How have you been barred from writing articles? You have articles posted.

You don't "ask" for things, you request them, as though someone owes you the service of writing an article that you deem interesting and newsworthy. Unfortunately, I, nor anyone else in Indymedia, OWES you stories being written about yourself. You can write them, and if you write them compellingly in a way that is understandable and doesn't seem to just be looking at yourself as the victim, your article will probably be featured. All of your articles are published wherever you choose them to be published, regularly under 'local'. I don't know you, but you seem to have a serious entitlement issue when it comes to Indymedia.

Here's the simple story of how Indymedia works: All articles get put in the category people request them to go in. If they are spam they may get deleted. If they are extremely offensive they may get hidden. If they are written well or are features discussed by the R-IMC editorial board, they'll be featured. I've never seen you, before you moved, at an R-IMC editorial board meeting, so you'd have to be writing something articulately for it to be featured. What you are talking about IS interesting, but how you are saying it seems completely self serving. Obviously it's close to your heart, because you feel personally threatened. Nonetheless, if you mentioned yourself culpable in any way I would have a much easier time believing the story, right now, and seemingly always on R-IMC you are painting yourself the victim. Why don't you find a new role to play, since you aren't entitled to things from RIMC editorial board members, (I am particularly talking about myself here since you talked to me as though ti were my job to do your bidding previously).

I venture that a lie you've said is in a comment directly below this where you state someone in r-imc said they wouldn't stand up for you because they aren't a crazy faggot. That would seemingly be a lie, because I imagine no one has said that.

It's impossible to write comments the way you do, and come off as something other than self serving. I can agree with you that currently R-IMC does come off as somewhat self-serving, becuase our range of story coverage is not as large as it should or could be. We have a lot of things to work on, and not enough energy to get everything done. Do we always pick the best things to cover? No. But sometimes we pick the easiest. And sometimes the harder stories are so complicated it's difficult to figure out what to say. Sometimes important issues happenign within other areas of activism are so difficult to figure out becuase the people presenting them seem to be painting themselves perfect when they clearly aren't. At least be honest.

That was written by me. I signed out and can't figure out how to sign back in.

Thank goodness one of the things a hard-working R-IMC editorial board member is doing is making a new code-base for any Indymedia to use, as well as creating a new website for Rochester Indymedia.

me=briana. i don't know how i wrote a comment to say who i was without saying who i was. hahha

Wow. I've never met you in person, but you are unbelievable. I regularly admit to my faults and am 100% honest. I made many mistakes as director of FHF (people make mistakes all the time), but I was also doing incredible amount of work for free with very little assistance. I allude to making mistakes on the webpage and discuss some of the allegations made against me in great detail in the first SPLC article. The reporter also published outlandish allegations made against me, so it WASN'T a one sided article. Not by a long shot.

I sent around to a lot of people a board resolutions where the lady I accuse made up to transfer company property TO HERSELF! Why can't you people acknowledge that maybe, just maybe I could be right.

As I said in my below post, the Southern Poverty Law Center is a VERY professional organization that is very worried about being sued for slander/defamation by hate groups and go through extensive investigation to make sure the allegations are true before they publish.

You guys are AGAINST the same grassroots activists that you're supposed to be dedicated to helping. Seriously.

Andrew-

I've read the things on your website where you explain what happened. I personally haven't done work on this particular story because it's been crappy still, and I have been getting hurt at work and have been trying not to ride my bike. Additionally, the story is a little bit scary. I still hope to figure this stuff out, and now that the weather is getting nicer and my wrist seems to be healing, (hopefully for the long run, not until I work with the same student again), I will be able to work on this story. This particular story is of personal interest to me. I'm not saying you could not possibly be right, (which you somehow got out of my response, I don't know how exactly). I'm saying I'm not just going to take your word for it. I'm also saying that when somebody says to me, "Hey, do me a favor, write this story about me and this particular thing, and this is what happened..." then it seems really unsettling because you seem to feel entitled to me doing what you want me to do, which you aren't. And it seems like that's how you treat others as well. And it isn't fair.

That being said, WHY do you come in here and bash every single thing that's being said that doesn't have to do with you? Is nothing newsworthy if it isn't about FHF or some other thing you think we should be writing about? I'm telling you, people in Indymedia ARE interested in other things being published, but none of us as individuals has the potential to do everything. I'm personally admitting that I don't think the stories written are necessarily in any way the most important stories, (but they do happen to be the things that each of us individually are doing or are involved in regularly so it's easier to write a story about it), but that they're easier. It would be good if we worked on other things, and we're starting to. In fact, it seems that we frequently start to and that it doesn't always get finished up on because...it's HARD.


Briana

nicely put Briana