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What is Policy?
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As IMCs around the world struggle with abuse of their open-posting sections -- including personal attacks, efforts by neo-Nazis to disrupt operations, etc.. -- they have begun to adapt policy and functionality of their websites to better serve activists. Here, in a series of postings, I'll look at how some IMCs have moved away from the 'old' Indymedia policies and towards more hands-on control of the open-posting section. First up, the policy developed by IMC-Victoria.
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Citizens Unite: to Take Back the Night!
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This year's Take Back the Night march made it's presence heard when it took to the streets September 30th, 2004. Read up about Taking Back the Night in Winnipeg.
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Winnipeg Protestors Face Off With Delta Manager
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40 people demonstrated in front of the Delta Hotel in
Winnipeg on Thursday, September 23rd to demand justice for
the Secwepemc, whose
land is being clearcut and overrun by
the British Columbia tourism industry.
The protest was part of a national day of action against the
hotel chain, which has a strong presence in Skwelkwek'welt,
that included events in Vancouver, Montreal, Toronto,
Victoria, and Calgary.
A dozen of the protestors forced their way into the
building and demanded a meeting with General Manager
Helen Halliday. The Delta employees refused until the
protestors made it clear that their position was not
negotiable, at which point they allowed a delegation of
five people to discuss their three demands.
They called on Ms. Halliday to publicly demand of
her superiors at Delta to (1) drop the charges laid
against three demonstrators in Skwelkwek'welt the
previous day, (2) reverse the injunction preventing
First Nations from occupying their own land, and (3)
end the expansion of the Sun Peaks resort. Ms. Halliday
refused, and the protestors promised to take future action
against the company.
Listen to
audio coverage of the demonstration on Wednesday, September
29th at 8am on the Beat, on CKUW
95.9 in Winnipeg, or over
the internet.
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IMC Winnipeg Call-out for Independent Journalists & Volunteers
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Spread the word!
The Winnipeg Independent Media Centre is a local community news website that's part of a group of about 75 local sites around the world. If you're interested in writing local or international news stories, in putting together audio pieces, or in helping maintain the site in any number of other ways, IMC-Winnipeg is looking for new collective members interested in everything from feminism to free trade, immigration to indigenous struggles, education to the environment, food security to foreign policy, corporate concentration to class struggle, malathion to Makhno, and beyond.
Join us at Mondragon (91 Albert Street) on Wednesday, September 29th at 7PM.
[See full poster below]
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Canada Palestine Film Festival, Sept.24-26
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CanPalNet-Winnipeg presents "Images of Occupation & Resistance in Israel-Palestine" at Cinematheque (100 Arthur Street in Winnipeg's Exchange District), Friday, September 24th to Sunday, September 26th.
The people of Palestine have lived under foreign military occupation for more than 36 years. Despite these conditions, they remain defiant and proud. Palestinians continue to resist this occupation in ways both violent and non-violent. Unfortunately, we only hear about the violent acts, and our media is filled with stereotypical images of chanting militants, or the aftermaths of terrible suicide bomb blasts. But Palestinian resistance to Israel's illegal and brutal occupation is primarily non-violent: going outside to buy food during curfew, crossing checkpoints to go to school, or violating military decrees which prohibit a family from building homes or harvesting crops on land they have owned for centuries. These are all forms of everyday resistance, non-violent acts that rarely make the news. "Images of Occupation & Resistance" offers Canadians a rare opportunity to witness another side to the Israel-Palestine conflict, to hear ordinary Palestinians speak for themselves, and to see first-hand the humanity of a people falsely-equated with "terrorism."
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La Salle Workers Striking for a Living Wage
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WINNIPEG, MB, July 25
Most of the La Salle Hotel employees, members of UFCW 832 in Winnipeg, Manitoba are walking a picket line in front of the La Salle Hotel at 346 Nairn Avenue, near the Louise bridge. A few workers however chose for unknown reasons to cross the picket line and support the employer rather than their fellow union workers on the line.
Talks broke down because the employer wanted to rollback wages, and then freeze them at the lower level indefinitely. The La Salle Hotel also wants to cut their contributions to the worker health care plan, according to a release on the UFCW 832 website.
The strike began on June 29, 2004 following a membership vote in which 88 per cent of the workers voted to reject the La Salle’s latest offer. When all the smoke clears though, the strike may turn out to have been more about union busting than anything else. Thankfully union members are slowly coming to the aid of these striking workers.
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Welcome to Waverley West
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In a few months Winnipegers will learn through the media and in public meetings about Waverley West, the new housing development that the Province of Manitoba and Ladco have planned for them in Fort Garry. Waverley West will be announced as being the most progressive development in Winnipeg history. We will be told about the use of alternative heating sources in house construction. We will be told about the use of Smart Growth principles in its design. We will be told that as much as possible of the four major tree stands currently existing in Waverley West will be preserved. Should we believe what we will hear?
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Nerve Toxin Blockaders Hauled Away By Winnipeg Police
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Winnipeg residents, frustrated by city-wide fogging of the nerve toxin malathion,
took direct action by blockading fogging trucks inside the headquarters of
the City of Winnipeg Insect Control Branch on Saturday, July 17th, and again on Monday the 19th.
On Saturday, dozens of people danced, drummed, and chanted in front of the building, delaying the fogging crew for two hours, until they attempted to leave at 12:30am. People then sat down in front of the trucks, physically blocking their exit. They were threatened by police, but the city quickly backed down, cancelling fogging for the night. With a front page Winnipeg Free Press article declaring that "mosquito counts dropped as dramatically in Winnipeg neighbourhoods not fogged with malathion as in those that were sprayed with the controversial chemical early this month," on July 17th, and an automated message from Insect Control the following day announcing that there would be no more fogging until further notice, things looked hopeful for folks who don't like being sprayed with nerve chemicals.
"Here's to the end of fogging forever," hoped Sarah Peloquin, one of the blockaders.
On Monday the 19th, two days after the initial blockade, the city's automated annoucement declared that the areas that had not been fogged on Saturday would be sprayed that night. The crowd returned and resumed their protest. Marked and unmarked police vehicles slowly increased in number throughout the night, with seven additional units arriving just before 2am, when the malathion-spraying trucks finally attempted to roll out. They were blocked again, but this time, police dragged off anyone who was in the way.
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Walk for Peace
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The 23rd Annual Walk for Peace: Make Peace an Election Issue, begins this Saturday, June 19, at 12:30 in front of Legislature. Due to a change in date, the Walk will overlap with a rally to "bring the environment to the agenda", sponsored by various environmental groups.
As Canadians go to the federal polls this month, and Winnipegger's face a Mayoral election as well as provincial byelections, the fight for the ears of politicians is well-heated.
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The 7th Generation Earth Day Walk: Celebrating Mother Earth and Her Caretakers and Protectors
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On Thursday, April 22, several hundred people from Winnipeg and beyond marched downtown at noon-hour from Portage Place to the Forks, where marchers and others spent the afternoon celebrating Mother Earth and Her caretakers and protectors. The celebration was lead by members of the Aboriginal community and held in recognition of Earth Day; however, the march and the festivities at the Forks were also held to honour various people who, in the days and weeks leading up to Earth Day walked into Winnipeg from their respective First Nations.
The 7th Generation Earth Day Walk was conceived by Betty Maud-Catcheway, an Anishinabe woman from Skownan First Nation, located north of Dauphin, Manitoba. Betty and two close friends, Judy DaSilva and Chickadee, of Grassy Narrows and Sandy Bay First Nations, respectively, began making plans for the walk in late February of this year while at the Elders’ and Traditional Peoples’ Gathering, held annually at the University of Manitoba since 2002.
“We have called this walk the ‘7th Generation Earth Day Walk’. The reason we have initiated this is because of our fight to protect our forests and our way of life as Anishinabe, as we are still very connected to the land,” said Judy DaSilva, one of the leaders among the Grassy Narrows activists fighting to protect their traditional territory from clear cutting. “What we are trying to do with this walk is bring the different Peoples’ struggles into the limelight because we are so disconnected from each other, even though we are connected by our fights.”
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