honor harger on Tue, 30 Mar 1999 19:37:48 +0930 |
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RE. Rerouting the Beograd Syndicate Spring Picni |
dearest friends, i am writing this hobart, tasmania, a place marko peljhan described to syndicate about 18 months ago as 'deep oceania'. in a rather bizarere twist of fate, it happens that i'm using the exact machine which marko used to send this description to syndicate those many months ago ...i know because no one has touched the email preferences since then! to complete this strange coincidence, beside the computer lies the skopje junction syndicate reader, open on the documentation of his posting .... in response to vuk and andreas' postings on our planned spring meeting, i just wanted to keep the dialogue moving .... i am also deeply torn about whether or not our meeting should go ahead, and feel a little awkward about even commenting, being so far away ... i especially appreciate vuk's input on this, and just thought i should repeat a suggestion i made a little while ago (i don't have my archives with me, so excuseme if this is a little garbled). >In my opinion, any attempt to use syndicate user base as >preassure group in political communication with whomever in >europe or yu would be wrong, simply because we are not about >politics, but about humans and sometimes about their new media >thoughts or work. this is a very salient point. however, it seems that some of our colleague groups, such as the Help B92 support group in amsterdam, have at least been able to make a small difference with their various actions. during the 100s of emails which have bounced here and there since this terrible situation began, there have been a number of practical suggestions put forward that we could follow up at this meeting, should we agree that coming together is appropriate, and / or desirable. one of the suggestions made was the implementation of broadcasting technology in centres situated on the borders of .yu. the logistics of something like this would have to be very carefully considered of course, but being part of a practical action such as this could be a sensible way of using syndicate's meeting for something positive. also, it has been suggested that the coordination of petitions and letters to governments, and the establishment of templates which could be distributed amongst people wishing to lobby governments, also is something which really needs to happen .... or in fact any of the items referred to on marko's 'plan of action' lists, and reiterated in ted byfield's recent email to <nettime>. could we use or time together to work on something like this? any these are really just suggestions. i would be really interested in everyone else's thoughts on this .... much warmth honor honor <in australian transit> honor@va.com.au http://www.radioqualia.va.com.au Help independent media in Yugoslavia! <http://helpb92.xs4all.nl>