[imc-uk-collective] processing all these process proposals

[anarchobabe at fempages.org]

Hia,

just to say that I do not have the time to get through, read or adhere to
all these new rules and regulations or similar as I have hardly time with a
3 month old to do the dishes. I always liked that IMC UK was built on trust
and friendship rather than rules and it had been a very undogmatic and
relaxed collective to be with, I have learned a lot in the time I have been
volunteering for it and in general it had been quite nicely pragmatic, open
and respectful towards each others opinion.
Recently I miss this positive and optimistic way we used to accept, like
and work with each other. I do believe that the disputed wiki pages
document the start and progress of when people started to get more
aggressive with each other and therefore it is my opinion that the wiki
pages should stay; in line as it as been done before by other indymedia
collectives to document reasons for splits or exclusion of individuals who
behaved harmful on the email lists to the collective as a whole. (I vaguely
remember how the SF Imc split and the exclusion of a disruptive Australian
activist from some www-imc lists went.)

I do also believe that indymedia should be as open as possible and though
crabgrass might be a nice activist resource and been well used when some of
the imc servers went down, indymedia has its own wiki pages and email lists
and servers and similar- apart from that I always forget my password, and I
therefore like openly archived lists and nice proper archives where you can
easily find and read up on developments. In the past we referred to the
openness of indymedia as "soft security".

Anyways, so I am joining the virtual collective because I hope people are
going to be nice to and easy-going with each other there. And I like
reporting for imc uk and writing features for it every now and again, and
all this cool global day of action stuff we did in the past, I don't think
I have time to do a lot but I believe a strong imc uk website and network
is still necessary in particular now with all this tory crap going on. And
though I think syndication of all the new imc sites on independent systems
would be good for imc uk i still like the features which are particularly
written for imc uk, especially when they pull together reporting from a lot
of little actions to act as a portal to the "regions" like e.g. the
anti-cuts and student protests and similar. I also like the world
subsection, too.

Anyways I am not sure what the state of affairs is but i just want to be
loosely involved in a friendly supportive imc uk  collective.