[Seattle-editorial] November 30th 2002

[Lance Larkin]

Hello,

I can understand Geov's wanting to cover our cities
gearing up for a 'fight'. Reporting on the reaction by
the state to these protests is important. However,
much of our coverage on this event in the past has
focused on the police and media reaction. Scroll down
to see the appropriate features at:
http://seattle.indymedia.org/features.php3?feature_id=7
and http://seattle.indymedia.org/feature-feb01.html

This should be a part of the coverage, but I agree
with Walt. Our coverage should expand beyond the 'they
report on the police keeping "order"/we report on
violence the police do and the miserable corporate
media coverage'.

Our volunteers have done some amazing work in the past
regarding the link to police violence and corporate
power. However, it would be nice to see some articles
on how the movement has progressed since 1999
(critique as well as supportive, different tactics,
etc) or perhaps some coverage on how the protests have
affected policy since then.

Just some ideas,
Lance

---  anarch3m <anarch3m at lycos.com> wrote:
> Brady, I share your sentiments.  I read how the anti
> wto and the anti war movements in europe are joining
> for actions of dissent.  Perhaps this can happen
> here.
> 
> In any case re N30, I don't know what Parvish has in
> mind, we might latter communicate...
> 
> Personally I see no need to recreate the stopage of
> the WTO meeting every anniversary.  And would like
> to see something else.  I hope that other aspects
> will get coverage, but we all need to make sure it
> happens.
> 
> Your further input is certainly of interest to me
> and I hope others
> 
> walt
> sea imc ed collective, as an individual
> 
> On Fri, 15 Nov 2002 03:44:15  
>  brady wrote:
> >Hey there Seattle IMC,
> >
> >Wondering what (if any) plan you folks have for
> coverage as far as N30 goes this
> >year. Geov emailed me briefly this morning, and it
> sounds like he wants to focus
> >on the city picking a fight. 
> >
> >Since the model that has been adopted for
> organizing n30 this year really does
> >avoid police confrontation, wondering what you
> thought.
> >
> >I am at your service.


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