[Imc-cymru] Proposal for next IndyCymru Meeting

[Darren Wyn Rees]

On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 17:50 +0000, James Dunckley wrote:

> 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. 

Can you suggest a suitable venue in or near Swansea or Llanelli ?
Swansea University do rooms for hire, but they're usually pricey.

> 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. 

Yes, you're quite right.

Here's my introductory post to Genny Bove's Wrexham IMC list which she
deleted without explanation http://aberdarenotes.com/topic/23?replies=1

In that message I suggest :

| We need non-corporate, independent, and free sources of news... now.
| | Given that there is now two months before the Welsh Assembly 
| Elections, would it be possible to organise an interim IMC Wales
| website ?

> 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.

Yes, the planning system serves the interest of a corporate oligarchy.

In fact, corporations are probably the crux of the problem.

>  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?

Yes, let's meet and discuss things often as an independent Wales group.

I am making enquiries, with regard to booking a venue for a meeting.

I should have a date by this Friday, fingers crossed.

Darren