[Imc-london] Groups

[Tony]

>have a look at http://www.stopwar.org.uk/groups.asp - there's loads 
>of them there. all the stop the war groups plus other groups opposed 
>to the war (don't see indymedia on the list though). most of these 
>groups have their own websites, though often they're freebie 
>geocities type websites. perhaps we could offer some of them space 
>on the indymedia server with a site under their own domain - 
>www.whatever.org.uk?

I am not into setting up server space for other groups - it is not 
that hard for groups to set up their own sites and once we do it for 
2 we would have to offer it to all and that is a massive job/server 
space. I think indymedia has enough on its plate to sort our selves 
out! Of course we can offer training and advice but that could just 
be a page on the site ...

Also there will always be the question of 'independence' and the 
arguments over who we would offer space to is endless as this one 
shows...

>>Political Groups? (would we want to invite people from say,
>>the SWP?)
>errr...? i would say yes, invite them - so long as they don't try 
>and sell their newspapers. talking is good, even with (especially 
>with) people we don't fully agree with - but we're all against the 
>war, against imperialism, against capitalism, against racism...

We should not be inviting political groups in my opinion - if 
individual from these groups get invilved - great - if these groups 
want to use the site - great - but there is no need for an official 
SWP/ etc invite - we will be launching indymedia and outreaching for 
groups to use it - not to link as groups to indymedia.

All groups involved in the network have to respect the 
non-heirachcical nature of indymedia - our basic principle are not up 
for discussion - Indymedia has a political position as set out in our 
texts .

Anyway to be a bit more practical - lets start making this list of 
groups /projects/ networks to contact and see what we come up with: 
and maybe split them into catagories so we can be a bit more 
selective about who we contact about what and when...

My suggested catagories would be:

Campaigns: EG. Anti racist / stop terminal 5 / rising tide / critical 
mass / GM / any issue ...

Associates: Alternative media / tech groups / video / radio / 
publications EG. concious cinema / urban 75 / com tec / squall / 
social centres / etc

And then there are -

Indymedia volunteers: As we will always need new people - who want to 
work on this project, who need training, will discuss ideas and do 
the many things needed to do with the indymedia project: Our radio / 
screenings / talks / videos / outreach / publications... etc

For me i think the meeting in July is to invite all the Associates 
and Indy volunteers to the meeting - and when we do outreach later we 
do it to get the Campaigns to use the site.


Cheers tony
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