[Imc-africa] Feature: Indymedia Convergence and radio support for WSF 2007 (from Kenya)

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<font size=+3> Indymedia Convergence and radio support for WSF 2007</font>
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 <it>from Kenya</it>
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<b>This project has taken off, with your help it will get a lot bigger:
Turn on, Tune in, speak out!!</b>
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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.
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 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>
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 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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<b>links</b> : <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>
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<b>Past IMC WSF coverage</b> : 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>
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<b>Read more</b> | <b>Add a translation</b> | <a
href="https://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/WorldSocialForum2007#UPTADE_FROM_NAIROBI">Read
 Update from Nairobi</a>
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<b>How you can help</b> : <it>Tune in</it>: <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#International_Radio_Show">International
Radio Show</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> | <a href="http://lists.indymedia.org/">Publicise
locally</a> | <a href"http://www.amarc.org/">get local radio station to
 restream</a> | <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>
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 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>.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 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.
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 "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.