[Cc-webedit] highlights proposal

[Jonathan Stevenson]

Hi all - I really think it's a no-brainer that Copenhagen stuff needs to
be the main feature at this point. The Cop Out is a current action but
it's a London nhood action (though I appreciate many others are
involved) not a national process action, plus people from every
neighbourhood are in Copenhagen preparing for civil disobedience at the
moment, and we've been working towards this for the whole year! Plus the
Cop Out is meant to be a solidarity camp with what's going on in
Copenhagen. Plus 900+ people were arrested and imprisoned yesterday
including UK people and the only way you can find it on the website is
by reading column two of row four on the front page!

So, can we find a copyleft picture of people sitting in rows in the
street yesterday and stick that up, put a prominent link to the
statement condemning the police, and fix the Indymedia feed so that it
includes stories from http://indymedia.dk/ not just London Indymedia? If
no copyleft photo then maybe a freeframe from the video here:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8410414.stm?

Then put the Cop Out as a highlight, using the Nelson column pic and
some new text about how it's continuing throughout the summit. I'd say
it's perfectly simple for people who get a leaflet about the Cop Out to
scroll down to the highlights :-)

The only thing that would make me support keeping it the same way would
be some web stats showing no one is visiting the website, or only people
from London are visiting it, and they're only clicking through to the
Cop Out page. Although even that wouldn't prove that it's a bad idea to
have our Copenhagen stuff as the main feature!

J

On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 19:03:44 +0000, "Carl van Tonder"
<carl at supervacuo.com> said:
> Actually, having thought about this for a while, I'd rather make a
> specific highlight for Copenhagen (replacing the highlight for the COP
> OUT), as the COP-OUT is something that people can (and should!) go along
> to *right now*, whereas the coaches for Copenhagen have already gone,
> and getting there will be difficult.
> 
> Furthermore, around 2000 leaflets are being distributed at the COP-OUT
> with the climatecamp address on them, and it would be good for people
> reaching the website from that source to see the relevant event in the
> main area.
> 
> Thoughts?
> 
> Carl.
> 
> On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 00:38 +0000, Jonathan Stevenson wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I propose we replace the COP OUT highlight with a Copenhagen/Reclaim Power 
> > highlight:
> > 
> > Image:
> > Blue Reclaim Power image
> > 
> > Text:
> > Reclaim Power in Copenhagen >>
> > Climate Campers are in Copenhagen throughout the COP15 summit. On Thursday 
> > 16 December we'll take part in civil disobedience to turn the conference 
> > centre into a Peoples' Summit for Climate Justice.
> > 
> > This then makes the highlights a logical progression - we're in Copenhagen 
> > for Reclaim Power, then the Bike Bloc, then the link to CJA, then CCTV.
> > 
> > I'd also change the text of the CJA one slightly to:
> > 
> > "We're in Copenhagen as part of Climate Justice Action, a new global network 
> > of people and groups committed to take the urgent actions needed to avoid 
> > catastrophic climate change."
> > 
> > Can't remember how it works - wait 24 hours then do it? In 24 hours I'll be 
> > on a ferry unfortunately.
> > 
> > J 
> > 
> > 
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