At long last, Boston Indymedia has taken the great step to black box editorial governance.  On Feburary 28th, Sofia Jarrin-Thomas (now known as The Boston IMC Collective), who had long desired to make BIMC a secret organization, passed a resolution for the editors to go underground. She had whittled down the opposition, and sustained numerous challenges to the authority of BIMC's anonymously posted center column articles. 

BIMC has suffered greatly in the past year for its laundering of Resistance propaganda emanating from eco-terrorist groups and racists operating within the Western Massachusetts and Boston Green Party.  After BIMC's back channels were exposed by myself, certain members such as Mike Borucke and Jonathan McIntosh attempted to join while making pleas for publishing and editorial anonymity.  These were promptly thwarted and the editors' pseudonyms were promptly revealed, causing them to redouble their efforts at a Drupal site revision and formation of the new anonymous editorship.

After a brief period of trying to censor the entire website in shifts using drone names such as (Editor 1,2,3...), Sofia circulated the goin' underground letter:

[IMC-Boston-Discuss] New Closed Editorial List Sofia JarrinT sofiajt@yahoo.com Wed Feb 28 08:19:51 PST 2007 Dear Imcistas, After much thought among the current active members of Boston Indymedia, we decided upon consensus to create a new *closed* Editorial list for active members only to communicate safely and openly about our group decisions, finances, editorial, etc. All members of this new list will have to be approved by our current active members in order to be added to it. This list is open also to *past* active Boston IMC members. To subscribe, you can go to: http://lists.indymedia.org/mailman/listinfo/imc-boston-editorial We took this decision after inquiring with other US IMCs about their procedures and found out that many other IMCs have similar closed Editorial lists including: Portland, San Francisco & Bay Area, NY, Austin, Urbana-Champaign. We hope that this decision will encourage diversity and participation of aspiring and freelance journalists rather than make it exclusive. All other Boston IMC lists will remain open for subscribers and we will continue to post our meeting times and minutes on the Announcement list as well as use the Dispatch list for news coverage.  Archives to the old editorial list are available at:    https://lists.indymedia.org/historical.html    Any questions/concerns/complaints, please let us know.    Peace,  BIMC Editorial Collective [Apologies if you receive this email more than once...]

e.g. The members who did not quit, who were not forced out or accused of masculine malfeasance; a consensus of two, perhaps three.  Note the emphasis on safety, embodied in the phrase "to communicate safely and openly about our group decisions."  This is Sofia's handiwork, being ever the expert of battered womens' vaginal jingo.  It clearly means "to communicate secretly, and to conspire safely against the truly independent medias of Boston while concocting restraining-order type manifestoes to issue against the general public."  After inquiring with IMC Centcom, e.g. Riseup.net & Co, they felt comfortable emulating the more hardheadedly totalitarian Indymedia nodes across country.

Haters Magazine views this as a success, as do other independent media personalities and freelancers who have been notified.  The broad view taken by non-cabal members is that it's a free country, and if you can't handle free speech in your quasi-public tax exempt nonprofit corporation, then you should suffer the indecency of making all of your decisions in dark, roach infested closets on farty used furniture.