[Imc-cleveland] Gandhi

[jesse]

> Andy, this is media.  This is an open publishing
> newswire.  Just because we have something on the
site > doesn't mean we endorse it necessarily.  There
is 

We do not necessarily endorse open newswire
publications, but this is not open newswire.  It is a
feature.  Indymedia is liable for features it
produces, both legally and ethically because we
actively create, edit, and publish them.  I would have
no objection to the pic of Gandhi on the open
newswire.  I think Andy has a legitimate argument,
though, regarding a feature.  Putting the pic on one
of the features is an endorsement.  

That in mind, Andy has raised several valid points
regarding Gandhi's political activities.  Andy has
stated, in part:

"Gandhi was a bad man.  He tried to break a railroad
strike in the 1930's.  He was against the kind of
social revolution that India needed - in fact still
needs, partly due to his influence.  He promoted the
chimerical idea of nonviolence - which hobbles the
minds of masses of people."

If no one is disputing this statement, the picture
should be taken down.


 



> a certain amount of impartialness needed to be
> maintainted by media people.  
> Okay, so you feel that way about Ghandi, so be it. 
> But Code Pink chose to 
> follow some of his tactics and philosophy in what
> they are doing and that is 
> news.  Its news, not doctrine.
> 
> by the way, thanks for the encouragement about the
> show.  we are trying.
> I just hooked another lady Cydni who works at the
> food co-op to cover 
> environmental issues.  she already asked work for
> mondays off and was 
> granted that so she might be with us in the studio
> this coming monday.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> >From: andypie <andycleimc at earthlink.net>
> >To: indymedia <imc-cleveland at lists.indymedia.org>,
> Fishel Abigail 
> ><aafishel at msn.com>
> >Subject: Gandhi
> >Date: Mon, 10 Jul 2006 21:23:42 -0400
> >
> >Well, to be brief, I don't like to have a picture
> of Gandhi up on a 
> >Feature.
> >
> >Gandhi was a bad man.
> >
> >He tried to break a railroad strike in the 1930's. 
> He was against the kind 
> >of social revolution that India needed - in fact
> still needs,  partly due 
> >to his influence.  He promoted the chimerical idea
> of nonviolence - which 
> >hobbles the minds of masses of people.
> >
> >There is no such thing as nonviolence - anybody who
> uses money is 
> >participating in violence.
> >
> >This is a subject I could go into at great length.
> >
> >Hunger strikes have been used by many social
> movements besides pacifists -  
> >The IRA for example.
> >
> >I really don't like us showing Gandhi  on our site.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> 
>
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jesse

"In the expansion of the great Western empires, profit and hope of further profit were obviously tremendously important...But there is more than that to imperialism and colonialism.  There was a commitment to them over and above profit, a commitment in constant circulation and recirculation, which, on the one hand, allowed decent men and women to accept the notion that distant territories and their native peoples should be subjugated, and, on the other, replenished metropolitan energies so that these decent people could think of the imperium as a protracted, almost metaphysical obligation to rule sobordinate, inferior, or less advanced peoples."

~Edward Said, 1993

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