[New-imc] Fwd: [Imc-ph-manila] Manila Indymedia is facing black propaganda from the Left

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jongpairez at riseup.net wrote:Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2004 01:20:08 -0800 (PST)
From: jongpairez at riseup.net
To: imc-ph-manila at lists.indymedia.org
Subject: [Imc-ph-manila] 
Manila Indymedia is facing black propaganda from the Left

people,

(read below) i have here an excerpt of QC.INDYMEDIA.ORG news statement
about their collective that i got from the philippine authoritarian left
news website (bulatlat.com). FACTS HAD BEEN TWISTED HERE. and the manila
indymedia's hope to enable MUTUAL AID between qc indymedia has finally
collapsed. the optimism of mutual decentralized networking backed with
TRUST is being ruined by the qc indy group and their band of authoritarian
groups. qc.indymedia.org is THROWING STONE against manila indymedia
collective's right to assert AUTONOMY from the clutches of the
AUTHORITARIAN LEFT'S domination of media/propaganda. this is a SAD THING.
Manila Indymedia only wants AUTONOMY and practice LIBERTARIAN GROUP
DYNAMICS. But as usuall, the libertarians who are fighting for sheer
liberty and autonomy from any authority is always accused of being
SABOTEURS and COUNTER-REVOLUTIONARY by fellow travellers in the
revolutionary movement.

But despite of all this, Manila Indymedia will still pursue its struggle
for FREEDOM and AUTONOMY, together with the people who are disenfranchised
of their POWER TO PARTICIPATE in the truth making process of the society.

LONG LIVE MANILA INDYMEDIA!

LONG LIVE PARTICIPATORY MEDIA!

LONG LIVE THE HORIZONTAL ORGANIZING OF THE PEOPLE!

LONG LIVE THE NON-AUTHORITARIAN SPIRIT OF INDYMEDIA!

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EXCERPT FROM BULATLAT.COM
to read the full article click:
http://www.bulatlat.com/news/4-2/4-2-indymedia.html

"Another applicant by the name of Jong Pairez also
joined the Indymedia Pilipinas project.

Months later, Cruz formed the imc-pilipinas mailing
list and started to convene small meetings and
consultations. Twenty-four NGOs and POs were in the
initial list of groups supporting Indymedia-Pilipinas.


Setting up a local Indymedia is normally easy and
fast. Any interested group or groups may band together
to form a collective or crew, draft a mission
statement and some Principles of Unity, an editorial
policy and, from there, go through a two-step
procedure on new-imc and imc-process. These aim to
ensure that new Indymedias would fit like a cog in the
huge and wide Indymedia network.

This easy and fast rules went to naught, no thanks to
Pairez and his crew who dubbed themselves “anarchists”
and identified themselves as “friends” of the
pseudo-progressive group Sanlakas.

>From the time Indymedia-Pilipinas sought a roll-call
of its members, Pairez consistently and ceaselessly
attacked Cruz and his comrades from Bayan. Without any
factual basis, he spewed venomous posts in the
imc-pilipinas mailing list against persons and
organizations identified with Bayan while keeping
quiet on his formal and informal links with Sanlakas.

Pairez would later bolt Indymedia-Pilipinas and form
Indymedia-Manila.

Things came to a head on Aug. 13 when both groups met
at the University of the Philippines in Quezon City
and decided to formally part ways, assuring each other
that no stumbling blocks would be thrown either way.

The application of Indymedia-Manila swiftly passed the
Indymedia procedures and formally joined the network
on Oct. 11, 2003. True to its word, the
Indymedia-Pilipinas did not oppose the application.

While the IMC-Pilipinas application passed the new-imc
stage on Dec. 1, 2003 without any objections, the
Indymedia-Manila crew posed problems on the
imc-process stage.

Pairez and his crew repeatedly opposed the former’s
application on various grounds. The hysterical
objections went from the name (asking
Indymedia-Pilipinas to rename itself as
Indymedia-Quezon City) to all sorts of issues and to
as far as allege that Indymedia-Pilipinas was a
“communist front,” a canard which was first made vogue
by the fascist U.S.-backed Marcos dictatorship.

To break the impasse brought about by Pairez and his
group, the Indymedia-Pilipinas collective decided on
Dec. 19, 2003 to rename itself as Indymedia-QC and
made subsequent changes in its mission statement and
Principles of Unity to reflect its primary focus on
the Quezon City locality.

The sabotage did not end there. Pairez and his group
ate their words and again opposed the application of
the renamed Indymedia-QC.

The Indymedia-QC application gained headway into 2004
when the Indymedia-QC collective agreed to a proposed
three-month trial ending April 2, 2004 concomitant to
joining the global Indymedia network on Jan. 2, 2004.


For more information on Indymedia-QC, please click
this link.

To read the Indymedia Collective, send an email.

To join the collective, join the imc-qc mailing list
or sign up as volunteer. Posted by Bulatlat.com


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