[IMC-UK-Features] Feature Proposal: [was: Appeal for promotion of United Families & Friends March as main feature for UK site]

[maqui]

Hello

Mark, I don't think it is about having to make a case because, as far 
as i can see from the list, no-one in IMC-Uk think this should not make 
it to the front page. It is just that no-one has put it together yet. 
You published a great report, and two others did the same. Great stuff! 
But the way middle columns work is that someone has to collect posts 
together, write a feature and then propose it to this list. If there 
are no objections, after 24h it can go upo. This is the way it has 
always worked in imc-uk.

Someone in London-IMC did just that, so the feature went up. It's as 
simple as that. Now Guy says he is working on it, and I have just 
started a feature that I propose to go up tomorrow in the uk, 
anti-racism and social struggles pages.

As I said earlier I haven't got time now to work on this, and I wonder 
why no-one else is saying anything. So what I started below is quite 
short i'm affraid, that's all i can do right now. Please, add, amend or 
whatever, otherwise it will go up tomorrow evening as Iit is below.

Cheers
maqui

FEATURE:
========

Title:
10th Annual United Families & Friends Remembrance Procession

Pic:
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/images/2008/10/411591.jpg

<p>
On Saturday 25th October 2008, the 10th Annual United Families & 
Friends Remembrance procession took place in Whitehall, London, with 
several hundred people in attendance, including many family members of 
those who have died in suspicious circumstances in police custody, 
prison and 'secure' mental health facilities. <strong><a 
href="/en/2008/10/411641.html">Read more ...</a></strong>.
</p>
<p>
<strong>Reports and Photos:</strong> <a 
href="/en/2008/10/411631.html">1</a> | <a 
href="/en/2008/10/411583.html">2</a>
</p>
<p>
<strong>Past Year's Reports:</a> <a 
href="/en/2006/12/357852.html">2006</a> | <a 
href="/en/2007/11/384896.html">2007</a>
</p>


On Monday, October 27, 2008, at 04:49  pm, Mark wrote:

> Dear all,
>
> I wish to for once final time make the case for why I believe the
> Indymedia editorial collective should upload the report about the 
> Friends
> & Families Rememberance Procession as a main feature to the UK 
> Indymedia
> national website.
>
> My argument is that the event is not specifically a London issue. 
> Families
> and friends come from all over the country come for this demo, and it 
> is
> an issue of national importance for this reason and for the fact that 
> it
> is relevant to communities all across the UK.
>
> It's promotion as such will go a long way to extending solidarity for 
> many
> of the miscarriages of justice being reported, and is perhaps the most
> genuinely revolutionary cross-community campaign which exists in the 
> UK,
> and so, as such, has a huge potential to galvanise working class
> solidarity on a significant scale across the UK. It is because of this
> huge potential that I believe Indymedia should be promoting it as much 
> as
> it can, as well as the obvious gravity of the moral case for doing so.
>
> I would be frankly bemused if it is the case that the majority of the
> collective do not feel this is a national news story for
> Indymedia.
>
> I apologise for a couple of remarks I made in correspondence yesturday,
> and hope that you aren't all left with the impression that I have
> undervalued the work that people in the collective do on a consistent
> basis, which may have come across in what I said. Obviously, overt
> criticism and negativity is counterproductive and I hope any reaction 
> to
> that is not being reflected in any subsequent editorial decisions.
>
> Yours sincerely,
>
> Mark
>
>
>
>
>
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