[Boston-print] Hoy! Indymedia Boston is going to be in Print in August!! Help wanted!

[Sofia JarrinT]

hey you,
Since I have been doing the headlines for SCAT every
week, I'll be forwarding those to you accordingly.
Also, I can monitor Spanish-speaking sites. How often
is What's Up published?

cheers,
sofia

--- Pete Stidman <pstidman at yahoo.com> wrote:

> On my own I contacted Ben from What's up and among
> other things we worked out an idea for an Indymedia
> sidebar in What's up magazine regularly from now on.
>  
> 
> I have committed myself to bottomlining the thing
> and
> making sure it's in by deadline  -I can write it if
> others aren't interested but I want others to get
> involved too. I see it as possibly becoming related
> to
> headlines on the SCAT show and Sounds of Dissent,
> maybe just by trading our notes.  
> 
> Let me say first that What's up is interested in
> recieving full articles from Indymedia members at
> anytime, and their deadline is a month in advance. 
> But this idea is different and goes thusly:
> 
> We would get two sidebars (Approx 500 wds x2) for
> local, national, and world news briefs.  so the
> title
> of the thing might be Indy(world)media or something
> of
> the sort.  Each brief would be in the area of
> 100-150
> words or less.  Each brief would tell the reader
> where
> to go to read more on the web.  So if, for instance,
> we were going to press right now we might highlight 
> 
> Local:
>  the last DNC case was aquitted, 
> the somerville 5 defense is rallying
> 
> National
> New battles at Pacifica Radio
> Mountain Justice Summer fights mountain top removal
> Rainbow family tried en mass in woods
> 
> World
> G8 mobilization in Scotland
> Bristol UK server seized
> Zapatista's issue Red Alert
> 
> That's just a quick view of course.  Maybe not
> seeing
> everything- and I would like to translate stuff from
> South America too.  
> 
> The idea would be to cross promote everything and
> also
> use this as an outreach tool.  Our phone number,
> email, and web address would be included and we
> could
> rotate plugs for radio and TV shows and events.  
> 
> What I need help with:
> 
> Developing a template for it- Anybody know indesign
> or
> Quark?  If I had a little training I could adjust
> the
> thing but need a nice design to start out with. 
> 
> Spanish, portugeuse, and other translators to
> monitor
> Indymedia news and let me know if something would
> work
> (and to write the blurbs).
> 
> folks to suggest things to be included.  
> 
> That's all email the print list if interested...
> 
> 
> 
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