[Imc-cleveland] regional newspaper
Dana Williams
danamwilliams at yahoo.com
Mon Feb 26 21:05:40 PST 2007
Hi Abigail and others,
That's cool. Thanks for the questions. AFSC does not have to be THE
organization doing this; in fact, we'd probably like just being one of the
contributing groups. But, right now, we're happy to help out where we can.
Regarding AFSC's politics: the organization actually can't endorse candidates,
although it can participate in non-candidate oriented electoral campaigns
(usually this only extends to things like the minimum wage, single payer health
care, campaign finance reform, etc.) AFSC also does have a position on
nonviolence (not the same as "pacifism", though, I'd say), but the organization
has never allowed this to prevent it from working with groups that have taken
other positions on the use of violence (within certain reasonable limits, which
I doubt other IMCers would disagree with... like the military, fascists, etc.).
There are people on the committee with a wide-range of views (as with people
who participate generally with the AFSC). Personally, I am not a pacifist and
believe in the right to self-defense (including violence), but I prioritize and
always prefer the use of nonviolent action whenever possible. AFSC and the IMC
have had a good relationship so far, I think, but it's good to bring up these
questions!
We thought the nice thing about a collectively produced newsletter from many
different groups is that we could combine news/ideas from a variety of
perspectives (even we don't always agree on every little thing) that work
towards that better world we'd like to see. A newspaper might even be a nice
venue for the debate of certain issues like the ones Andy raised. It might be
good (at some point) to consider some guidelines on what type of group would
fit within a newsletter and what wouldn't. Clearly facists wouldn't, but what
groups would be fuzzy? The Green Party? Left-leaning religious-inspired groups?
Armed struggle formations (if any even exist in NEOhio)? Etc.
Okay, sorry about the rambles.... What's the next step, ya'll?
Cheers,
D
--- ABIGAIL FISHEL <aafishel at msn.com> wrote:
> Hey Dana. Yeah, we talked about it for a bit. Just me and Andy showed up
> but we seem to be the most active in the collective anyway so it wasn't that
> big a deal that no one else showed up. He was just concerned that if the
> AFSC is going to be a part of the newsletter if it will be nonviolent
> oriented and politically endorse certain canidates, because if so, the IMC
> cannot be a part of . We gotta stay neutral.
> I talked to Tom P on Sunday and he dispelled all our worries. So, other
> than the hesitations, the Cleveland IMC is down to working on the project,
> to the best of our ability.
>
> Thanks for your interest. A.
>
>
> >From: Dana Williams <danamwilliams at yahoo.com>
> >To: imc-cleveland at lists.indymedia.org
> >Subject: Re: [Imc-cleveland] regional newspaper
> >Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2007 13:05:10 -0800 (PST)
> >
> >Sorry I didn't make the meeting this weekend. Was there a discussion of a
> >newspaper? If so, what did people think about the idea? AFSC is hoping to
> >be
> >somehow involved in this (which may or may not mean me [or Tom], but
> >someone),
> >so let me know the 411.
> >
> >d
> >
> >
> >--- imc-cleveland-request at lists.indymedia.org wrote:
> > > ------------------------------
> > >
> > > Message: 2
> > > Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 22:46:14 -0600
> > > From: "ABIGAIL FISHEL" <aafishel at msn.com>
> > > Subject: Re: [Imc-cleveland] regional newspaper
> > > To: danamwilliams at yahoo.com, imc-cleveland at lists.indymedia.org
> > > Cc: tpieragastin04 at jcu.edu
> > > Message-ID: <BAY106-F3258EE1DD10BD632F42C12D88B0 at phx.gbl>
> > > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed
> > >
> > > This is ABigail here. I'm so very into it. So much so.
> > >
> > >
> > > >From: Dana Williams <danamwilliams at yahoo.com>
> > > >To: imc-cleveland at lists.indymedia.org
> > > >CC: Tom Pieragastini <tpieragastin04 at jcu.edu>
> > > >Subject: [Imc-cleveland] regional newspaper
> > > >Date: Sat, 17 Feb 2007 16:49:53 -0800 (PST)
> > > >
> > > >Hi everyone,
> > > >
> > > >This is Dana, a former volunteer with the Cleveland IMC. I'm writing
> > > >because
> > > >I'm also a member of the American Friends Service Committee, based out
> >of
> > > >the
> > > >Akron-area. We decided at our last committee meeting that we wanted to
> > > >support
> > > >an effort to create an alternative, political newspaper for the
> >northeast
> > > >Ohio
> > > >region. Tom P, who some of you know (he works with C-Space, NOAC, and a
> >few
> > > >other projects) is also on the AFSC and told us that he spoke to
> >Abigail
> > > >and
> > > >Patrick, I think, about this idea.
> > > >
> > > >Apparently Pittsburgh has a pretty successful paper like this which
> > > >combines
> > > >articles written by various political organizations in the P-burgh
> >area.
> > > >The
> > > >newspaper allows them to do greater outreach to new constituencies, for
> > > >less
> > > >cost than making tons of fliers would. If each organization partaking
> >int
> > > >he
> > > >project contributed an article for each issue, it would be relatively
> > > >painless
> > > >to generate a full newspaper that would be relevant to the region's
> > > >activist
> > > >community. Tom and I thought that the IMC would be a nice place to
> >start
> > > >this
> > > >project. It also could be a way to attract new members to the IMC
> > > >collective
> > > >and reinvigorate everyone.
> > > >
> > > >So, AFSC has endorsed this general idea and hopefully we could get
> >other
> > > >organizations on-board as well. What do those of you active with the
> >IMC
> > > >think??
> > > >
> > > >In solidarity,
> > > >Dana
> > > >(in Akron)
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the
> >powerless
> > > >means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral."
> > > >--Paulo Friere
> > > >
> > > >FNB: http://gozips.uakron.edu/~dw2/fnb.html
> > > >AFSC: http://www.afsc.net/
> > > >Dana: http://danawilliams2.tripod.com/dana.html
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
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> >"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless
> >means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral."
> >--Paulo Friere
> >
> >FNB: http://gozips.uakron.edu/~dw2/fnb.html
> >AFSC: http://www.afsc.net/
> >Dana: http://danawilliams2.tripod.com/dana.html
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"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral."
--Paulo Friere
FNB: http://gozips.uakron.edu/~dw2/fnb.html
AFSC: http://www.afsc.net/
Dana: http://danawilliams2.tripod.com/dana.html
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