[IMC-Boston-Dispatch] Boston IMC Closes Editorial List in Response to Haters Mag

[Sofia JarrinT]

Sorry dispatchers for the disruption!  Our favorite troll is in the works... ;)

Boreal,
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And yes, we are looking for people who can help us move our website to drupal, so if you know of anyone, let us know. But nope, the letter below was not sent secretly. It was completely public and thanks for passing it around again! ;)

peace
sofia

boreal_nymph at fastmail.fm wrote: At long last, Boston Indymedia has taken the great step to black box
editorial governance.  On Feburary 28th, Sofia Jarrin-Thomas (now known
as The Boston IMC Collective), who had long desired to make BIMC a
secret organization, passed a resolution for the editors to go
underground. She had whittled down the opposition, and sustained
numerous challenges to the authority of BIMC's anonymously posted center
column articles. 

BIMC has suffered greatly in the past year for its laundering of
Resistance propaganda emanating from eco-terrorist groups and racists
operating within the Western Massachusetts and Boston Green Party. 
After BIMC's back channels were exposed by myself, certain members such
as Mike Borucke and Jonathan McIntosh attempted to join while making
pleas for publishing and editorial anonymity.  These were promptly
thwarted and the editors' pseudonyms were promptly revealed, causing
them to redouble their efforts at a Drupal site revision and formation
of the new anonymous editorship.

After a brief period of trying to censor the entire website in shifts
using drone names such as (Editor 1,2,3...), Sofia circulated the goin'
underground letter:

[IMC-Boston-Discuss] New Closed Editorial List
Sofia JarrinT sofiajt at yahoo.com
Wed Feb 28 08:19:51 PST 2007

Dear Imcistas,

After much thought among the current active members of Boston Indymedia,
we decided upon consensus to create a new *closed* Editorial list for
active members only to communicate safely and openly about our group
decisions, finances, editorial, etc. All members of this new list will
have to be approved by our current active members in order to be added
to it. This list is open also to *past* active Boston IMC members. To
subscribe, you can go to:

http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-boston-editorial

We took this decision after inquiring with other US IMCs about their
procedures and found out that many other IMCs have similar closed
Editorial lists including: Portland, San Francisco & Bay Area, NY,
Austin, Urbana-Champaign. We hope that this decision will encourage
diversity and participation of aspiring and freelance journalists rather
than make it exclusive.

All other Boston IMC lists will remain open for subscribers and we will
continue to post our meeting times and minutes on the Announcement list
as well as use the Dispatch list for news coverage.  Archives to the old
editorial list are available at:
 
 https://lists.indymedia.org/historical.html
 
 Any questions/concerns/complaints, please let us know.
 
 Peace,
 BIMC Editorial Collective

[Apologies if you receive this email more than once...]

e.g. The members who did not quit, who were not forced out or accused of
masculine malfeasance; a consensus of two, perhaps three.  Note the
emphasis on safety, embodied in the phrase "to communicate safely and
openly about our group decisions."  This is Sofia's handiwork, being
ever the expert of battered womens' vaginal jingo.  It clearly means "to
communicate secretly, and to conspire safely against the truly
independent medias of Boston while concocting restraining-order type
manifestoes to issue against the general public."  After inquiring with
IMC Centcom, e.g. Riseup.net & Co, they felt comfortable emulating the
more hardheadedly totalitarian Indymedia nodes across country.

Haters Magazine views this as a success, as do other independent media
personalities and freelancers who have been notified.  The broad view
taken by non-cabal members is that it's a free country, and if you can't
handle free speech in your quasi-public tax exempt nonprofit
corporation, then you should suffer the indecency of making all of your
decisions in dark, roach infested closets on farty used furniture.
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