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

[freethepeeps at riseup.net]

sy wrote:

> Given that your application has been blocked, you can move to one of the
> domains you have purchased outside indymedia.org. Mr D's emails confirms
> that you are perfectly capable of doing so. Your site will still
> function in exactly the way you wish, the splash page on the current
> site will link to it, and if in time you get through new-imc you can
> move to an indymedia.org domain. This is precisely what applies to group
> B too. You are not being unfairly disadvantaged or discriminated against
> by this process, it applies equally to both groups which had different
> ideas as to what UK Indymedia should be. It isn't what either group
> ideally wanted, and this is what is generally meant by the term
> compromise...

Speaking for myself, as someone who has put many hours into the uk
newswire, it is not acceptable that the newswire should now move off an
indymedia domain and then later move back to one.  The compromise was that
we would not call ourselves uk, even though the newswire would be a uk
national newswire. There is no way that I would have agreed to the site
moving out of Indymedia and it is therefore untrue that we could still
"function in exactly the way you wish" because the wish is to continue to
run a national Indymedia newswire. The block at new IMC level could not
have been anticipated at the Bradford meeting, and it certainly wasn't
discussed as an option. I do believe that Genny's email is accurate as
that is my recollection as well.


> And in less than a weeks time the massive waste of volunteer time and
> effort that has become these lists will thankfully be history. I cannot
> think of a worse advert for activism or independent media than reading
> this list over the past couple of weeks.
>

What the lists do indicate is that there is no consensus over the
insistence that the uk open newswire should move to a non IMC url. And I
am certain that no such consensus could possibly have been reached at
Bradford.

cheers

ftp