[Fwd: [IMC-Process] Re: [New-imc] imc kenya process

[Deja]

I second this concern.

Process was not properly followed on this application.

Deja


ana wrote:

> Hi,
>
> im re-sending this here because i think i have seen some kind of 
> welcome?? is there any reason why this observation about their lack of 
> any form of contact details to get involved with the current 
> collective has been ignored?
>
> thanks in advance
>
> ana
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> Subject:     [IMC-Process] Re: [New-imc] imc kenya process
> Date:     Sat, 19 Feb 2005 00:37:41 +0000
> From:     ana <anap at indymedia.org>
> To:     imc-communication at lists.indymedia.org
> CC:     imc-process at indymedia.org, new-imc at indymedia.org
> References:     <20050211101807.GD1429 at blicerarium.catrame.org>
>
>
>
> I;m sending to communication too because it says "on the manual" and 
> because fluid discussion is beter suit for that list.
>
> I think this application is great but it lacks a procedure for new 
> additions to the collective or group, i can not see an open email list 
> anywhere, or even contact details for people to contact them and/or 
> get involved
>
> ana
>
> blicero wrote:
>
>> sorry for being kind of out of the loop
>> i was following imc-kenya process
>> seems to me they were almost ready to go officially imc but i don't 
>> remember at
>> what point the process was
>>
>> i will paste below the documents we exchanged. it's my fault. maybe 
>> someone can help me closing this thread (i am a bit
>> overworked)
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> -------
>>
>>
>> Greetings.
>>
>> I am just following up. Sorry it took me a few days to get back to 
>> you. As
>> both of you undoubtedly know, communicating in and with Kenya is a
>> multidimensional experience- emails, phonecalls, occasionally even faxes
>> from this end and  face to face meetings in and across towns, SMS text
>> messages for the folks back home.
>>
>> What you find below is what we came up with after discussions. We 
>> decided
>> straight away NOT to reinvent the wheel, but rather take a look at
>> existing IMCs and see what came closest to where we were coming from.
>> Indymedia South Africa inspired us. We looked at Manila and other 
>> IMCs as
>> well.
>>
>> Without wasting further words, here it is. But before that, we want to
>> request an almost exact replica of the  Indymedia South Africa look with
>> this crucial difference: if the backdrop at the  top of the homepage can
>> be the Kenyan flag( which I believe is available freely on the internet.
>>
>> We can do other things later.
>>
>> Comrades:
>>
>> People back at home are pretty excited about this. You cannot believe 
>> the
>> amount of censorship currently prevailing. We are working with some very
>> radical and progressive journals who are seeing story afte story killed
>> and would really welncome and alternative to that.
>>
>> So below is the document:
>>
>>
>> IndyMedia Kenya is a non-non-profit, democratic collective of Kenyan
>> progressive independent media and social justice activists based in 
>> Kenya
>> and other parts of the world.
>>
>> Principles of Unity: IndyMedia Kenya
>>
>> 1) We strive to provide an information infrastructure for people and
>> opinions who do not have access to the airwaves, tools and resources of
>> the mainstream media. This includes audio, video, photography, internet
>> distribution and any other communication medium;
>>
>> 2) We support local, regional and global struggles against exploitation,
>> oppression, discrimination,  and marginalization;
>>
>> 3) We function as a non-profit, anti-imperialist collective.
>>
>> 4) IndyMedia Kenya involves volunteer participants and allied 
>> collectives
>> organized along anti-authoritarian principles of open and transparent
>> decision-making processes, including open public meetings; a form of
>> modified consensus; and the elimination of hierarchies.
>>
>> 5) IndyMedia Kenya participants shall not act in a manner that 
>> endangers,
>> intimidates, or physically harms any member of the group, including by
>> sexual harassment, tribal hatred, racist attacks or any acts of 
>> violence.
>> Indymedia members shall strive to act in a respectful manner to other
>> members of the collective as well as the public;
>>
>> 6) IndyMedia Kenya shall practice mutual respect, mutual benefit,
>> consensus, consultation, and the independence and initiative of all
>> persons and parties interested in joining or supporting it. No person or
>> party or political belief shall arbitrarily impose its will on any or 
>> all
>> the others;
>>
>> 7) IndyMedia Kenya decisions are– by way of consensus and consultation;
>>
>> 8) IndyMedia Kenya is committed to the principle of human equality, and
>> shall not discriminate, including discrimination based upon race, 
>> region,
>> gender, age, class or sexual orientation. As such, it shall not act in a
>> manner that endangers, intimidates, or physically harms any member of 
>> the
>> group, including by sexual harassment or acts of violence IndyMedia 
>> Kenya
>> strives  to act in a respectful manner to its members as well as the
>> public.
>>
>> Mission Statement
>>
>> -To fight for a New Kenya in the context of the global contest for a New
>> World based on equality, justice and non-exploitation;
>>
>> -To cover Kenyan and other stories, events and happening that are
>> censored, ignored or poorly covered by the mainstream media both locally
>> and internationally;
>>
>> -To provide edited audio, video, and print stories of the above on the
>> internet for independent and alternative media outlets, Kenyans 
>> worldwide
>> and the general international public;
>>
>> -To facilitate the networking and coordination for the coverage of 
>> Kenyan
>> stories and events as well as gather information about stories and 
>> events
>> to cover.
>> To provide links to alternative media, activist, and research groups in
>> Kenya and around the world;
>>
>> -To seek out and provide coverage underscoring the global nature of
>> people's struggles for social, economic, and environmental justice
>> directly from their perspective;
>>
>> -To offer community-based training and education for training in 
>> internet
>> and media skills;
>>
>> -To encourage, facilitate, and support the creation of independent and
>> alternative progressive news gathering and organizations.
>>
>> Get Involved
>>
>> This is your independent media center. As an all-volunteer organization,
>> we need you to get involved! Introduce yourself at our volunteer signup
>> page and check our contact page for info on meetings and e-mail lists.
>>
>>
>>
>> IndyMedia Kenya EDITORIAL POLICY
>>
>> This was adapted from Manila and Perth Indymedia's editorial policy.
>>
>> Aims and Objectives
>>
>> -To provide an open-publishing newswire in accordance with established
>> Indymedia policies and philosophy.
>> -To maintain the newswire and website as a space that welcomes 
>> members of
>> disempowered or marginalised groups.
>> -To acknowledge that words have the power to cause injury, but that
>> instances of injurious speech or writing should also be seen as
>> opportunities for a critical or insurrectionary response.
>> -To preserve the quality of the website as a useful media resource.
>>
>> Newswire Protocol
>>
>> IndyMedia Kenya hosts an open-publishing newswire. Members of the
>> editorial collective regularly monitor the newswire, keeping their eyes
>> open for particularly significant, informative contributions to add 
>> to the
>> centre-column features section.
>>
>> Open Publishing
>>
>> Open publishing means that the process of creating news is 
>> transparent to
>> readers. They can contribute a story and see it instantly appear in a 
>> pool
>> of stories. Readers can see editorial decisions being made by others. 
>> They
>> can see how to get involved and help make editorial decisions. If 
>> they can
>> think of a better way for the software to help shape editorial 
>> decisions,
>> they can copy the software because it is free and change it and start
>> their own site.
>>
>> Hiding Posts IndyMedia Kenya  Editorial Collective, in order to maintain
>> the integrity of the newswire and the media commons it creates for our
>> community of participants, may "hide" posts to the newswire when the
>> content contravenes the guidelines that have been put in place (see
>> below). All hidden posts (exceptions noted below) should be notified to
>> the collective email list so that the Ed-collective has the chance to
>> agree or disagree with the hiding of the post.
>>
>> Notifiable Removals
>>
>> Posts the author has requested be hidden.
>> Posts which are obviously incorrect or misleading. This includes 
>> attempts
>> to spread disinformation or to impersonate another individual.
>> Posts that incite violence against disempowered members of the 
>> community.
>> Threats to maim or kill.
>> Posts which publish identifying information without the individual's
>> knowledge or consent. Posts which use language, imagery, or other 
>> forms of
>> communication to promote racism,tribalism,  religious hatred, fascism,
>> xenophobia, homophobia, sexism etc., or any other form of 
>> discrimination.
>> Abuse of others in the form of personal attacks. Indymedia is not a 
>> space
>> for people to play out personal vendettas.
>> Pornography, but not sexually explicit satire.
>>
>> Non-notifiable Removals
>>
>> Unreadable formats for eg: photos posted as text / text only posts 
>> without
>> relevance nonsense/flooding.
>> Duplicate/Repetitive posts.
>> Advertising of products or for-profit services.
>> Notification or cancellation of events. Please use the events calendar.
>> These may be moved to appropriate wire.
>> Persistent nuisance posts to the newswire or comments sections. +
>> Posts that are deemed to be devoid of content or analysis and appear 
>> to be
>> published with the sole purpose of disruption.
>>
>>
>> If you don't agree with a decision...
>>
>> We strive to make decisions in the most democratic, transparent and
>> accountable manner. If you have any questions or concerns regarding our
>> policy or our practice, or would like to work with the Manila IMC, 
>> please
>> contact us at
>>
>> Copyright of Features and Articles
>>
>> All posts made to the newswire are effectively covered by the principles
>> of "COPYLEFT". The author retains the moral right to be recognised as 
>> the
>> author of the article in question, but the article is free for
>> distribution for non-profit and educative purposes. Articles may be
>> reproduced in full for any purpose and in any media provided the
>> reproduction is subject to the same principles as laid out here, that 
>> is,
>> the same representations of the COPYLEFT of the article must appear
>> alongside the article.
>>
>> Under no circumstances may articles or features from the IndyMedia Kenya
>> site be reproduced in full in a fee-paying or for-profit medium. 
>> However,
>> for-profit media may quote from articles or features in accordance with
>> the "fair use" copyright principles.
>>
>> We think stories contributed to this site should be free for non-profit
>> re-use. Copy left is an idea central to indymedia (for more information,
>> check out http://www.opencontent.org/). If you want to change that for
>> your story, please give your conditions in the summary.
>> After stories have been published, they may be edited, linked or even
>> deleted by the collective running this site. Please read our privacy and
>> disclaimer statements.
>>
>> --------
>>
>>
>>
>> Question: A. How does the makeup of your collective reflect the 
>> diversity
>> of the
>>  
>>
>>> local community (e.g. in realtion to gender-, sexual-, spiritual-,
>>> and/or cultural-identity)?
>>>   
>>
>>
>> ANSWER:
>>
>> Our group is very diverse. We have women and men. At the first annual 
>> IMC
>> regional conference for Africa,  we were the ONLY  African group to 
>> send a
>> woman as a delegate to Dakar. Grace Waita is at the forefront of
>> coordinating things within the country. We have young people barely 
>> out of
>> their teens as well as much older people with greying hair; We have
>> atheists, Christians, Muslims, followers of traditional African 
>> religions
>> and agnostics; We have socialists, anarchists, liberals, nationalists,
>> social democrats and people from  across the PROGRESSIVE ideological
>> spectrum; we have people from different parts of the country who come 
>> from
>> a diversity of  ethnic and racial backgrounds; we have people who live
>> inside the country and those who reside outside; we have people with
>> university backgrounds as well as  primary school drop outs; in 
>> short  we
>> think we meet this criterion very effectively.
>>  
>>
>>> B. If your group currently does not represent the diversity of the 
>>> local
>>> community, particularly in relation to groups who are underrepresented
>>> in mainstream society and denied access to vehicles of expression, what
>>> steps will be taken to address this on an ongoing basis?
>>>
>>>   
>>
>>
>> NOT APPLICABLE. SEE ANSWER ABOVE
>>  
>>
>>> C. What steps will be taken to involve individuals in workfields new to
>>> them? What measures will be taken to overcome a gendered work division?
>>>   
>>
>>
>> Grace Waita, one of our two delegates to Dakar is a relative newcomer to
>> digital media activism and she learned a great deal from the IMC 
>> workshops
>> in Senegal. We hav taken concrete steps to overcome a gendered work
>> division by identifying it as one of the baggages in society that we 
>> must struggle and confront if we hope to  walk the talk. To say that 
>> we have
>> overcome it would be a blatant lie. We have barely begun to work 
>> together
>> as a cohesive unit and we believe that we will  confront these 
>> challenges
>> around gendered work division as our group matures. Certainly
>> philosophically we come from  a place with  zero tolerance for  such
>> sexist division of labour but we recognize the need to transcend 
>> empty and
>> sanctimonius pronouncements.
>>
>>
>> In terms of communication, we are using a diversity of means to 
>> facilitate
>> meetings and coordination since internet based communication has its own
>> pitfalls in the  concrete Kenyan context.
>>
>> I hope that this suffices for now.
>>
>> Thanks Blicero once again.
>>
>> Onyango Oloo
>>
>> --------
>>
>>
>> IMC MEMBERSHIP CRITERIA - DRAFT Each IMC and Global Working Group is
>> expected to:
>>
>> a. Agree in spirit to the NIMC Mission Statement and Principles of 
>> Unity,
>> (PrinciplesOfUnity) YES
>>
>> b. Have a committed membership substantial enough to sustain a 
>> functional
>> IMC, YES
>>
>> c. Have open and public meetings (no one group can have exclusionary
>> "ownership" of an IMC), YES
>>
>> d. Work toward developing a local Mission Statement or Statement of
>> Purpose. Network Mission Statement may be adopted or used on an interim
>> basis, DONE
>>
>> e. Establish and publish an editorial policy which is developed and
>> functions through democratic process, and with full transparency, DONE
>>
>> f. Agree to the use of Open Publishing as described in the NIMC 
>> Editorial
>> Policy [editorial collective comments: "We did agree that the term "Open
>> Publishing" was one that is still being defined by the Global Network
>> Collective, and we would wait and see what the results were before
>> rewriting this criteria], YES
>>
>> g. Adopt a decision-making policy that is in alignment with consensus
>> principles which include open, transparent and egalitarian processes,
>> AGREED/DONE
>>
>> h. Have a spokesperson(s) willing and capable of participating in the
>> global decision-making process and meetings as a rotating
>> liaison/representative, with a clear understanding of the 
>> responsibilities
>> that come with this role, DONE
>>
>> i. Participate in the key IMC Network Communication Methods that pertain
>> to the health and vitality of the Network and that contribute to the 
>> work
>> of the IMC. Assure that at least one person from your local IMC
>> participates at any given time on the IMC-Communications list, YES
>>
>> j. (NOT FINALIZED): Have no official affiliation with any political 
>> party,
>> state or candidate for office (comments: but individual producers have
>> freedom to do whatever they like and local IMCs can "feature" stories
>> about various political parties and initiatives), YES
>>
>> k. IMCs shall in no way engage in commercial for-profit enterprises. [We
>> could add: The IMCN is committed to the decommercialization of 
>> information
>> and will disassociate from any local IMC that decides to become a for
>> profit media corporation.] AGREED
>>
>> l. Display a ³local version² of the IMC ³i² logo on your website and
>> literature. YES
>>
>> m. Include the IMC Network current ³Cities List² on your site, 
>> preferably
>> on the front page.
>>
>> about techie- perhaps you can communicate directly with me for the time
>> being for two reasons;
>>
>> 1. i am getting trained so that i could be one of several;
>> 2. we have two people(still relatively new to our group- one in britain
>> and one in the states and for the time being they just wanted to us to
>> involve them on as needed basis so we prefer to consult with them only
>> when we need to;
>>
>> Oloo
>>
>>  
>>
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