imc-qc Editorial Policy

The imc-qc is an non-profit, open-publishing center for news, analysis, features, and commentaries pertaining to Filipino experience and participation in the struggle against imperialist globalization, military intervention, and wars of aggression and for sovereignty and social justice. It shall especially give prominence to angles either missed or deliberately left out by mainstream media.

Anyone is free to post material that meets the editorial criteria of imc-qc. As much as we value contributions, however, content might be edited by imc-qc.

Open Posting Guidelines:

The editorial team shall correct inaccurate posts, i.e. posts containing incorrect information.

The editorial team shall hide posts of these types:

Discrimination : posts using language, imagery, or other forms of communication promoting racism, fascism, xenophobia, elitism, sexism or any other form of discrimination.

Repeated : content that is reposted or text that was originally a comment posted as a report.

Advertising : posts with personal or product promotions.

Disruptive : spam attacks and other posts that seem to be intended to disrupt the site; including contributions that are devoid of meaningful information and comments that are unrelated to published articles.

Copyrighted : reposts from commercial media.

Inappropriate : posts that do not meet the principles of unity of imc-qc.

Libelous : maligning a person or group.

Sections on imc-qc

Features: The editorial team highlights and organizes valuable content through features, which are shown on the central column of the front page. Features group text, links to articles and media-files about a similar topic or event together and are made by IMC-volunteers.

Newswire: imc-qc adheres to the open publishing ethos. Everybody is free to post on the newswire or add comments to newswire articles. However, imc-qc volunteers take the liberty to hide postings which are not in accordance with the editorial criteria. Hidden postings and comments are visible in the View all posts section. You can click to read them.

Comments: Everybody can add their own comments at the end of each article. Comments are subject to the guidelines for hiding. They can be used to:

• Add information.
• Correct inaccurate or malicious information.
• Rectify misinformation.

Calendar: Please list all announcements and upcoming events on the Calendar.

If you think that any material on this site is not in accordance with this editorial policy, please alert our editorial collective: imc-qc-editorial (at) lists.indymedia.org.

More about open publishing: Open publishing is the same as free software

Last updated Thu, 01 Jan 2004 17:21:40 -0800