present at the CMI-Valparaiso general meetings.
e.	The Editorial Collective has the responsibility of categorizing, hiding, 
or promoting articles to the center column.

IV.	Procedures and guidelines for categorizing and promoting open source articles 
a.	The CMI-Valparaiso will determine relevant categories that will function as  thematical subdivisions to the open source.
b.	Suggestions:
I.	Culture
II.	Students
III.	Local Politics
IV.	Human Rights
V.	Ecology
VI.	Economy
VII.	International
VIII.	Community Groups

c.	The Editorial Collective will classify the articles according to these 
categories
d.	The Editorial Collective will have the responsibility of promoting, to the center column of the web page, well-written and relevant articles. The EC will promote to the center column investigate reports written by members of the CMI and/or, that offers alternative perspectives to those presented by the corporate press.
e.	The Editorial Collective should also share relevant articles with other 
CMIs and other independent media.
f.	Articles that should be fomented and promoted:
I.	Investigative articles, well sustained and relevant.
II.	First hand coverage of mobilizations and/or protests.
III.	Media analysis.
IV.	Stories that affect groups or places usually invisibilized by the 
corporate media.
V.	Reports of initiatives and/or projects in favor of change and social 
justice.
VI.	Articles that link the local reality with national and/or global 
dynamics.

V.	Procedures and guidelines to hide articles
a.	The person the Editorial Collective selects to be in charge of monitoring 
the open newswire should remove the following types of messages:
I.	Duplicated articles.
II.	Any commercial events, products or services.
III.	Illegible or blank postings.
IV.	Spam attacks.
o	The person monitoring the open source should hide the following types of 
messages and immediately notify the Editorial Collective list. The members 
of the Editorial Collective will have 48 hours to object to the decision of 
hiding an article, post or message:
I.	Event announcements, that are not press releases or investigative 
reports, should go in the calendar section of the page.
II.	Messages seeking contact with or directed towards an individual or to 
the CMI-Valparaiso. The email contact for the CMI-Valparaiso is: imc-valparaiso at lists.indymedia.org
III.	Defamatory, libelous or personalist messages that reveal private 
information or threaten an individual.
IV.	Impostures, false facts, disinformation or personifications by a third 
party.
V.	A request by an activist who wants his/her photo removed.

b.	If an unexpected problem occurs (not included in the list above) about an 
article or a posting, and the person monitoring the open newswire 
understands that such should be removed, the procedure will be: hide the 
message and notify the Editorial Collective list. The Editorial Collective 
will then have 48 hours to discuss and object to the removal of the article.


(The CMI-Valparaiso can, following the consensus model, revise any decisions made by the Editorial Collective. It is recommended that after 6 months of the ratification of this policy, the existing collective should evaluate its applicability and functionality.)

Note:
This editorial policy is based on the CMI-PR policy, which is based on the editorial policy of Aotearoa IMC, whichs is base don the editorial policies of IMC Western Massachussets and IMC San Francisco. It was also used, as a reference, the editorial policy of CMI Brasil. 



IMC MEMBERSHIP CRITERIA - DRAFT Each IMC and Global Working Group is expected to: 

a. Agree in spirit to the NIMC Mission Statement and Principles of Unity,

We agree to the NIMC Mission Statement and the Principles of Unity, as written in our documents.

b. Have a committed membership substantial enough to sustain a functional IMC, 

We have a collective able and motivated to sustain a functional IMC.

c. Have open and public meetings (no one group can have exclusionary "ownership" of an IMC), 

During the last 10 months we’ve had open and public meetings.

d. Work toward developing a local Mission Statement or Statement of Purpose. Network Mission Statement may be adopted or used on an interim basis, 

We have completed a document with our Mission Statement and our Principles of Unity, attached in this e-mail.

e. Establish and publish an editorial policy which is developed and functions through democratic process, and with full transparency, 

We have written up an Editorial Policy, attached in this e-mail.

f. Agree to the use of Open Publishing as described in the NIMC Editorial Policy [editorial collective comments: "We did agree that the term "Open Publishing" was one that is still being defined by the Global Network Collective, and we would wait and see what the results were before rewriting this criteria], 

We agree to the use of Open Publishing, as shown in our Editorial Policy.

g. Adopt a decision-making policy that is in alignment with consensus principles which include open, transparent and egalitarian processes, 

We have  non-hierarchic organization, and we follow a consensus model in our meetings.

h. Have a spokesperson(s) willing and capable of participating in the global decision-making process and meetings as a rotating liaison/representative, with a clear understanding of the responsibilities that come with this role, 

We do have a person with this responsability, and we have contact with some other IMCs. 

i. Participate in the key IMC Network Communication Methods that pertain to the health and vitality of the Network and that contribute to the work of the IMC. Assure that at least one person from your local IMC participates at any given time on the IMC-Communications list, 

Currently, someone from our collective is in the imc-communication list.

j. (NOT FINALIZED): Have no official affiliation with any political party, state or candidate for office (comments: but individual producers have freedom to do whatever they like and local IMCs can "feature" stories about various political parties and initiatives), 

We agree with this point, and it is emphasized in our Principles of Unity.

k. IMCs shall in no way engage in commercial for-profit enterprises. [We could add: The IMCN is committed to the decommercialization of information and will disassociate from any local IMC that decides to become a for profit media corporation.] 

We agree with this point, and it is emphasized in our Principles of Unity.

l. Display a ³local version² of the IMC ³i² logo on your website and literature. 

Our logo is being developed, and we will send it as soon as possible.

m. Include the IMC Network current ³Cities List² on your site, preferably on the front page. 

We will do it that way.


I. Principles of Unity

a.The CMI-Valparaiso, or Indymedia Valparaiso, subscribes to all the Points of Unity of the Global Network of IMCs, and as so all our work is voluntary and in no way will CMI-Valparaiso embark in commercial enterprises that would benefit its members.

b.The CMI-Valparaiso is an open, democratic and non-hierarchical organization that seeks to create new ways and new spaces for the exchange of information between citizens of our area and the rest of the world.

c.The CMI-Valparaiso will be organized and self-directed by way of open meetings, be them real or virtual, in which participants will enjoy the same rights and opportunities to be heard and to influence in collective decisions following the consensual deliberative model. The collective is formed by those people that regularly participate in the meetings and chores of the CMI-Valparaiso.

d.The CMI-Valparaiso is based in that society must be different and, thus, we embrace the social change towards a free society. The development of capitalism, racism, sexism, imperialism, fundamentalism, homophobia, authoritarianism,
fascism, militarism; obstructs social change and intervenes in the unequal development of non dominated societies. 

e.The CMI-Valparaiso understands diversity as a strength and not a weakness. The
collective will operate from diversity and as so will not discriminate against anyone for reasons of gender, sexual preference, ethnicity, class, age, physical or sensorial limitations. The CMI-Valparaiso is open to people of all political and religious beliefs, as long as those beliefs do not negate the basic postulates in favor of social change expressed in the previous point. The CMI-Valparaiso will not be, under any circumstance, a difussion organ for any religious or political party, although members of the collective, as ndividuals, have the liberty to cultivate any political and religious bonds.

f.The CMI-Valparaiso understands, and is so confirmed by the recent global events and the history of our country, that there are repressive forces in our society whose mission is to prevent the social change in which our model is based. As so, we respect the decision of any of our members to remain anonymous or to use pseudonyms. We are compromised to protect, with maximum effort, the identity of any person that solicits it.

g.As an organization that is simultaneously local and global, the CMI-Valparaiso has the responsibility to watch its local growth fomenting the creation of CMIs in the different regions of Chile that will constitute autonomous parts of this project. On a regional lever it is our duty to collaborate with the existing CMIs, and to foment the creation of other CMIs. In the same fashion, the CMI-Valparaiso has the responsibility to participate in the discussion and activities of the Global IMC and to collaborate in a diversity of ways in the reproduction and growth of this communicational project. Some of this ways can be the development of knowledge and of technology, and to provide human, social and economic resources.

h.We believe in the processes of collective intelligence in a local and
global level. As so, we foment the use of practices and technologies open to
the participation of all citizens (like open sources and open publishing). 


II. Mission

a.The Independent Media Center of Valparaiso is a collective of voluntary work that is based on the principles of decentralization and openness to create new ways and spaces for the exchange of information between the citizens of our country and the world.

b. Our objective is to analize and publish information of interest usually omitted by the corporative media or presented in a slanted way by them.

c. To be a plataform of formulation and concretion of projects of mediatic resistance. To help our local community with intelectual and material resources for the facilitation of the former. 

d. To strengthen the local community work, creating links and networks of communitacion and participation.