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Creating More Midwest Action

Touched on a bit within the discussions at the 2007 Great Lakes Anarchist Gathering, were ways to expand anarchy in the Midwest/Great Lakes region. I thought perhaps we could expand on those thoughts here. What do we want to do?

A few proposals of mine:

1. Assistance for new groups/collectives/projects.
2. Propaganda based on the Midwest/Great Lakes.
3. Easier access to Midwest Anarchists. Constant updates on Anarchist Neighboorhoods. Or creation of our own listings, though this might be counter-productive.
4. Less porn ads on the site.
5. More dialogue about what people are doing in their own communities. If we know a little more about what we're doing, we can probably help a bit more.

Any more ideas or thoughts about these?

number two

2,propaganda and such...
i have worked on the first and soon to come second issue of the Black Swamp Herzschlag...which is a zine mostly distributed in Bowling Green, Ohio.

anyway, the people that were helping me with that have all moved away from the midwest. i plan on finishing the second issue but afterwords stopping unless i can find others to help me. I think Type A does a good job though and it is close enough to BG. maybe it could cover the slack.

to the point;

If there are other zinesters, journalists, writers and artists out there that would be interested on working on a Journal of some sort for radical anti-authoritarianism in the midwest or great lakes area more specifically. that is a project i would be interested in working on...and would help get started. We could arrange a couple face to face meetings, and then do most work over the web and then distribute it diy style in our various localities. Even if it would be just Ohio, or Ohio and Michigan, Indiana...something like that. let me know if anyone has the interest. Print media of an anarchist flavor needs to be rebooted some, and god, print media is so much nicer than a computer screen (computer screens hurt my eyes when used for too long).

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I've noticed suspending

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Was it a Toledo or Columbus local that ended up with the list, or am I mistaken?

I took the list and gave it

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I want to comment on #1:

I want to comment on #1: assiantance for new groups/collectives/projects.
I think this is a good idea because there are many areas in the Great Lakes/Mid West region that have little if any anarchist activity. If people from more active cities could work with interested people from inactive cities, overall activity could be expanded and the necessary knowledge could be shared to keep the projects running.

I'm near cincinnati right now and I think they do not have an active Food Not Bombs or Indymedia. I may talk to some people this week about that.

I mean, in helping with say

I mean, in helping with say a Food Not Bombs, an experienced group could come down, hang out with locals very interested, and discuss what they do. Afterwards, they could make the visits and calls all around town to potential food donators, which is the hardest part of FNB from my experience. Help with banners, utensils from other areas, and anything else.

Before or after some protests (and something we should do before/after the next GLAG) groups that are still in town will help the local collectives in the community gardens, renovating infoshops, etc.

With all of these though, the locals have to be committed. I mean, it's enough of a burn out in your own community when things don't work, just imagine if we traveled everywhere and groups died within a few weeks?

That's another thing, what sort of Midwest IMC's are there?

I think I have a solution to

I think I have a solution to my own problem (we go help a group, they end up dying in a few weeks). If they (the group people are coming to help) set up an itinerary what people coming from out of town should help with and post it up, it would help. That way, people that determine the group means business can come and help out. Reasonable?

IMCs

That sounds reasonable.

You asked about IMCs, in Ohio there is

Columbus
http://www.cbusimc.org/

Cleveland
http://cleveland.indymedia.org/

If I wanted to start one,

If I wanted to start one, where do I begin?

I'd recommend checking out

I'd recommend checking out indymedia.org and going through the process. It could take a while, it took cbusimc over a year.