[Payment-discuss] feedback for my article about payment for indybook

[toya]

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> Sascha, the people you are talking about MADE the history of  
> indymedia. We ARE indymedia. All of us. Perhaps you did not mean it to  
> be, but your statement that those of us who disagree with you "just  
> don't know the history" comes across to me as condescending and  
> dismissive. The issue of payment has always been a sore spot, and has  
> played a very minor, yet disproportionatly disruptive, role in  
> indymedia since inception. But there has never been anything like a  
> consensus that the capitalist model is appropriate here. In fact, it  
> has always been much closer to the opposite. I would guess that the  
> vast majority of IMCistas would reject that model. Maybe it would be a  
> good idea for us to do a comprehensive survey of how many IMCs are  
> paying salaries vs how many are not, and how many IMCistas believe it  
> is acceptable to start paying wages for this work vs how many believe  
> that would be unacceptable. I think this would be a better strategy  
> than building up a myth of precident based on a few aberrations.


i agree with that, first i am tired to hear that from ppl as well
and i would really like to see what the other imcs think bout it.

toya


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