[IMC-UK-Features] startpage special - Wednesday

[Garcon du Monde]

hi,

Shiar wrote:
> On Tue, October 14, 2008 1:30 pm, Garcon du Monde wrote:
>> thewallmustfall at riseup.net wrote:
>>> can i propose that we make the Smash EDO feature a startpage special on
>>> Wednesday (when the demo is happening)
>> gotta say, i don't see the point, so no: i object. if something amazing
>> happens that warrants a new feature, then maybe you could make *that* a
>> startpage special - but as discussed before, indymedia uk is not an
>> advertising forum.
> 
> It's quite typical to do that with big days of action, no? So i don't
> really understand your objection and, tbh, i'm a bit pissed off given the
> amount of work people have put into this, the fact that it's one of the
> most successful campaigns in this country, and that it is very likely that
> there will be a lot of repression, arrests etc.
> 
>>> If we do dispatch this should work well
>> how? whenever there's been dispatch from an event in the past, it
>> involved writing (usually) a (number of) articles, which then get linked
>> into a new feature.
> 
> I think he meant a minute-by-minute timeline, which could be highlighted
> in the startpage special. Again, it is typical to do that on days of
> action and was done for the same event last June.
> 
and i have no objections to that at all. however, just putting up the
*same* article again as is already published i think is wrong, and it is
that which i object to.

[other comments not written as i don't want to start/get involved in a
flame war]

solidarity,

	--gdm

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