[New-imc] Re: CMI/IMC VALPARAISO (Chile) new-imc internal DEADLINE Fri 09 April 2004 GMT 12:00

Tue Apr 6 23:02:39 PDT 2004

Muchas gracias, Rosa!
Esperamos ansiosos el plazo.

Yel logo viene en camino!

Pablo
CMI Valparaiso/Chile

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rosa de la Boca" <rosadelaboca at uol.com.br>
To: "Pablo A." <pablo at involucion.org>; <imc-valparaiso at indymedia.org>;
<new-imc at lists.indymedia.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 06, 2004 11:25 AM
Subject: CMI/IMC VALPARAISO (Chile) new-imc internal DEADLINE Fri 09 April
2004 GMT 12:00

> Español/English
>
> Hola compañeros de Valparaíso. Ustedes han hecho un
> buen trabajo. Voy fijar el plazo para aprobación en el grupo new-imc: el
> viernes, 09 de abril de 2004 a las 12 horas, GMT. Solamente les pido para
> completar el diseño del logotipo con la mayor brevedad.
>
> Estoy dejando temporalmente mi labor voluntaria en
> la red Indymedia. Así, pido a los demás voluntarios latinos que se
encarguen
> de las próximas solicitudes
>
> Gracias
>
> Rosa
>
> Página TWiki sobre las solicitudes latinoamericanas -
> http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/NewImcRecentLatinAmerica
>
> _________________
>
>
> Hello comrades from Valparaíso, you have done a good
> job. I will set the deadline for internal approval in the new-imc group -
> Friday, 09 April 2004 GMT 12:00. I only ask you to complete the design of
> the logo as soon as you can.
>
> I am temporarily quitting my volunteer work in Indymedia.
> So I ask other Latin American volunteers to take charge of the next
> applications
>
> Thanks
>
> Rosa
>
> TWiki page about the Latin American new-imc applications -
> http://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/NewImcRecentLatinAmerica
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Pablo A." <pablo at involucion.org>
> To: "Rosa de la Boca" <rosadelaboca at uol.com.br>;
> <imc-valparaiso at indymedia.org>; <new-imc at lists.indymedia.org>
> Sent: Monday, April 05, 2004 4:01 AM
> Subject: IMC-Valparaiso, Chile Documents
>
>
> 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
>
> ---
>
> 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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