[Imc-africa] [www-features] [[feature purpose]] African INdymedia Convergence - NAIROBI

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ZQ


On Tue, 16 Jan 2007, ange at riseup.net wrote:

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> hi imc-features group!
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> See below iMC-Africa purpose for Feature.
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> Indymedia radio support for WSF 2007 from Kenya
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> This project has taken off, with your help it will get a lot bigger: Turn
> on, Tune in, speak out
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> Several IMC members are traveling to Narobi, Kenya this month to support
> an Indymedia convergence during the seventh annual <a
> href="http://wsf2007.org/info/about">World Social Forum</a> which runs
> January 20-25th. Media activists from Africa and around the world will be
> reporting in the World Social Forum, providing hands-on media production
> workshops, building two low-power radio stations in Kenya, and creating
> dialogue and cooperative production across borders.
>
> Other IMC members are not traveling to Narobi but are staying at home to
> support the network by attempting to widen the discussion with the <a
> href="https://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/WorldSocialForum2007#Global_Listening_Nodes">Global
> Listening Nodes</a> project: a proposal to Syndicate content from
> different nodes in social centers and other alternative media outlets
> during the WSF and combine it with content from Nairobi also. A kind of
> global collaboration on both virtual and physical. <it>Basically getting
> more social centres and other spaces to open up during WSF as local nodes
> around planet for people to go to to firstly listen to stuff live from
> kenya, but also maybe where they could have 2 way systems: being able to
> participate in forum without physically being there.</it>
>
> But the journey of the WSF has not been without its < a
> href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=World_Social_Forum#Criticisms">criticisms</a>.
> Some claim that the <a
> href="http://www.forumsocialmundial.org.br/main.php?id_menu=4&cd_language=2">Charter
> of Principles</a>, which form the core of the WSF process, are not always
> adhered to with the result of alternative fora being created, as happened
> for the <a
> href="http://www.indymedia.ie/features/irishsocialforum/international&user_frontpage=54&save_prefs=true">2004
> European Social Fora</a> in London. Worse still is frustration with the
> entire social forum process, as happened at the <a
> href="http://www.indymedia.org/en/2002/08/104776.shtml">2002 Argentinian
> Social Forum</a> because <it>"Radical perspectives were not included
> within the forum's debate."</a> But this year old and new <a
> href="http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-africa">African
> IMC´istas</a> are working hard to attempt to take the WSF story to the
> next stage, and for that they are looking for ever more solidarity and
> collaboration.
>
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> links : <a
> href="https://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/WorldSocialForum2007">Documentation
> of Convergence</a> | <a href="http://wsf2007.org/info/about">WSF official
> page</a> | <a
> href="https://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/WorldSocialForum2007">indymedia
> WSF page</a> | <a
> href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=World_Social_Forum">WSF on
> wikipedia</a> | <a href="http://kenya.indymedia.org">Kenya Indymedia</a> |
> | <a
> href="https://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/WorldSocialForum2007#Global_Listening_Nodes">Global
> Listening Nodes</a> | WSF 2007 in internatinal news : <a
> href="http://www.ipsnews.net/new_focus/wsf/index.asp>IPS</a> | <a
> href="http://www.ciranda.net/spip/rubrique11.html">Ciranda</a> | <a
> href="http://www.lama.lautre.net/public/>Lama</a> | <a
> href="http://demokrasia-kenya.blogspot.com/2007/01/kenyan-blogger-reports-from-wsf-2007_13.html">Demokrasia-Kenya-blog</a>
> | <a
> href="http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=10593">Znet</a>
>
> Past IMC WSF coverage : 2006: <a
> href="http://publish.indymedia.org/en/2006/01/832215.shtml">Venezuela</a>
> | <a href="http://publish.indymedia.org/en/2006/02/833142.shtml">Bamako,
> Mali</a> | <a
> href="http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?ItemID=10023">Pakistan
> (Znet)</a> : 2005: <a
> href="http://publish.indymedia.org/en/2005/01/818308.shtml">Porto Alegre,
> Brazil</a> : 2004 :  <a
> href:"http://publish.indymedia.org/en/2004/01/110301.shtml">Mumbai,
> India</a> : 2003 : <a
> href="http://publish.indymedia.org/en/2003/01/107019.shtml">Porto Alegre,
> Brasil</a> : 2002 : <a
> href="http://barcelona.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=16350">Porto
> Alegre, Brazil</a> : 2001: <a
> href="http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2001/02/02/16351.php">Porto Alegre,
> Brazil</a>
>
> Read more | Add a translation | <a
> href="https://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/WorldSocialForum2007#UPTADE_FROM_NAIROBI">Read
> Update from Nairobi</a>
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> http://kenya.indymedia.org/uploads/2007/01/wsf_global_radio_nodes_2.jpg
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> How you can help : Tune in: <a
> href="http://www.radiolivre.org">((radiolivre))</a> <a
> href="http://www.indymedia.org">(((imc)))</a>| <a
> href="https://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/WorldSocialForum2007#CALL_WsF2007CallEs_WsF2007CallFr">inform
> your community</a> | <a
> href="https://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/WorldSocialForum2007#Global_Listening_Nodes">make
> a listening node</a> | <a href="http://kenya.indymedia.org">contribute
> views to IMC-Kenya</a> | Publicise locally | get local radio station to
> restream | <a href="http://nairobi.radiolivre.org">donate cash to the
> project</a> | <a href="mailto:imc-africa at lists.indymedia.org">tell us what
> else needs to be done</a>
>
> The World Social Forum is an annual gathering of participants in social
> movements for global justice, timed to coincide with the <a
> href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Economic_Forum">World_Economic_Forum</a>.
>
> The World Economic Forum is a meeting of business and political leaders in
> Davos, Switzerland, which is converted into a military security zone
> during the meeting, making demonstrations and coverage by Independent
> Media nearly impossible. Participants at the World Economic Forum are
> overwhelming European or American and male; non-governmental organizations
> such as Friends of the Earth and Public Citizen have been excluded from
> meetings after raising concerns, and Greenpeace withdrew after finding the
> group uncooperative on issues such as climate change.
>
> The World Social Forum is held in the southern hemisphere each year and
> largely made up of participants in social movements in response to the
> poverty, inequality, war, sexism, and state suppression generated by
> policies pushed by participants of the World Economic Forum, the <a
> href="http://www.globalexchange.org/campaigns/wto/">World Trade
> Organization</a>, and other forces of global capital.
>
> Rallying around the call of "Another World Is Possible," the World Social
> Forum has placed social justice, gender equality, peace, and defense of
> the environment on the agenda of the world’s peoples. World Social Forums
> have collectively expanded the democratic spaces of those seeking
> concrete, progressive alternatives to imperialist globalization.
>
> Regional Social Forums meet throughout the year to support this work.
> Everyone is invited to the US Social Forum, June 27 through July 1, 2007
> in Atlanta Georgia and the Midwest Social Forum. Our local School for
> Designing a Society will be traveling to the US Social Forum this year.
>
> There have also been various other local Social Forums, European level,
> national level
>
> Historically Indymedia has had a close relationship with the World Social
> Forum (WSF), as the Indymedia network of volunteer-run Independent Media
> Centers grew out of the same movement against neo-liberalism and for
> global justice that led to the WSF. The <a
> href="http://www.indymedia.org/es/index.shtml">Indymedia network</a> now
> includes over 170 Independent Media Centers on every continent but
> Antarctica. The Indymedia network has helped spread the world from the WSF
> from 2002 onwards, ensuring that an Independent Media Center is available
> at each WSF to allow diverse voices from the Forum to be heard.
>
> This World Social Forum IMC will be focused on not only on reporting on
> the WSF, but on skill-sharing and solidarity between Indymedia and global
> justice activists. There will be workshops on web distribution of stories,
> audio production, radio station building, print publishing, silk
> screening, and consensus based decision-making. Another goal is to
> consolidate the energy of local activists in Kenya to resume and energize
> the formation of a permanent IMC in Kenya.
>
> "Independent Media in Africa continues to be a challenge. While large
> parts of the populations in Africa still do not have access to democratic
> and independent media, they are lacking specifically access to more
> interactive media like the internet that enable not only to receive news
> but also to produce news globally. Thats why local, private and pirate
> radio stations or a free radio action and even small-scale newspapers form
> a strong force of independent media in many African countries. Devoted
> media activists maintain them. The WSF gives a great opportunity to
> continue networking between these local activists as much as discuss
> chances and possibilities to increase the use of the internet for
> networking and eventually producing more African news for within and
> beyond Africa," says Fabian, one of the organizers on the ground in
> Narobi. And so, trying to create free software alternatives of producing
> low-band web radio .
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> Indymedia organizers are working to bring delegates from Kenya, Mauritius,
> Cameroon, South Africa, Uganda, Nigeria and Mali to the World Social Forum
> Indymedia Convergence.
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