It's great that there is a new issue of Offline and I appreciate the effort that somebody has gone to do put it together BUT - - -

I thought that indymedia was an open project all about co-operation and collaboration. The IMC UK is a network comprising of regions all over the country and over a hundred active participants of those regional collectives.

So, why is there no mention of the proposal to put together a new issue of 'Offline' on any of the relevant lists?

Nothing on imc-uk-outreach, nothing in imc-uk-process and nothing in imc-uk-network

I finally found a single email in the imc-london list but doesn't that make offline a purely London project and prevent anyone else from other collectives from having any input?

That really sucks and I am sure that an issue of Offline that represented all of the network would be a much more powerful and useful tool for everyone.

Please, please, please, Indymedia needs better internal communication!

(I'd forward this to imc-uk-network but apparently nobody uses it)

I understand where the above comment is coming from but I also think there should be room for people just getting on with stuff.

It would have been nice to at least see this go to the imc-uk-process list as a draft before being published as a thing which is clearly representing the collective as a whole in some way. Having said that though, as a (currently pretty inactive) member of one of the regional imc's, my main reaction to seeing this was "cool, someone's got it together to produce this at last...I'll go and print some out and distribute them".

:-)

As you say, it is a voice piece but while it is unlikely that many people would have jumped at the chance to have an input into making the new 'offline' wasn't mentioned at all so nobody had the chance.

It is great when people just get on and do stuff, and probably essential in order that things happen at all without getting bogged down in bureaucratic processes, however, it's difficult to see any justification in this case of not announcing the intention on the outreach list or network list so that it could involve people beyond London. I suspect London still can't avoid seeing it's self as the core of IMC UK.

> (undeniably a very important part of the alternative grassroots media movement)

I deny that. You are a bunch of middle-class pseudo-libertarians populated with refugees from the SWP who are as corrupt, hypocritical and manipulative as the mafia, the security services, the BBC or any other Stalinists masquerading as anarchists.

Just more smug and more hypocritical.

Real anarchists oppose power structures whereever they find them - which means the 'editors' here.