[New-imc] Women's Proposal Now A Requirement?

[Petros Evdokas]

Yes!

I'm happy with the way it was stated by Imad:

"we believe it should be a requirment for a new IMC and a 
step to
> work on for exisiting ones."


Also, by Chrystine:

">>It is my belief that since March 21 ,when the deadline passed, the Women's
>>Proposal became part of the new-imc process for admission and is just as
>>much a requirement as discussion of mission statement or Principles of
>>Unity. Is this not so?"

And by Clara:
"it should go into the membership criteria
because that more of this kind of questions like asking for 
decission making policies etc."

Blicero also stated it in the same spirit:
"it should be part of the question answered together with 
PoU and mission statement and editorial policy".

To these  I'd like to add a letter which I had sent to you a 
while ago which I feel was ignored, just in case you like to 
have things from me in your mailbox more frequently:

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Date: Fri, 02 Apr 2004 18:42:55 -0800
From: Petros Evdokas <petros at cyprus-org.net>

To:  new-imc at lists.indymedia.org, imc- communication
  <imc-communication at lists.indymedia.org>
Subject: Re: [IMC-Process] Re: [imc-women] Re: Women's Proposal	

Hi again,

We now have these excellent guidelines embedded into the 
new-imc work- group guidelines for doing our contact- work 
with emerging new imc groups. These relate to gender 
politics, to many different kinds of diversity, and to the 
realization that it takes *organizational* and *political* 
steps to address the fact that the "personal is political". 
(and many thanks to the imc-women group which helped us 
awaken to these truths again):

* * *

A. How does the makeup of your collective reflect the 
diversity of the local community (e.g. in realtion to 
gender-, sexual-, spiritual-, and/or cultural-identity)?


B. If your group currently does not represent the diversity 
of the local community, particularly in relation to groups 
who are in mainstream society and denied access to vehicles
expression, what steps will be taken to address this on an 
ongoing basis?

C. What steps will be taken to involve individuals in 
workfields new to them? What measures will be taken to 
overcome a gendered work division?

* * *

I hope that these principles don't end up just being treated 
as "one more item on the form" for the new-imc work- group, 
but that they can actually be guides to us for taking every 
care in our contacts with new allies and friends of imc, to 
find ways together with them to embody these values in the 
emerging new imc groups.

Of course, it still leaves open the terrible problems we 
face with *existing* imc groups, especially at the most 
active ones at the global level, where the dialogues 
(including the decision- making, and all action) are 
dominated by a spirit totally contrary to the values we 
adopted above. How are we to deal with those problems?

Petros
cyprus indymedia volunteer
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