[Seattle-editorial] feature for next weekend: break the blackout feature?

[Sheri Herndon]

hi folks,

jay from imc philly is part of the organizing crew for the break the 
blackout conference (see link below) that's happening next weekend. 
he's asking local editorial collectives to put up a feature for next 
weekend so this could be a coordinated effort across the network.  as 
he mentions below, he's received good responses from a number of 
collectives who will be doing features.  this is something we've 
talked about many times here locally and on the network level in 
terms of jump starting our coordinating on coverage.  so we could 
really use our whole network resource with greater impact and 
leverage.  i believe this is using our resources more strategically. 
susan and i have talked about this as well many times.

this could be a good trial run for us to do something along the same 
lines for october 19 and beyond....

i'm assuming this would be no problem for us and we can add our name 
to the growing list of yeah we'll jump on board.  i think jay's going 
to then send another email as it gets closer saying here are the imcs 
who will be participating, please join us.....

what do people think?

xo

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>From: Jay <jay at tao.ca>
>Subject: break the blackout feature?
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>In the meantime, something else.  I've been involved in organizing 
>for a conference that's coming up next weekend in Philadelphia, the 
>Break the Blackout media conference. 
><http://www.kwru.org/conference>  The conference will bring together 
>grassroots anti-poverty organizers from around the U.S. with 
>independent media makers and media-democracy activists.  I think 
>it's going to be a great event.
>
>As part of using Indymedia's resources to support the conference and 
>the anti-poverty movement in general, I've been trying to inspire 
>local IMCs around the world to do features next weekend (October 
>4-6) about local anti-povery efforts, or about anything relating to 
>the struggle against poverty, especially where it converges with 
>independent media.  Do you think the Seattle maybe be able to pull 
>something along those lines together for next weekend?  I'm just 
>thinking about something small, but with IMCs all over the world 
>posting small features, things grow pretty quickly.  I've already 
>had some positive response from India, Argentina and Uruguay about 
>the idea . . . so join in! :)))
>
>If you aren't doing features nowadays, could you pass this message 
>along to someone who is?   Be sure to let me know if there's a 
>feature up so I can let everyone at the conference know.
>
>Thanks!  I like the idea of multiple IMCs focusing on the same issue 
>at a coordinated time, but each in its own way . . . ,
>
>Jay
>