[IMC-Boston-Print] Idea for a writer's forum

[Pete Stidman]

Thanks Kate!

Have fun out there in the woods of NY.  BARD right? 
I'm sure we could do an over the internet thing too-
we'll talk about it at the first meeting....

-Pete


--- Kate Crockford <solidarity at riseup.net> wrote:

> 
> Hi Pete,
> 
> Sounds great. I would love to be involved but am
> about to head back to New
> York to finish my last year at school. I'd love to
> send you articles,
> though.
> 
> I'll keep paying attention to these emails and see
> what comes.
> 
> Cheers,
> kate
> 
> 
> > Hey everyone on the IMC print list!
> >
> > At the last IMC general meeting a couple of us
> active
> > Indymedia folks who are interested in the print
> thing
> > (starting a newspaper or publication someday soon)
> > thought it might be a good idea to call a meeting.
> >
> > I thought it might be a good idea to not only talk
> > about what we want to do someday at said meeting,
> but
> > what we do now, how we can be better reporters and
> how
> > we can get published more often in more places
> writing
> > about what we want to write about. This could be
> open
> > to everyone interested in positive social change,
> > regardless of whether they want to write for
> indymedia
> > or not.
> >
> > I can see from looking over this list that at
> least a
> > few of us are working in other publications around
> > town, maybe a bunch of us.  I'm sure many others
> on
> > here are at an earlier stage and want to break in
> and
> > get published.
> >
> > We can all help each other out.
> >
> > Here's some ideas of what we could talk about, but
> > really it's open.  I would just like to get some
> > writers together who care about making positive
> change
> > in our communities and see what happens.
> >
> >
> > Sharing resources (how to's of writing/reporting)
> >
> > Dialogues about what are the important issues for
> > Bostonians, what should we be covering?
> >
> > Making lists and connections to friendly
> publications
> >
> > Ideas for getting published as Indymedia
> (syndicating
> > sort of)
> >
> > trading editing expertise
> >
> > collaborating on bigger writing projects
> >
> > ideas for our own publication
> >
> > more.. (insert your idea here)
> >
> > If a few people respond positively to this and
> name
> > some times during the week that they are
> available, I
> > can put together a time and central place for us
> to
> > meet based on that.
> >
> > peace-
> >
> > Pete
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> 
> 
> -- 
> "pessimism of the intellect, optimism of the will"
> Antonio Gramsci
> 
> 
> 
> 


		
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