[IMC-Finance] Indymedia Guatemala Foro Social de las Americasproposal

[ksimpson at ihug.co.nz]

Hi. Aotearoa Indymedia Collective is in favour of this funding application
being approved.
Best wishes
Ken
AIM representative on IMC-Finance

On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 15:58:47 -0700 (PDT), timox timox
<tirochueco at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hola hola, Hey Folks,
> 
> Timo here from Indy Chiapas.  Been a long time since I
> have been active on this list, for years I've been
> following the traffic.  Anyway, sorry for the silence
> and here goes a proposal on behalf of Indy Guatemala.
> 
> Yes, officially on the indymedia list, indymedia
> guatemala does not exist.  Yet in reality, there has
> been an active collective in Guatemala working as
> indymedia on and off for the last five years, using a
> category on the indymedia chiapas page:
> 
> http://guatemala.mediosindependientes.org
> 
> This group over the last eight months has been greatly
> strengthened by several small groups meeting regularly
> and re-organizing from several distinct departments in
> Guatemala.  This is a process that from Indy Chiapas
> we have accompanied quite closely (as well as other
> similar processes in the MesoAmerican region).
> 
> For the last two months the indy guate collective has
> begun organizing around the World Social Forum of the
> Americas (FSA), to be held Oct 7-12 in Guatemala City.
>  The are by far and away the most organized of all of
> the groups working on distinct issues in Guate around
> the FSA.  They are in direct negotiations with the
> event organizers and have made a fair amount of
> headway securing spaces in the San Carlos University
> to host the IndyMedia space.
> 
> The vision is to promote an active space prior to and
> during the FSA that permits community, Mayan,
> independent and autonomous media makers to work,
> covering the events of the FSA as well as drawing much
> needed attention to the increasingly repressive and
> violent reality in which Guatemalan's are currently
> living.
> 
> I am attaching (in Spanish) the proposal that group
> defined as necessary for providing an Indymedia space
> for the FSA that may house up to or more than 400
> independent media makers.
> 
> Of the total budget that Indymedia Guatemala is
> searching for they are requesting $1500.00 US from the
> indy network as a means to provide the space and
> training required.  Those funds will be used for:
> 
> Paper and ink for the Printing press (one of the
> participating collectives has a press and will donate
> the use of the printer)
> Internet (The university at present is not
> guaranteeing internet access to the FSA)
> Consumables:  minidiscs, minidv, cassettes, dvd's,
> batteries
> Materials for Credentials
> Coffee, from local organized cooperatives.
> 
> The importance of this indymedia space is such that
> there is an excellent opportunity not only to provide
> alternative coverage of this event but rather to
> inject the debate about independent, alternative,
> community, and indigenous media into a much needed
> National spotlight and debate in Guatemala.
> 
> Thanks for you time in considering this proposal.
> 
> Mil gracias por considerar esta propuesta y saludos a
> todas!!!
> 
> Timo
> 
> Indy Chiapas
> 
> COMPPA