[New-imc] Online form: Proposed new IMC! (IndyMedia Ukraine)

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Submitted by: Alisa LaSotnik <lasot5 at hotmail.com> on Wednesday, February 2nd, 2005 @ 6:08:23 am (-0800)

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proposed_imc_name:
IndyMedia Ukraine

proposed_imc_url:
www.ua.indymedia.org

current_url:


city:
Kyiv

state:


country:
Ukraine

contact_name:
Alisa LaSotnik

contact_email:
lasot5 at hotmail.com

contact_phone:


tech_name:
Jhenya 

tech_email:
10210 at mail.ru

tech_phone:


focus:
issue_focus

critical_dates:


supporting_groups:
Rainbow Keepers
Pora!
Anarchists Association
CPOR
and Others

introductory_statement:
The recent political shift and popular uprising against election falsifications have harvested a huge mobilization of political enthusiasm. Activist groups are unifying to fortify a popular base of resistance to government corruption and maintain vigilance against corporate exploitation. Activists are eager to connect to the global arena with the hopes of sharing strategies, issues, and open international dialogue about nonviolent protest and solidarity. IndyMedia Ukraine would also allow Ukrainian activists to preserve the strength of popular power by reclaiming the right to publish their own news. IndyMedia would help activist groups circumvent heavy internal censorship and break into a global discourse and support system regarding internal changes that push Ukraine closer to globalization while inciting strong internal solidification against exploitation.   

resources:
Activist groups are beginning with  minimal accessories, although it seems likely and probable that resources in order to fund the set-up will be found. We would need clarification of what exactly is required. In terms of organizing skills, the people working on the IndyMedia Ukraine project come with a background of solid facilitation experience, as journalists in local newspapers, leaders in direct action protests, political science students, and share other backgrounds of active preparation for completing projects such as this.  

outreach:
People involved on the IndyMedia Ukraine project span Ukraine from East to West (Lviv (west), Kiev (west), Donetsk(east)). Meetings that bring together activists from various political persuasions and regions of operation are in process.  

identity_makeup:
The makeup of the collective incorporates supporters of the \'russian-speaking\' and \'ukrainian-speaking\' sides of the political spectrum, representing political groups from both sides of the recent polarized conflict. These groups vary from social democrats to anarchists, contain a more or less even proportion of men and women, and a variety of religious and spiritual backgrounds from Christianity to Buddhism, to secularism. People united in the collective share the one idea of linking up with global activism, explorting/importing nonviolent revolutionary/resistance tactics, maintaining an open internal forum on the development of local activist groups, events, direct protest actions, etc.  

steps_represent_diversity:
As the collective takes solid form, delegations will be sent out to various sectors of underrepresented Ukrainen to incorporate more groups into the process, provide workshops, set-up political \'cafe\' centers for distribution/screening of films, literature, info, event notice, etc.

steps_involve_new_workfields:
Regular meetings and workshop sessions will help share skills and provide information. The gender issue doesn\'t appear as a problem at the moment, as Ukraine holds a relatively egailtarian attitude to men and women\'s labor division when it comes to organization groups and activist centers.