IMC Gathering in DC!

DC-IMC General Contact Information:
Email: dc@indymedia.org
Phone: (202) 452-5936

Come one, Come all....

The D.C. Independent Media Center will host a Media Gathering Sept. 7-9 to prepare for coverage of events around the fall meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank. The financial institutions will be holding their meetings in D.C. during the weekend of Sept. 29-30, and up to 10 days of alternative events and protests are being planned.

The goal of the gathering is to conduct skill trainings, organize logistics for running the IMC, and to give working groups the chance to plan their production and develop their story ideas. We highly encourage as many people as possible to attend the gathering to prepare for the end of September.

This email is broken into the following sections: GATHERING AGENDA / COMMUNICATIONS / HOUSING

GATHERING AGENDA

The exact schedule for the weekend and details of the workshops are still being worked out. An announcement of the final schedule will be sent out once it is completed. If you have ideas for workshops or would like to run a workshop, please contact the appropriate coordinator (see below).

The (very) tentative schedule is as follows:

Friday evening -- reception, networking, films
Saturday all day and night -- group gathering, trainings, working groups meet, party
Sunday day -- trainings, planning

We will have access to a working space with Internet connection on Friday and Saturday. Other spaces will be available without Internet access for trainings and workshops throughout the weekend.

COMMUNICATIONS

To make the weekend as productive as possible, please coordinate with the working group you'd like to be involved with ahead of time. We hope that working groups will be able to use the time to do concrete work on ironing out their production. At the same time, we think it will be invaluable if all groups spend some time on skills sharing to get new people plugged into their projects, as well as other IMCers.

Volunteer coordinators are as follows:

Video: Eddie ebecker@cni.org , Eric ericgalatas@msn.com
Audio: Rupert dnrusso@earthlink.net
Print: Zoe zoe_mitchell@yahoo.com , Chris madformedia@hotmail.com
Tech: Alan bushnell@cs.oberlin.edu
Photo: Annette amnormand@hushmail.com

We also want to have an online IRC meeting as soon as possible to help organize the gathering. An announcement will be sent out when a time and date is confirmed.

HOUSING

The DC-IMC will help to provide housing for all who need it. Please let us know when you will be coming to town, how many of you will be coming and whether you need any special accommodations. However, housing is limited. If you have contacts in D.C. you are *strongly* encouraged to seek housing on your own. We also plan to provide childcare during the gathering.

Thanks!