sorry have no time this week, but whoever wants to write a feature go for it seems like a good theme.

Ram, you certainly say very little for someone who writes so often. Get something straight: "IMC-UK" does not exist as some sort of organization that is separate from this site, that you can make requests of. "IMC-UK" are just a group of people who have come together to work on independent media projects. So, if you want "IMC-UK" to do something, you should (a) do a little bit of work yourself by perhaps writing a feature, and/or (b) coming to a meeting in your local area to meet some of the people who put in the thousands of hours of work that it takes to make this site run, so that you can become one of IMC-UK. It's not complicated or frightening, we are friendly people, and anyone can do it. You seem to have a lot of energy, why don't you write some articles, shoot and edit some video, do interviews for radio segments that can be used on resonance-fm, etc.?

On the Iraq uprising:

There is already a feature on Iraq (see it there, right underneath the Bolivia story, it's called "Trade Delegation to Iraq"?). So, that should cover that complaint.

Generally, and this applies to anyone, if you want there to be a feature on Iraq, then write it. Seriously, man, do some work instead of moaning. Just email the text of it to imc-uk-features(AT)lists.indymedia.org, and if it is well-written, includes a few links to newswire articles, and is relevant to the statement of principles of this site, then it will probably go up.

United Kollectives have done an wonderful job in temporary centralisation of reports in english on the Bolvian crises, their response was not "immediate", english language reports were available on other english language sites long before, but UK as the largest english language portal in Europe rose to the challenge last week, and I congratulate all involved who cobbled together the links, translations, and of course the donate button.
The reports were mirrored in NYC.

Que Se Vayan Todos!
-However it is still very uncertain what has been successful about the last three weeks.
In other circumstances I could link to ireland.imc to show a clear development of issues and counter issues that effected both Bolivia and Bolivarian responses to hyper capitalism in not only the last few weeks but long before, but neither today nor yesterday, because the Indymedia ireland database is missing- [if you notice a two year old friendly overgrown puppy database on your cyber travels tell it to go home- we miss it]

so I will draw your attention to this article which appeared last night on Barcelona Indmedia, which to my mind prompts a very important question of both "spanish" speakers and readers and thinkers as well as "english".
 http://barcelona.indymedia.org/newswire/display/56941/index.php
it's entitled "Bolivia does not exist"
and will probably hold its sense if you mangle it through an online translator.

Que Se Vayan Todos!
may it be noted that they did not _all go_

So if with the wealth of information, criticism, evidence and such that is concentrated at the moment on the front page of UK imc, we still can not say "Bolivia succeeded", and if with four alternative news sources in Iraq we still can not say "Iraqis will succeed", what exactly is it "Ram" would have us do?
present neat forty minute TV documentaries where the evil dictator dies in the last five minutes and the troubled nation is pictured dancing on the streets?
o as if.

we need to ask much more often "how does these bloody masacres that are termed popular revolts - fail?"