[Imc-uk-process] Fwd: Re: [IMC-UK-Features] BLOCK: Feature proposal: Big changes are coming to Indymedia UK

[phunkee]

On 24/04/2011 11:56, cactus at aktivix.org wrote:

>  Hello Phunkee
>
>  I am not sure i understand your block:
The BLOCK still stands Tony, I suggest you and your London friends read
this account of the Bradford meeting. The account has been endorsed by
other members of the Mayday collective. I endorse it as accurate too.

http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-uk-process/2011-April/0419-c6.html


>  Hello
>
>  I was present at the Bradford meeting and it was explicitly stated there
>  that the agreement would not stand if group A (now Mayday collective)
>  were not able to complete a safe passage through new-imc process in
>  time. This was discussed more than once and statements were made by
>  members of London imc along the lines of 'we had better make sure we
>  help you get through new-imc so the fork can go ahead'. These statements
>  were made both before and after the fork was agreed - in other words, it
>  was agreed on this basis. As I understood it, this was not a case of
>  London saying they would somehow engineer our passage through new-imc
>  process, but that they would support us and help us get through as this
>  would be in everyone's interests in order for the fork to proceed. This
>  has not happened.
>
>  If the people who made these statements thought all along that the fork
>  could go ahead without group A getting through new-imc process, then the
>  meeting was deliberately misled. I would not have gone along with the
>  agreement on the basis that the fork would go ahead regardless and this
>  was NOT what was agreed.
>
>  If the minutes don't record precisely this point, then that's
>  unfortunate, but it doesn't change what was said and agreed in the
>  meeting. After spending  a lot of time to no good effect trying to
>  ensure that the minutes of the previous network meeting accurately
>  reflected what happened, I had neither the time, energy nor inclination
>  to do the same all over again with this meeting.
>
>  cheers
>
>  genny

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