[Imc-communication] Please explain your editorial decision?

[Petros Evdokas]

To: Rogue IndyMedia members and Editorial Collective
CC: Wes Brain, Jon Dowd, imc-communication


Hello,

I'm writing to ask why your editorial collective has hidden my article 
that was published on the Rogue IndyMedia website? It was titled:
"Merchants of Pus" - Antiwar community activists targeted with personal 
harassment by Right-wingers"

The article still exists online, but you have removed its links and its 
listing entirely: it is nowhere to be found either on the column of 
Local or Global listings, nor can it be accessed through the website's 
search mode.

Here is a recording made by Google from when the article was still 
listed on the right-hand column:
http://tinyurl.com/2hvarq
or
http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:lEB5rQgdhdUJ:rogueimc.org/
+%2B%22Merchants+of+Pus%22+%2Brogue&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us

It's also mirrored here:
http://tinyurl.com/yorlqe
or
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/911truthportland/files/merchants
-of-pus-at-Rogue-imc-righthand-column.htm

The article you have hidden is here:
http://rogueimc.org/en/2007/10/9308.shtml


I was (pleasantly) surprised to see that even one of your readers - 
apparently a fan of christian music news - has seen some value in the 
article and reposted parts of it before you hid it:
http://www.topix.com/music/christian/2007/10/merchants-of-pus-community-activists-targeted


I don't understand what led you to this decision, nor is there any 
justification published by your editorial collective about it. Nor was I 
notified in any way, even though my contact information is clearly 
published on that article (a rare thing on indymedia, someone who writes 
with a real name and address?).

The news of what happens to antiwar activists in Oregon are entirely 
appropriate for the pages of Rogue imc - there's a lot of other material 
on those pages of news from Portland and elsewhere in the State, and 
also from all over the US.


I see that you have no problem publishing articles from Jew-haters and 
white supremacists like Captain Eric May - is this part of the reason 
you hid my article? Here's two articles by "Captain disMay" right on 
your pages:
http://rogueimc.org/en/2006/07/6865.shtml
and
http://rogueimc.org/en/2006/08/7123.shtml

Are there any of his supporters among your organization? If you are not 
aware that he is a conscious and purposive Jew-hating leader, please 
read here:
TANGLED WEB: 'False-flag Racism'
by Radix
http://portland.indymedia.org/en/2007/10/366925.shtml

or the article by Sara Lamadrid, titled
"Capt May is an Anti-Semite":
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/911truthportland/message/144


It seems that you have no discomfort promoting the work of a known 
Jew-hater, but you hide an article which exposes the threat and 
harrassment campaign against Peace activists being carried out by 
supporters of Captain May and Webster Tarpley - a curious political 
orientation, I must say.


If you're not aware that Webster Tarpley is a disciple of the 
"all-American" fascist Lyndon Larouche (formely known as Lynn Marcus), 
you might study about him here:
http://lyndonlarouchewatch.org/newamericanfascism.htm
or here:
http://www.heritage.org/Research/PoliticalPhilosophy/IA28.cfm?renderforprint=1

If you would like to know about Webster Tarpley's relation to Larouche, 
here's some initial material:
http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Webster_Tarpley&oldid=164371481

If you would like to know about what their supporters are doing in 
Portland attacking and disrupting our anti-war work, please have a look 
here:
"The Minor and Petty Disruptors"
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/911truthportland/message/162


Is your editorial decision to hide my article related to any sympathies 
among your members toward Webster Tarpley or Larouche? Is that why 
material by a Jew-hating leader like Captain Eric May is found on the 
pages of Rogue imc while articles exposing them vanish?


Perhaps it was just a mistake.
In that case, please re-instate the article, and please make sure that 
all the materials by Captain May and his supporters are removed from 
your pages. Even the Editorial Policy of Rogue IndyMedia clearly says 
that articles will be hidden if they are:
"Posts which use language, imagery, or other forms of communication 
whose sole purpose is to promote racism, fascism, xenophobia, 
homophobia, sexism, able-ism, ageism or any other form of discrimination."

I expect that it applies to all materials which make a racist or white 
supremacist "look good", or somehow promote the credibility of 
supremacists like Captain May.

I eagerly look forward to a response from you.
Thank you,
Petros
http://petros-evdokas.cyprus-org.net/Another-sort-of-Introduction.html
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