https://docs.indymedia.org/view/Local/ImcTorunNewImcKrok3
Imc Toruń is getting organised – steps 1 + 3 new-imc process
zob. NewIMCForm
Proposed IMC Name (required):
Toruń
Proposed Indymedia URL (required):
torun.indymedia.org
Current URL (if any):
City:
Toruń
State/Province:
Kujawsko-Pomorskie
Country:
Poland
Contact Name (required):
eskapist
Email (required):
eskapist interia.pl (Phone:)
Technical Contact Name:
boud + crom666
Email: boud riseup.net, crom666 o2.pl (Phone:)
Supporting Groups:
(en) We have individuals participating at different levels from the following groups (these are not “official” declarations of support; a few of these groups are rather NGO-ish and have some dependence on commercial/corporate/government structures and so function in part as “greenwash”, but their participants are local, well-intentioned ordinary people):
- FA Toruń – Federacja Anarchistyczna Toruń – Anarchist Federation Torun
- Kolektyw Autonomistów – Autonomists’ Collective
- Empatia – (animal rights organisation in Poland)
- Fundacja Viva! Akcja dla zwierząt! – actions for animals
- KPH – Komitet Przeciwko Homofobii – Campaign Against Homophobia
- KWK – Komitet Wolnego Kaukazu – Free Caucasus Committee
- Amnesty International Toruń
- artists associated with the club NRD
- http://patriotism.wikidot.com/ artists’ creative response to nationalist ideology
- klub Pilon – http://www.pilon.pl/
- Stowarzyszenie Inicjatyw Niemożliwych “Motyka”
- Stowarzyszenie Ratujemy Fundusz Alimentacyjny
- Toruń Linux Users’ Group
mission statement v1.0
Please write an introductory statement about why you want to participate in the Indymedia Network.
(en) We have participated in indymedia since the start of IMC Poland four years ago. We have met locally face-to-face in open, public meetings in Toruń nearly every week since then, during the first year there were usually just 2-3 people in each meeting, and during the last two years, we were usually between 8 and 20 people at nearly every meeting. We have published about 130 articles concerning Toruń on the web pages of IMC PL. Not every article is about an action, but most are, and this means that we have done and published for the benefit of Toruń and other polish-speaking activists an action about twice every month.
Now it’s time that we become a real local, autonomous collective so that we can prioritise local, physical life rather than virtual “imc pl” discussions where it can be hard to understand one another and effectively communicate. However, we are not disconnecting ourselves from the world. On the contrary, already during the last 4 months we have participated in irc meetings of central/east european indymedia, with the idea of overcoming patriotic/nationalistic thinking linked with the official language and continuous “national” propaganda in the mainstream media, by stimulating regional and not just “national” communication.
In developing independent media in Toruń, we want to avoid the five dependence filters of the mainstream media (according to the Herman/Chomsky model:): ownership, funding (advertising), sourcing, flak and anti-terrorism.
resources What kind of resources can you contribute, in terms of server/bandwidth/technical and organizing skills?
(en) We have essentially no physical resources except home computers with some of us connected to the internet from home. Nearly every one of us who has attended meetings has had experience in facilitating face-to-face meetings, and several of us have experience from the past four years in text, photo and some video production (video mostly with non-free software).
outreach
What kind of outreach have you done to bring together a diverse group of people?
(en) Continual publication of reports on our actions over the last four years, organising public meetings, flyers, posters, personal contacts.
diversity
Źródło tej sekcji jest ImcTorunNewImcKrok1.
- ask yourselves these questions:
- (1A) How does the makeup of your collective reflect the diversity of the local community (e.g. in relation to gender-, sexual-, spiritual-, and/or cultural-identity)?
- (en) Gender: We have about 50:50 women/men in the collective; sexual: we have participation from people from KPH (Committee Against Homophobia); spiritual: the dominant religion here is Catholicism – we have people who feel themselves to be Catholics but probably most are against Catholicism as an institution, probably we lack participation/contact with muslims, who are few, but probably repressed, e.g. Chechen refugees; we lack participation by rom/sinti (in general subject to discrimination); we have contact with (though not direct participation in decision-making by) physically disabled people
- (1B) 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?
- (en) muslims: we have contact with the KWK (Committee for a Free Caucasus), we’re trying to have contact with refugees in Torun, but of course, building up trust and working together takes time
- (en) rom/sinti: at the moment we don’t know how we will start communicating with the aim of developing participation in free media – maybe starting with audio reports?
- (1C) What steps will be taken to involve individuals in workfields new to them? What measures will be taken to overcome a gendered work division?
- (en) tech: some people will learn server admin and development of the samizdat software, we’re distributing the server-on-a-live-CD (knoppix) so that people can learn without internet; we have a strong rotation of facilitation of f2f meetings – probably about 50:50 women:men
- (1A) How does the makeup of your collective reflect the diversity of the local community (e.g. in relation to gender-, sexual-, spiritual-, and/or cultural-identity)?