[Imc-birmingham] various

[dougbrum at tiscali.co.uk]

Hey
It would be nice for people to write a short statement about 
themselves and what they hope indymedia is capable of achieving. As far 
as I know only about 5 people post.

The 'phone indymedia' idea sounds good but I think that it wont be 
used. It just seems a lot of work for someone and the end result wont 
justify the hard work.

I thought the format for the last cinema showing was good. It gave 
people a chance to respond to what they saw. The only thing I would say 
is that having it bi-weekly doesn't allow us to advertise. It just 
seems a bit rushed. Also it's a pain in the arse for the indymedia 
comrades lugging all the gear around. How about restructuring it so 
that it takes place once a month? Then we all can make a concerted 
effort to promote the night. This is where I think we are falling down.

 I just think that the idea of the cinema showings is really good, it 
has great potential. But we don't want to end up with the same 6 faces 
every other week and preach to the converted. We need to be getting a 
good cross section of poeple and at the moment we aren't. Maybe we need 
to show documentraries that are more inclusive/appealing to start with. 
I think riot porn rocks but some people don't. What do others think? 
Should we have a strategy meeting to plan the next 4 months?

D

PS Just bought the AK press Black Panthers DVD. 

>----Original Message----
>From: phunkee at aktivix.org
>Date: 16/06/2007 13:26 
>To: <imc-birmingham at lists.indymedia.org>
>Subj: [Imc-birmingham] Pending subscription requests
>
>Hi,
>
>After talking about the lack of participation on this list is was 
'consensed'
>that we purge the list of inactive members and invite them to join 
our
>annoucements list. So a couple of weeks ago this list was 'purged' of 
all the
>people that haven't constructively contributed to this mailing list 
in the last
>couple of months.
>
>Since then we have a request for someone to join the list that wasn't 
a member
>before. I floated an idea that we could restructure our imc by asking 
people to
>introduce themselves and ask what they'd like to get involved with. I 
know this
>happens on some indymedia lists - the new imc list asks people to 
introduce
>themselves. We could also do this with existing list members who 
aren't as
>active as they'd like to be too.
>
>Is this is a good idea, or should we just let people sign up?
>
>It's worth bearing in mind that we do have the annoucements list for 
people who
>want to keep informed with what we're doing but don't want to commit 
to working
>on this project.
>
>What do people think?
>
>phunkee
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