[Imc-london] Re: reporting justice for janitors action

[euan2000 at onetel.com]

> btw, I helped with reporting the critical mass and it was one of the
> best indymedia things i've done lately. how to describe it... I was at
> my desk as usual, went to the uk chatroom, we set up a
> reporting/dispatch chatroom with a handfull of people, then the reports
> started to flood in.

Yes I saw an email about the reporting, and asking for helpers to log onto the
chat channel. I was a little unsure at first, as I was at work and didn't want
to get caught up in something completely different that distracted me from my
job.

However, my job had actually got in the way of me being at the Critical Mass
ride, so I thought I'd just try it just for a bit, and ended up enjoying it
thourely.

I did a little, as much as I could, and managed to get my paid work 
done! There
was a great buzz, and definately the next best thing to actually being there.

That being my first time in dispatch though, I was under the impression it was
always like that! ,-)

un.



3 people received "deliriously happy" phonecalls
> for a couple of hours. We made an up-to-the-minute timeline linked to a
> London feature put up at the same time, un proposed it on the spot as an
> uk feature, people started posting comments to the timeline, really
> helpful comments, useful links and also deliriously happy messages of
> support. No trolls! In the dispatch chatroom, people "made" the entries
> for the timeline and searched for links. We even had support from imc
> germany who immediately translated the stories for imc germany.
> Really this felt like proper media activism and i can only recommend to
> join the reporting machine, no matter wether its in the streets or in
> front of a computer.
>
> best
> ionnek
>
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