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Photo of Mick Lambe having once again saved the day The world sleeps safe once more. darwin.indymedia.org - (Ed - domain seized from darwin imc by perth imc - returned - and seized again by sydney/melb imcs)   - Ends ______   The article that provoked sydney's non-news article and its attendent stream of hate and racism Power to the People campaign - win "...as I said to you (mick) this morning (Yilli Housing) would start straight away. Electrical safety is always addressed first and will be for One Mile Dam as well" - (From - Tony Beckitt - Head of IHANT - Indigenous Housing Authority Northern Territory - 8th March, 2005) Aboriginal communities win new housing deal "Yilli Housing to start maintenance works on ADF leases" - (From - Tony Beckitt - Head of IHANT - Indigenous Housing Authority Northern Territory - 8th March, 2005) From the One Mile Dam web site - Latest News - "Clare - you are gambling with our people's lives"- 7th of March, 2005 "Pensioner without power"- 2nd of March, 2005 "Too little - Too late"- 1st of March, 2005 Kumbutjil News - What the people read- 23rd February 2005 Image - David Timber and mick lambe - outside darwin.indymedia HQ @ One Mile Dam Article/comments I PARIAH I Latest GLW article on OMDI Bill Day's web site IPrevious feature on OMD I Broken links due to Oz indymedia removing two darwin indymedia sites from the WWW   So what did darwin do wrong to lose their domain for two years? No reasons have been supplied in 2 years... ...because the real reasons are racism andbias from an autocratic clique who have been attempting to discredit our hard work which is considered by most - to be an asset to independent media in Australia Naturally we will not accept any decisions that involve biased people - people whohosted images of our dead and battered Aboriginal mates and have been engaged in attacking us constantly in a similarly abusive manner devoid of facts for two years     Hate campaign Our collective have been threatened by email and 'phone - and physically threatened and assaulted at our homes and in the streets by sydney's 'arafura' collective - so it is a very ugly campaign - by ugly people There has not been one accusation against any of the darwin collective for harassing or harming an 'arafura' member UN UDHR article 12. No one shall be subjected to arbitrary interference with his privacy, family, home or correspondence, nor to attacks upon his honour and reputation. Everyone has the right to the protection of the law against such interference or attacks. - the campaign included months of hate/race articles/threads posted on sydney indymedia which took up most of the discussion there - the use of an image of a battered Aboriginal woman we were helping at the One Mile Dam Aboriginal community - was repeated consistently with accusations that myself and community leader David Timber were responsible for her injuries - Stacy Scheff defended the 'non-news' articles and their race and hate content stating, "* Blatant racism, homophobism and sexism, in the context of a news article will not be removed. The editorial board believes in the spirit of free speech. Such denigrations against large chunks of humanity are better out in the open where they be argued against than hidden away." - citing http://www.sydney.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=22237&group=internal "That's us. That's how we work. You can call us sexist and racist all you like, but that's not going to stop us." - Then Stacy Scheff (amazingly) lied about their existence when challenged by David Timber SS - "I don't know the history of the photo that you refer to which was posted to sydney indy and others." So her response was not only composed of insulting lies - it was hypocritical and contradictory. Obviously Stacy knew about these racist images. She even hid the posts on sydney about them http://sydney.indymedia.org/front.php3?article_id=59795&group=webcast - now unavailable - as sydney remove the evidence of their misuse of Oz indymedia while continuing to attack our autonomous collective "(Personal attack. Hidden and name obfuscated by stacy)" As well as hiding DIMC articles attacking sydney imc's hosting of these racist and insulting images. A racism Stacy admits to in her previous refusal to remove these offensive images.       Nigel from melbourne imc Common sense would suggest that an email addressed to David should include his email address, Stacy. Don't worry - I've included it with this one. At least you aren't pretending that he doesn't exist, even if you are pretending not to know about the photo in question, so I guess progress is being made. Hope you're still fighting the good fight at justice action. Nigel (melbourne imc) Ed - Stacy is no longer with Justice Action -     My online work since 2001... East Timor (8 days in prison for protesting) NAP - facing 4 months in prison work with Aboriginal people - et al ...is surrounded by similar hate comments to these - whether I post on indymedia or not My last seven articles were simply copied and hosted on sydney.indymedia with my name and links to our darwin site removed - I only posted on darwin.indymedia The Editor Cameron Greggs not only deleted my comments pointing out this plagiarism - he continues to host the plagiarised articles This is evidentially a longterm campaign to destroy my credibility and effectiveness as a cyberactivist - that eventually saw our domain and site seized because of my involvement with darwin.indymedia - hundreds of human rights articles have been removed from the www by a demonstrably biased Oz indymedia "...there is a carefully orchestrated disinformation campaign aimed at character assasination of Mick Lambe"   Melbourne indymedia's Andrew Lowenthal (described as a racist by our Aboriginal crew and others) - made this proposal which underscores the agenda to remove an anti-racism activist from the all white Oz indymedia "Any collective wishing to call itself Darwin Indymedia would therefore require, as part of it's constitution, to exclude this individual (mick lambe) and would automatically forfeit it's place as an IMC if he were ever to become a member." [1] proposal by Andrew Lowenthal (MiM)   UN UDHR Article 9 No one shall be subjected to arbitrary arrest, detention or exile A hate proposal by some autocrat in Melbourne who censored debate about his proposal on Melbourne indymedia   I do not believe attacking me for year's (an acceptable bias) is the correct use of Oz indymedia - and I note the hypocritical censorship on the imc lists and Oz imc sites towards our factual protests After years of similar non-news items attacking activists using the most personal, ugly and racist inventions under the guise of Open Publishing - these people seek to censor us? Oz indymedia has the dubious distincton of being the only network on the WWW to host such attacks on activists Human Rights   UN UDHR Article 11 (1) Everyone charged with a penal offence has the right to be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law in a public trial at which he has had all the guarantees necessary for his defence - We do not know what our collective have done wrong to be stripped of our site(s) and domain - we have been asking for two years - we even went on strike to get answers causing our darwin site which publicised the Oz indymedia's abuse of the indymedia network to be seized again by sydney indymedia's new host axxs.org (2) No one shall be held guilty of any penal offence on account of any act or omission which did not constitute a penal offence, under national or international law, at the time when it was committed. Nor shall a heavier penalty be imposed than the one that was applicable at the time the penal offence was committed. We have been punished for two years without being accused of any crime - we demand our domain be returned We further demand Aboriginal/Maori involvement in Australian/New Zealand indymedia to combat the racist attitudes that remain - despite pages such as these being removed - a belated Whitewashing that only testifies to the accuracy of our accusations against the White Australian indymedia network of abusing indymedia for their own political and personal agendas

"Violations of basic ethics against darwin imc" - by petros new-imc

"I still see no reason why Darwin imc should be deprived of its domain. We have seen threats published from other imc groups and individuals in the area to "block" Darwin's domain from being returned. I consider those threats to be unethical, irrelevant to imc procedures and process, and out of turn. It will come to a fight - a much deeper fight than any of them suspect - if they try to block Darwin any longer."

"Darwin case has revealed that a number of imc groups "down under" are in violation of the POU and Ed Pol"

"Petros Evdokas" (new-imc)

To: imc-darwin@lists.indymedia.org
Subject: Re: [imc-darwin] to imc-aotearoa-ed: please hide abusive personal attacks

CC: imc-aotearoa-ed@lists.indymedia.org

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boud wrote: > hi imc-aotearoa-ed, > >

There are 41 articles/comments found in this search on your website, > of which most seem to be personal attacks against mick of the > new-Darwin-IMC-getting-reorganised - many of them are from mid-April 2006: > >

http://indymedia.org.nz/mod/search/dosearch/index.php?dosearch=1&searchtext=lambe > > i seem to remember that you hid some similar personal attacks earlier, > though i don't remember when that was. > >

i suggest that you hide these. > > solidarity >

boud
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Hello Boud,

I wanted to thank you for this letter. It is actually connected to the root causes of the problem: there is a carefully orchestrated disinformation campaign aimed at character assasination of Mick Lambe (easy to do, given Mick's style), and aimed at maintaining a political climate which keeps "justifying" the injustices of global and regional indymedia against Darwin imc. The more I research this issue, seeing past the passions, and also the way the passions are being generated, manipulated, channelled, directed, the more I become convinced of what I wrote in the paragraph above.

It is a conscious and malicious project. It's not possible anymore to sort out the issue by looking at the "tit for tat" publications of nastiness, or by trying to assign equal blame as some might try to do. I have seen that there are some constant parts of this conflict, which I take to be a more basic ground of its reality. A good indication of this reality is the remark by Nigel, who wrote "if you can find *one* example of Mick "attacking" any other activist on any IMC before the DIM debacle was imposed on them, I'd appreciate it.":

http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/imc-darwin/2006-June/0614-n8.html

Also, I have statements from Justin and from Mick which I trust, both indicating the the publication of personal or nasty items by Mick and others in darwin-imc were consciously chosen as a tactic after all other democratic procedures failed, the tactic was suspended when their domain was temporarily returned, and resumed again when the domain was taken away from the group (in violation of indymedia procedures, and still with no cause, and with no due process for the group). They say that the publication of disturbing items will stop when the domain is returned.

I believe that this is their intention and that it is honest. The public record proves them correct. Also, I have come to see that certain other individuals and groups who are involved in the Darwin conflict, who have been maligning Mick and other Darwin-imc members publically so far have been dishonest, unreliable, impossible to negotiate with or to reach through logic. I don't even know why we tolerate them in indymedia.

In fact, the Darwin case has revealed that a number of imc groups "down under" are in violation of the Principles of Unity and of IndyMedia's Editorial Policy, and if there were opportunities to audit these imc groups, they would lose - *should* lose - their imc domains in a minute. So far, while I see so many violations of basic ethics (both in the sense of the activist community's ethics and in the sense of journalist ethics), such as these publications:

http://indymedia.org.nz/mod/search/dosearch/index.php?dosearch=1&searchtext=lambe

I still see no reason why Darwin imc should be deprived of its domain. We have seen threats published from other imc groups and individuals in the area to "block" Darwin's domain from being returned. I consider those threats to be unethical, irrelevant to imc procedures and process, and out of turn. It will come to a fight - a much deeper fight than any of them suspect - if they try to block Darwin any longer.

And so far, if I had to choose sides (I'd prefer not to) I'd choose to dissafiliate *them* and to support Darwin-imc which is still fully affiliated and not in violation of anything. I hope it will not come to a fight and that these pseudo-editors, pseudo activist journalist posers will come to their senses before it's too long.

I still see no reason for Darwin imc to be penalized for having committed no crime, and to be denied due process.

Thanks again, Petros (new-imc)
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A biased heirarchy in an autonomous org?

Introducing "...the indymedia powers-that-be"

Cameron Greggs (sydney indymedia) to DIMC "You have to co-operate with the indymedia powers-that-be if you want to be part of it.

http://lists.indymedia.org/pipermail/resolve/2006-March/0310-cl.html

That is the way things are.

That is all I am saying. THAT IS THE WAY THINGS ARE.

It may not be right, it may not be just."

Mick darwim indymedia - "We do not recognise any "powers-that-be" - that is heirarchical and not what indymedia is about. If that is the reality and innocent people must suffer it - there needs to be some change."

Cam quoting Mick - We do not recognise any "powers-that-be"

Cam - Ok, it seems they don't recognise you either.

Consider that an opportunity Mick. Stacy can be won over.

It may not be the way you like doing things, but if you really
really really want the domain back, maybe you would consider this
option.

There are many others that would block a new-imc application if you are
involved.

One of the most vocal, as you are aware, is and_ from melbourne IMC. From my conversations with him, he will be allot harder to win over than Stacy is.

I would recommend you approach and_ and tell him you want to put things in the past and start again. Be nice about it, be humble."
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Just return our domain "...indymedia powers-that-be"- which you seized illegitimately and keep out of our autonomous affairs

NZ imc racism | Asher's (NZ imc) belated and insulting response
Sydney indymedia fail to discredit darwin imc | Stacy Scheff exploiting Oz indymedia | Sydney.indymedia's longterm hate campaign | Cameron Greggs - denial and autocracy | Melbourne indymedia's neo-nazi connections | Melbourne indymedia's bias and hypocrisy | A Feminist perspective on 'trashing' | Perth indymedia's support of neo-nazi tactics | Melbourne indymedia caught lying about IP blockers | What Nigel (changeling of melbourne indymedia) said - Hate responses | We hate Australia - Day | Joe Toscano - (People for Constitutional Human Rights) - taken to task | Andrew Lowenthal and Takver's HATE site: Melbourne indymedia - On tactics, motivation and commitment |