[Imc-goa] Revised proposal

[Albertina Almeida]

 I don't know anything about the technical side of this and I am not even
inclined to figure it out at least at present.

But what I can say is that I could contribute to a discussion on what is it
that this list could specifically seek to "give a voice to the movement"

albertina


 On 5/9/07, Anabel da Gama <anabelgama at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hey Vidya!!!
>
> Am still around:).... lets get a start on it.
>
> Anabel
>
> On 5/9/07, 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<http://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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