[imc-st.louis] Proposed IMC mission statement

[diggerman at riseup.net]

Below is my proposal for the IMC mission statement.  At the very bottom is
Sean's first version.  Your comments are most welcome.

digger

The St. Louis Independent Media Center is a cooperatively managed,
non-commercial website whose mission is to empower people and communities
to tell the news and stories that are important to them, independent of
large and small economic interests and governments. We believe that
compliance is a virtue only when its intent is supported by legitimate
logic and ethics.
   We write to incite action by the public with strong, task-taking
language, photos and videos.  Part of our editing criteria is that
items posted on the website must not be weakly written, meekly written
or undersupported.  We provide direct avenues for people to publish and
respond to items posted on our site directly through the newswire. 
People may submit items for our feature column also, and decisions on
what will be published in that space will be made by our editorial
collective.

> we exist to ensure that compliance be considered a virtue only when policy
> is supported by legitimate logic and ethics, and we write to incite action
> when it does not. walking the careful line between empowering/emblazoning
> the public with strong, task-taking language, and alienating them when
> this
> language is under-supported provides effective self-editing criteria as
> well. what do y'all think of this?
>