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Portland IMC repsonds to the SF Indymedia Conflict
by PDX IMCistas Thursday, Jan. 15, 2004 at 5:34 PM

Portland IMC repsonds to the SF Indymedia COnflict

After examining the conflict in the SF Bay Indymedia community, with the information that we have Portland Indymedia activists have collectively decided that the actions of the current SF-IMC group are directly contrary to the spirit of Indymedia, to it's Principles of Unity, and to basic ethical behavior.

Therefore, Portland IMC activists have consensed to no longer recognize the current SF-IMC as a legitimate IMC until SF-IMC justifies it's actions of unilaterally taking over the SF server. Until that time, SF-IMC will be removed from the cities list on the Portland IMC site.

Portland IMC activists also agree that the subsequent New-IMC decision to recognize the new SF-IMC group was not valid with Gekked as the sponsor because the hard questions regarding his own actions have not been asked, nor answered. We feel it was a conflict of interest for Gekked to be the sponsor of his own groups petition to be recognized by New-Imc. Therefore, we recommend that SF-IMC's official recognition within New-IMC be RETRACTED, with a NEW application required for any future recognition.

Furthermore, Portland IMC activists encourage the Indybay group not to compromise and accept any deals but rather to demand that the SF Indymedia community remain a single IMC and that the people currently controlling SF-IMC justify their actions or step aside.

Indymedia activists across the broader Indymedia network are also encouraged to speak up and take action to address the wrong that appears to have been done.

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OOOHHH, I'll bet they are really scared now.
by Vern The Yearn Monday, Jan. 19, 2004 at 5:08 PM

this is still about the funniest thing ever to hit IMC. You people are really full of yourselves and it shows. Love ya, babe, but this consensed bull is a hoot.

Hey more power to the SF-IMC radicals. I think they are espousing, living and demonstrating exactly what IMC is all about. Their tactics may not be directly within the tight standard deviations required by the wider consensing IMC's, but they sure do work.

It is revolution in a very pure form. We should all be cheering the successes of this little uprising in a diverse and evlving community.

SF-IMC RULES. We all got together around my PC today, and we all consensed that SF-IMC is entirely within its rights to do everythign it has done in protest of an unjust and biased mediation.

We further consensed not to recognize the Portland IMC, even if we ran into in the street and it bit us in the ass. We further consensed not to give the Portland IMC the time of day. SF-IMC is the true Independent Media Center. "Independent" is the operative word. As in we don't need you and your stinking biased consensing.

www.sf-imc.org

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