[Cc-webedit] highlights proposal

[Jonathan Stevenson]

Here's some photos:

http://www.indymedia.dk/articles/1618

J


On Sun, 13 Dec 2009 21:02:05 +0000, "Jonathan Stevenson"
<jjjstevenson at fastmail.fm> said:
> 
> 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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