Monday 28 May 2012

[creative-radio] Raising Women's Voices Through Radio Drama: Reflections from South Africa

 

Raising Women's Voices Through Radio Drama: Reflections from South Africa

This case study shares the process, techniques, and lessons learned from the
Zaphamban' izindlela! radio drama, part of the People Opposing Women Abuse
(POWA) Raising Her Voice Campaign in South Africa. Produced by CMFD
(Community Media for Development) Productions and supported by Oxfam GB, the
drama was distributed to community radio stations, organisations, and places
of safety in South Africa, using humour to get people thinking, and talking,
about women's rights and the African Union Protocol on the Rights of Women
in Africa (AU Protocol).

The case study demonstrates how entertaining forms of media, and engaging
with community media in particular, can both create awareness and dialogue.
Drama is an accessible form of communication, easily understood and accepted
by various education levels, does not rely on literacy, and serves as both
entertainment and education. The characters in the drama model behaviours
that people can analyse and judge, and people are able to learn through
their challenges and triumphs. Zaphamban' izindlela! is the South African,
isiZulu adaptation of "Crossroads," previously produced in English, Swahili,
French and Portuguese by CMFD Productions for Fahamu Networks for Social
Justice and FEMNET, as part of the Solidarity for African Women's Rights
(SOAWR) campaign.

Download the case study:
http://www.cmfd.org

Deborah Walter
Director
CMFD (Community Media for Development) Productions
PO Box 66193
Broadway 2020, JHB
South Africa
deb@cmfd.org
+27 (0)73 132 7032
http://www.cmfd.org
 
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[creative-radio] Next Igloolik Nunavut Radio Online Call-in

 

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From: Norman Cohn <cohn@isuma.ca>
Date: 28 May 2012 11:01
Subject: Next Igloolik Radio Online Call-in
To: info@isuma.tv

IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 28, 2012

Tune in Wednesday, May 30, from 8-10 pm EST to listen to the next online
call-in radio show in the series Nipivut Nunatinnii Our Voice at Home,
broadcast locally and worldwide by Igloolik Community Radio Online at
www.isuma.tv/DID/radio/igloolik. Zacharias Kunuk, filmmaker, Igloolik
Hamlet Councilor and recently-elected Igloolik representative to the Board
of Qikiqtani Inuit Association (QIA), will make his first radio report to
the community following the recent QIA Board meetings. Two phone lines will
be open for call-in questions and comments at +1-867-934-8080 and -8082.
Questions and comments also can be submitted on Facebook at
www.facebook.com/radiostation.igloolik

Nipivut Nunatinnii Our Voice at Home is a project of IsumaTV's Digital
Indigenous Democracy (DID), Inuit using new media to become better informed
and consulted on the Baffinland Iron Mine and other developments around
them. For more information on DID see www.isuma.tv/DID. More information
call Radio 867-934-8080; DID 867-934-8725 or 514-486-0707.

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Sunday 27 May 2012

[creative-radio] AMARC salutes the nomination of Sharon Bhagwan Rolls by UN Women as a member of the Global Civil Society Advisory Group

AMARC salutes the nomination of Sharon Bhagwan Rolls by UN Women as a
member of the Global Civil Society Advisory Group
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*Montreal, May 25th, 2012**. *The World Association of Community Radio
Broadcasters* *(AMARC) salutes the nomination of Ms. Sharon Bhagwan Rolls
as a member of the Global Civil Society Advisory Group of UN Women. She is
the founder and executive director of FemLINKPACIFIC, a women's community
media NGO located in Fiji, and vice-president of AMARC Pacific sub-region
For more information on UN Women, click here <http://www.unwomen.org/>.****

Asked to comment on her nomination, Ms. Bhagwan Rolls. indicated that: "It
is a deep honour and a somewhat daunting task as the sole representative of
the Pacific Island region but I hope to be an important conduit on behalf
of my region to enhance (a) greater inclusion of women's civil society
expertise in design and delivery of UN Women's programmes at regional and
country level (b) visibility of women's rights issues and realities
including the work in the areas of conflict prevention and human security,
media and communications rights which are critical to ensuring the agenda
of sustainable development. This is an important platform and group to
amplify the call for the UN and all member states to be more accountable to
the rights, freedoms and human security of women, young women and girls",
said Ms. Bhagwan Rolls.****

The Executive Director of this international organization, Michelle
Bachelet, announced on May 17th the nominations of this group that will
facilitate regular consultations and dialogue between civil society and UN
Women. "I am delighted that a group of outstanding international women's
rights advocates and experts on gender issues have agreed to serve on my
Global Civil Society Advisory Group. They will play an important consulting
role, and provide strategic perspectives on advocacy on gender equality and
women's empowerment and on UN Women's thematic priorities," said Ms.
Bachelet. ****

The establishment of UN Women Civil Society Advisory Groups at the global,
regional and national levels was announced earlier this year at the 56th
session of the Commission on the Status of
Women<http://www.unwomen.org/2012/05/2012/02/introductory-statement-by-ms-michelle-bachelet-56th-session-of-the-commission-on-the-status-of-women/>.
The main objective of this Group is dialogue and engagement to advance
global goals of gender equality and women's empowerment. The Group serves
as a consultative forum for UN Women. The first meeting of the Global Civil
Society Advisory Group will be convened at the time of the 67th session of
the General Assembly in September. ****

*Through service to members, networking and project implementation, the
World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters AMARC, brings together a
network of more than 4,000 community radios, Federations and community
media stakeholders in more than 130 countries. The main global impact of
AMARC since its creation in 1983, has been to accompany and support the
establishment of a worldwide community radio sector that has democratized
the media sector. AMARC advocates for the right to communicate at the
international, national, local and neighbourhood levels and defends and
promotes the interests of the community radio movement through solidarity,
networking and Cooperation.*


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Tuesday 22 May 2012

[creative-radio] TransX Transmission Art Symposium From: New Adventures in Sound Art

For those of you interested in this week's Trans-X Transmission Art
symposium in Toronto, here is a full schedule. Registration will remain
open until Thursday May 24th at midnight - there are still a few spots open
(https://www.naisa.ca/eshops/TransX_registration.php). Registration
includes two concerts and two workshops so at $70 / $40 for students, it's
a great price!
Nadene

Friday May 25th

6:00 pm Registration / Opening Reception / Tour of Transmission Art
Installations
7:00 pm Opening Remarks: Transmission Art in Practice by Darren Copeland

Rooted in the earliest experiments with radio, Transmission Art has
continued to flourish with experiments with wireless communications
technology over the past 100 years. The 21st Century is not excluded from
this experimentation as artists have ventured into exploring a variety of
mobile-based platforms and more lesser known forms of transmission such as
VLF. The terrain of transmission art is dynamic and fluid, always open to
redefinition. With NAISA being a sound art organization, we ask the
question, what new sound art experiences are possible in the transmission
and mobile media platforms?

Session 1: Explorations in Transmission Art (chair Darren Copeland)
Jennifer Cherniack / Gintas Tirilis / Chris Myhr
Amos Latteier / Alexandra Gelis

The Trans-X Transmission Art Residency brought together 5 Canadian media
artists to create transmission art works with a support system for
exploring audio and transmission technology. Four of the works are featured
at this year's Deep Wireless Festival and the 5th will be presented later
this summer as part of NAISA's Sound Travels Festival of Sound Art. This
session will introduce you to the works created in the Trans-X residency
and include discussion by the artists about their process and challenges
they faced during their creation process.

8:00 pm Forms of Transmission Concert 1
works by Jennifer Cherniack, Christof Migone and Kristen Roos

Saturday May 26th

10:00 am Keynote Address
Foundations of Transmission Art
by Galen Joseph-Hunter

Informed by her recent publication Transmission Arts: Artists and Airwaves
(PAJ Publications: 2011), Joseph-Hunter will discuss key inventors,
activists, and organizations, including free103point9, who have helped pave
the way for Transmission Arts. Citations of specific artists and works will
spark dialogue towards defining the qualitative principles of the genre.

11:15 am Short Break

11:30 Session 2: Transmission & Intervention (Chair Jessica Thompson)
Christof Migone / James Partaik

Session #2: Transmission & Intervention (Chair: Jessica Thompson)

Christof Migone
Radio Naked

The presentation of an overview of projects involving radio and other means
of transmission since the late 1980s to the present. Contexts aside from
radio include dance, installation, performance and publications. The works
display a recurring attention to voice, language, translation, boredom,
endurance, abjection, play, and humour. They also question the listener's
expectations, flirt with the unintelligible, and descend readily into
noise. Once radio is stripped of its trappings, we are left with the sonic
somatic ready to emit.

James Partaik
techNOMAD device art

This paper examines transmission tactics for the occupation and
imbrications of urban infrastructures and interdisciplinary creations.
TechNOMAD device art, or mutant technologies and art actions coalesce with
the emerging discourses surrounding the issues of site specific art
practices in the age of the networked landscape. techNOMAD art
interventions actuate urban space and its infrastructures, revealing issues
implicit to the site, the technologies themselves in a specific cultural
context and the creative actions used to transform public space in a
tangible way. The notion of wireless, meshed networks, hacking and
real-time technologies extend the parameters of transmission art to the
realm of the invisible forces of pure dynamics, creating a complex,
multilayered reality.
12:45 Lunch (not provided)

2:00 pm Session 3: Performance & Transmission in Public Places (Chair David
Ogborn)

Geoffrey Shea & Alan Boulton
Telegraph: Transmission in a streetscape audio artwork

Telegraph is a multi-nodal sound installation, supported by a network of
microcontrollers connected by radio transmitters. The design of the
infrastructure requires a high degree of flexibility and mutability. The
transmission of audio files could easily stress a wireless network. The
broad range of sound manipulations requires us to think differently about
the networks functionality, but also to take advantage of inherent
weaknesses (using latency to create an echo effect, for example).
Flexibility is also required because we expect to add further functionality
in future iterations, including interfacing with the viewer's mobile phone
as a locating device and a sound input/output device.

Jessica Thompson
Noisemakers – Mobile Sound , Performativity and Public Space

This paper examines some of the conditions that inform how mobile sound can
create new modes of performativity in urban environments. Through a
discussion of pieces such as Lalya Gaye, Ramia Mazé, Lars Erik Holmquist's
Sonic City and related artworks, I will examine how sound generated through
the moving body heightens our physical and cognitive experience of the
acoustic ecology of cities, creating dialogues between body, artwork and
site through embodied gesture, acoustic feedback, novelty and play. The
second part of the paper will investigate the spatial and social
implications of broadcast sound by examining how sound, as a manifestation
of voice, extends the edges of the body into the space of others.

Rui Chaves
Liveshout - mobile transmission as a performance practice

Think of someone in the city under a bridge, broadcasting high-quality
audio with a mobile phone . This one of the of the basic premises in
creating liveshout - the expansion of a new form of live sound art, that
while relying in ubiquitous technology, suggests new modes of situated
listening.

The presentation will thus focus on presenting some of the aesthetic and
technical issues involved in mobile streaming. Intersecting crucial
issues such as presentation (context, visuals and sound spatialization)
with performance strategies that deal with remote, temporal and spatial
themes.

3:30 am Short Break

3:45 Break-Out Workshops

1/ Micro-Radio Transmitter workshop with Hector Centeno
- This workshop will let you experience what radio transmission is like and
how it could be developed into radio art and micro radio. The transmitter
that the participant will make has only a 30-meter radius of transmission,
but people would experience a convivial wireless imagination.

2/ Contact Mic Workshop with Kristen Roos
- Build your own contact mic and then explore the local sound environment.
Inaudible sounds made audible, explore the interior sounds of street
furniture, fences and sign-posts.

3/ Sound in the Digital Realm / Transmission Transitions with Victoria
Fenner
- New technologies are creating new possibilities for sound and radio
artists to explore. Many are moving over to digital platforms such as the
internet, smart phones, ipads and tablets. And even the old-fashioned radio
transmitter is being used in new ways. This workshop is an exploration of
some of these new possibilities, and the specific compositional challenges
of creating for this new environment.

5:00pm Break for dinner (not provided)

8:00 pm Forms of Transmission Concert 2
performances by James Partaik and duo Hector Centeno with Tetsuo Kogawa
(from Japan)

Sunday May 27th

10:00 am Keynote address
Sound as transmission: towards and away from non-cochlear sound art
by David Cecchetto

The "expanded" understanding of sound that resists the implicit claims to
authenticity of both Schaeffer's "sound itself" and Cage's attentional
injunction nonetheless includes both, and it is precisely through this
ambivalence that we can fully embrace sound's potential to refigure
contemporary forms of communication (and particularly networks). Discussed
will be Two projects—SRMP and Exurbia—that leverage the metaphorics of
sound to trouble existing understandings of specific forms of network
communication. The conceptual and material dimensions that constitute these
projects stridulate in a hum of recursive transmission—in novel modes of
"two-way communication rather than one-way distribution"
(Joseph-Hunter)—that offer fresh vectors for considering the constitution
and consequences of networked aural interaction in contemporary artistic
practices.

11:15 am Short Break

11:30 Panel: Locating the transmission & Transmitting the location
(Moderator David Cecchetto)
Geoffrey Shea / Victoria Fenner / Kristen Roos

A sonic portrait of a place, a site specific transmission art performance
and locative media apps for mobile phones are each points of reference in
this panel discussion. How does location inform artistic content? How does
the way in which an artwork is transmitted determine the experience?

12:45 Lunch (not provided)

2:00 pm Session 4: Radio in Retrospect (Chair Galen Joseph-Hunter)

Hethre Contant
Lessons from Weimar Radio

The Weimar Republic was Germany's first democracy, and the first period to
use radio as a mass medium. There were a number of boundaries—political and
technical—that limited the types of transmission that could be produced.
This resulted in programming that was, for the most, uninspired, failing to
fulfill the medium's potential. However, instances of citizens overcoming
these restrictions and producing work that successfully utilized the
possibilities of the medium do exist. This discussion details the
limitations of radio during The Weimar Republic and explores the methods
that enabled certain practitioners to create aesthetically interesting work
tailored to the medium.

Chris Trimmer
Back to the Future: Radio as Music, Radio as Cognition

What is the future for documentary radio? Have we already witnessed it's
creative peak? Looking back and re-considering the innovations and
philosophies of radio producers of the past 50 years provides a window to a
possible future for documentary radio. There is vast potential for
documentary radio to expand as a medium through the incorporation of
musical and cognitive psychology principles. This paper will present a
brief overview of historical steps within this arena, with a specific focus
on Glenn Gould's Solitude Trilogy.

Magz Hall
Radio art as practice based research

Explores the rich history of radio as an artistic medium considering how
radio art might be situated in relation to more established discourses
mapping the shifting parameters of radio art in the digital era;
specifically how radio has moved from the shared 'live' event to one
consumed \'on demand\' by a fragmented audience. The implications of this
are explored through a radio practice which focuses on the productive
tensions which characterise the artist's engagement with radio and
technology and the autonomous potentialities offered by the reappropriation
of obsolete technology and the networks promised by the exponential
development of new media.
4:00 pm Short Break

4:15 Break-Out Workshops

1/ Micro-Radio Transmitter workshop with Hector Centeno
- This workshop will let you experience what radio transmission is like and
how it could be developed into radio art and micro radio. The transmitter
that the participant will make has only a 30-meter radius of transmission,
but people would experience a convivial wireless imagination.

2/ Contact Mic Workshop with Kristen Roos
- Build your own contact mic and then explore the local sound environment.
Inaudible sounds made audible, explore the interior sounds of street
furniture, fences and sign-posts.

3/ Sound in the Digital Realm / Transmission Transitions with Victoria
Fenner
- New technologies are creating new possibilities for sound and radio
artists to explore. Many are moving over to digital platforms such as the
internet, smart phones, ipads and tablets. And even the old-fashioned radio
transmitter is being used in new ways. This workshop is an exploration of
some of these new possibilities, and the specific compositional challenges
of creating for this new environment.

______________________________**_____________________________
NAISA Inquiries & general information:

Nadene Thériault-Copeland
Executive Director
New Adventures in Sound Art
Address: Artscape Wychwood Barns, 601 Christie St #252, Toronto, ON M6G 4C7
Tel 416 652 5115
www.naisa.ca

NAISA current/upcoming events:

TransX, a Symposium about Transmission Art May 25 - 27, 2012

Deep Wireless Festival of Radio & Transmission Art May 1 - 31, 2012

Follow us on:
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Wednesday 16 May 2012

Re: [creative-radio] What if...

 

All of the public radio's mandate points are addressed had you been open to the help being offered instead of dismissive because your understanding and viewpoint are so limited. Try seeing the world in a different light and you too might benefit. It was not some manner of theology. Hindus are novices in this process, as are atheists. Actually all religions are comparably impaired so no religious sensibilities are involved. It only requires a belief that there is some value in dreams as a starting point then expanding on it to logical outcomes.
Clearly you do not understand how the process works either. Instead of being open to something requiring training you haven't taken you are showing you prefer ignorance to knowledge. Most people do not understand it, in fact they ignore the help. With your lack of objectivity and attitude you won't be joining the high achievers any time soon, they include people like Einstein to Srinivasa Ramanujan who did learn how to use their source of inspiration.
If you think the Creator is going to do more than let us know what we need to do to avoid the dangers, then join in a tsunami beach party for like-minded people. Maybe the laws of physics will be put on hold for you, or you can draw on 'super powers' you may have or fantasize having. You won't need our help if you can do that. Be sure to let us know how it works out for you... and share how it was possible to save the lives at risk, there would be many who want to know of an alternative method that actually works. Maybe you can find a way to do it, but really I doubt it. It took me 60+ years to put all the pieces together to figure it out, and what has been offered is far from being a one trick pony.
And we too have a campus radio station.
Warm Regards 
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From: sajan venniyoor <venniyoor@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [creative-radio] What if...
To: creative-radio@yahoogroups.com
Date: Sunday, May 13, 2012, 4:15 PM

 

I'd really like to know which part of Creative-Radio's mandate ("use of radio in development, in particular promoting public health, improved education, protection of the environment, improved livelihoods, good governance and conflict mitigation") this particular brand of whacko theology addresses.

Not that I want to hurt anyone's religious sensibilities, but if the

Creator can truly warn us about disasters "via our dreams or visions",

maybe He could prevent the disasters altogether and save us the trouble of seeing visions and dreaming dreams.

with regards,

Sajan

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On 10 May 2012 01:21, Onarosopher <manager@cprize.org> wrote:

> What if?

> This file http://www.cprize.org/whatif.pdf

>

> What if are words which precede many millions of scenarios in which we try

> to project future results. Broadcast media and press are familiar with it

> primarily as fictional or positional conjecture, even to use in comic books

> and other creative venues. What if scenarios vary from `what if war was

> declared and no one came' to `what if I don't get the marks I need to

> pass'? In those examples we address constructive failure to destructive

> failure as potential results. More concerning is the number of what ifs

> that directly concern our future, yet are not fully answered, taken

> seriously or reasoned to logical or useful conclusions.

>

> Let me give you another example. What if no one acted in advance of a

> foreseen disaster? Then the disaster occurred and tens of thousands of

> people died because no one took the warning as being valid. The statement

> wasn't given to alarm anyone. Why do people hear warnings and then not act

> on them? Is it that we have been conditioned to disbelieve that foresight

> is possible by atheists and other ignorant disbelievers who want to see

> people harmed or suffer?

>

> There is a constant Source of such help, our dreams, and in most of the

> world's major faiths we know the Creator speaks to humanity via our dreams

> or visions, but it is ignored by 99% of people, and even those who use it

> constructively only do so part of the time. Too often we fear what we don't

> know, however just knowing the messaging of our dreams and visions is the

> Creator speaking in support of life gives us an option to put aside most of

> our fears. The needed answers are not given to us in absolutes, plus

> there's the ever-present problem that few people make an effort to recall

> and record their dreams. When anyone does and verbalizes them there are

> numerous loud, addled or illogical opinions provided to cloud the

> possibility of good answers. Good answers are not a function of how much

> education you have, in fact it seems many of the best educated are impaired

> from finding meaning due to disbelieving influences who taught them.

> Religion which herds a belief invariably diverges far from relevant

> understanding. Foresight is not logical yet it is reasonable.

>

>

> Yes the English press in Japan was notified after the last big tsunami.

> Not a peep from them. http://www.cprize.org/japan-news.pdf and

> http://www.cprize.org/japan-may2012-tsunami.pdf

>

> A disaster which was foreseen, but no one acted on the cautions their

> dreams provided.

> http://www.cprize.org/aberfan.wmv (19 min)

>

> Want to know more about the person who sent this. See

> http://www.linkedin.com/pub/alan-harmony/10/950/858

>

> Want to do an interview via Skype or phone for your radio station? Our

> Skype ID is `call2us', and phone is +1-306-473-2665 (IQ-ebook). If you want

> to do an in-person interview you must call ahead. Our board of directors

> has some ground rules.

>

> Want to see more about how this program fits into our non-profit's bigger

> objectives? Go to http://www.longlifeproject.com or for something lighter

> http://pinterest.com/longlifeproject/

>

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[creative-radio] Community Radio map of India

 

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Kartikeya Bajpai <bajpai.kartikeya@gmail.com>
Date: 10 May 2012 06:17
Subject: [cr-india] CR India Map
To: CR India <cr-india@sarai.net>

Hi all,

We have put up a interactive
map<http://maraa.in/media/india-community-radio-stations-map/>of
Community Radio stations in India. The station list and attributes are
based on the CR Compendium (by CEMCA and MIB).

The map can be found at
http://maraa.in/media/india-community-radio-stations-map/

Please send across any comments, clarifications, or corrections that you
may have to info@maraa.in

Best,
Kartikeya

Join the Community Radio Forum. For membership details, please go to
www.crforum.in

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Tuesday 15 May 2012

[creative-radio] More Indigenous language and culture needed on Canada's airwaves

 

More Indigenous language and culture needed on Canada's airwaves
[excerpt]
http://rabble.ca/news/2012/05/canada-needs-more-indigenous-culture-radio
"If Canada wants to reconcile with First Nations people in regards to the
residential school area, it should be law to include First Nations programs
from whichever territory radio stations are broadcasting in," O'Sullivan
says.
O'Sullivan first became involved with the National Campus and Community
Radio Association (NCRA) http://www.ncra.ca/ at its annual conference in
2008. As she was meeting with aboriginal community radio programmers from
around Canada for the first time, Prime Minister Stephen Harper stood in
the House of Commons and apologized for the profound abuses of the
Government of Canada's residential school system
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/story/2008/06/11/aboriginal-apology.html ,
which he stated "aimed to kill the Indian in the child."
"They knew without language and culture, they would be breaking our spirits
and we wouldn't know really where we came from," explains O'Sullivan,
herself a former residential school student, of the system's architects.
[...]
She calls it healing. "History is attached to language and culture,"
O'Sullivan says. "Stories that are told tell us about where we came from."
Since the mid-1990s, O'Sullivan has helped launch two more radio programs
at Co-op -- both including language revitalization in their mandates, and
especially focused on three dialects of the Salish language. Children are
regularly involved in her programming, and she interviews aboriginal guests
from near and far. O'Sullivan draws particular attention to her former
co-host of the ongoing show Sne'waylh, Chief Ian Campbell, a local, young
and popular hereditary chief.
"The reason I'm [advocating for mandated inclusion] is because I've
recognized how the programming has enabled our own community here in
Vancouver," O'Sullivan says. After being involved in First Nations
programming at Coop Radio, she adds, people have gone back to their
communities and other places to spread the language. "They've continued the
work, even though they're not on the air."
"I think it has a lot of merit," says Jean LaRose, CEO of Aboriginal
Peoples Television Network (APTN) http://www.aptn.ca/ , when asked about
O'Sullivan's initiative. He notes there are 52 aboriginal languages in
Canada
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.com/articles/languages-of-native-people--
not including dialects -- and it's impossible for APTN to sustain and
grow the languages on its own. "An initiative like this would help
supplement what we're doing."
LaRose explains that O'Sullivan's idea, if adopted, would help grow the
base of journalists working in First Nations languages, and actually help
grow and evolve the vocabularies of traditional languages. As an example,
he says APTN's journalists covering the 2010 Olympics in Vancouver came up
with new language to describe sports like snowboarding, where the existing
base of language was limited.
Lorna Roth is a professor in the Communication Studies department at
Concordia University and has a a background in indigenous television and
media history. She says there's no question there's of a lack of indigenous
programming on the airwaves in Canada, and despite her strong doubts the
CRTC or the Conservative government is willing to work on a policy that
would have indigenous language inclusion mandated, Roth says she thinks
O'Sullivan is promoting a great idea.
[...]
"It will restore a sense of pride that we don't have. Right now there's a
lot of shame in our communities because of the residential schools," says
O'Sullivan. "I think language and culture will give us a sense of
empowerment, a sense of well-being. It will fill that void that we're
feeling in our bloods and our guts."
Canada's Broadcasting Act allows for policy directives from Cabinet, which
can effectively direct the CRTC to mandate indigenous language and cultural
programming.
Joanne Penhale is a freelance writer, community organizer, innkeeper,
artist, gardener and fledgling beekeeper. She lives in Montreal with her
husband and two cats. She has a BA in Communication from Simon Fraser
University and completed a post-graduate journalism program at Langara
College in Vancouver, B.C.

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Sunday 13 May 2012

Re: [creative-radio] What if...

 

I'd really like to know which part of Creative-Radio's mandate ("use of radio in development, in particular promoting public health, improved education, protection of the environment, improved livelihoods, good governance and conflict mitigation") this particular brand of whacko theology addresses.

Not that I want to hurt anyone's religious sensibilities, but if the
Creator can truly warn us about disasters "via our dreams or visions",
maybe He could prevent the disasters altogether and save us the trouble of seeing visions and dreaming dreams.

with regards,
Sajan

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On 10 May 2012 01:21, Onarosopher <manager@cprize.org> wrote:

> What if?
> This file http://www.cprize.org/whatif.pdf
>
> What if are words which precede many millions of scenarios in which we try
> to project future results. Broadcast media and press are familiar with it
> primarily as fictional or positional conjecture, even to use in comic books
> and other creative venues. What if scenarios vary from `what if war was
> declared and no one came' to `what if I don't get the marks I need to
> pass'? In those examples we address constructive failure to destructive
> failure as potential results. More concerning is the number of what ifs
> that directly concern our future, yet are not fully answered, taken
> seriously or reasoned to logical or useful conclusions.
>
> Let me give you another example. What if no one acted in advance of a
> foreseen disaster? Then the disaster occurred and tens of thousands of
> people died because no one took the warning as being valid. The statement
> wasn't given to alarm anyone. Why do people hear warnings and then not act
> on them? Is it that we have been conditioned to disbelieve that foresight
> is possible by atheists and other ignorant disbelievers who want to see
> people harmed or suffer?
>
> There is a constant Source of such help, our dreams, and in most of the
> world's major faiths we know the Creator speaks to humanity via our dreams
> or visions, but it is ignored by 99% of people, and even those who use it
> constructively only do so part of the time. Too often we fear what we don't
> know, however just knowing the messaging of our dreams and visions is the
> Creator speaking in support of life gives us an option to put aside most of
> our fears. The needed answers are not given to us in absolutes, plus
> there's the ever-present problem that few people make an effort to recall
> and record their dreams. When anyone does and verbalizes them there are
> numerous loud, addled or illogical opinions provided to cloud the
> possibility of good answers. Good answers are not a function of how much
> education you have, in fact it seems many of the best educated are impaired
> from finding meaning due to disbelieving influences who taught them.
> Religion which herds a belief invariably diverges far from relevant
> understanding. Foresight is not logical yet it is reasonable.
>

>
> Yes the English press in Japan was notified after the last big tsunami.
> Not a peep from them. http://www.cprize.org/japan-news.pdf and
> http://www.cprize.org/japan-may2012-tsunami.pdf
>
> A disaster which was foreseen, but no one acted on the cautions their
> dreams provided.
> http://www.cprize.org/aberfan.wmv (19 min)
>
> Want to know more about the person who sent this. See
> http://www.linkedin.com/pub/alan-harmony/10/950/858
>
> Want to do an interview via Skype or phone for your radio station? Our
> Skype ID is `call2us', and phone is +1-306-473-2665 (IQ-ebook). If you want
> to do an in-person interview you must call ahead. Our board of directors
> has some ground rules.
>
> Want to see more about how this program fits into our non-profit's bigger
> objectives? Go to http://www.longlifeproject.com or for something lighter
> http://pinterest.com/longlifeproject/
>

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Thursday 10 May 2012

[creative-radio] Igloolik Nunavut community radio call-in show kicks off - human rights assessment of Mary River Mine

May 10, 2012 - 8:49 am

Igloolik call-in show kicks off human rights assessment of Mary River Mine

Lawyer Lloyd Lipsett takes calls from listeners

JANE GEORGE

http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/65674igloolik_call-in_radio_show_kicks_off_human_rights_assessment_on_the_m/

[excerpt]

"...No matter where you are, you can now listen to call-in radio shows,
featuring a human rights lawyer from southern Canada who is visiting
Igloolik to work on a "human rights assessment" of the proposed Mary River
iron mine.

To start his assessment, Canadian human rights lawyer Lloyd Lipsett fielded
comments and questions from listeners during a May 9 call-in show on the
Igloolik-based Nipivut Nunatinnii Our Voice at Home radio network.

Lipsett introduced himself on the show, which aired in Igloolik and online,
from 8 p.m. to 10:30 p.m., asking for feedback on the huge iron mine that
Baffinland Iron Mines Corp. wants to build in north Baffin.

"I'm here to listen to people on the radio, and in the community," said
Lipsett, an independent consultant, who has previously undertaken human
rights assessments of mining operations in North America and Guatemala.

[---]

A couple of callers said they support the project that is heading to final
hearings in July, but others worried about whether Baffinland would respect
its Inuit workers and what the impact of increased shipping from the
project would be.

One caller spoke about the importance of training and education, while
another expressed worries about the trade-off between jobs and the
environment: "I want my voice to be heard, from my own point of view,
[that] the jobs won't stay here forever. Our land will be gone… what is
going to happen with our land?"

To that, Lipsett responded that it's right to ask questions at the
beginning of a development, both about the life of the mine and what
happens at the end.

And if jobs are what people want to see flow from this development, it's
important to follow with links with training, he said.

On May 10, another call-in show with Lipsett is scheduled to start at 8
p.m. online,

http://www.isuma.tv/hi/en/did/radio/igloolik

as part of the project descried as "acquiring knowledge, speaking your
mind, talking it over and deciding together" (Tusaumatitauniq,
Uqalaqatauniq, Uqqamajaqatiginiq, Angiqatigingniq).

On the website for the digital project,

http://www.isuma.tv/did

you can also listen to a taped interview with Zach Kunuk, the acclaimed
filmmaker and recently-elected QIA board member...."


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[creative-radio] What if...

 

What if?
This file http://www.cprize.org/whatif.pdf

What if are words which precede many millions of scenarios in which we try to project future results. Broadcast media and press are familiar with it primarily as fictional or positional conjecture, even to use in comic books and other creative venues. What if scenarios vary from `what if war was declared and no one came' to `what if I don't get the marks I need to pass'? In those examples we address constructive failure to destructive failure as potential results. More concerning is the number of what ifs that directly concern our future, yet are not fully answered, taken seriously or reasoned to logical or useful conclusions.

Let me give you another example. What if no one acted in advance of a foreseen disaster? Then the disaster occurred and tens of thousands of people died because no one took the warning as being valid. The statement wasn't given to alarm anyone. Why do people hear warnings and then not act on them? Is it that we have been conditioned to disbelieve that foresight is possible by atheists and other ignorant disbelievers who want to see people harmed or suffer?

There is a constant Source of such help, our dreams, and in most of the world's major faiths we know the Creator speaks to humanity via our dreams or visions, but it is ignored by 99% of people, and even those who use it constructively only do so part of the time. Too often we fear what we don't know, however just knowing the messaging of our dreams and visions is the Creator speaking in support of life gives us an option to put aside most of our fears. The needed answers are not given to us in absolutes, plus there's the ever-present problem that few people make an effort to recall and record their dreams. When anyone does and verbalizes them there are numerous loud, addled or illogical opinions provided to cloud the possibility of good answers. Good answers are not a function of how much education you have, in fact it seems many of the best educated are impaired from finding meaning due to disbelieving influences who taught them. Religion which herds a belief invariably diverges far from relevant understanding. Foresight is not logical yet it is reasonable.

Good answers have not eluded everyone. That same Source has been used by countless famous people for their creativity, inventions and other inspirations even to music and books and many of the Nobel Prize winners. Our favorites are Einstein, Edison, Bell, Tesla, Bach, Grieg, Orwell and Jules Verne. Dreams or visions have also been used to discover health remedies, and reasons to avoid harm or accidents. Unfortunately they are not always used successfully, especially when it comes to avoiding disasters. Some people intentionally ignore the help, then suffer the consequences. Historical examples exist; Julius Caesar, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, John Kennedy, and Anwar Sadat are a few. Even the crash of Space Shuttle Columbia in 2003 was foreseen, however in each case no or inadequate preemptive action was taken. Is humanity failing or have valuable points into our future been ignored by those who claim to know more?

Dreams are provided in analogies and concepts. It takes more than one person cognizant of the problem being dealt with to form a focus. It then takes at least one person who has the experience of reasoning the results into an actionable plan to preempt the loss, even when situations provide an inkling of the problem is already under direct consideration. Let me assure you one person cannot pinpoint a time or the timing with accuracy. That requires participation by many. A wrong time does not negate the event from occurring it only harms the credibility of the person who foresaw it.

We've seen how many people a big tsunami can kill, 300,000 in 2 events in the last 10 years, one in Japan, one in Indonesia, all within moments or certainly hours of the initial earthquake that caused them. So we would like to set up a program to preempt the loss of lives to foreseen disasters, after all there's zero value to us to say after a disaster has wiped out umpteen thousand people that some who survived saw it occur in a dream a week ago or a year ago. No action from the cautions dreams provide equals a greatly increased likelihood of lives lost. Yet the Creator is not stingy with letting us know in advance of a problem that could cause a loss of lives. The messages are not just provided to those whose lives are at risk, but countless others as well.

Now let me get into the more urgent point of this, a need for participation to preempt lives lost in a foreseen disaster. Thirty years ago I was shown a disaster which wiped out northern Japan, but at the time I didn't know when. It occurred as a tsunami over a year ago. However the same dream went on to show that the southern part of Japan was hit by an even larger tsunami, somewhat later. Now how would you warn the Japanese of such an eventuality, and that the time for it was looming ever nearer? The Japanese have no history of using dreams either as a society or in their religions. Newspapers and most big voices including radio and TV do not understand that foresight is possible, so they ignore the warnings. The trouble with ignoring the warnings is that those affected would be killed before the news sources realized they had made a mistake by not passing along the warning. Would they remedy that for the next time? No evidence exists to show that. They are still unwilling to risk their `image' even if it could save even their own lives.

So the solution is reaching out to smaller voices, people who believe the Creator speaks to us via our dreams and visions. People who see the potential in letting others know and are prepared to help by recording their dreams and submitting them to us for evaluation. Send them to our email or via godofdreams.com website.

Now if I told you there was only a week before this disaster occurred I might be telling you something less than the truth. I know the date for this disaster is likely May 17, and it occurs during the late night, or very early morning. However I'm not 100% certain that it is this May 17, only 90+% certain. If we had more participation, confirming or refuting that date would be made easier. Opinion cannot help. Participation would increase the likelihood of preempting the loss of lives in any future disasters in the same motion.

We have a limited time to act on this, less than a week. So are the lives of others worth making a small amount of effort to recall your dreams worth it? Would you hope others will do the same and therefore make saving your life from any future disaster possible? Seeing you've never heard of doing this before there is no reason not to support it. We do recommend `you try it before you buy it'. There's far more value to this program than saving a few thousand lives from disasters. We cannot stop the wreck that will happen however we can stop the loss of lives, if you will allow yourself to act on this `what if'. Do think what if it was your life. Wouldn't you want to know if someone had spent years developing ways to stop the loss of lives?

Yes the English press in Japan was notified after the last big tsunami. Not a peep from them. http://www.cprize.org/japan-news.pdf and http://www.cprize.org/japan-may2012-tsunami.pdf

A disaster which was foreseen, but no one acted on the cautions their dreams provided.
http://www.cprize.org/aberfan.wmv (19 min)

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