From acpquinn@middlebury.edu Thu, 03 Jan 2002 16:23:41 -0500 Date: Thu, 03 Jan 2002 16:23:41 -0500 From: acpquinn@middlebury.edu acpquinn@middlebury.edu Subject: [Meimc-publication] maine commons -- changed deadlines hey all ... due to less content than expected, we are postponing this issue of the maine commons until january. i will want to start work on the january (or jan-feb) issue of the paper as soon as i get back from spending the holidays in vermont with my family. i will be getting back shortly after xmas. the changed deadlines are as follows: all content should be sent to editor@maineindymedia.org by tuesday, dec. 1, 2002. this will give me approximately a week before I have to send the completed file to the KJ, and the paper will be printed and picked up thursday the 10th. this gives people about a month in which to work on new content -- and there is certainly some content already in our hands which will not be dated by that time. that content which will be dated by the next publication will be considered for addition to the newswire. these deadlines will be updated on the website at print.maineindymedia.org soon. peace, alasdair From acpquinn@middlebury.edu Wed, 02 Jan 2002 23:35:30 -0500 Date: Wed, 02 Jan 2002 23:35:30 -0500 From: acpquinn@middlebury.edu acpquinn@middlebury.edu Subject: [Meimc-publication] Maine Commons needs your help! (money, i mean) hey all -- well, we've just received word from haymarket that our grant money is not going to come in until possibly late january. this is a major blow for us because we have been acting as if we were about to have some money come the new year. well, it's not really that bad, but we are planning on putting out the paper this month and we're not going to postpone it again. one way or another, we have to get enough money to pay for it. bottom line: we need between $550 and $700. we were talking about expanding this month's issue to 20 pages, but i am thinking now that we may have to cut it off at 16. kubiak's insert will run with this issue, of course, and he will be paying the difference. keep in mind that this is a loan on your part. we will keep a record of how much everyone gives and when the grant money comes in later this month, we will return it all (unless you'd rather we kept it). so please, please, help us here. you've nothing to lose, and we have everything to gain. send as much as you can to: Maine Independent Media Center PO Box 1444 Waterville, ME 04903 as soon as possble, because this must be paid for upon pickup on the 14th. many thanks, alasdair editor, maine commons From acpquinn@middlebury.edu Wed, 23 Jan 2002 14:01:01 -0500 Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 14:01:01 -0500 From: acpquinn@middlebury.edu acpquinn@middlebury.edu Subject: [Meimc-publication] extra maine commons copies? ok, we admit a mistake in printing too few of the recent issue, and now we (may) have to pay for it (with your consent). we paid around $780 for the print run of 7000 copies of this last publication. 10,000 of them would have been less than $200 more, and we had the money to do it, although we didn't know it when we made the order. now, we are in a position where hillary and i are planning to travel to aroostook to distribute papers next week, and we have the changing maine conference, and we have to distribute papers to the beehive for machias area, and various other folks in orono and other areas still uncovered. the problem here is that to do the extra 3000 copies, we would have to pay the KJ about $550.00. they are offering us a break on that, even. it should be $650. anything below 5000 copies is $650. this can, of course, come out of the grant, and hopefully will pay for itself in ads and subscriptions. what do people think? this is kind of urgent, as the changing maine conference is this coming weekend. we need to have an answer tonight (wednesday) or early thursday so i can tell the KJ to set it up and print on friday in preparation for saturday's event. sorry to lay this on you all at such short notice. peace, alasdair From edemocracy@hotmail.com Thu, 24 Jan 2002 01:43:13 -0500 Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 01:43:13 -0500 From: Edward Democracy edemocracy@hotmail.com Subject: [Meimc-publication] extra maine commons copies? I think it is a must. It has been a while since the last issue and the demand is there so the pump must be primed-up again. We need more for Portland and Richard Oliver needs 100 for Biddeford - unless that has been covered. Ed Democracy >ok, we admit a mistake in printing too few of the recent issue, and now we >(may) have to pay for it (with your consent). > _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. From sterren@brandeis.edu Sun, 27 Jan 2002 17:58:38 -0500 Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 17:58:38 -0500 From: sterren sterren@brandeis.edu Subject: [Meimc-publication] Maine Commons March Issue Hey All, Several Updates for the next issue of the Maine Commons: -The Deadline for the next issue is Wednesday, February 20. Submissions should be sent to editor@maineindymedia.org. - We will be doing an experiment and accepting ads for the next issue. Priorities for groups to approach to ask about ads will be other independent media groups, followed by locally-owned businesses from a wide range of areas around the state. Not sure if we'll accept political ads, thoughts on this? If you'd like to help with soliciting ad's in your area, please contact editor@maineindymedia.org for the specs on costs. We will limit ad's to 20% of the paper space. We are doing this so that the Maine Commons can become a self-sustaining publication, and not have to rapidly siphon off much-needed grant money in order to continue. - In adddition to ads, we're going to try another thing to bring in funds - a non-cash classifieds page. Basically, for a set cost per amount of words ($1.50 per 30 words? we're working on figuring out the cost of each word for a page) people can place classifieds for: swap/barter/exchange free for taking things needed - We need people to cover stories for the paper. Have an interest that issues you, but need help writing an article? Or ready to work on an article, but looking for an issue to cover? Let me know, will help any interested. Possible issues that could use coverage: - For the prisons section, pieces written by people in prison, especially in Maine. - Cuts in mental health system and health system in general, how they are affecting people in Maine (for example, there has been a direct increase in people in prison as a result of several central Maine mental health institutes being shut down - people are being funneled into the jails since there is no other space or treatment for them.) - Issues of the DHS taking children from families who mainly just have the fault of being poor - and related, being taken from native families, being placed with non-native families. - Effects on the Maine Somalian community as a result of crackdown on "terrorism", inability to transfer money or contact family members in Somalia, discrimination, etc - we have contacts if you would like to work on this. - Article(s) on various aspects of the housing crisis in various parts of Maine, can tie in with coverage of homelessness marathon on February 5th. - New organic standards, changes in MOFGA certification - i have a non-great, but usable recording from a talk explaining the changes, that could be transcribed an form the bulk of such an article - Fun things like comics, puzzles, advice columns, things that "regular" papers have, but with a bit more of a "message" as it were.... Articles I'm working on, but could always use help with: - List of questions to be submitted to all gubenatorial candidates - not asking "What is your position on X" but instead, giving examples of X, problems, etc, that exist in Maine, and asking how they'd respond if they were gov. - Article on overloaded truck fines, large landowners (ie, paper companies) closing off land to public in protest, root causes of need for the truckers to overload, and how it's really benefitting these "large landowners", but the fines are only targeting the individual truckers trying to make a living - Free/cheap food review piece Articles that other people have expressed interest in working on, and might likely would appreciate help with: -Issue of DOT trying to cut down the white pines in Belgrade - Laura Childs - Issue of theater in Rockland, which was bought by a cinema-chain but never put to any use now being sold with the restriction that no commercial theater can open up in the space - Matt Clarke - Article on Mead plant in Rumford burning tires for fuel, emmissions effects - Heather Curtis in Portland, Gearry Judkins in Rumford, Kevin Estes sometimes in Mexico sometimes in Portland, hopefully someone Heather knows who works on lead issues who lives in Rumford, and hopefully contacts who work at one of the Mead plants Pieces we already have or have someone who's made a commitment to work on for next issue: - Another "Dear Revolutionary Abby" piece, by Carolyn Chute - The first of a continuing column focusing on a diversity issues in Maine, by Claire Gelainis - Part two of a "Corporate history of Maine," by Peter Kellman - An article on the problems with the new laptops in schools plans, with focus on how it unfairly impacts blind students, by Steve Hoad - An "acrostic with a message" puzzle, by Herschel Sternlieb be well, hillary 649-5980 editor@maineindymedia.org From sterren@brandeis.edu Sun, 27 Jan 2002 19:25:22 -0500 Date: Sun, 27 Jan 2002 19:25:22 -0500 From: sterren sterren@brandeis.edu Subject: [Meimc-publication] Inserts One thing I forgot to address in my last publication email: Maine IMC is looking for groups who want to place inserts. Inserts are four-pages - if you have a copy of the most recent issue, you'll see the CounterCoup Times insert in the center. The cost of inserts is being figured out, but will likely be around $200 (plus extra for any layout work we have to do.) We will have one insert per issue as there is interest. Inserts are available for any non-commercial groups in Maine (as long as they are not purely personal rants, hate speech or the like), in order to get a newsletter about what they are doing out throughout the state. We hope to rotate the groups buying insert sections, ideally limiting individual groups to 1-2 inserts per year. Maine Common's next issue will have a distribution of 10,000 copies, distributed to points in all counties of the state. Please let any groups you think might be interested know about this. If interested, please contact: editor@maineindymedia.org or 649-5980 (before 9am, after 7pm, or weekends) -hillary From tranet@rangeley.org Mon, 28 Jan 2002 11:03:29 -0500 Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2002 11:03:29 -0500 From: Bill Ellis tranet@rangeley.org Subject: [Meimc-publication] Maine Commons March Issue on 1/27/02 5:58 PM, sterren at sterren@brandeis.edu wrote: > Not sure if we'll accept political ads, > thoughts on this? BE: I'd be for political ads if each candidate had exactly the same space. e.g 1/4 page for governor or senator, 1/8 page for congress. 1/16 page of legislature. Perhaps another party 1/4 page on which no candidate could be mentioned. All placed side by side on same page.