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

[GUY SMALLMAN]

Mark I have already proposed a centre column feature on this and it will be up soon. The London people just got their act together quicker than me.

Cheers

Guy

--- On Mon, 27/10/08, Mark <mark at tlio.org.uk> wrote:
From: Mark <mark at tlio.org.uk>
Subject: Appeal for promotion of United Families & Friends March as main      feature for UK site
To: imc-uk-features at lists.indymedia.org
Cc: guy at guysmallman.com, ana at aktivix.org
Date: Monday, 27 October, 2008, 4:49 PM

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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