Tuesday 31 May 2011

[creative-radio] First community radio on air: Lokobetar's test run starts in Barguna Bangladesh

 

First community radio on air Lokobetar's test run starts in Barguna
Bangladesh
http://ow.ly/57iAD

The first community radio station in Bangladesh, named Lokobetar, has
begun test transmissions in the district town of Barguna to build public
opinion on development issues like democracy, good governance, human
rights, anti-corruption, health and women empowerment. Mass-Line Media
Centre (MMC), a development organisation, with financial and technical
support from Unesco, set up the radio station, which has been on trial
since 27 May and is expected to go for full-fledged transmission by
mid-June. The station will cover a radius of about 17 kilometres around
Barguna town on FM 99.2 MHz.
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Monday 30 May 2011

[creative-radio] INDIA: Film tells the story of three women who are in community radio

 

INDIA:

Narsamma, Parul Ben and Triveni live in different villages of India --
they could be living the life of an average rural woman had it not been
for a tiny device called the radio.

Film tells the story of these women who are in the middle of a community
radio revolution and it is through their eyes that we see this phenomenon
unfolding. Travelling across Kutch in Gujarat, Budikote in Karnataka and
Pastapur in Andhra Pradesh , the film showcases the exemplary work that
these radio stations do to bring about awareness and social change.

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Friday 27 May 2011

[creative-radio] UNESCO Community Radio Handbook now online

 

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Chip
Date: 26 May 2011 10:14
Subject: [IMC-Audio] UNESCO Community Radio Handbook now online
To: imc-uk-radio@lists.indymedia.org, imc-audio@lists.indymedia.org

Originally released in 2001, this 105-page PDF handbook gives an
overview of community radio worldwide:

http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0012/001245/124595e.pdf

Chip
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Tuesday 24 May 2011

[creative-radio] Breaking Borders Radio Documentaries - stories of migrants in Johannesburg

 

"Breaking Borders" - stories of migrants living in Johannesburg

On Africa Day 25 May, a new 5-part series of radio documentaries chronicling
the lives, challenges, dreams, and positive contributions of migrants living
in South Africa, is hitting the airwaves. In "Breaking Borders," five
migrants tell their stories of where they came from, what life is like for
them in their new home, and what their goals are for the future.

Produced by CMFD (Community Media for Development) Productions for FAHAMU
Networks for Social Justice, with support from the Open Society Foundation
(OSF), the Breaking Borders project brought together South African community
radio journalists and both internal and external migrants to collaboratively
produce the documentaries. By working together, migrants had an opportunity
to access media and tell their stories, while building capacity of radio
journalists to report on migration issues with a human face.

Southern Africa has a long history of mobile populations. Economic and
political instability in neighbouring countries means that South Africa is
at the focal point of this movement. Many come from countries like Zimbabwe,
Mozambique, Zambia, etc, looking for a better life, yet often find
difficulties and hardships. Migration is an important part of South Africa's
social fabric. Yet we rarely hear the stories of how it is for a Zimbabwean
to leave their home, or what it is like to be a refugee from Congo,
qualified to be a teacher or nurse, and unable to find any kind of work in
their new home country. This project aimed to address this gap in media
access.

The touching stories share insights into what it is like to leave home -
from Zimbabwe, Nigeria, Congo, Burundi, and even from within the country -
and journey far away to the bright lights and big city of Johannesburg, a
place full of both challenges and opportunities. What is clear from each
story is that life is not easy for migrants living in Johannesburg, yet the
contributions to the social, economic and cultural fabric of the country as
varied as they are.

The documentaries are being distributed free of charge to radio stations.

To read more or listen online, find Breaking Borders on www.cmfd.org

To request more information or a copy of the CD, contact:

Deborah Walter
Community Media for Development (CMFD) 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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Monday 23 May 2011

[creative-radio] INDIA: "Now, community radio service on your mobiles!"

 

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Subject: [cr-india] "Now, community radio service on your mobiles!"
From: "sajan venniyoor" <venniyoor@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, May 23, 2011 2:30 pm
To: "CR India" <cr-india@sarai.net>
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*Now, community radio service on your mobiles!*
Source: Niyati Rana, DNA, 23.5.11

Ahmedabad: How does the idea of operating a community radio station with
mobile phones sound? Listening to informative programmes, 'airing'
advertisements and filtering content generated by community members — all
this could be done using simple cellphones!

The unconventional method of operating a community radio station using a new
application, mobile ad hoc networks (MANETs), is proposed by Prof Kavitha
Ranganathan and Prof Ankur Sarin, faculty members at Indian Institute of
Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA).

MANETS are conventionally used in areas like disaster recovery or military
operations. In a working paper titled "A Voice for the Voiceless:
Peer-to-peer Mobile Phone Networks for a Community Radio Service",
Ranganathan and Sarin propose a decentralised community station in which
users will be required to buy a basic low-end mobile phone preloaded with
the MANET software.

The software is used for groups of mobile devices without any centralised
administration or control which form an ad hoc network among themselves. The
paper states that if there are enough such users, the phone will
automatically form an exclusive network among them enabling users to talk to
one another and exchange other forms of data.

The system the paper proposes is built around the idea of community
participation which is the essence of community media. The paper argues that
it found two schemes particularly promising for the application:
Dynamic-Prob and SBA-Adaptive.

"We envision a true peer service where any participant of the peer-topeer
network can be a source of audio content. This entails each phone in the
network to broadcast reliable and efficient voice-based data packets to
every other node in the network," states the paper.

The idea of the MANET based community radio channel is to be completely
decentralised. Every community member is equally equipped to air their
content on the radio service, without a central authority choosing or
filtering the content.

To decide which user will be allowed to broadcast at what time, the paper
proposes a weekly in-person meeting of the community members where all users
interested in an airslot can participate.

"A weekly schedule can be drawn up in a democratic fashion, a simple table
of node identities (phone numbers), start times and end times. This table
can then be confidentially broadcast to all nodes and stored in each peer
phone's memory. When a user tries to broadcast content, it is only forwarded
to other nodes if the schedule permits it," states the paper.

To filter content during broadcast, the paper suggests use of a
decentralised reputation based scheme where users can keep track of past
performance of their peers and regulate participation depending on their
reputation.

http://daily.bhaskar.com/article/GUJ-AHD-now-community-radio-service-on-your-mobiles-2126968.html
Join the Community Radio Forum. For membership details, please go to
www.crforum.in

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[creative-radio] The Role of Facebook in Disaster Response

 

The Role of Facebook in Disaster Response
http://irevolution.net/2011/05/22/facebook-and-disaster-response/

[excerpt]

I've been thinking about this topic with a number of other colleagues for
a while. I'm also very interested to hear any ideas and suggestions that
iRevolution readers may have on this.

There's no doubt that Facebook can—and already does—play an important role
in disaster response. In Haiti, my colleague Rob Munro used Facebook to
recruit hundreds of Creole speaking volunteers to translate tens of
thousands of text messages into English as part of Mission 4636. When an
earthquake struck New Zealand earlier this year, thousands of students
organized their response via a Facebook group and also used the platform's
check-in's feature to alert others in their social network that they were
alright.

See also
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* NGO's Role in Effective Disaster Response
http://causeorganizations.wordpress.com/2010/07/07/ngos-role-in-effective-disaster-response/
* After 911, Facebook Is Top Choice for Disaster Response
http://midflredcross.wordpress.com/2010/08/12/after-911-facebook-is-top-choice-for-disaster-response/
* Fake earthquake disaster drill tests on Facebook & Twitter
http://iansarn.wordpress.com/2010/09/28/fake-earthquake-disaster-drill-tests-on-facebook-twitter/

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Saturday 21 May 2011

[creative-radio] Voices on Climate Justice | radio reports.

 


* Voices on Climate Justice interview series

Audio reports on struggles for environmental justice, produced for broadcast on
campus/community radio stations globally, featuring voices from around the
world engaged in front-line struggles for climate justice.

In this series of audio interviews we hear from a diverse array of voices, from
voices involved in the Cochabamba climate justice mobilization in 2010, to
activists involved in indigenous land struggles in Canada, to critiques on
corporate-driven geoengineering projects and accounts on the current
mobilization in Durban, South Africa in opposition to the upcoming UN climate
summit.

Please download/listen to these interviews produced in Montreal for broadcast
on community radio stations globally by journalist and community activist
Stefan Christoff.

* Voices on Climate Justice I
Ben Powless of the Indigenous Environmental Network on growing resistance to
the tar sands in Alberta.

http://montreal.mediacoop.ca/audio/voices-climate-justice-i/7243

In this segment of Voices on Climate Justice we hear from Ben Powless, Mohawk
activist from Six Nations working with the Indigenous Environmental Network.
Powless speaks on the struggle of indigenous communities against the
environmentally destructive, corporate-driven tar sands industry in Alberta.
Powless details the environmental impacts of ongoing tar sands extraction in
Alberta and the impacts on indigenous communities, like Fort Chipewyan,
downstream from massive tar sands production along the Athabasca River, a
community facing alarming cancer rates tied in multiple medical studies to
pollutants stemming from tar sands production.

* Voices on Climate Justice II
Patrick Bond on climate justice and protests against the UN climate summit
Durban.

http://montreal.mediacoop.ca/audio/voices-climate-justice-ii/7306

In this segment we will hear an interview with Patrick Bond of the Centre for
Civil Society (CCS) at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban, South Africa.
Bond speaks on the activist convergence, rooted in a climate justice analysis,
aiming to confront the upcoming UN climate summit taking place in Durban, South
Africa, between November 28th & December 9th. In this interview Bond details
the mobilization efforts in South Africa lead-by activists and community
organizers from communities directly impacted by climate change both in South
Africa and globally.

* Voices on Climate Justice III
Diana Bronson outlining the global environmental threat represented by
geoengineering.

http://montreal.mediacoop.ca/audio/voices-climate-justice-iii/7319

In this segment we will hear from Diana Bronson from the ETC Group (Action
Group on Erosion, Technology and Concentration), speaking on the growing global
focus and environmental threat of geoengineering. Bronson focuses on growing
corporate involvement in geoengineering projects to push ocean fertilization
and chemical-driven modification to alter the upper layers of the atmosphere,
stratospheric aerosols, as 'solutions' to climate change.

* Voices on Climate Justice IV
Elizabeth Peredo via Foundation Solon in Bolivia on climate justice.

http://montreal.mediacoop.ca/audio/voices-climate-justice-iv/7320

In this segment we will hear from Elizabeth Peredo, director of the Foundation
Solon in La Paz, Bolivia. Peredo speaks on the celebrated Cochabamba
international climate justice conference in 2010 that mobilized environmental
activists from across the globe to focus on building a global movement for
climate justice. In this interview Peredo offers reflections on ecological debt
as linked to north/south relations while outlining an anti colonial critique on
environmental struggles globally.

* Voices on Climate Justice V
Ellen Gabriel on the indigenous struggle in Kanesatake against corporate
mining.

http://montreal.mediacoop.ca/audio/voices-climate-justice-v/7321

In this segment we will hear an interview with Ellen Gabriel, Mohawk activist
from Kanesatake speaking on the current attempts via Niocan Inc. to set-up
niobium mine on traditional Mohawk lands, just minutes up the road from the
location for the historic 1990 stand-off between Mohawk warriors and the
Canadian military known as the 'Oka crisis'. Gabriel focuses on the rights of
indigenous people to traditional lands within both Canadian and international
law within the context of the current struggle against the opening of a
corporate mine on Mohawk lands.

* Voices on Climate Justice VI
Judy Rebick reflecting on climate justice.

http://montreal.mediacoop.ca/audio/voices-climate-justice-vi/7322

In this segment we will hear an interview with Judy Rebick, founder of
rabble.ca, author and long time social justice activist in Canada who speaks on
the central importance of climate justice to activism internationally. Rebick
focuses on the inspiration of the Bolivia-driven alternative climate justice
organizing process to the top-down UN climate change summits and the urgent
need for action on climate change. Also addressed in this interview is an
analysis on the contemporary reality in Canada, both the record of the Harper
Conservative government on the environment and the need to address with the
realities of indigenous lands rights in relation to environmental struggles in
Canada.

* Music featured on the Voices on Climate Justice reports is "Tiger Funk" by
Moonstarr feat. LAL via Public Transit Records: http://www.ptrmusic.com/

* Voices on Climate Justice interview series was recorded at Cochabamba +1
environmental justice conference in Montreal and is produced by community
organizer and journalist Stefan Christoff http://www.twitter.com/spirodon/

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Wednesday 18 May 2011

[creative-radio] Germany: District Șmmerda is quicker than The VOICE РRefugees Isolatio n Camp in Gangloffșmmern will be closed

 

District Șmmerda is quicker than The VOICE РRefugees Isolation Camp in
Gangloffsömmern will be closed

See Fotos and Video links below
http://thevoiceforum.org/node/2120

Isolationslager Gangloffsömmern
Gangloffsömmern Refugees isolation camp ghetto in Thueringen - Germany

While activists of The VOICE already discussed first actions linked with
the Lager Gangloffsömmern as part of the Break Isolation! - campaign, they
received the news that the authorities decided to close the Lager. As
earlier reported here, the contract with the private company
Projektentwicklungs- und Betreuungs GmbH is ending on august 31st, 2011.

VIDEO view of Ganglöffsommern-Flüchtlingsisolation
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_1X-qTwqyw

After the broad attention to the campaign against the racist isolation in
Zella-Mehlis, the discussion about the different housing practices of
refugees rose up in society and administrative circles of Thüringen.
During the protest against the Lager Zella-Mehlis, the structural problem
of housing in Lagers and the solidarity with anyone being forced to live
in a Lager has always been pointed out. In this context, it were always
mentioned Zella-Mehlis, Gangloffsömmern, Gerstungen and Breitenworbis.

Gangloffsömmern, a village of about 1000 inhabitants, barely doesn't have
anything more than a pub, a church and a football club. For shopping, the
people have to go to Straußfurt, where anyone without a car is dependent
on the rarely circulating busses. There are officially 40 unmarried men
staying in the Lager. In fact, it's just around 10-20 who are constantly
staying there. All the others make deals with the Lager staff (either 10
Euro in voucher /Gutschein, or „gifts", how it's reported by refugees) and
thereby gain the „freedom" to show up just once in a month for receiving
Gutschein and pocket money. The rest of the month they spend in other
places. But there are quite some among the men, who don't have such
resources or who don't have any friends or contacts outside of the Lager.
Due to that reason, a part of them is forcely reduced to „sleep, eat,
watch TV, sleep" (quoted inhabitant) for years.
The building is quite broken down and inside, there is a constant moldy
smell which stems from spots of rotten walls. A part of the Lager is a
gym, which is used for sports by the inhabitants of the village – the
refugees are not allowed to enter.

Isolationslager Gangloffsömmern

In preparation of coming public actions related to the completely isolated
and rotten Lager of Gangloffsömmern, some activists of The VOICE recently
visited it. On this meeting, the friends from the Lager confirmed the info
of the future closure. But another news was the intimidation attempts by
employees of the Ausländerbehörde: After a refugee had criticised the
conditions in the Lager in Junge Welt, he was confronted with the article
and threatened with juridical consequences. On behalf of the refugee
community, he received broad support.

Now it's necessary to watch the authorities cautiously and to support the
refugees in their uncompromising demand for decentral housing. Especially
those, who are already facing repressive threats. A simple transfer into
the isolated camps of other districts is as inacceptable as the opening of
a new Lager in the disctrict of Sömmerda, which would also have the aim of
isolating the refugees and controlling their life.

Break the Isolation! Decentral housing for all!

Facebook Fotos: Gangloffsömmer Refugee Ghetto
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More reports and photos will be published soon.

German Text
http://thevoiceforum.org/node/2118

Archives:

Langeweile und Angst: Delegations-Report der Tour von The VOICE durch
Flüchtlingsheime in Thüringen
http://www.thevoiceforum.org/node/1861

Wir fordern dringend auf zur Teilnahme und zur Unterstützung des
Flüchtlingsrecht auf ein freies Leben in Würde für alle in Deutschland und
ihres Rechtes ihren zerbrochenen Traum einer besseren Welt wieder zum
Leben zu erwecken.

"We demand for your urgent participation and support the refugee right to
free life with dignity for all in Germany and to revive their broken dream
for a better world." .. The VOICE Refugee Foum Jena - Thueringen
Bitte helft diese Mail weiterzuverbreiten!

Demonstration in Marz 2011 in Zella-Mehlis

Die Isolation der Flüchtlinge brechen! Die Lager schließen! Die Lager
abschaffen!!!

Bezüglich unserer aktuellen Dokumentationsarbeit zu Lagern in Thüringen
wollen wir euch eben wissen lassen, welche Betreiberverträge dieses Jahr
auslaufen:

Zella-Mehlis: 1.4.2011

Breitenworbis: 30.6.2011

Gangloffsömmern: 31.8.2011

Gerstungen: 31.8.2011

Wir wollen die Gelegenheit nutzen, den öffentlichen Protest zu
organisieren, um den Druck auf einige der Landkreise zu erhöhen, die
Verträge nicht zu verlängern. Angesichts unserer personellen Möglichkeiten
sollten wir uns jedoch auf das konzentrieren, was wir bisher an Infos und
Verbindungen zu einigen der Lager haben, um von dieser Basis aus das
rassistische Lagersystem langfristig zu entlarven.

Am Donnerstag, dem 27.1.2011, findet um 19.00 Uhr ein Treffen im
VOICE-Büro im Schillergässchen 5 in Jena statt, auf dem weitere Schritte
im Anti-Lager-Kampf diskutiert werden, um die Isolation der Flüchtlinge zu
brechen und die Lager zu schließen.
http://de.indymedia.org/2011/01/298169.shtml

Gangloffsömmern
http://thevoiceforum.org/node/1621/

"Die Leute hier sind fix und fertig" Karawane Festival - Delegation in
Thüringer Flüchtlingslagern
http://thevoiceforum.org/node/1616

Delegationsbesuch der Isolationsheime in Gerstungen und
Gangloffsömmern,Thüringen http://thecaravan.org/node/2135

The VOICE Refugee Forum Jena
Adresse: Schillergässchen 5, 07745 Jena
Tel. Handy 0049(0) 17624568988,
Fax: 03641 / 42 02 70,
E-Mail: thevoiceforum@emdash.org
Internet: http://www.thevoiceforum.org
Gegründet: 1994, Arbeitsweise: Kampagnen,Aktionen, Vernetzung.
Publikationen: E-Newsletter

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