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More strategy, please

Will o' the Wisp | 01.05.2009 22:32 | Indymedia

Under the different categories Indymedia allows as tagging, the tag for "strategy" is nowhere to be found. How can this be, for an activist and independent media source? We need analysis and strategy, campaigns and long-term debates.

Can the IMCers please consider adding an additional category to the tagging options: "strategy".

This tag would describe posts that consider long range thinking, tactics and performance. Might this even invite more posts that are forward looking and that generate solutions and viable alternatives to the current status quo, rather than criticism of the prevailing influences.

I suggest such a categorisation of tagging be called "Strategy".

Anyone support this suggestion?

Will o' the Wisp

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What?!

01.05.2009 22:55


Oh, yes, let's have some blue-sky thinking, naval gazing and wringing of the corporate tea towel...

stargazer


Fair comment

02.05.2009 00:51

Hmmm ... not sure about tagging, but the general idea makes sense I think. So much of what we do is reactive ... ergo, predictable. I say, let's think about where we want to get to and start to build that, taking as many as we can with us.

So far on Indymedia there is nothing that supports this kind of thinking, so the basic idea sounds fair enough.

Cassidy


and please...

02.05.2009 01:48

don't forget to mention "low hanging fruit". The world is so much richer with the use of corporatespeak.

But i do like the idea of the new catagory. Might make campaigns less insular. Does, however, provide a one-stop-shop insight into how we develop ideas to our foes. So maybe not such a good idea?
Thoughts?

oogler


interesting idea

02.05.2009 10:54

I think this is an interesting proposal and I support it tentatively. Several questions immediately arise...

a) Why not do this on somewhere like LibCom?

b) What is to stop this being trolled to death?

If we, for instance, think about the whole violence/non-violence debate, then how is that going to progress, consensus reached and so on. Without some sort of proper process the debate will most likely be destroyed or be reduced to several people who will never agree bickering constantly with each other.

More useful would be a sort of zine approach with different positions clearly and thoughtfully laid out without personal snipping at each other and a tacit agreement that it is okay to disagree with each other.

Salmon