Community Radio Around the World: 12/23/09

Wednesday, 23 December 2009

[creative-radio] CKUT Radio: Turmoil in Honduras

* CKUT Radio: Turmoil in Honduras
interview with journalist Laura-Julie Perreault, La Presse newspaper

by Stefan Christoff

http://www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/38370

Listen to an interview with journalist Laura-Julie Perreault, foriegn affairs
writer at La Presse newspaper in Montreal.

Interview is focused on the current political turmoil in Honduras stemming from
a military coup stages against the left-leaning President Manuel Zelaya in June
2009.

Attention across the Americas turned to Honduras this year after Zelaya was
abducted by soldiers admits a national debate concerning Zelaya's increasingly
left-leaning policies and moves to join the Bolivarian Alternative for the
Americas (ALBA), a Venezuelan-lead economic trading block in the Americas
working to counter U.S. and corporate influence in the Americas.

Today, Manuel Zelaya is held-up at the Brazilian embassy in Honduras, while
supporters have staged multiple major street demonstrations in recent months in
opposition to the first military coup in Central America in recent history,
sparking many memories of violent military-driven politics throughout Central
America in the 1980s within the context of the Cold War.

Although the recent coup in Honduras has been officially condemned by the
Organization of American States (OAS), also by both Canada and the U.S.,
official support for Zelaya aside from natural political allies such as
Venezuela, Bolivia and Brazil has been tepid, while Canada has maintained
diplomatic and military ties with the coup government.

Montreal-based journalist Laura-Julie Perreault writer for La Presse, the
largest French language daily newspaper in North America, recently visited
Honduras reporting on the current political crisis in the country.

* Laura-Julie Perreault writes for La Presse, read on-line:
http://www.cyberpresse.ca/

* Stefan Christoff is a Montreal-based community organizer and journalist:
http://www.twitter.com/spirodon/

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[creative-radio] Radio Drama in Mozambique tackles impact of natural disasters

Radio Drama in Mozambique tackles impact of natural disasters

Source: International Organization for Migration (IOM)

Date: 23 Dec 2009

http://ow.ly/PaIs

By Arao Valoi in Maputo

Mozambique - IOM is hoping that its new radio drama series in Mozambique
will help people to be better prepared for natural disasters which
routinely hit the southern African country – and so avoid their
devastating consequences.

Entitled "Bravos do Zambeze" (Zambeze Braves), the story focuses on a
village soccer team captain, Jose, and his girlfriend Suzanne. When their
village is hit by a terrible flood and the community is completely
unprepared for it, Jose and his team mates try to get everyone to safety.
The ensuing episodes of the drama serial deal with the consequences of the
flooding through the lives of the people in the village – what can happen
if people are not prepared, and the importance of sticking together as a
community.

Divided into two parts, the second half of "Bravos do Zambeze" deals
mainly with the process of rebuilding, as well as the importance of
adapting to the reality of increasingly frequent and severe weather
patterns.

The aim of the series is to communicate specific useful information about
longer-term disaster management and planning, including farming and
building techniques that are more disaster resistant and preparing for an
evacuation plan for future emergencies.

In recent years, natural disasters in Mozambique have caused widespread
devastation of social and economic infrastructure like farms, roads,
schools and homes, causing large-scale displacement. Between 2000 and
2008, the country was hit by several severe floods and cyclones that
forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes. In 2000 alone,
at least a quarter of a million people were displaced to 89 makeshift
camps as the result of flooding. The 2007 flooding along the Zambezi River
threatened an estimated 285,000 people in river communities and displaced
about 163,000 persons.

For Mozambique, faced with such regular human displacement and loss of
homes, lives and livelihoods, greater knowledge of what a community can do
to protect itself can go a long way to lessening the impact of natural
disasters and the suffering they cause.

For IOM, the media and initiatives like Bravos do Zambeze play a critical
role in bringing about that behavioural change through increasing personal
knowledge of what people and communities can do to help themselves.

Particularly effective is providing that information in an entertaining
way so that it motivates people to take the initiative.

"We chose doing a radio serial because from previous emergency assessments
in the aftermath of floods, we knew that there was a lack of communication
resources in the Zambeze valley region that was a serious obstacle. This
was compounded by language barriers. When we actually began our assistance
programmes, we found that community radio played a vital role in providing
real-time information and in overcoming language issues," says IOM
Mozambique's Chief of Mission, Stuart Simpson.

The first 13 five-minute episodes of "Bravos do Zambeze", produced both in
Portuguese (the Mozambican national language) and Sena (a local language
around the Zambezi Valley), are currently being broadcast on four
community radio stations throughout the Zambeze valley region. The second
season of 13 episodes is due to be aired in early 2010. Copyright © IOM.
All rights reserved.