[Imc-cymru] Proposal for next IndyCymru Meeting

[James Dunckley]

I'm all for a new meeting to discuss setting up a new Indycymru, but am a 
bit limited for the next few weeks. Of course that doesn't stop us 
discussing our options openly online...

For information I live in Gorseinon, just outside Swansea. I don't drive so 
anywhere around Swansea or Llanelli would be better for me to be honest. I'm 
pretty heavily involved in the campaign to stop the LNG project and feel 
strongly that we do need some kind of alternative media platform that is 
distinctively, and independently welsh. If this campaign has shown anything 
it's that the DTI in london has far more power in our country than the Welsh 
Assembly. We need much greater control over our energy policy and we need 
total reform of the planning system, which has spun out of control.

The problem in my eyes is that the corporate media tends to isolate and 
fragment different groups from each other and helps to foster distorted 
stereotypes of different (especially alternative) groups. This creates a 
climate of distrust which makes it very difficult to foster unity. This is 
especially true with the LNG pipeline campaign where the media has 
fragmented different groups along the pipeline from one another and as a 
result hampered the creation of a united front powerful enough to bring 
National Grid to a halt.

Ilyan is right though that we do need to also talk and discuss, and often. I 
wonder also therefore whether there might be space to set up some kind of 
unified discussion board where people can network and discuss the myriad of 
energy and planning/ green space/ housing issues that preoccupy so many 
Welsh communities today...

Any thoughts?

Jim.


>From: Ilyan <ac.thomas at ntlworld.com>
>Reply-To: IndyCymru <imc-cymru at lists.indymedia.org>
>To: IndyCymru <imc-cymru at lists.indymedia.org>
>Subject: Re: [Imc-cymru] Proposal for next IndyCymru Meeting
>Date: Sun, 21 Jan 2007 23:59:52 +0000
>
>The last two meetings were at Cilmeri.  which is central Nationally.
>Pembrey would be central for the people who turned up at the last one,
>and also for those who sent apologies.  No obvious place to meet in
>Penbre  unless someone  is up to  making a Berber tent  or a 22ft  Tipi
>out of a 44x22  tarp in case it rains.   Dry, there is a good clearing
>by Welly's  grave the Police Helicopter already knows its way to.
>
>There was a meeting at the Social Forum Gathering in Aberystwyth, might
>that recur ?   Has anyone done any recent costings of getting an
>adequate website hosted.  Any cheaper in somewhere like Papua? We
>sometimes hit 7000 reads a day perhaps that would overload some systems.
>
>We have submitted an imc application, some Indymedia people are aware of
>it.  It does not fit with the general run of Indymedias, as I feel that
>just being news reporting is a bit pointless,   there needs to be much
>more discussion to change the erroneous Climate of Opinion so skillfully
>built up to produce Thatcherism.      With a bit of luck our yeast is
>working.
>
>Regards
>
>Ilyan
>
>
>
>Darren Wyn Rees wrote:
> > I propose that we hold an Indycymru Meeting as soon as possible.
> >
> > The longer this project remains off-line, the more likely it will never
> > get back on-line.
> >
> > Are there any proposals for location ?
> >
> > Aberystwyth ?
> > Carmarthen ?
> > Swansea ?
> > Rhondda Cynon Taff ?
> > Cardiff ?
> > Newport ?
> >
> > To avoid the mistakes of Genny Bove et al's Wrexham IMC, we should
> > welcome all activists, and not be aggressive and dishonest in dealing
> > with participants or prospective participants.
> >
> > What are your thoughts on a meeting and location, if you please ?
> >
> > Darren
> >
>
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