[Imc-communication] Please explain your editorial decision?

[bmedia at riseup.net]

seems like it would have been more appropriate to send this to rogue  
imc, rather than cross posting to this and so many other lists....

Cat

Quoting Petros Evdokas <petros at cyprus-org.net>:

>
> 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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