To SEIU rank and filer:

That is exaclty what we need! I am an IMC volunteer, but I strongly believe we need to tie ourselves much more tighly to labor and poverty. Not that other forms of oppression are not important, but the combination of labor and an horizontal IMC network is excellent. In fact at the conference there was a workshop on globalizing the movement and the man from South Korea (MJ) sdiscussed just this, as the independent media movement in South korea is tightly linked to labor. This is an excellent answer the question is how does IMC and labor come to the table to figure something like this out.

As for the conference briefly, conferences can be all sorts of things. This was a powerplay by the moderates of the media movement to bring it center to serve their agenda. for those of us involved in indymedia and interested in more profound issues than media reform, we must be better prepared and we must fight for the heart of this movement as the constiutency is growing fast. we must not leave the movement to be definaed by McChesney and Nichols, because they have a liberal centrist agenda and the last thing on their radar is the role of capitalism! we must challenge and to do this we must ORGANIZE. DIY is great but it must be connected to social and political realities. If we do not organize to create common cause and depend on a etwork to do the work we are dead in the water!