[Imc-africa] collaboration needed : trying to listen to Africa....

Wed Jan 24 02:27:03 PST 2007

dunk - who knows if this fucking e-mail will get through.  this is the first
connection we have had in days.  we are interviewing macheria tomorrow at 2
- i can make this audio available by internet AFTER i return to the states.
there is no way to do it from here - no way.  sorry.  this is why we don't
hear from africa.  more later -d

On 1/23/07, Fun Peace <fuspey at yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
>
>  would appreciate any help, theres presently 2 people that we are aware of
> who are helping, if anyone can assist great, just email or go to indymedia
> chat <https://docs.indymedia.org/view/Sysadmin/IrcHowTo> and enter in the
> #radio channel and tell us you can or might try...
>
> thanks for assistance, sorry for being a pushy annoying fucker.
> hope your all well, and things continue to grow for all working in ireland
> for better world...
>
> following is posted on imc-ie also
>
> changing the world: collaboration needed
> <http://indymedia.ie/article/80584>trying to listen to Africa....<http://indymedia.ie/article/80584>
>
> After 3 months of asking for assistance for a support project for the WSF,
> things did´nt come through, why?
>
> Perhaps now in the last frantic moments, when still a million things need
> to be done, will support come, who knows?
>
> But why did´nt support come for this project: poor communication in
> seeking collaboration, not physically being in Ireland to bounce ideas, or
> because its simply not a shit idea. Perhaps bits of all 3?
>
> Calls went out to Revolt, Seomra Spraoi, Grassroots Dissent and indymedia
> Ireland, nearly weekly questions went out about whether a little room down
> by the quays could get a net connection and become the Irish "Listening
> Node" (1)
>
> In the last few days some people in Ireland have tried to assist, they are
> trying hard to pull things together and from that help realize tomorow
> evenings "international radio show" (2), but they need assistance. and this
> is a last call out for help.
>
> Can anyone else help, please we need it. Can people offer to call people,
> give loans of tek equipment, help install software, make tea...whatevers
> needed? giving this type of assistance is a bit harder than simply throwing
> cash at something, even though cash throwing is a necessary part of things
> too (3)
>
> ...So the WSF, who knew it was on, who is there now, who even feels its
> something to be excited about anymore.... perhaps we are all tired of
> things? (4)
>
> Here in Barcelona, and beyond, people believe that the WSF can be
> horizontalized, that the whole mechanism can be reclaimed, built upon, added
> to.....simply improved. That new mechanisms and spaces can be created for
> those that "didnt have the money to get there" and from that the dialogue
> can be widened: speaking and LISTENING.
>
> Africa wants the world to hear its story, but the Africans want to tell
> their own story and not have others come and tell their "western tainted
> picture of poor and suffering Africa". Macharia was one such African, who
> left Africa for the first time, to tell his communities story. Not just the
> story of disease, crime, squalor, corruption, pain and death. But also of
> joy, creativity, love and HOPE: Kibera and a story of Hope (5)
>
> We are trying are hardest to create a system whereby he will be able to
> tell the world the story of Kibera, Africas largest slum ( million + and no
> toilets or running water.....) We are trying to see that their story is our
> story is others story, perhaps not in as extreme a situation the same story
> nonetheless. (6) There are problems and there are solutions, when we work
> together:
> - one of last years Streetseen homeless network, who is no longer homeless
> - someone from the Sheriff Street community in Dublins inner city, with
> its own long and difficult history, even today
> - someone from Cloghjordan Eco village, moving on an idea of a better
> world and that idea soon becoming the reality.
>
> Things are far from easy out there in Naorobi, last night the IMC-Radio
> team were held up at gunpoint while lots of their equipment was stolen; a
> different reality. (7) But they battle on.
>
> Why bother with all this? Because things can be improved and the world can
> be changed. It brings me back to a simple point made by Micheal Albert,
> creator of Zmag : BELIEVE its possible to change things then try, or else
> dont waste yours and others time. (8)
>
> We believe this is important, we hope you might take a moment to think
> about it, and from that collaborate with us.
>
> To help email me or tune in later to the IRC #gln_radio channel (9) and do
> what you can.
>
> Apologies for rushed nature of this final call, things not easy, still 1
> short of a million things to do. But its strange, at times things do come
> together, sometimes magically.
>
> in finishing, the bottom of the flyer says:
> It is hoped that this experiment will create a new space for global civil
> society to work in and out of from, both during the WSF and
> beyond..........(10) +(11)
>
> Dunk
>
> 1 Global listening nodes
> https://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/WorldSocialForum...Nodes<https://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/WorldSocialForum2007#Global_Listening_Nodes>
>
> 2- international radio show
> https://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/WorldSocialForum..._Show<https://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/WorldSocialForum2007#International_Radio_Show>
>
> 3 -Most people whom we write for / report for wouldn't even know what it
> was like for us. ár brón
> http://indymedia.ie/article/80521#comment181206
>
> 4 - Indymedia radio support for WSF 2007 from Kenya
> http://www.indymedia.org/es/2007/01/878667.shtml
>
> 5- Macharias journey: Kibera and a story of Hope
> http://kenya.indymedia.org/news/2007/01/450_comment.php
>
> 6 -North Inner city Dublin, "its like a war zone here"
> http://indymedia.ie/article/80569
>
> 7 - IMC-radio team held up in Naorobi by gunpoint yesterday evening
> http://kenya.indymedia.org/news/2007/01/521.php
>
> 8- how to change the world - make the movement sticky
> http://www.indymedia.ie/article/78818#comment170481
>
> 9 - IRC.imc
> http://chat.indymedia.org/
>
> 10 - download and distribute "imc-radio support for wsf 2007 from kenya"
> poster
> https://docs.indymedia.org/pub/Global/WorldSocialForum2...r.doc<https://docs.indymedia.org/pub/Global/WorldSocialForum2007/InternationalRadioShowNodes-colorposter.doc>
>
> 11 - global civil society
> http://www.fritjofcapra.net/articles120102.html
>
> 12 - who in the world is checking out this project
> http://www2.clustrmaps.com/counter/maps.php?url=https:/...m2007<http://www2.clustrmaps.com/counter/maps.php?url=https://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/WorldSocialForum2007>
>  [image: Horizontalizing the WSF]<http://indymedia.ie/attachments/jan2007/imgp5790.jpg>
>
> [image: 12 - WSF, whos looking and from where]
> 12 - WSF, whos looking and from where
>
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