[Imc-communication] [Imc-beirut] the provisional end of imc beirut

[Petros Evdokas]

Hello,

I'd like to share with you - with great sadness - this official 
announcement from imc-Beirut, about a "provisional end" of the local 
collective and of our indymedia operations there, at least for a while.

I believe that our network has a lot of responsibility for not having 
supported the imc-Beirut collective as much as it should have, 
especially during the summer war which destroyed Lebanon.

There are many of us who look forward to a speedy recovery and a renewal 
of indemedia entities in Lebanon, and also to the possibility that this 
may happen with the support of the current group, so as not to require a 
full processing through new-imc, etc.

Thnaks,
Petros
Cyprus IndyMedia voulunteer
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From: "blue.pi" <blue.pi at ....net>
To: imc-process at lists.indymedia.org, imc-beirut at lists.indymedia.org

Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007
Subject: [Imc-beirut] the provisional end of imc beirut


Dear imc process working group,

we like to inform you that imc Beirut is going into "sleeping mode": We 
have already arranged to freeze the website. There will still be the 
main mailing list, all other beirut lists will be disabled.

The reasons are: The group does not exist as a group anymore. There
haven't been proper meetings since almost a year and no other collective
activity (except personal). Individuals have tried over a period of 
several months to revive the group, but didn't succeed for which we see 
structural and personal reasons. We don't see a point in individuals 
maintaining the website if the group is dead - this would also 
contradict indymedia policy.

We would still like to keep the main mailing list because there are 
people in Beirut known to us who are interested in the project, but 
don't have the capacity right now to take over. We don't think that 
these friends should have to go through a new process once they decide 
to enable the website again.

We would like to help any new or old volunteers who step in to shoulder 
some of the work in order to renew/refresh our operations, by training, 
guiding and sharing the imc-beirut facilities to maintain continuity 
with the existing (and previous) imc-beirut formation instead of the 
group having to start all over entirely from zero again.

If you have any questions or suggestions for us, please read our latest
discussion before - many points might already be answered:

http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-beirut/2007-January/0107-pt.html
http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-beirut/2007-January/0107-mz.html
http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-beirut/2007-January/0107-h0.html
http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-beirut/2007-January/0107-3w.html
http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-beirut/2007-January/0107-x5.html
http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-beirut/2007-January/0107-dw.html
http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-beirut/2007-January/0108-l7.html
http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-beirut/2007-January/0108-d0.html
http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-beirut/2007-January/0108-2u.html
http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-beirut/2007-January/0109-qi.html
http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-beirut/2007-January/0109-y1.html
http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-beirut/2007-January/0110-8v.html
http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-beirut/2007-January/0110-d6.html


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