[2150] in peace2
meeting of The Thistle, Mon. Jan 13, 5pm
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Aimee L Smith)
Fri Jan 10 01:48:07 2003
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Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 01:47:22 -0500
From: Aimee L Smith <alsmith@MIT.EDU>
Hi Everyone,
I am writing to announce a meeting of the Thistle
this coming Monday at 5pm in a room to be announced.
The Thistle has been around in various forms since the 80's anti-apartheid
movement as a way to counter the bias and omissions of mainstream and other
MIT media sources in a progressive/pro-justice direction. Well, that struggle
was actually won, but many many more remain, so The Thistle is as relevant
today as ever.
Please consider getting involved in whatever capacity you feel interests
you and with several people moving on, it is a perfect time to bring
forward fresh ideas and put them into action. Also, there is a growing number
of folks doing audio work as well as print media, so consider that as well.
Check out the website <web.mit.edu/thistle/www> and feel free to send
questions/comments/suggestions to thistle-acl@mit.edu
I will send one more email when I get a room confirmation. Below you will
find a bit more info about The Thistle.
Regards,
Aimee
PS this email was sent to the following lists:
thistle, peace-announce, greens-announce, pugwash, paw-ac, utr-announce,
earth-action, afa-exec, pangaea
what is The Thistle?
The Thistle is an MIT-based newspaper that deals with contemporary social and
political issues from a progressive/radical perspective. It is currently the
only MIT newspaper that provides such a forum. Thus, we believe
the Thistle is a vital and important tool for affecting social change at MIT,
one that should be utilized by as many voices and communities as possible.
who produces The Thistle?
We are a group of undergraduates, graduate students, staff, and other
interested community members who are committed to fighting racism, sexism,
classism, homophobia, and other forms of oppression, particularly
through the use of alternative press. In addition to producing the Thistle, we
also sponsor occasional speakers, panel discussions, film showings, and other
activities.
Many of us participate in other progressive and radical organizations both on
and off campus. We come from a variety of backgrounds, and have varying levels
of experience with activism, newspaper work, and collective organizing.
what is a collective, and why is The Thistle one?
The Thistle strives to function as a collective. This means that we attempt to
distribute the work and responsibility of producing the paper in an equitable
and fair manner. One of the goals of operating as a collective is
to avoid situations where one person or group of persons is able to monopolize
decision making or creative power, while others are relegated to menial tasks
or silenced in group discussion. Particularly, we wish to
empower those in the collective who are systematically disempowered in our
society, namely women, people of color, poor and working class people, and
queers.
