MIM NOTES No. 190  July 15, 1999

MLM Online: MIM's web site makes great advances

http://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/etext

In the first six months of 1999, MIM, MIM supporters, and RAIL 
have been steadily expanding and improving the content and design 
of our web site. We've also been formalizing roles, principles and 
responsibilities for its upkeep and using the web site as an 
organizing tool for both the party and the United Front. While the 
Internet is not the only place that MIM organizes, or even where 
we put most of our resources, we do see it as an important tool to 
reach people across the globe. Major advances in 1999 include 
updates so that the web site now has a near complete six year 
electronic archive of MIM Notes, several years of Under Lock & Key 
correspondence from prisoners, special topical news collections on 
such areas as Iraq and Kosovo, and a Russian language page.

Before and during MIM's recently concluded 1999 Party Congress, we 
used the web site to solicit  statements and greetings from 
supporters, allies and fraternal organizations, particularly on 
building the proletarian-led united front. We then published those 
statements, as well as other Congress materials, prominently on 
the site for the world to see.

Under Lock & Key is RAIL's new weekly radio program on prisons. It 
currently airs on several stations in the U.$. regularly, and RAIL 
makes print transcripts and some Real Audio clips are available on 
its web site under "Campaigns and Projects." 
(http://www.prisoncensorship.info/archive/etext/rail/campaigns.html)



MIM Bookstore

A concrete organizing, fund-raising and revolutionary publishing 
advance was made through the creation of MIM's Official Online 
Bookstore, created and maintained by Deputy Web Minister HC88. The 
bookstore contains Maoist book, movie and music reviews and allows 
readers to purchase these and other items directly from 
amazon.com, automatically donating a portion of the sale price to 
MIM. The MIM bookstore also solicits your reviews of materials we 
might have missed or not heard of, that both promote revolutionary 
thinking about culture and concretely fund-raise for the struggle 
against imperialism. Setting up the bookstore, and the call for 
reviews, has already brought several allies out of the woodwork to 
do the extra work of contributing reviews to help raise money. One 
person is building a hardcore/punk section of the web site, 
starting with the militant hardcore band Earth Crisis. We are 
counting on allies everywhere to help us build this important 
resource by contributing to other sections of the bookstore. Even 
if you already know what you want to buy, if you plan to purchase 
books online, we ask our allies to visit MIM's bookstore and click 
through to Amazon to buy your books so that we can get a portion 
of the profits from your purchase.

You can also help contribute to the expansion of MIM's web site by 
aiding in translation, from English to Spanish, French, or any 
other language you can write in. Write to mim@mim.org with your 
efforts or for more information on how to get involved.