The network meeting, complete capitulation
Steve from the Manchester activist collective | 11.02.2008 13:18
During last weekend the Indymedia network meeting was held. Despite the efforts of some to pretend there where a number of issues to be discussed the reality was there was one issue that mattered. That of Anti Semitism and the promotion of it by some admins.
Some readers may be aware of how this issue has been thrown around like a hot potato because of how divisive it has been and how a small group have hijacked the newswire for their own political agenda. Various people have made contributions and this certainly upset some admins who didn't like the rise of democratic control within the collective as they wanted to retain power through the use of "blocks" when they needed to.
A number of us stood back from the arguments and made no contribution prefering to rely on the network collective meeting and trusting that it would to address the issue. Perhaps not surprisingly considering the aggressive tactics used to date by the likes of FTP and others this was not the case. Objections to Anti Semitism were shouted down, the inevitble cries of "Zionist" were used to stifle debate and the emphasis cleverly shifted to a critism of long term anti Zionism campaigner Tony Greenstein who has refused to be knocked back by bullying and a campaign of internet slander by FTP and others.
FTP got exactly what he wanted, yet another analysis of "process" and "procedures" to prevent the hiding of blatant Anti Semitism when it comes up on the newswire.
For me this is the last straw, Indymedia is now alinged with Holocaust deniers and racists when it suits the politcial aims of a small group of individuals and as such I will no longer be contributing news items, pictures, videos or moral support.
So long and good luck to those couple of individuals who have decided to stay in and repair the damage.
Peace and Love
https://docs.indymedia.org/view/Local/UkNetworkMeeting2008MinutesSunday#Anti_Semitism
A number of us stood back from the arguments and made no contribution prefering to rely on the network collective meeting and trusting that it would to address the issue. Perhaps not surprisingly considering the aggressive tactics used to date by the likes of FTP and others this was not the case. Objections to Anti Semitism were shouted down, the inevitble cries of "Zionist" were used to stifle debate and the emphasis cleverly shifted to a critism of long term anti Zionism campaigner Tony Greenstein who has refused to be knocked back by bullying and a campaign of internet slander by FTP and others.
FTP got exactly what he wanted, yet another analysis of "process" and "procedures" to prevent the hiding of blatant Anti Semitism when it comes up on the newswire.
For me this is the last straw, Indymedia is now alinged with Holocaust deniers and racists when it suits the politcial aims of a small group of individuals and as such I will no longer be contributing news items, pictures, videos or moral support.
So long and good luck to those couple of individuals who have decided to stay in and repair the damage.
Peace and Love
https://docs.indymedia.org/view/Local/UkNetworkMeeting2008MinutesSunday#Anti_Semitism
Steve from the Manchester activist collective
Additions
But it was only fantasy
11.02.2008 17:53
There were over 30 people at that meeting. None of them was named Steve. The account of the meeting is completely fictitious.
Perhaps Steve is related to Mike Cooperson, who was bringing his 5 mates from Belgium to insist that Mike was made a mod.
That turned out to be fantasy as well.
It is a little bit sad that one twisted, sick individual has nothing better to do with himself than to post entirely fictitious reports to this site.
Perhaps Steve is related to Mike Cooperson, who was bringing his 5 mates from Belgium to insist that Mike was made a mod.
That turned out to be fantasy as well.
It is a little bit sad that one twisted, sick individual has nothing better to do with himself than to post entirely fictitious reports to this site.
Meeting Attendee