[Imc-london] Re: feature proposal - traveller evictions

[Maqui]

mouseinthehouse at waitrose.com wrote:

>I'd also like to comment - without wanting to be presumptuous - that 
>indymedia UK could do with a lot more feature stories. I've only been 
>tangentially involved for a month or so, but I've been lurking on the 
>imc-london list and it seems that we're more concerned with parties 
>films and bookstalls than we are with publishing news.

hello mike

yes you are right that both imc-uk and imc-london could often do with 
more features, although i think that features in imc-uk front page quite 
often appear at a good speed. it just depends on how much free time 
people has got to spend on this.

as far as for london-imc you are definitelly right, more features are 
needed, but imho this hasn't got much to do with the fact that people are 
also concerned with parties, bookstalls and film screenings. I think 
these are also an integral part of what a local imc project should be. 

Anything which is having the project in the real space and not only on 
the web, it is  a good outreach activity. Film screenings, radio 
programs, stalls at events and parties (in this case indymedia 5th 
anniversary) are also part of a grass roots, alternative media project.

A good proof of this, is the series of events that under the banner of 
the european forum of communication rights, indy-uk co-organised at the 
camden centre during the four days of the last esf in london. human 
contact, discussions and presence in the real world can only strenghteen 
indymedia.

my five cents anyway

maqui