[imc-sheffield] [imc-leeds] Letter to network from IMC Leeds/Bradford

[anargeek]

Hi

If you are setting up a IMC Yorkshire it would be rather weird to
exclude South Yourkshire...

Chris

On Sat 09-May-2009 at 08:01:30PM +0100, Jim Dog wrote:
> 
> To: imc-uk-network, imc-leeds, imc-york
> 
> Dear UK Indymedia Network,
> 
> Here at IMC Leeds/Bradford we've been finding that some people get
> confused by the existence of IMC York. They get confused because for
> people living or active in the East and North Ridings of Yorkshire (as
> well as County Durham, Tyne and Wear and Northumberland) York is
> geographically closer to them, but they can see from
> http://york.indymedia.org.uk/ that the site isn't in regular use.
> 
> We've asked around and it seems that there isn't an active collective in
> York at the moment. We've been talking about how we can improve things
> in a way that best serves activists and communities working for radical
> social change in our region. These discussions are still ongoing, but we
> have come up with some initial proposals on which we have consensus
> within our collective, and haven't heard objections to from elsewhere.
> We feel ready to propose these formally to the UK Network, so as to
> allow other people active in the UK to comment. We're doing this because
> we would like to achieve consensus on the changes within the wider UK
> network, although we also expect people from outside of our region to
> respect our desire for autonomy.
> 
> * PROPOSAL 1: THAT ALL SUBSCRIBERS TO MAILING LIST IMC-YORK ARE SENT A
> MESSAGE SUMMARISING THESE CHANGES AND INVITING THEM TO JOIN LIST
> IMC-LEEDS, THEN IMMEDIATELY SHUT DOWN IMC-YORK AND IMC-YORK-CONTACT
> 
> * PROPOSAL 2: THAT THE PUBLISH FUNCTION ON SITE
> http://york.indymedia.org.uk/ IS DISABLED
> 
> * PROPOSAL 3: THAT SITE http://york.indymedia.org.uk/ DISPLAYS A MESSAGE
> INVITING POSTERS TO USE SITE
> http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/leedsbradford/ INSTEAD
> 
> * PROPOSAL 4: THAT SITE
> http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/regions/leedsbradford/ DISPLAYS A MESSAGE
> WELCOMING FORMER USERS OF SITE http://york.indymedia.org.uk/
> 
> * PROPOSAL 5: THAT THE IMC-LEEDS COLLECTIVE UNDERTAKES TO HOLD AT LEAST
> ALTERNATE MEETINGS IN AREAS OUTSIDE OF LEEDS, BUT CLOSER TO LEEDS THAN
> ANY OTHER IMC, TO ACTIVELY INVITE PARTICIPATION AND STIMULATE MEDIA
> ACTIVISM IN THE REGION
> 
> In light of of our diversification, and being the closest IMC for
> Newcastle, Durham, Scarborough and of course York; we will be
> considering changing the name of our collective in the future to better
> represent the area that we will provide coverage for. Possibilities that
> have been discussed include: IMC Yorkshire, IMC North-East and IMC
> Northern. This is because the region using our IMC has several large
> urban population centres, smaller towns and rural (former mining)
> communities. Naming the IMC after the city where most of our collective
> live (Leeds and Bradford) doesn't reflect the breadth of posters to the
> site or our aspiration to include and work with them more actively.
> 
> In the event of there being substantial opposition to any of these
> proposals, no action will be taken until the next IMC Leeds meeting. If
> no changes or only minor amendments are suggested, we will wait 7 days
> from the date of this email then check for consensus over a 24-hour
> period on the imc-leeds (NOT imc-uk-network) mailing list then hopefully
> enact the changes.
> 
> In Solidarity,
> 
> IMC Leeds/Bradford