[Imc-africa] Phnoenumbers of African delegates

Tue Dec 12 08:07:20 PST 2006

Hi Fabian!
The situation in Ambazonia is very critical right now. Basically a few 
days ago
the police shot some more students dead, injured a coupe of others and
incarcerated a handful, in an attempt to stop a student?s protest that
started a few days earlier. The students were protesting against attempts by
the Cameroon regime to fix results of the entrance exams to the Medical School
at the University of Buea.  So it is dangerous for students to even 
leave their
rooms much less to go to the internet café as the whole University neighborhood
is under an undeclared state of emergency. I talked with the elected 
Chairman of
the students Union who is still in hiding, the situation is pretty precarious.

I've tried unsuccessfully to call Rene and Bih but the call did not go 
through.
They should be able to contact you in the days ahead. You can equally try
calling them too. Here are their numbers:
Rene +237-54-94-358 and Bih +237-57-89-520
http://www.indymedia.org/en/2006/12/876059.shtml

Sphinx

Quoting fabian <fab at in-no.org>:

> Hi everybody
> sorry, I couldn't make it on Friday!
> would be happy to have another chat soon.
> Important news is that I finally received the first installment of money
> from Umverteilen so I am now able to purchase a first row of tickets for
> African delegates. It would be good if African delegates could get back to
> me with phonenumbers where I can call them these days.
> In any case, I will be in nairobi myself from January 8th where I am happy
> to join the setting up of the IMC.
> best for now
> Fabian
>
>
>
>
>> What about a weekend day? Or a time that is evening on the East Coast of
>> the
>> US? I realize that the second suggestion could put us into night hours for
>> those in Africa, though, which could be a problem.
>>
>> Zoe
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>>> From: andy gunn <andy at prometheusradio.org>
>>> Reply-To: African IMCs and the imc project in
>>> Africa<imc-africa at lists.indymedia.org>
>>> To: imc africa <imc-africa at lists.indymedia.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [Imc-africa] irc meeting this friday(On agenda)
>>> Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2006 20:29:27 -0500
>>>
>>> very few people attended the irc meeting this past friday.  no notes were
>>> taken,
>>> as no decisions were made.  is there a time when it would work better for
>>> everyone to have another irc meeting?  time is getting short and we have
>>> a
>>> lot
>>> of things to discuss.  perhaps someone else should make the call-out for
>>> another
>>> meeting?
>>>
>>> thanks,
>>> -a
>>>
>>>
>>> sphinx wrote:
>>> > On the agenda of the IRC meeting. I hope we can get down to start
>>> trying
>>> > to pin
>>> > down exactly how we?ll deal with all these important issues in such
>>> away
>>> > that
>>> > those attending get as much of the skills as they wish to during the
>>> 28days
>>> > period of the Convergence Center Calendar:
>>> > 7th Jan to 3rd February. So we need discuss issues that are good for a
>>> > plenary
>>> > and what issue is for a hands-on-workshop and which day, which time
>>> for
>>> the
>>> > maximum benefit.
>>> > As far as I can remember we can divide the content into the following
>>> big
>>> > titles:
>>> >
>>> > 1-Radio:
>>> >   .Workshop on Radio construction
>>> >   .Production and Organizing
>>> > 2-Skills on Participative democratic practices/formal Consensus
>>> >  .Introduction to Formal Consensus (Intro)-C.T. Recommends for all.
>>> >  .Better Meeting Skills (BMS)-For people who want better facilitation
>>> > skills.
>>> >  .Training for Teachers (T4T) to teach Formal Consensus (FC)- For
>>> > People who
>>> > will like to teach Formal Consensus.
>>> >
>>> > 3-Indymedia
>>> > .theory/history/structure
>>> > .Practical Stuff: online tools, How to do interviews; write articles
>>> etc
>>> > . Discussion on How effective indymedia can be in places where there
>>> is
>>> no
>>> > access to computers, a solid communication infrastructure and the
>>> cheap
>>> > electronic gadgets that have been at the heart of indymedia growth and
>>> > development in the global north.  And the utility or lack thereof of
>>> the
>>> > Indymedia network in our countries and how to make indymedia more
>>> useful
>>> > in our
>>> > countries and communities.
>>> >
>>> > 4- Screen printing
>>> >
>>> > 5-Podasting and other software and hardware skills for media making.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > So we will have 19 days together in Nairobi and some people will have
>>> > and extra
>>> > 9days in Kusumu for Maseno University- Station building and more
>>> training.
>>> >
>>> >
>>> > My opinion is that we could break these 5 major topics down into
>>> > sub-topics that
>>> > can go into plenary and others that go into a strict workshop setting.
>>> >
>>> > For example the discussion on indymedia effectiveness in the global
>>> > South could
>>> > be a discussion for an evening plenary. With a projector one could
>>> > screen a few
>>> > films about indymedia (theory/history/structure) and have a discussion
>>> > on that
>>> > in an evening plenary too.
>>> >
>>> > We could take a couple of different sub-topics together in a day for
>>> the
>>> 19
>>> > days, and we also we need to allow for free slots where people can get
>>> > to hang
>>> > out instead of having workshops and trainings all the time.
>>> >
>>> > I hope in the days ahead that we?ll get to know the timetable of the
>>> WSF
>>> > itself and see things that we need consider when making our own
>>> > timetable. For
>>> > example the days when there are the great marches we do not want to be
>>> > seating
>>> > in a room having very serious workshops. Obviously we would want to
>>> > report on
>>> > marches and have an indymedia block to marching on them to and get the
>>> > experience of interacting with such a diverse crowd.
>>> >
>>> > OK! I stop there for now. What do you think??
>>> > Sphinx