[Imc-cleveland] Mini-Meetings

[p-indy216 at riseup.net]

Thanks jesse,

In response to your concerns about the mini-meeetings - Yes, yes, and yes
i a understand and agree with them.

My intentions were to have informal meetings to bring people up to speed
on c-imc, answer questions, FYI etc. without losing any momentum. Since
its been hard to get together for our "official" monthly meetings i wanted
to get the ball rolling as much as possible. Also, for me it can be
awkward to have new folks come to our monthly meetings cuz we end up
spending half the  meeting introducing ourselves and doing the history of
the imc and the other half discussing whatever it is we needed to discuss.

Most of these "mysterious new people" either have been interested in
getting involved with indymedia for awhile but couldnt because of
scheduling conflicts or have experience working with imc's in other
cities. I realize i/we have been going a crappy job of giving advance
notice of these events, and it may seem not transparent. soory that my
fault.

anyway we should try to get a better location and firm time. on a positive
note, thereve been new ideas suggested and a few re-encarnations of old
ideas that have gotten all crusted and burnt on out collective back
burners.
it would have been nice to have some of the other collective members there
too but as yet it hasnt happened.

i did invite the newbies to help out on the radio show and hopefully there
will be more collective involvemet in that in the future.

so do we want try to meet this week, Sunday?

!p



> I'm glad to hear that other people are getting
> involved in cleveimc, and it sounds like people are
> having some good ideas.  I have a couple concerns
> about the "mini-meetings" that we've been having,
> however, mostly regarding procedural issues that they
> raise.
>
> 1.  I'm under the impression that these are not
> "official" cleveimc meetings, but instead some people
> getting together with Patrick to discuss ideas.  I'm
> not saying I disagree with any of the ideas being
> discussed at the "mini-meeting", but I don't think any
> website decisions should be made outside the official
> monthly meetings.
>
> 2.  I do not think there should be any "official"
> cleveimc meetings unless they are discussed and
> established at a monthly meeting, or at least receive
> consensus over the listserve.  I have reservations
> with having meetings at someone's house, short notice
> being given for meetings, and established collective
> members being unavailable for the meetings.  I was
> under the impression we were rescheduling the monthly
> meetings for Sunday afternoons instead of evenings,
> and were looking into Talkies, Arabica, or a similar
> location (not someone's house).
>
> 3.  We established a policy several meetings ago that
> someone must attend at least 3 "official" meetings to
> be considered a collective member.  There were many
> reasons for this.  No offense towards new people
> getting involved, which I encourage, but I don't think
> the mini-meetings should count towards the 3 required
> for collective membership.
>
> Again, I am happy and excited that more people want to
> get involved, but I don't think we should proceed in a
> manner that disrespects people in the collective or
> established practices/policy.
>
>
>
> 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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