IMC SLOVAKIA -- initial contact -- Re: [New-imc] IMC Slovakia

[Pseudo Punk]

Hey Michal,

Bart here from the newimc working group.

basically you need to do this:

- read closely newimc.indymedia.org
- discuss & reply to the needed documents in an open meeting (principles
  of unity & imc-membership criteria).
- write up a missian statement & eiditorial policy.
- update your entry in the contact database.

You can contact me offlist or on this list with all additional questions,
remarks, ...

Greetings,

Bart


Michal Cudrnak <cudrnak at nm.psg.sk> wrote:
> hello to everyone,
> 
> i've tried to post the form at newimc three times, but don't know if
> there are any results and instead of waiting i decided to post it
> here. to add something that's missing, i could introduce myself (eg.
> what's my incentive), "the contact name", so you'll know whom you
> will be writing to.
> i've been observing, checking etc indymedia for some time,
> impressed by the growth, enthusiasm, internal complexities etc...
> there have been some hints pointing to the posibility (need?) to
> start IMC here in Slovakia, as the mediascape is quite backward in
> my view. but blaming is easy... instead, what about standing up
> and acting. so, after experiencing Indymedia Debate at
> Next5Minutes in Amsterdam last September, the decision to start
> was near. now, the time has come! (whoo, what boosting rhetorics:)
> the rest is the form, i'll be glad to hear comments from anyone.
> 
> ----------------
> 
> IMC Name:
> Indymedia Slovensko
> 
> City:
> Bratislava
> 
> Country:
> Slovakia
> 
> Contact name:
> Michal Cudrnák
> cudrnak at nm.psg.sk
> 
> Technical contact:
> Daniel Hromada
> hromi at kyberia.sk
> 
> supporting_groups:
> Burundi Studio (media lab)
> League of Human Rights Advocates (monitoring and reporting
> on the human rights situation in Slovakia)
> Kyberia.sk (digital community)
> Slobodná Alternatíva - Free Alternative (forming activist group)
> Slobodná Volba - FFree Choice (NGO attempting to legalize
> marihuana for medical purposes and pushing against police
> repression of innocent users)
> 
> critical_dates:
> 12. march - first meeting
> 14. march - meeting with people from Hysteria (server for non-
> commercial purposes, hosting kyberia.sk for example)
> 
> resources:
> People, a server with solid webspace and bandwith, some initial
> support (soon to be broadened), starting media lab with (yet to be
> obtained) hardware. To put it shortly, not to waste words in this
> kind of distanced communication medium (form) - we're ready!
> What else could you wish for :) Well, it ain't that perfect, but what
> is?
> Concerning resources we could share - our commitment and
> enthusiasm, video and radio skills, others will come up from the
> process as we learn and realize what else could spread from us to
> the network.
> 
> outreach:
> It all started on a discussion board on kyberia.sk. As a matter of
> luck, we've met there as people interested in starting slovak secion
> of Indymedia. So there's the core of our group - people who've done
> some Indymedia screenings before, others with campus radio
> background, web journalism... Not all of us can be labeled this way
> - belonging to some group or specific media practice - but everyone
> has some skills to provide.
> As mentioned before, we've already got a server confirmed to host
> the website, so you don't need to care about another local indy
> "exhausting" main indymedia server.
> Concerning groups "outside" - initial contact has been made with
> League of Human Rights Advocates, which you recommend as a
> potential partner for Indymedia in Slovakia. As Mr. Igboanusi, LHRA
> is "ready and willing to be part of the Slovak section of
> indymedia and or with the already existing indymedia anywhere in
> the world." If all goes well this could evolve into a interesting
> collaboration - LHRA's local volunteer monitors in Roma
> communities writing themselves the news and publishing them on
> indymedia website.
> Other mentioned groups and its members are also users of
> kyberia.sk digital community, so the contact and the will to
> cooperate is not a problem.
> 
> 
> introductory_statement:
> Make your own media! That's the message we want to spread and
> put into practice. Not the only one, of course - there are other
> reasons for us to start Indymedia in Slovakia, like ballancing the
> distorted image of "anti-globalization movement", which got a pretty
> narrow and low publicity in slovak mainstream media. But on the
> other side, our interest stays connected to local events and issues.
> There are and will be many, since Slovakia is only beginning to
> come to grips with what is happening as we enter the "western
> world" - many people are unaware of the other (darker) side of
> westernization. Anyway - we're not about to inform them about
> "real state of things", the aim is to point to certain problems we
> perceive and tell "this is how we see it". Also, there is a humble
> but strong hope that we could help to be a "meeting point" of
> separate activities and groups which operate here in the fields of
> activism, human rights, labour etc. Many of them are diffused and
> not connected, in the sense that they've all got their own websites
> which don't cooperate, so in the end you've got some internet
> resources, but "dissapearing" since not many people are willing to
> surf all of them to get an alternetive to corporate media. Actually
> there's one website (changenet.sk) which kinda does it, but only in
> the sphere of NGO's and that can be somehow limiting (but there's
> collaboration with them underway:)
> Internet is the medium of choice, because many other are under
> control of state bureaucracy (almost as anywhere else in the world
> where tight laws prevent diversity in radio or tv stations). We think
> that millions watching the same TV news everyday at 19.00 is a
> perverse but sadly true image of a media landscape, which got so
> much controlled that people gave up their imagination and do not
> even think of alternatives. Feeding people with the same
> information equals to channeling the same reality. We think that
> there are many other options to be explored. Indymedia will be our
> experiment as to how.
> 
> ------
> 
> that's all for now
> 
> Michal
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