[imc-scotland-discussion] womens involvement in indy media scotland

[Jeni Mackay]

I'm quite keen to do more and  might just get me off my bum to get more 
involved.  I have to admit, i'm a little confused about how things work 
re editorial and stuff.  a womans recruitment drive would be useful.

Jeni

Mike wrote:
> i think this is an important issue which should be discussed in more detail 
> at our next meeting.  I think the idea of approaching women we know and 
> inviting them to become editors / contributors is a good one, also maybe we 
> should try and focus on inviting women to our upcoming training event in 
> january.
> cheers embra mike
>
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>> At the moment there is a vibrant discussion on the imc-women list about
>> how editorial access is distributed on the Indymedia (Ireland) website,
>> and why there are less female editors than men.
>>
>> Well, this discussion got me  reflecting a bit about our own collective.
>> Will ask today at our meeting what our volunteers think about the
>> editorship on indymedia (scotland), the involvement (or lack of it) of
>> women as editors/administrators and the defintion of indymedia and if we
>> should change anything a little bit (very drastic proposals probably would
>> need a lot of reflection).
>>
>> And I went through all our user accounts and invited every woman who
>> contributed news and direct action reports to become an editor and
>> promoted her to have editorial privileges.
>>
>> Do we have anybody else who is interested?
>> Do we want to announce any other points for the meeting to discuss today.
>>
>> Is it at 7.30pm as usual downstairs in Infoseed?
>> I don't have keys anymore though, I think I mislaid them or even lost
>> them...
>>
>> cheerio Ulla
>>
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>>
>> and from the email to imc-women:
>>
>> By the way I am not sure if anybody of you contributed an article to our
>> Indymedia Scotland site, but I have hidden it.
>> http://scotland.indymedia.org/newswire/display/3488/index.php
>> "Ireland Indymedia bans criticism of the Lord Rees-Mogg ?"
>>
>> Because:
>> - it was not news
>> - it critises other activists and indymedia collectives
>> - it was not an action report
>> - it is only personal opinion (please post on own blog)
>> - it is a repost from other indymedia sites
>> - it is not current/imediate
>> - it is not written for Indymedia Scotland
>> - it is not relevant for our audience
>>
>> Please refer to our mission statement, about us description and editorial
>> guidelines to know what postings we endorse to highlight on our grassroots
>> news and direct action reporting website.
>> http://scotland.indymedia.org/mod/info/display/policy/index.php
>>
>> "Indymedia was founded in direct action reporting and the Global Days of
>> Action, and it in this path we walk in."
>>
>> "IMC-Scotland has the following maxim it would like to apply to 
>> publishing:
>> The article should be relevant, written for IMC-SCOTLAND and not spam."
>>
>> ---
>>
>> Please refrain from posting criticisms of other Indymedia collectives or
>> other activists on our website, as it will be taken down.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Ulla
>>
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