Tuesday 13 April 2010

[creative-radio] Islamists force Somali radio stations to turn off music

 

Islamists force Somali stations to turn off music
Most radio stations in Somalia have stopped playing music, complying with an
ultimatum issued by hardline Hizbul-Islam militias.
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[creative-radio] Germany: KARAWANE-FESTIVAL 2010 in Jena - Let us overcome the fear and gain freedom!

 

*Background Informationen on the Caravan Festival 2010:
Unite against colonial injustice - in memory of the dead victims of
Fortress Europe, 4. - 6. June in Jena >>> http://thecaravan.org/node/2263

Flyer's Texts in Dt and Eng:
See English Below! Let us overcome the fear and gain freedom!

Lasst uns die Angst zugunsten der Freiheit überwinden!

Dezentral und draußen wird vom 4. bis zum 6. Juni in Jena ein Festival
stattfinden: Vorträge, Diskussionen, Theater, Musik, Filme und
Ausstellungen. Es wird Ausdruck unseres Widerstands gegen die neokoloniale
Ausbeutung und ihre tödlichste Folge sein:
Die Abschiebung von Flüchtlingen. Zentrale Programmpunkte sind die
Eröffnung eines Mahnmals für die Toten der Festung Europa und eine
Maskenparade: In Form westafrikanischer Masken werden jene, die auf ihrem
Weg nach Europa gestorben sind, Einzug in die Stadt halten.

Die EU versucht mit mörderischen Polizei - und Militäreinsätzen, die
Folgen des jahrhundertealten, bis heute andauernden Kolonialismus von
Europa fern zu halten. Wenn Flüchtlinge es dennoch hierher schaffen,
werden sie isoliert, schikaniert, in Lager oder Abschiebehaft gesteckt.

Wir werden diese menschenfeindliche Praxis unterlaufen. Zusammen und ohne
Angst vor Repression durch Kontrollen und Residenzpflicht.

Das Festival will AktivistInnen vereinen, die Dynamik des Widerstands neu
entfachen, die Vielfalt und den Druck unserer Kampagnen erhöhen.
Die Karawane für die Rechte der Flüchtlinge und MigrantInnen widersetzt
sich dem alltäglichen Rassismus von Behörden und Polizei, der
institutionalisierten Diskriminierung von Asylsuchenden und der
Kriminalisierung von Bewegungsfreiheit.
Sie kämpft für die Aufklärung des Feuertodes von Oury Jalloh in einer
Polizeizelle in Dessau, sie erkämpfte die Schließung des Isolationslagers
in Katzhütte und streitet nun für die Schließung des Lagers in Möhlau.
Seit dem Jahr 2000 leistet sie mit zivilem Ungehorsam Widerstand gegen die
"Residenzpflicht", zurzeit organisiert sie den Essenspakete boykott in
Bayern.

Seit dem Aufkommen des Kolonialismus gründet sich die europäische
Identität auf die boshafte Annahme von Überlegenheit über alle anderen
Kulturen und Völker. Die Herrschenden benutzen die Furcht als Waffe, um
Menschen zu unterwerfen und zu isolieren. Stillschweigend und mit
ängstlich eingezogenem Kopf – nur so sollen wir überleben dürfen. Durch
Furcht werden

Wunden unsichtbar, verbergen sich hinter heimtückischen Erzählungen von
"Überlegenheit" und "Minderwertigkeit", "zivilisiert sein" und "primitiv
sein". Trotz der Hunderten von Millionen Opfer von Sklaverei,
Kolonialismus, Imperialismus und Faschismus, glauben die Europäer und ihre
Nachkommen überall auf der Welt bis heute an die Überlegenheit ihrer
Gedanken, Lebensweise und Handlungen. Statt die Ursachen von igration,
Umweltzerstörung und Kriegen anzuerkennen, schüren sie Furcht vor
Einwanderern.

Doch wenn wir uns vereinigen und unsere Furcht überwinden, bewegen wir die
versteinerten Verhältnisse. Das Karawane-Festival entsteht aus unserer
physischen Präsenz hier, unseren Erfahrungen und denen der Toten, unserem
Kampf und Widerstand. Es ist die Demonstration unserer Zusammengehörigkeit
inmitten von Barbarei.

Masken sind in Afrika eine hoch verehrte kulturelle Performance bei
traditionellen Festen. Sie sind Mittel gemeinschaftlicher Selbst
Reflexion, des Schutzes und der Solidarität in Zeiten von Katastrophen
oder großen Unglücks. Sie repräsentieren Gottheiten oder tote Personen,
die nicht physisch wahrgenommen oder berührt werden können. Mit der Würde
unserer Ahnen werden die Masken auf dem Festival unsere Geschichte in
unseren eigenen Worten erzählen. Sie werden den Kolonisatoren Fragen
stellen und uns helfen, die Grundlagen unser Menschlichkeit – Solidarität,
Mitleid und Menschenwürde – zurück zu gewinnen.

Das Festival wird auf ehrenamtlicher Basis organisiert, niemand wird daran
etwas verdienen.

Die Grundlage der andauernden kolonialen Ungleichheit sind wirtschaftliche
Interessen. Die menschenunwürdige Behandlung von Flüchtenden, ihre
Internierung und Abschiebung, werden mit ihrem geringem ökonomischen Wert
gerechtfertigt. Wir wollen dies nicht reproduzieren!

Wir freuen uns auf Ideen, Anregungen und Aktionen, Kunst, Zeugenaussagen,
Kampf, Analysen und Utopien für die Zeremonie des Karawane-Festivals für
die Rechte der Flüchtlinge.

Niemand ist allein! Unser Recht auf Bewegungsfreiheit ist nicht
verhandelbar! Lasst uns die Angst zugunsten der Freiheit überwinden!

Mehr >>> pdf Aktueller Aufruf und vorläufiges Programm:
* http://thecaravan.org/files/caravan/Aufruf_0.pdf"

English:
Let us overcome the fear and gain freedom!

>From June 4th to 6th, the Caravan for the Rights of Refugees and Migrants
organizes a festival of political and cultural resistance against colonial
injustice and in memory of the mortal victims of the construct known as
"Fortress Europe". Through art and dance, critical analysis and
discussion, we want to redefine the struggle against colonial injustice
and one of its most cruel and deadly modern manifestations: deportation.

Main events are the grand opening of a memorial for the victims of
fortress Europe and masquerade: With West-African masks, those who died at
the European borders, will move into the city of Jena.

With blistering violence, the European Union attempts to hold off the
aftermaths of its centuries- old colonialism. Whenever refugees still
manage to arrive, they are being isolated, harassed or locked up in Lagers
or deportation-prisons.

With no fear of controls and "Residenzpflicht", we will undermine this
inhuman practice.

The Festival wants to unite all activists, resume the dynamic of our
resistance and exponentiate the diversity and force of our campaigns.Thee
Caravan for the Rights of Refugees andMigrants defies the omnipresent
racism of the authorities and police, the institutionalized discrimination
of asylum seekers and the criminalization of freedom of movement.
We are fighting for justice for the barbarian death of Oury Jalloh, who
was burnt alive in a police cell in Dessau, we are struggling for the
closing of the isolation-camps in Katzhütte (Thür.) or Möhlau
(Sachs.-Anh.).Since the year 2000,we are resisting against the
"Residenzpflicht" with civil disobedience, right now we are supporting the
food-package boycot in the lagers of Bavaria.

Since the advent of colonialism, the European identity has been
constructed on the wicked presumption of superiority over all other
cultures and peoples. Thus, the peoples of what are today known as Africa,
Asia and Latin America were violently attacked and relegated to the
category of inferior and salvages. In their narrative we are not taught to
be fearful of injustice and war, of the creation of Untermenschen, but
rather all that which represents a so-called threat to, for example,
European identity. In spite of the hundreds of millions of victims of
slavery, colonialism, imperialism and home-bred National Socialism,
Europeans and their descendants throughout the world continue even today
to believe in the superiority of their thoughts, ways of being and
actions. Rather than deal with the causes of problems such as migration,
environmental destruction and war, these powers constructs a narrative
woven with fear of the migrants themselves.

The Caravan Festival is about our physical presence and dignity here, our
experience and those of the dead, our struggle and resistance, our
solidarity and humanity, our demonstration, our togetherness and our
strength in the midst of barbarism.

African Masquerades are revered divine cultural arts and performances
during special traditional festivals in many parts of Africa. They are
celebrated as form of communal self-reflection, protection and solidarity
during disasters or mass misfortune.They represent deity and dead persons
who cannot be physically seen but imbued with the ability to communicate
with members of their community on issues of important bearings.The
Masquerade will tell the stories of those burnt alive in police custody,
those killed by the police in European countries, those whose lives are
meant to be wasted in the asylum camps all over Europe, those forced to be
drowned by the security forces of European countries and lots more.

The festival is organised on voluntary basis, nobody will benefit from it
economically.The basis of persisting colonial inequality are economic
interests. The inhuman treatment of refugees, their detention in lagers
and deportation are being justified with their low economical value. We do
not want to reproduce this approach!

Support the CARAVAN festival and donate delight, joy, strength and hope to
the activists, to the refugees from the lagers, to the supporters and to
the general public with your creativity and power. Come with testimonials,
analysis, struggle and utopia! We would be delighted to see and hear you
among us in Jena.

No one is alone! Our Freedom of Movement is not negotiable! Let us
overcome fear and gain freedom!

pdf English mobilization flyer (short)
http://thecaravan.org/files/caravan/Flyer_EN.pdf
*Poster (6,2 MB):
http://thecaravan.org/files/caravan/Plakat_fertig.pdf

*Background Informationen on the Caravan Festival 2010:
Unite against colonial injustice - in memory of the dead victims of
Fortress Europe, 4. - 6. June in Jena
[PDF] KARAWANE-Festival in Jena - Multilingua Calls
German, english, arabic, french, türkçe, castellano, farsi, Italian
http://thecaravan.org/node/2263

info: tel. 0176.38 33 43 94 |
Email: Info@karawane-festival.org
registration and sleeping: sleeping@karawane-festival.org |
We need donations: Förderverein The VOICE e. V. | Konto 14 00 61, SK
Göttingen, BLZ 260 500 01. Tax-deductable receipts can be issued.

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HELL'S BELLS: A Radio History of the Telephone

HELL'S BELLS:
A Radio History of the Telephone

"HELL'S BELLS: A Radio History of the Telephone" shows what happens when good government meets great production. This 8-part series was sponsored by the Telecommunications Education Trust established by the California Public Utilities Commission and was produced by Gregg McVicar and Pacific Multimedia for Western Public Radio. One of the most exciting radio series IMS has seen, HELL'S BELLS is a fascinating glimpse into the history of telecommunications and has great relevance for those interested in the future of the Internet.

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http://town.hall.org/Archives/radio/IMS/HellsBells/

BUDAPEST'S TELEPHONE NEWSPAPER

In this article, the name of the inventor and founder of the Telefon Hirmond�, Tivadar Pusk�s, is translated into English as "Theodore Buschgasch". At the time this report was written, Budapest, along with Vienna, was one of the dual capitals of the Austro-Hungarian empire. This empire would collapse at the end of World War One in 1918, splintering into numerous small countries, with Budapest becoming the capital of an independent Hungary. (An online PDF scan of the original article is located at The Telephone Newspaper. This article also appeared, somewhat modified, in the April 27, 1901 issue of Electrical Review as A Telephone Newspaper.)
 
World's Work, April, 1901, pages 640-643:

THE  TELEPHONE  NEWSPAPER

THE  "TELEFON-HIRMONDO,"  OR  "NEWSTELLER,"  OF  BUDAPEST--THE  DAY'S  NEWS  TOLD  AS  IT  OCCURS  TO  6200  SUBSCRIBERS  IN  THEIR  HOMES--A  REGULAR  PROGRAMME  LASTING  FROM  10.30  A.M.  TO  10.30  P.M.--SUNDAY-NIGHT  CONCERTS  TRANSMITTED  TO  THE  SUBSCRIBERS--A  MOST  SUCCESSFUL  INNOVATION

BY

THOMAS  S.  DENISON
Stentor  reading
wE are very apt to claim preëminence for America in the matter of inventions and of novel mechanical applications. But the Hungarians have had for eight years in actual working operation a development of the telephone of which few people in the United States know anything, even by report: the telephone newspaper, or Telefon-Hirmondo as it is called, of Budapest.
    For a quarter of a century one of the favorite dreams of the modern prophets has pictured the home equipped with apparatus by means of which one can hear concerts or listen to the latest news, while sitting comfortably by his own fireside. This dream is a fact to-day in Budapest. Music, telegraphic news "hot" from the wires, literary criticism, stock quotations, reports of the Reichsrath, -- the whole flood of matter that fills the columns of our newspapers may be had for the mere lifting of a telephone receiver.
    I went to Budapest last May, expecting to find this unique "newspaper," of which I had heard so much, rather a fad for a few score of people who had sufficient interest to keep it as a passing diversion. To my surprise I found a great journal with all the equipments of a first-class paper in a very lively city of nearly 600,000 people -- all the equipment, that is, except presses, paper, and printer's ink. Telefon Hirmondo has 6200 subscribers. The staff consists of a business manager, an editor-in-chief, four assistant editors, and nine reporters.
    This novel and interesting enterprise was started about eight years ago by Theodore Buschgasch, who had been interested in electricity and had patented some inventions. Mr. Buschgasch died March 16, 1893, and the present efficiency of the paper in all that pertains to its technique is largely due to Mr. Emil von Szveties, who is known on the staff as technical director. His skill and energy have produced great results. The concern is owned by a stock company with a capital of 600,000 florins (about $250,000).
    Telefon-Hirmondo occupies commodious offices on the third and fourth floors of a fine building on one of the finest avenues of Budapest. It divides the entire city into twenty-seven districts, and the main wire runs to each district, with branch wires to the houses. An accurate map of the system hangs in the central office. The company owns its own wires and plant throughout, and has the same right to place wires that is enjoyed by the telephone and telegraph companies.

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http://earlyradiohistory.us/telenew1.htm