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[sam rossiter]

Petros wrote (IMC is) "It's also being part of a
global network, not a US-centred or even Euro-centred
network - hopefully." These are wise words, and I
guess we’ll have to keep repeating them over and over
until we figure out ways to *actualize* them in our
Indymedia policies. Our policies right now, are still
going in the opposite direction." 

I agree that we need to be very careful about how our
intentions are percived- particularly as we are
getting involved at such a difficult time..

I wrote:
Is it possible to offer the newspaper group a
> website
> > which will only accept arabic script for
> 'articles'
> > but will allow English characters as 'comments'?
> > This IMHO would make the site a lot easier to
> > moderate/maintain (see previous comments about
> SPAM) whilst allowing for english speaking people
> to engage with discussion.

--- Jacquie Soohen <jacquie at bignoisefilms.com> wrote:
> "i believe some of the articles are already in
> english in the paper and 
> plan to be...
> don't think language is a way to exclude posts..."

I must admit to ignorance of the ammount of English
speaking Iraqi's in Iraq - I assume it must be a
significant minority, otherwise I can't imagine why
the articles would be written in English in the first
place...

I still think that it would be possible to use
language as a 'spam filter' and that it would also
send a clear message (actions speak louder than words
IMHO) That we are not part of the Imperialist project
and support Iraqis rights to self determination.

I was suggesting that the newswire on the right of the
page only accept arabic script. But that english
comments/translations on the Arabic/Kurdish articles
would be possible.

I was also assuming that each article in the newspaper
would become a 'middle page' article on the website
and as such could be written in English or Arabic
without affecting this proposal.

> > Cheers
> > Sam
> > (one of Bristol IMC)
> >
> >



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