[New-imc] Re: Online form: Proposed new IMC! (IMC London)

[Richard Malter]

Petros, hello. Some points.

When we were working through the imc-finance proposal some time ago, you came 
up against ideas from two people in London [from London working group] that 
differed from yours; but were very much within and for the (larger) principles 
of the Indymedia network - otherwise many people in Indymedia would have 
objected to them. In fact they did not: those ideas actually became the 
Indymedia finance working guidelines. 

Your response to meeting those diverse visions and thoughts to yours, and that 
you did not show any sign of understanding or effort to understand, was to try 
to persuade people generally in Indymedia that those people with diverse views 
from yours were <a string of negative names>. 

Later, when you were asked repeatedly to actually enter into an open discussion 
about the debated points, you did not.

Your politics, like mine and everybody else's, are defined by your actions on 
this planet; not by what you write or think.

Concerning things in London now. Even though you have very limited information 
(have you read through the uk-process archives and seen what is documented 
there?), you have not actually addressed one single point raised in the 
objection to this specific application for imc-London, or about the 
disagreements in London amongst the people there, and you take 'sides'.

Your political solution to the situation is again to try to persuade other 
people in Indymedia that those people with diverse understandings and ideas to 
yours are <a string of negative names>. 

You also ignore, by not saying anywhere, what the history of those people with 
diverse views from yours is: they have been very much involved in Indymedia for 
more than two years - their work is documented in the global and local 
archives; (they also worked on the Membership Criteria that are related to the 
current situation). You also ignore the work done by those people that the 
Indymedia network clearly benefits from: for a recent example - the 
documentation set up for the Ford Foundation issue, which many people have been 
finding very useful.