[Seattle-editorial] FEATURE PROPOSAL: Living Wage Victory!

[Susan]

Hi Lance,

I understand the concern .... but in the current case i think it would be 
too long to wait (til Friday) to put another feature on top.  We haven't 
had any news-news since Oct 28 (a full nine days!), and the Burning Man 
story is interesting, but more philosophical than news-y, yes? (since BM 
happened many months ago, and essentially we're introducing some analyses 
about it and announcing an upcoming party).  It's all cool, and I'm glad 
that we're promoting it .... and I'm also glad for introducing broad 
philosophical concerns (about community, the 'gift economy', and more) -- I 
hope we'll see even more of it!!

But I'm also feeling sensitive to our hard-working friends in the labor 
community.  The Washington State Jobs with Justice coalition represents 
over 100 organizations and 6,000 individuals in the state (membership list: 
http://www.wsjwj.org/about/about_default.asp ) --- and the Living Wage 
Ordinance is a major victory for them.  They're active posters to the 
newswire, and I like to honor that as well.

All these things considered, I'd like to post the feature tomorrow.  It's a 
very short feature, so folks won't need to scroll much to see the Burning 
Man feature and the gorgeous photo accompanying it.

Note too, that the feature has also made its way to the global site ... (to 
the features newswire on the right-hand side), so the story is already 
getting international exposure as well.

Just my .02 --- do others in the editorial collective want to weigh in?

- Susan

At 06:08 PM 11/6/02, Lance Larkin wrote:
>I say thumbs up also, but would like to make a
>request.
>
>Out of the last three articles I have written (all of
>them trying to reach out to other communities;
>homeless, middle eastern, and fillipino), two of those
>have been followed immediately by other headlines.
>
>I realize that news happens as it does but it is a bit
>embarrasing doing outreach and then having to tell the
>people I am in contact with to scroll down in order to
>see their features.
>
>I would like to request that we keep the Burning Man
>feature at the top at least until Friday.
>
>Thanks for the anonymous editorial help,
>Lance
>
>--- Sheri Herndon <sheri at indymedia.org> wrote:
> > yes!
> >
> > (ps, just cause i don't always speak up doesn't mean
> > i don't like the
> > other stories :))  it's all been great coverage,
> > thanks everyone for
> > this really ongoing important work!)
> >
> > sheri
> >
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