INDYMEDIA MEETING HELD IN SACRAMENTO

By Mike Rhodes

January 27, 2004

Over 50 people attended a meeting in Sacramento (on Saturday, January 24, 2004) to organize a Central Valley Indymedia center. While most of the people were from Sacramento - Modesto, Fresno, and Tulare were also represented. Currently, Central Valley community journalists are posting their articles on a page at http://sfbay.indymedia.org/centralvalley/ . Much of the discussion at this meeting was about whether the Central Valley wanted to have its own Indymedia site which would be independent of the San Francisco site or remain on the INDYBAY site.

The consensus was that we will continue using the Indybay site but will work towards setting up an Independent Central Valley Indymedia website. The advantage of having an independent Central Valley web site will be realized as the volume of content increases and we need to have separate pages or catagories for Fresno, Modesto, Sacramento, etc.

The group at the Sacramento meeting decided that they will have members on the Indybay Indymedia editorial board so they can increase their participation with this project. Another Sacramento meeting will be planned and the details will be posted at http://sfbay.indymedia.org/centralvalley/ within 1 week.

The bottom line from this meeting is that there is great interest in media democracy in Sacramento and we are moving in the direction of having a fully functioning Indymedia center. There was a meeting held earlier in the week in Fresno. You can read about that meeting at: http://sfbay.indymedia.org/news/2004/01/1668490.php

To join the Sacramento Indymedia listserv which is used to discuss the Central Valley IMC project go to:

http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-sac

A version of this article was written at the Sacramento meeting and posted live as a demonstration of how easy it is to use open publishing on Indymedia.

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LA-IMC should help in any they can to support this new IMC site.

The demographics of the central valley are changing fast. And the level of activism there is growing everyday. LA and SF need to connect with it in solidarity. The right wing thinks they own the rural sections of this state. Progressives need to turn that around.