[Imc-india] hello from madurai collective

[amudhan ramalingampushpam]

Dear friends  
Greetings from indymedia.org - madurai collective. 

Seven of us have come together to initiate this process. There is Ms.Pavalam, an activist  working for the rights of girl child, Mr.Babu, a painter and printer , Mr.Sundar, a theatre person and tamil lecturer  , Ms. Vardhini from All India Democratic Women's Association (AIDWA, Mr.Sethu, a writer and human rights activist, Mr.Prabhakar, a musician and lecturer and myself, Amudhan, a media activist and video producer.

We are excited about the idea of running the website India.indymedia.org from madurai. We have started contacting activists, artists, acadamecians, and media persons in and around tamilnadu. We are also talking with movements, groups and organisations.

At present, we are planning to use the computer in a commercial internet browsing centre in Madurai. the person who is running the centre has agreed to upload things for us. We may have to pay for his service and equipment.

The following is the plan regarding the material.

   1) to begin with, only text and photograhs are going to be uploaded.
   2) we are planning to upload, a long list of issue based documentary films made in india.
   3) we are thinking of having a section on personalities like medha patkar, C.K. Janu, Niyogi,who are not loved by the mainstream media.
   4) we are planning to use articles, reports from smaller websites, newsletter, journals and magazines.
   5) we have asked friends to include us in the press list of theirs, so that we too get their press release.
   6) we have asked friends to send us fact finding reports, e-mails about the struggles, initiatives and constructive activities.
   7) later we may start producing our own materials on local struggles, initiatives and constructive activities.
  8) we are planning to focus on the issues like, caste related violence, poverty, untouchability, impact of globalisation on natural resources, women and children, employment, agriculture, artisans and industry.
  9) to begin with we will upl
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amudhan
indymedia.org-madurai collective