[Imc-goa] Revised proposal

[Frederick Noronha]

Sounds good to me. FN

On 09/05/07, Vidyadhar Gadgil <vgadgil at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Since there was no other suggestion apart from Fred's (which I have
> incorporated below), I think we should go ahead and circulate the
> proposal below on goanet, grn, seculargoa, greengoa, wildgoa mailgroups.
> Fred, add any you can think of. Anabel, are you still around, don't
> ditch when help is needed the most.
>
> Let's have it out within three days and then move forward, once more
> people have joined the mail-list.
>
> Regards,
> Vidyadhar
>
>
> Proposal for setting up an Indymedia-Goa collective
>
>
> Indymedia is a collective of independent media organizations and
> hundreds of journalists offering grassroots, non-corporate coverage.
> Indymedia is a democratic media outlet for the creation of radical,
> accurate, and passionate tellings of truth. There are currently over one
> hundred and fifty Independent Media Centers around the world. Each IMC
> is an autonomous group that has its own mission statement, manages its
> own finances and makes its own decisions through its own processes. To
> learn more about each IMC, visit its web page. You will find links to
> IMC web sites on the left column of the main page Indymedia page
> (http://www.indymedia.org)
>
>
> Some of us (with a lot of assistance from boud, an Indymedia activist
> from Poland) have been discussing regarding setting up an indymedia-goa
> site. This has been partly motivated by the fact that the
> india.indymedia.org website has stopped publishing. Experience with the
> all-India Indymedia has shown that it is very difficult to sustain a
> democratic media outlet in a large country like India unless there is a
> base of small regional IMCs.
>
> While Goa has some interesting attempts to build non-corporate
> controlled networks in cyberspace (such as Goanet.org for general
> issues, and more specialised email-based lists, like Goa Research Net,
> Secular Goa and many more), there is no current list that focuses
> specifically on "giving a voice to the movement" or encouraging
> specifically the kind of critical writings that are not allowed
> to emerge in the general media. We feel the need of a network which
> would specifically focus on issues of social concern. As such, some of
> us felt the need to organise an Indymedia-Goa and some preliminary
> discussions and work has taken place (see the twiki at
> https://docs.indymedia.org/view/Local/ImcGoa).
>
> A mailing list has also been set up for Indymedia-Goa. To subscribe,
> just go to http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-goa and fill
> out the form.
>
> Now comes the most important part of the process – reaching out to
> people and organising a collective. Without a group of people who are
> committed to the concept and willing to give time for the process,
> Indymedia-Goa cannot take off.
>
> Please join the mailing list at the above URL and give your responses to
> the idea. Once we have some feedback on the idea, a meeting of
> interested persons can be organised. Do make it a point to go through
> the documents at the URLs mentioned above and also
> https://docs.indymedia.org/view/Global/NewImcHowTo, to enable productive
> and meaningful discussions.
>
>
> Vidyadhar Gadgil
>
> Anabel da Gama
>
> Frederick Noronha
>
>
> --
> Question everything -- Karl Marx
>
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