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May 14, 2005
Indymedia Caucus:
Over 40 Indymedia Activists from across North America gathered at the National Conference for Media Reform (NCMR) to discuss a varienty of different issues concerning the Indymedia Network, IMC-US, and local Independent Media Centers; action items and next steps in coming months; and hard-hitting critiques of the NCMR.
NCMR suckiness/concerns included: lack of any focus on Indymedia & access to answers to questions people had about Indymedia; banging of heads between Indymedia & Free Press -- because Indymedia is subversive and Free Press is reform-oriented; expectations that conference would be different (than the last NCMR in Madison) because local media _were_ contacted; lack of an open media lab; framing of actionable items (in caucuses) as "how can you amplify Free Press' message"; closing of registration, cost of registration & attending, and general feeling of inaccessibility; the non-democracy of caucuses; lack of discussion about how capitalism is intertwined with the issues of the NCMR; and the lack of centering of media justice issues at the conference.
Actionable items include creating an IMC at next year's NCMR; creating an intervention at this year's NCMR; a possible intervention during the rest of the conference.
Posted by sascha at May 14, 2005 05:53 PM