[New-imc] new IMC for bolivia, someone to sponsor?

[Bht]

kalphandary at earthlink.net  Could someone email Kim here about helping with
a new-Bolivia IMC?
bht

> From: "Kim Alphandary" <>
> Subject: New IMC for Bolivia
> Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 09:43:10 -0800
>
> hey.  a new bolivia-indymedia wishes to form, a
> hundred miles from La Paz, they are getting their
> proposal together.
>
> any procedural things they need to know about?? does
> all the stuff need to be submitted in english?
> shall i have them send me their stuff first or ???
>
> thanx, kim, portland-indymedia ... below is the
> beginning info about this project ...
>
> Subject: Warisata
>
> > The Warisata project (in which Chalo, key contact
> for Bolivia-Indymedia, is aware of): Warisata
> IndyMedia.
> >
> > 1. Warisata is one the aymara communities where
> confrontations with the military took place last
> > October. It's about one hour from La Paz, near
> Titicaca lake... in a region considered the
> heartland
> > of the aymara nation.
> >
> > 2. It has this school for rural teachers (where
> they are trained to be bilingual teachers) that
> arrive from
> > all over Bolivia. The "Normal de Warisata" was
> founded in the early 30's and it was the first
> indigenous, and
> > community, project of this kind in Bolivia's
> history...
> >
> > 3. The school for rural teachers was set there not
> casually, because the aymara people consider
> Warisata
> > as their "Athens", the centrum of his culture...
> >
> > 4. So given these conditions, it would be very
> good to have an Indymedia there: it would be a very
> motivated center, with > young people from many
> places (especially from all the corners of the
> aymara territory) reporting every week the news > >
> from inside...
> >
> > Well, I began talkings with the leaders of the
> region Warisata is located. And they are very
> interested in having their own > indigenous IMC...
> the Normal is involved in the project... but, as
> usual, they don't have a dime for this ...
> >
> > Be aware I'm talking here about almost everything
> is needed: computers, money for the shipment, tech
> assistance... they
> > only have enough room inside the Normal, there is
> a chance to have a good Internet connection (no
> money for this either),
> > disposition to  pay some expenses (electricity,
> structural arrangements), and lots of people willing
> to have their own
> > media...
> >
> > As for the ayamara people, in the next days they
> will be sending official letters from them (the
> leaders and the
> > Normal) asking for help to set up their IMC...
> >
>


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