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I've Stopped Posting to NYC IMC
Pro-Israelis have been flooding the site and bashing the International Solidarity Movement, and I'm devastated beyond words.
NYC IMC lacks the manpower to remove these posts, but moderating at least the occasional would go along way in setting a constructive tone. In the meantime, I've stopped publishing to their newswire.
I simply lack hours in the day to attend their editorial collective meetings. I work and am active in pro-Palestinian group and attend protests and demonstrations. I prefer to devote my time to writing articles and making my primitive political cartoons rather than trying to fit time into an already hectic schedule for in-house NYC IMC meetings.
Well, I just wanted to thank SF IMC for all the hard work they do in moderating and setting a safe structure for all who post.
I'm actually not for censorship per se, but I've not the stamina to deal with a renewed deluge and massive flood of maliciousness from hawkish supporters of Israel, particularly when in their gunsights, literally and figuratively, are the ISM.
First, they dehumanize our peace activists and they murder them.
Not to step on any toes, but I am a bit disenchanted with some progressives. If any respect can be afforded Israelis it is that they stick together to protect their own. I actually haven't seen much protecting their brothers and sister activists from the NYC IMC collective judging by the lack of will to moderate against the daily, multiple, and onslaught posts against the ISM.
In Solidarity,
Vince
I simply lack hours in the day to attend their editorial collective meetings. I work and am active in pro-Palestinian group and attend protests and demonstrations. I prefer to devote my time to writing articles and making my primitive political cartoons rather than trying to fit time into an already hectic schedule for in-house NYC IMC meetings.
Well, I just wanted to thank SF IMC for all the hard work they do in moderating and setting a safe structure for all who post.
I'm actually not for censorship per se, but I've not the stamina to deal with a renewed deluge and massive flood of maliciousness from hawkish supporters of Israel, particularly when in their gunsights, literally and figuratively, are the ISM.
First, they dehumanize our peace activists and they murder them.
Not to step on any toes, but I am a bit disenchanted with some progressives. If any respect can be afforded Israelis it is that they stick together to protect their own. I actually haven't seen much protecting their brothers and sister activists from the NYC IMC collective judging by the lack of will to moderate against the daily, multiple, and onslaught posts against the ISM.
In Solidarity,
Vince
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Another possibility would be to have yet another, separate, wire that displays at all IMCs at which activists can post just once and then be seen at all IMCs. This should be in addition to, and not remove, local wires. And because that wire would post at all IMCs, it should also be MODERATED by all IMCs, so that the numbers of moderators involved worldwide easily outnumber the flamers and can readily clean up the crap that would be spammed.
Maybe in SF the situation is different, but the "progressive" community in NYC can scarcely afford to expel the Jews from their midst by taking a stongly anti-Israel position. There would be too few people left to do much of anything.
The occupying zionazi invader thieves ABANDON their ideology of master race hatred, GIVE BACK all the lands they've stolen, THROW DOWN all their weapons, LEAVE Palestine and RETURN to their homelands (except for the most extreme war criminals who remain for trial), COMPENSATE their Palestinian victims and PAY for the return of displaced Palestinians.
You cannot namecall and foist hate on one group and then cry foul when the same is done to you. Independant media should not censor and we should trust our own intelligences to form researched opinions. Are you so afraid of the opposing viewpoint's supposed repugnancy that you will censor them? Do so at the risk of your own free speech.