[Seattle-editorial] Process Item - Bulletin Board for Center

Thu Nov 21 19:49:13 PST 2002

Just a quick note, I've secure a corkboard for the bulletin board discussed
at the recent impromptu editorial meeting. I'll put it up while I'm down for
the art show on Saturday.

Gentry

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   1. Fwd: Correction on press release (Chapolin Colorado)
   2. RE: 1. global feature (Sheri Herndon) (Gentry Lange)
   3. re: N30 - Feature on Seattle IMC? (brady at riseup.net)
   4. Re: re: N30 - Feature on Seattle IMC? (Jason Reep)

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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 09:16:32 -0800 (PST)
From: Chapolin Colorado <chapolinrojo at yahoo.com>
To: imc print <imc-print at lists.indymedia.org>
Cc: dc radio <dc-radio-coop at lists.indymedia.org>,
	press realese <Pressreleases at lists.indymedia.org>,
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Subject: [Seattle-editorial] Fwd: Correction on press release

--- Yu Yu Din <yu2din at hotmail.com> wrote:
> From: "Yu Yu Din" <yu2din at hotmail.com>
> To: yusmedia at yahoo.com
> Subject: Correction on press release
> Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 12:04:18 -0500
>
> PLEASE NOTE THE CORRECTION IN CONTACT INFORMATION
>
> FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 18, 2002
> Contact: Yu Yu Din 646-373-0475 Email:
> ydin at yclusa.org
>
> Young Communist League, USA to hold a National
> Convention
>
> Schiller Park, Illinois – Under the banner "Youth
> and Labor Unite and Fight,
> for peace, equality, jobs, education and socialism!"
> the Young Communist
> League, USA (YCL) is gearing up for their 7th
> National Convention. Expected
> to attend are several hundred youth and student
> activists from across the US
> and over fifty guests from national and
> international youth and student
> organizations. Libero Della Piana, the National
> Coordinator of the YCL said
> "We wanted to hold the Convention in a working class
> town, and you can’t
> find a better place than Chicago."
>
> YCLUSA recently took part in a coordinated action
> against the FTAA on
> November 17th with International Student Union
> (IUS), the United States
> Student Association (USSA), the Canadian Federation
> of Students (CFS) and
> the Continental Oraganization of Latin American and
> Caribbean Students
> (OCLAE). Youth resistance to corporate globalization
> and the FTAA will be a
> major theme of the Convention. Numerous
> international guests will be in
> attendance, including the President of the World
> Federation of Democratic
> Youth (WFDY), the Young Communist League of Isreal,
> and the General Union of
> Students of the Iraqi Republic.
>
> Workshops on education, jobs, women’s rights, racial
> justice and workers are
> planned for the convention. Abdul Hassan, the
> convention organizer promises
> an exciting time. "There will be music, education,
> culture, and we will take
> to the streets to oppose Bush’s war drive in Iraq."
>
> The Young Communist League, which is a founding
> member of the National Youth
> and Student Peace Coalition (NYSPC) helped bring
> more than 100,000 youth,
> students and working people to Washington DC on
> April 20, 2002 for the March
> Against the War at Home and Abroad. Over the past
> year, the YCL helped
> organize demonstrations to resist the World Economic
> Forum and CUNY budget
> cuts in NYC. "It is a crucial time for the youth to
> come together and talk
> about the challenges that we are facing, like war
> and economic hardships."
> said Alcy Montas, the Chair of NYC Uptown YCL Club.
> ####
>
>
> WHO: The Young Communist League, USA
>
> WHAT: 7th YCL National Convention
> A. Saturday Morning Plenary
> B. Press Conference
> C. March and Rally
>
> WHEN: November 22-24th
>
> WHERE: Schiller Park, IL
>
> HOW: Press list only by Fri 12 Noon
>
> ####
>
>
>
>
> Yu Yu Din
>
>
>
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Message: 2
Reply-To: <g at art13.com>
From: "Gentry Lange" <g at art13.com>
To: <seattle-editorial at lists.indymedia.org>
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 14:40:28 -0800
Subject: [Seattle-editorial] RE: 1. global feature (Sheri Herndon)

I like it. Is there something that we can dig up that compares these
measures to other facist laws/acts from historical fascist states? like
http://www.govsux.com/enable.htm,
http://www.hermes-press.com/nazification_step3.htm,
http://falloutshelternews.com/ThisWeekInFascism0602.html,
http://www.anti-state.com/miles/miles2.html

Though some of these might not necessarily fit what we want on the front
page, something along these lines may be appropriate so as to draw out the
fascist link a little more thoroughly.

Gentry

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Message: 1
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 00:31:45 -0800
To: Seattle-Editorial <seattle-editorial at lists.indymedia.org>
From: Sheri Herndon <sheri at indymedia.org>
Subject: [Seattle-editorial] global feature

perhaps we could do something similar.
seems quite important.....to educate people.
this is to www-features list from spark at imc portland.

U.S.: TOTALITARIAN INFORMATION AUDIT

Senate passes fascist Homeland Security bill

On November 19, the U.S. Senate passed the Homeland Security Act (<a
href="http://www.congress.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:h.r.05005:"
target="_blank">H.R.5005</a>) 90 to 9 with the understanding that next year
both houses will take up 3 minor provisions of the bill that Democrats have
objected to as being pork-barrel. The
Democrats did not challenge the section for the Orwellian <a
href="http://geocities.com/totalinformationawareness/"
target="_blank">Information Awareness Office</a> -- which
conservative columnist
<a href="http://portland.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=33237">William
Safire lashed out at as a gross violation of civil liberties</a> -- or the
rest
of its fascist provisions. The bill guts the Freedom of Information Act,
establishes a draconian surveillance system for spying on U.S. citizens, and
will terminate many unions jobs. The House <a
href="http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=217718&group=webcast">p
assed
the bill</a> on Nov. 13th. Many people in the U.S., including immigrants,
Muslims, and political activists, will not be feeling as safe when they <a
href="http://dc.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=39732&group=webcast"
target="_blank">sleep</a>.

Previous coverage:
Nov. 17
http://www.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=217718&group=webcast

IMAGE:
http://dc.indymedia.org/local/webcast/uploads/metafiles/iao_2.jpg
Official Logo of the Information Awareness Office

LINKS:
DC IMC
http://dc.indymedia.org

Total Information Awareness Resource Center
http://geocities.com/totalinformationawareness

Know Your Rights in the U.S.
http://www.nlg.org/post911/legal/KYR/rightsinfo.htm

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Message: 3
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 03:31:19 -0800
From: brady at riseup.net
To: Lance Larkin <inzimbabwe at yahoo.com>
Cc: seattle IMC editorial <editorial at seattle.indymedia.org>
Subject: [Seattle-editorial] re: N30 - Feature on Seattle IMC?

Not to be annoying...

But, still haven't gotten word from ANY of you. Which is cool, I understand
you
are understaffed.

It would be helpful to know if it is possible to have some kind of
interactive
feature on the Seattle IMC to make affinity group actions more prominent.

If it's just not possible (or desirable on your end), then just let me know,
so
I can devise another plan.

Thanks!
-brady mcgarry-
http://seattleacc.cjb.net
http://riseup.net/n30

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Message: 4
Date: Thu, 21 Nov 2002 08:56:10 -0800
From: Jason Reep <jasonr at speakeasy.net>
To: brady at riseup.net,
	seattle IMC editorial <editorial at seattle.indymedia.org>
Subject: Re: [Seattle-editorial] re: N30 - Feature on Seattle IMC?

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the answer is yes...but...

as you mentioed we are understaffed.  Our nominal method of feature
creation is to assemble articles that have been posted to the newswire
into a coherent feature.  Sometimes this consists of many articels and
images (sometimes audio) and sometimes it's just one substantive article
combined with offsite info.  I haven't done a comprehensive survey today
but it seems that the bulk of postins so far about N30 are about whether
or not to confront the police.  Is this the story we want to feature?

Brady do you have or know of any locally written articles, schedules,
flyers, events, critique, etc.. that can be posted?
I know that you are probably as busy as the rest of us but, the quickest
and most participatory way to get a feature up would be to help us write it.

Here it the feature format guildlines page (relevant section begins
about a quarter in):
http://seattle.indymedia.org/editorial-intro.php3

in sol, Jason

quoted here:

*Feature Articles *
The center column feature articles on the Seattle IMC site are usually
composed by members of the editorial collective, and are based on
articles that have already been posted to the newswire. When we see an
article on the newswire that is high quality, we create a feature for
the center column with links to the article so that it gets longer-term,
centrally visible exposure. However, because of the volume of articles
posted to the newswire, the editorial collective is unable to read every
article, looking for feature quality material. As a reflection of our
open newswire policy, the editorial collective encourages anyone to
submit feature proposals to the collective.

Featured articles can relate to local or international issues, should be
well written, and ideally cover issues involving under-represented
voices in the mainstream media. It is possible to submit one article as
a feature, but a proposal that includes numerous articles showing
various facets of the issue, or a balance of viewpoints, is more likely
to be accepted. Before submitting a feature proposal to the editorial
list, the URL or the web addresses of the appropriate articles should be
gathered. This is done by locating the window at the top of your
browser: the 'Address' in Microsoft's Internet Explorer and the
'Location' in Netscape's Navigator, starting with http://. You can
simply cut and paste this address from the browser for your feature
proposal.

This is a brief explanation of the format we use to propose features.
The entire text of the proposed feature should be composed and
circulated to the editorial list, including subtitle, title and internal
html links to stories indicated.

It helps to know a little html, if you want to do any of the following:
have more than one paragraph in your feature, have internal links in the
body of the feature, have more than one picture, give the feature a byline.

For example, one recent feature, which contained internal text links and
multiple paragraphs, would have been submitted to the list like this:

    [subtitle]INDEPEDENT MEDIA AND DEMOCRACY

    [title] Gag Order Lifted; IMC in Free Speech Battle Following
    FBI/Secret Service Visit

    On Saturday, April 21, as tens of thousands demonstrated against the
    FTAA in the streets of Quebec City, the IMC in Seattle was served
    with a sealed court order
    <http://seattle.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=3014> by two
    FBI agents and an agent of the US Secret Service. The terms of the
    sealed order prevented IMC volunteers from publicizing its terms.
    This morning, the gag order was lifted
    <http://seattle.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=3035>,
    enabling the IMC to finally break its silence about these events,
    which Lee Tien of the Electronic Frontier Foundation characterized
    as "a threat to free speech, free association, and privacy."

    Click here
    <http://seattle.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=3013> for our
    definitive account of the situation.

...and so forth.

[MINI HTML TUTORIAL--DON'T BE AFRAID]

You can see the "html tags" in the text enclosed in ; these are actually
really, really simple to learn, and the list of them needed for
producing features is really short. Here they are, in a nutshell:

leaves a blank line and begins a new paragraph.

begins a new paragraph without leaving a blank line.

TEXT <http://seattle.indymedia.org/web%20address%20here> This is used to
make links. You put the long instruction at the beginning, inserting the
entire web address of the page you are linking to.. then the clickable
text, then the <http://seattle.indymedia.org/editorial-intro.php3> to
signal the end of the linked text.

Two more important things to remember about HTML and features:

1. In html, returns and spaces are ignored--if you want to make a new
paragraph, you actually have to tell it

. Just inserting returns will do nothing.

2. The html tutorial is just an introductory lesson and it may seem
overwhelming but is actually quite easy. Once you have composed your
feature with text and appropriate links, you can send it to the
editorial collective via email at editorial at seattle.indymedia.org Be
sure and write FEATURE PROPOSAL in the title of the email. The
collective will review your feature and respond appropriately (helping
you with the html if necessary).

The editorial collective will then peruse your feature, and with a vote
of three active editorial members, the feature will be added to the
center column. As the editorial collective examines your article they
may decide to add links to other articles that are similar. This is the
beauty of working with a collective, everyone's work grows and gains
strength

brady at riseup.net wrote:

>Not to be annoying...
>
>But, still haven't gotten word from ANY of you. Which is cool, I understand
you
>are understaffed.
>
>It would be helpful to know if it is possible to have some kind of
interactive
>feature on the Seattle IMC to make affinity group actions more prominent.
>
>If it's just not possible (or desirable on your end), then just let me
know, so
>I can devise another plan.
>
>Thanks!
>-brady mcgarry-
>http://seattleacc.cjb.net
>http://riseup.net/n30
>
>_______________________________________________
>Seattle-editorial mailing list
>Seattle-editorial at lists.indymedia.org
>http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/seattle-editorial
>
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the answer is yes...but... 
 
as you mentioed we are understaffed.&nbsp; Our nominal method of feature
creation is to assemble articles that have been posted to the newswire
into a coherent feature.&nbsp; Sometimes this consists of many articels and
images (sometimes audio) and sometimes it's just one substantive
article combined with offsite info.&nbsp; I haven't done a comprehensive
survey today but it seems that the bulk of postins so far about N30 are
about whether or not to confront the police.&nbsp; Is this the story we want
to feature? 
 
Brady do you have or know of any locally written articles, schedules,
flyers, events, critique, etc.. that can be posted?&nbsp; 
I know that you are probably as busy as the rest of us but, the
quickest and most participatory way to get a feature up would be to
help us write it. 
 
Here it the feature format guildlines page (relevant section begins
about a quarter in): 
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/editorial-intro.php3">http://seattle.indy
media.org/editorial-intro.php3</a> 
 
in sol, Jason 
 
quoted here: 
Feature Articles 
The center column feature articles on the Seattle IMC site are usually
composed by members of the editorial collective, and are based on
articles that have already been posted to the newswire. When we see an
article on the newswire that is high quality, we create a feature for
the center column with links to the article so that it gets
longer-term, centrally visible exposure. However, because of the volume
of articles posted to the newswire, the editorial collective is unable
to read every article, looking for feature quality material. As a
reflection of our open newswire policy, the editorial collective
encourages anyone to submit feature proposals to the collective.

Featured articles can relate to local or international
issues, should be well written, and ideally cover issues involving
under-represented voices in the mainstream media. It is possible to
submit one article as a feature, but a proposal that includes numerous
articles showing various facets of the issue, or a balance of
viewpoints, is more likely to be accepted. Before submitting a feature
proposal to the editorial list, the URL or the web addresses of the
appropriate articles should be gathered. This is done by locating the
window at the top of your browser: the 'Address' in Microsoft's
Internet Explorer and the 'Location' in Netscape's Navigator, starting
with <a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="http://">http://</a>. You can
simply cut and paste this address from the
browser for your feature proposal. 
This is a brief explanation of the format we use to propose
features. The entire text of the proposed feature should be composed
and circulated to the editorial list, including subtitle, title and
internal html links to stories indicated. 
It helps to know a little html, if you want to do any of the
following: have more than one paragraph in your feature, have internal
links in the body of the feature, have more than one picture, give the
feature a byline. 
For example, one recent feature, which contained internal
text links and multiple paragraphs, would have been submitted to the
list like this: 
<blockquote> [subtitle]INDEPEDENT MEDIA AND
DEMOCRACY 
 [title] Gag Order Lifted; IMC
in Free Speech Battle Following FBI/Secret Service Visit

 On Saturday, April 21, as tens
of thousands demonstrated against the FTAA in the streets of Quebec
City, the IMC in Seattle was served with a sealed <a target="_top"
 href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=3014">court
order</a> by two FBI agents and an agent of the US Secret Service. The
terms of the sealed order prevented IMC volunteers from publicizing its
terms. This morning, the gag order was <a target="_top"

href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=3035">lifted</a>,
enabling the IMC to finally break its silence about these events, which
Lee Tien of the Electronic Frontier Foundation characterized as "a
threat to free speech, free association, and privacy."

 Click <a target="_top"
 href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/display.php3?article_id=3013">here</a>
for our definitive account of the situation. 

</blockquote>
...and so forth. 
 [MINI HTML TUTORIAL--DON'T BE AFRAID]

You can see the "html tags" in the text enclosed in <brackets>;
these are actually really, really simple to learn, and the list of them
needed for producing features is really short. Here they are, in a
nutshell: </brackets>
 leaves a blank line and begins a new paragraph.

 
begins a new paragraph without leaving a blank line.

<a
href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/web%20address%20here">TEXT</a>
This is used to make links. You put the long <a
 href="http://seattle.indymedia.org/editorial-intro.php3"> instruction
at the beginning, inserting the entire web address of the page you are
linking to.. then the clickable text, then the </a> to signal the end
of the linked text. 
Two more important things to remember about HTML and
features: 
1. In html, returns and spaces are ignored--if you want to
make a new paragraph, you actually have to tell it

. Just inserting returns will do nothing.

2. The html tutorial is just an introductory lesson and it
may seem overwhelming but is actually quite easy. Once you have
composed your feature with text and appropriate links, you can send it
to the editorial collective via email at
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:editorial at seattle.indymedia.org">editorial at seattle.indymedia.or
g</a> Be sure and write FEATURE PROPOSAL in
the title of the email. The collective will review your feature and
respond appropriately (helping you with the html if necessary).

The editorial collective will then peruse your feature, and
with a vote of three active editorial members, the feature will be
added to the center column. As the editorial collective examines your
article they may decide to add links to other articles that are
similar. This is the beauty of working with a collective, everyone's
work grows and gains strength
 
 
<a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated"
href="mailto:brady at riseup.net">brady at riseup.net</a> wrote: 
<blockquote type="cite"
 cite="mid1037878279.3ddcc407ea25d at mail.riseup.net">
 <pre wrap="">Not to be annoying...

But, still haven't gotten word from ANY of you. Which is cool, I understand
you
are understaffed.

It would be helpful to know if it is possible to have some kind of
interactive
feature on the Seattle IMC to make affinity group actions more prominent.

If it's just not possible (or desirable on your end), then just let me know,
so
I can devise another plan.

Thanks!
-brady mcgarry-
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://seattleacc.cjb.net">http://seattleacc.cjb.net</a>
<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext"
href="http://riseup.net/n30">http://riseup.net/n30</a>

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