Community Radio Around the World

Monday, 9 February 2009

[creative-radio] Digest Number 2563

There are 5 messages in this issue.

Topics in this digest:

1. MENA [in] ARABIC/ AMARC Press Release on Jor gov refusal of CR licen
From: tamara aqrabawe

2. The Promise of Ubiquity: Mobile as Media Platform in the Global Sout
From: George Lessard

3a. PATNA, India: Community radio stations to be set up for farmers
From: George Lessard
3b. Re: PATNA, India: Community radio stations to be set up for farmers
From: Vickram Crishna

4. MENA ARABIC/ AMARC Press Release on Jor gov refusal of CR license /
From: tamara aqrabawe

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1. MENA [in] ARABIC/ AMARC Press Release on Jor gov refusal of CR licen
Posted by: "tamara aqrabawe" aqrabawe@yahoo.com.au aqrabawe
Date: Sun Feb 8, 2009 10:59 am ((PST))

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2. The Promise of Ubiquity: Mobile as Media Platform in the Global Sout
Posted by: "George Lessard" media@web.net themediamentor
Date: Sun Feb 8, 2009 8:07 pm ((PST))

Download
- Executive Summary
and the
- Full Report as PDF documents... for free... at...

http://www.internews.fr/spip.php?article459

African peasants paint their mobile phone number over their front doors.
Indian slum dwellers buy SIM cards to use on friends' handsets. Chinese
students spend three months' allowance on a phone they can use to surf the
web. Once almost the exclusive domain of rich countries, the mobile
revolution has swept through the developing world. An estimated 3.8
billion people, or half the world's population, own a mobile, and most of
the growth is taking place in the global South. This has deep implications
for the media, but the change has been so rapid that it has completely
overtaken most media outlets - they are struggling to digest its impact.

The Promise of Ubiquity was commissioned by Internews Europe in order to
help the media to understand the exciting potential, the incredible
challenges and the perils of refusing to change. What kind of information
services can be carried on the mobile now and in the next five years? Is
the mobile viable as an information channel even when many new users may
be illiterate? There may be few right answers, but author John West
provides a roadmap on how to navigate through the brave new world of
mobile telephony. West suggests a checklist of useful questions and of
some best practices which have emerged so far.

Through interviews with leaders in the field – software engineers and
designers, journalists, and businessmen – the book examines current and
future trends, from the dominance of SMS texting to mobile Web, and
suggests approaches on how media outlets can negotiate with network
operators as well as decide what services to offer.

"A lot of the most interesting innovation in mobiles
is coming from the South - financial transactions,
M-government and so on." - Ken Banks, FrontlineSMS

Innovator case studies:

"What the mobile medium allowed was the creation of a news service at a
very low cost. We have got to the stage where we are now challenging the
established media here." Chamath Airyadasa is a Sri Lankan journalist who
set up his own news organisation using texts, called Jasmine News Wire. As
of mid-2008 JNW had around 100,000 subscribers paying 30 US cents a month
across Sri Lanka's four mobile phone networks to receive a news alerts
service.

"The idea really was to write software that could get information out and
get information back over the mobile phone." Ken Banks developed
FrontlineSMS in 2005 after realizing that the mobile was beginning to make
inroads into rural regions of Africa, where the Internet was still
non-existent. FrontlineSMS is a free-to-use SMS server program which when
installed on a computer allows it to use an attached mobile phone to
structure text messages out and back. It is now in use in over 50
countries. Some current uses include monitoring of Nigeria's elections in
2007 by activists, delivering crop prices to farmers in Aceh, Indonesia,
health care services in Malawi, news alerts in Iraq, and security news for
NGO workers in Afghanistan.

"Particularly in the health sector, we are seeing many organisations
preparing to use SMS as a kind of instant expert service." Bobby Soriano
is a programmer and activist based in Manila who has been working on SOS
SMS, a service for Filipinos working abroad. The service has evolved
quickly from dealing only with emergency calls into a broader information
service which handles any kind of query from the hundreds of thousands of
Filipinos working in the Gulf region and elsewhere.
Internews ahead of the technology curve

Internews Europe has been on the forefront of media work with mobile
phones in the South. It set up text messaging services for journalists in
the aftermath of the devastating earthquake in Java, Indonesia in 2006.
Since then, it has continued to innovate with mobile use in emergency
response situations as well as in closed country environments.

John West has pioneered use of new technologies for media applications in
developing countries since running instant message chats live from Baghdad
in December 1998 to 14,000 AOL users during US bomb attacks. In 1999, he
won the prestigious European Internet Journalist of the Year award given
by City University in London. From 2002 to 2004, he led an Internews
project in Afghanistan which established 30 FM radio stations around the
country, fully digitised and linked by satellite to production networks.
In 2008, he introduced mobile phone-based information services in Iraq by
evolving a system of real-time news alerts over SMS with a national news
agency.

For more information, please contact:
- Elsa Caternet – Project Director, ecaternet AT internews DOT fr
- Jun Julien Matsushita - Program Manager, jmatsushita AT internews DOT fr

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3a. PATNA, India: Community radio stations to be set up for farmers
Posted by: "George Lessard" media@web.net themediamentor
Date: Sun Feb 8, 2009 9:25 pm ((PST))

Community radio stations to be set up for farmers
Times of India - India

<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Patna/Community_radio_stations_to_be_set_up_for_farmers/articleshow/4093319.cms>

Community radio stations to be set up for farmers
8 Feb 2009, 0538 hrs IST, Sanjeev Kumar Verma, TNN

PATNA: Farmers in Bihar would soon have their first brush with community
radio. To be set up under the Agriculture Technology Management Agency
(ATMA) Project of Union ministry of agriculture, the community radio would
air programmes catering to the needs of the farming community.

Apart from airing informative programmes about the latest farming
practices and the precaution the farmers should take to safeguard their
standing crops, programmes based on lives of successful farmers of a given
area would also be aired. Then, the community radio would provide
localised weather reports.

In the first phase, three such community radio stations would come up at
Krishi Vikas Kendra (KVK) Birauli in Samastipur, KVK Barh in Patna and KVK
Jamui. The Union ministry has provided over Rs 31 lakh for each such radio
station out of which about 14 lakh would be spent on equipment and the
balance amount would be spent on the programming head and recurring
expenditure.

"Community radio is going to play a very positive role for farmers, as it
would be localised in nature, with its service area limited to the
surrounding areas only and farmers would get area specific inputs for
improving the farming practices," said Bihar Agricultural Management &
Extension Training Institute (BAMETI) director R K Sohane. BAMETI is the
state level co-ordinator for implementation of ATMA project in the state.

He said that the funds for the said radio stations have already been
received and BAMETI has applied to the ministry of information and
broadcasting for licences for starting the community radio stations.
"Vigilance teams have already visited the sites where radio stations would
be set up. Hence, we are expecting the licences very soon," Sohane added.

BAMETI, meanwhile, has started work on deciding the programme contents
which would be aired daily for two hours. "KVK scientists and those from
the agriculture university as well as successful farmers would play a
major role in preparing these programmes," he said and added that local
soil and climatic conditions would be given due weightage while giving any
information to the farmers through these programmes.

Incidentally, the proposed community radio stations would be first of its
kind in Bihar as far as farmers' centric programmes are concerned. In the
southern states as well as in the neighbouring Uttar Pradesh, experiments
with community radio has proved to be very beneficial. "Farmers of these
states have appreciated the move and we expect similar kind of response in
Bihar as well," Sohane said.

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3b. Re: PATNA, India: Community radio stations to be set up for farmers
Posted by: "Vickram Crishna" v1clist@yahoo.co.uk
Date: Sun Feb 8, 2009 10:15 pm ((PST))

"Farmers in Bihar would soon have their first brush with communityradio."

"Apart from airing informative programmes about the latest farming practices and the precaution the farmers should take to safeguard their standing crops, programmes based on lives of successful farmers of a given area would also be aired. Then, the community radio would provide localised weather reports."

It is really wonderful (I don't think, just in case the strength of my irony is lost on some Gentle Readers) that these 3 stations will provide the kind of programming that numerous public service stations could not in sixty years of independent broadcasting.

For the information of listmembers who are not familiar with India, the country has had over 300 stations set up following the declaration of independence in 1947, and while it can be no one's case that they are sufficient, each of India's (now 30) states (semi-autonomous administrative and political regions) have multiple stations. Bihar was once one of the biggest and most populous states, but was truncated a couple of years back to create an independent hill state, that ought to be more attuned to the needs of hill people.

The community media movement in India almost completely functions on its own, with some non-financial support from groups like AMARC, Open Access and so on. This contrasts quite remarkably with the funding and organisation of special interest groups, including USIA, BBC and others, who have been nudging India's non-government media towards privatisation.

It surprises me that virtually none of the global independent community movements have found it interesting to help India's local counterparts work in a more focused manner, to build up visible, vocal and vote-worthy support, that could actually see radio (to begin with: terrestrial television is also a fairly accessibly media form for much of India's potential audience, 70 per cent of whom live in non-urban areas) be taken seriously by the bureaucrats (and their so-called political masters) who continue to strangle it.

Vickram
http://communicall.wordpress.com
http://vvcrishna.wordpress.com

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From: George Lessard <media@web.net>
To: creative-radio@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Monday, 9 February, 2009 10:56:20
Subject: [creative-radio] PATNA, India: Community radio stations to be set up for farmers

Community radio stations to be set up for farmers
Times of India - India

<http://timesofindia .indiatimes. com/Cities/ Patna/Community_ radio_stations_ to_be_set_ up_for_farmers/ articleshow/ 4093319.cms>

Community radio stations to be set up for farmers
8 Feb 2009, 0538 hrs IST, Sanjeev Kumar Verma, TNN

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4. MENA ARABIC/ AMARC Press Release on Jor gov refusal of CR license /
Posted by: "tamara aqrabawe" aqrabawe@yahoo.com.au aqrabawe
Date: Sun Feb 8, 2009 10:16 pm ((PST))

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Sunday, 8 February 2009

[creative-radio] Digest Number 2562

There are 6 messages in this issue.

Topics in this digest:

1. Late delivery of WRTH
From: Sean Gilbert, International Editor - WRTH

2. Music as torture / Music as weapon
From: George Lessard

3. Transcultural Music Review / Revista Transcultural de Música
From: George Lessard

4. MANGALORE, INDIA: St Aloysius College to have radio station by March
From: George Lessard

5. PUNE, INDIA: Pre-Independence radio station gets recognition
From: George Lessard

6. US: The Torture Playlist (audio) motherjones.com
From: George Lessard

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1. Late delivery of WRTH
Posted by: "Sean Gilbert, International Editor - WRTH" sean.gilbert@o2.co.uk g4ucj
Date: Sat Feb 7, 2009 7:50 am ((PST))

I have noticed that quite a few people are/have had problems with the
delivery of WRTH2009. The publisher is also aware of this and has asked me
to send the following explanation:

"We are very sorry for the delay in shipping of WRTH 2009 by Amazon.com.
Copies of the book reached the Port of New York on December 16. They were
trucked from there in a sealed container direct to the distribution center
in Virginia, USA. They should, and could easily have been, released from
there before Christmas. For some reason they did not get released
*officially* until January 15. We think they were actually released on
February 2.

We are aware that the late delivery to Amazon has also had an impact on
readers and clubs all over the world who ordered from Amazon.com or from
websites who do so.

This is the worst distribution performance ever in any country for any
edition of WRTH. Next year we will be using a different distribution system.

Nicholas Hardyman
Publisher
World Radio TV Handbook
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I can only apologise for the distribution problems from Amazon. You can
order direct from our website http://www.wrth.com as well as your usual
sources.

Regards,
Sean Gilbert, International Editor - WRTH (World Radio TV Handbook)
Web: http://www.wrth.com
Email: sean.gilbert@wrth.com
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2. Music as torture / Music as weapon
Posted by: "George Lessard" media@web.net themediamentor
Date: Sat Feb 7, 2009 8:32 am ((PST))

Music as torture / Music as weapon

http://www.sibetrans.com/trans/trans10/cusick_eng.htm

Suzanne G. Cusick

Revista Transcultural de Música
Transcultural Music Review
#10 (2006) ISSN:1697-0101

Abstract

One of the most startling aspects of musical culture in the post-Cold War
United States is the systematic use of music as a weapon of war. First
coming to mainstream attention in 1989, when US troops blared loud music
in an effort to induce Panamanian president Manuel Norriega's surrender,
the use of "acoustic bombardment" has become standard practice on the
battlefields of Iraq, and specifically musical bombardment has joined
sensory deprivation and sexual humiliation as among the non-lethal means
by which prisoners from Abu Ghraib to Guantanamo may be coerced to yield
their secrets without violating US law.

The very idea that music could be an instrument of torture confronts us
with a novel—and disturbing—perspective on contemporary musicality in the
United States. What is it that we in the United States might know about
ourselves by contemplating this perspective? What does our government's
use of music in the "war on terror" tell us (and our antagonists) about
ourselves?

This paper is a first attempt to understand the military and cultural
logics on which the contemporary use of music as a weapon in torture and
war is based. After briefly tracing the development of acoustic weapons in
the late 20th century, and their deployment at the second battle of
Falluja in November, 2004, I summarize what can be known about the theory
and practice of using music to torture detainees in Afghanistan, Iraq and
Guantanamo. I contemplate some aspects of late 20th-century musical
culture in the civilian US that resonate with the US security community's
conception of music as a weapon, and survey the way musical torture is
discussed in the virtual world known as the blogosphere. Finally, I sketch
some questions for further research and analysis.

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3. Transcultural Music Review / Revista Transcultural de Música
Posted by: "George Lessard" media@web.net themediamentor
Date: Sat Feb 7, 2009 8:32 am ((PST))

http://www.sibetrans.com/trans/trans10/indice10.htm

Dossier: Música silencios y silenciamientos: música violencia y
experiencia cotidiana.
(textos por invitación)

Dossier: Music, silences, silencings: music, violence and quotidian
experience
(invited papers)

Editora invitada / Guest editor:
Ana María Ochoa

.Revista Transcultural de MúsicaX
Transcultural Music ReviewX

ISSN:1697-0101

#10 - December, Diciembre 2006

Dossier: Música silencios y silenciamientos: música violencia y
experiencia cotidiana.
(textos por invitación)

Dossier: Music, silences, silencings: music, violence and quotidian
experience
(invited papers)

Editora invitada / Guest editor:
Ana María Ochoa
1

La materialidad de lo musical y su relación con la violencia
Ana Maria Ochoa
2 "La música pacifica" al Pacífico violento: Música, multiculturalismo y
marginalización en el Pacífico negro colombiano
Michael Birenbaum Quintero
3 Música y el legado de la violencia a finales del siglo XX en Centro
América
T. M. Scruggs
4 Beautiful Fragments of a Traumatic Memory: Synaesthesia, Sesame Street,
and Hearing the Colors of an Abusive Past
Silent Jane
5 La conflictividad de género en la cumbia villera
Pablo Vila y Pablo Semán
6 Articulaciones entre violencia social, significante sonoro y
subjetividad: la cumbia "villera" en Buenos Aires.
Alejandra Cragnolini
7 A violência como conceito na pesquisa musical; reflexões sobre uma
experiência dialógica na Maré, Rio de Janeiro.
Samuel Araújo et alli
8 Los gallos valientes: Examining Violence in Mexican Popular Music
Helena Simonett
9 Narcocorridos: An Ethical Reading of Musical Diegesis
Hermann Herlinghaus
10 Dispare al Sargento, Derrumbe la Montaña: La Producción de la
Masculinidad por Medio del canto y baile Zulú 'Ngoma' en la Suráfrica
Post-Apartheid
Louise Meintjes

11
Music as torture / Music as weapon

12
La música como tortura / La música como arma
Suzanne Cusick

Textos evaluados por pares
Peer-Reviewed Papers
13 Lovers and Rulers, the Real and the Surreal: Harmonic Metaphors in
Silvio Rodriguez's Songs.
Noriko Manabe
14 Trespasser or passerby? Per un'analisi Semiotica del Progressive Rock
Luca Marconi
15 El trasfondo bizantino del cante flamenco. Lecciones del encuentro del
flamenco andaluz con el rebético greco-oriental
Gerhard Steingress
16 Solaris by A.Tarkovsky: Music-Visual Troping, Paradigmatism, Cognitive
Stereoscopy
Julia Shpinitskaya
Reseñas
17 Gerhard Steingress (ed.)
Songs of minotaur- Hybridity and Popular music in the era of globalization.
A comparative analysis of Rebetika, Tango, Rai, Flamenco, Sardana, and
English urban folk.
Münster-Hamburg-London: LIT-Verlag. 2004, pp. 325.
ISBN 3-8258-6363-8
Reseña de Javier Galiana de la Rosa
18 Eric F. Clarke
Ways of Listening. An Ecological Approach to the Perception of Musical
Meaning
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, 237 pp.
ISBN: 0195151941
Reseña de Marta García Quiñones
19

Jeremy Gilbert, & Ewan Pearson:
Cultura y políticas de la música dance
Barcelona: Paidós, 2003. 350 pp.
ISBN: 84-493-1473-9
Keith Negus:
Los géneros musicales y la cultura de las multinacionales
Barcelona: Paidós, 2005. 328 pp.
ISBN: 84-493-1788-6
Dick Hebdige:
Subcultura. El significado del estilo
Barcelona: Paidós, 2004. 259 pp.
ISBN: 84-493-1609-x
Reseñas realizadas por Héctor Fouce

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4. MANGALORE, INDIA: St Aloysius College to have radio station by March
Posted by: "George Lessard" media@web.net themediamentor
Date: Sat Feb 7, 2009 8:41 am ((PST))

College to have radio station by March
Times of India - India

MANGALORE: The St Aloysius College will commence its community radio
station (CRS) operations -Sarang - by March this year.

According to Fr Richard Rego, head of the department of mass communication
and journalism, the college has signed the GOPA (grant of permission
agreement) with the ministry of information and broadcasting on Thursday.

"We have submitted our documents for WOL (Wire Operator's Licence) through
the ministry of telecommunications and information technology. If things
go on as planned, we should be on air by March," he added.

St Aloysius College will be the first educational institution in Dakshina
Kannada to have CRS.

It has been allotted 107.8 MHZ frequency and will air news in a 15-km
radius through its 50 Watt transmitter.

<http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Manga

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5. PUNE, INDIA: Pre-Independence radio station gets recognition
Posted by: "George Lessard" media@web.net themediamentor
Date: Sat Feb 7, 2009 8:42 am ((PST))

[India's first community radio station?]

Pre-Independence radio station gets recognition
26 Jan 2009, 0446 hrs IST, TNN
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Pune/Pre-Independence_radio_station_gets_recognition/articleshow/4031295.cms

PUNE: The Akhil Mandai Mandal on Saturday inaugurated a giant information
hoarding on the underground radio station that thrived at a vada behind
Mandai during the pre-Independence period. The board contains a
description of the radio station where freedom fighters, including Jay
Prakash Narayan, Ram Manohar Lohiya, Yousuf Meher Ali, Achyutrao
Patwardhan, delivered speeches during the Quit India Movement. In November
1942, the first announcement of the Swatantra Bharat Nabhowani Kendra was
made from this station.

Bhola Wanjale of the Akhil Mandai Mandal said, "People have forgotten
about this landmark incident in the history of the city and to rekindle
the knowledge, we have put up the board. We want people how this place is
historically important."

The radio station survived until the police arrested its members in a
crackdown following a blast at the Capitol theatre on January 24, 1943.

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6. US: The Torture Playlist (audio) motherjones.com
Posted by: "George Lessard" media@web.net themediamentor
Date: Sat Feb 7, 2009 8:51 am ((PST))

http://www.motherjones.com/news/featurex/2008/03/torture-playlist.html

This portion of a special feature on U.S. torture discusses how "[m]usic
has been used in American military prisons and on bases to induce sleep
deprivation, 'prolong capture shock,' disorient detainees during
interrogations -- and also drown out screams." Provides list and sound
clips of "some of the songs that guards and interrogators chose" to use
at Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo. From the website for Mother Jones magazine.

UPDATE (March 4): Listen to investigative reporter Justine Sharrock
explain why the Meow Mix jingle, Neil Diamond, and the Barney theme song
all lend themselves to "no-touch torture." Plus: How Metallica reacted
when they found out how their music was being used. —By Gary Moskowitz

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2a. Fw: Alert : Women Radio in Jordan - Radio de Mujeres en Jordania -
Posted by: "tamara aqrabawe" aqrabawe@yahoo.com.au aqrabawe
Date: Fri Feb 6, 2009 8:43 pm ((PST))

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Subject: [Asiapacific-general] Alert : Women Radio in Jordan - Radio de Mujeres en Jordania - Radio de femmes en Jordanie

La version en français suit...
La versión en español sigue ...

AMARC deeply disturbed by refusal to license community radio in Jordan
Valley

Montreal, February 6, 2009. The World Association of Community Radio
Broadcasters (AMARC) is concerned and disappointed by the decision taken
on the 29th January 2009 of the Jordan government to reject the request
of a license for a women's community radio in the Jordan Valley.
According to Daoud Kuttab, Director of AmmanNet and AMARC Vice
President, no explanation was given for the rejection. News reports have
noted that 12 other independent radio and TV license requests were
rejected at the same cabinet session.

We are especially saddened by the decision regarding this particular
station because it was initiated during our successful ninth global
conference, held in Amman in 2006, under the auspices of the Prime
Minister of Jordan. AMARC 9 delegates from over 93 different countries
were impressed with the beginnings of change in Jordan's media policy
and offered to help train and establish a women's station. Based on
advice from Jordanian civil society activists, a number of our delegates
visited the Jordan valley, conducted a workshop and helped train
Jordanian women. AMARC delegates also helped raised the needed funds to
start a small radio station. Our Jordanian host, AmmanNet, offered to
help with the licensing request. The rejection of this request is a
major setback for freedom of expression and media pluralism in Jordan
and for the communication rights of women and the needy communities in
the farming area of the Jordan Valley.

AMARC calls on the government of Jordan to reverse its decision and to
consider revising the Audio Visual Law in a way that will encourage
rather than discourage the establishment of community based media. We
draw attention especially to the important work done by Jordanian media
activists who recently submitted a draft alternative audio visual law to
the Jordanian government, parliamentarians and civil society activists.

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 115 countries. The main global impact of
AMARC since its creation in 1983, has been to accompany and support the
establishment of a world wide community radio sector that has
democratized the media sector. AMARC advocates for the right to
communicate at the international, national, local and neighborhood
levels and defends and promotes the interests of the community radio
movement through solidarity, networking and Cooperation.

Note: AMARC submitted a letter to Prime Minister Naser Dahabi on the
16th December 2007 regarding the decision of the previous government to
issue a license in the Zarqa region but has not heard back from the
prime minister.

For further information:
Marcelo Solervicens, Secretary General of AMARC, secretariat@si.amarc.org
Daoud Kuttab, Director of Ammannet and Viceprsident of AMARC,
dkuttab@ammannet.net

AMARC est profondément préoccupée par le rejet de la licence de la radio
communautaire des femmes de la Vallée du Jordan

Montréal, 6 février le 2009, l'Association mondiale des radios
communautaires (AMARC) est préoccupé et déçue par la décision prise le
29 janvier 2009 par le gouvernement de la Jordanie de rejeter la demande
de licence d'une radio communautaire des femmes dans la vallée du
Jordan. Selon Daoud Kuttab, directeur d'AmmanNet et vice-président
d'AMARC, aucune explication n'a été donnée pour justifier le rejet. Les
nouvelles ont soulignée que douze autres radios indépendantes et de
télévision qui avaient présenté une demande ont été également rejetées
dans la même session du Cabinet.

Nous sommes particulièrement attristés par la décision concernant cette
station de femmes, parce que celle-ci avait été mise sur pied pendant
notre neuvième conférence globale, qui a eu lieu à Amman en 2006, sous
les auspices du premier ministre de la Jordanie. Des délégués de plus de
93 pays différents participant à l'AMARC 9 ont été impressionnés par le
début de changements dans la politique envers les médias de la Jordanie
et ils se s'ont offert d'aider avec la formation afin de mettre sur pied
une station de femmes. Conseillés par des activistes jordaniens de la
société civile, un nombre de nos délégués ont visité la Vallée du
Jordan, ils y ont conduit un séminaire et ils ont aidé à la formation de
femmes jordaniennes. Les délégués de l'AMARC ont également contribué à
la recherche de fonds afin de commencer une petite station de radio. Le
rejet de sa demande de licence est un grand coup contre la liberté
expression et le pluralisme des médias en Jordanie de même qu'aux droits
de la communication des femmes et les communautés dans le besoin dans le
secteur rural de la vallée du Jordan.

L'AMARC appelle le gouvernement de la Jordanie de changer sa décision et
de considérer une révision de la loi de l'audiovisuel afin d'encourager
au lieu de décourager l'établissement de radios communautaires. Nous
attirons l'attention spécialement sur l'important travail des activistes
des médias jordaniens qui ont récemment proposé un projet alternatif de
loi de l'audiovisuel au gouvernement jordanien, aux parlementaires et
activistes de la société civile.

À travers le service aux membres, le réseautage et l'implémentation de
projets, l'Association mondiale de radiodiffuseurs communautaires
(AMARC) réunit plus de 4,000 radios communautaires, fédérations et
alliés de radios communautaires en plus de 115 pays. Le principal impact
de l'AMARC depuis sa fondation en 1983 a été d'accompagner et d'appuyer
l'établissement d'un secteur mondial de la radio communautaire. L'AMARC
fait plaidoyer pour le droit à la communication au niveau international,
national, local et de quartier et défend et promeut les intérêts du
mouvement des radios communautaires à travers la solidarité, le
réseautage et la coopération

Note : L'AMARC, avait envoyé une lettre au premier ministre Naser
Dahabi, le 16 décembre 2007, concernant la décision du gouvernement pour
émettre une autorisation dans la région de Zarqa mais il n'a pas reçu
encore de nouvelles du premier ministre.

Pour plus amples informations contacter : Marcelo Solervicens,
secrétaire général de l'AMARC, secretariat@si.amarc.org
Daoud Kuttab, directeur d'Ammannet et le Vice-président de l'AMARC
dkuttab@ammannet.net.

AMARC está profundamente preocupada por el rechazo de la licencia de una
radio comunitaria en el Valle del Jordán

Montreal, 6 de febrero del 2009, La Asociación mundial de radios
comunitarias (AMARC) esta preocupada y decepcionada por la decisión
adoptada el 29 de enero del 2009 por el gobierno de Jordania, de
rechazar la solicitud de un permiso de radiodifusión para una radio
comunitaria de mujeres en el valle del Jordán. De acuerdo a Daoud
Kuttab, director de AmmanNet y vicepresidente de AMARC, ninguna
explicación ha sido dada para explicar el rechazo. Las noticias han
resaltado que las solicitudes de licencia de otras 12 radios
independientes y de televisión también fueron rechazadas en la misma
sesión dl Gabinete.

Nos entristece particularmente la decisión concerniente a esta estación
porque ella había sido iniciada durante nuestra novena conferencia
global, que tuvo lugar en Amman en 2006, bajo los auspicios del primer
ministro de Jordania. Los delegados de AMARC 9 de más de 93 países
diferentes estaban impresionados por el comienzo de cambios en la
política hacia los medios de comunicación en Jordania y se ofrecieron a
ayudar con la capacitación necesaria al establecimiento de una estación
de mujeres. Aconsejados por activistas jordanos de la sociedad civil, un
número de nuestros delegados visitaron el Valle del Jordán, realizaron
un seminario y ayudaron en la formación de las mujeres jordanas. Los
delegados de AMARC también ayudaron a conseguir los fondos necesarios
para comenzar una pequeña estación de radio. El rechazo de su solicitud
de licencia de radiodifusión es un gran golpe contra la libertad de
expresión y el pluralismo de medios de comunicación en Jordania y para
los derechos a la comunicación de las mujeres y a las comunidades
necesitadas en el área rural del valle del Jordán.

AMARC llama al gobierno de Jordania para que cambie su decisión y para
que considere la revisión de la Ley del audiovisual para que se
favorezv}ca en lugar de desanimar el establecimiento de medios de
comunicación de tipo comunitario. Llamamos la atención, en particular,
sobre el importante trabajo de los activistas de medios jordanos que
recientemente enviaron un proyecto alternativo de ley del audiovisual al
gobierno jordano, a parlamentarios y a representantes de la sociedad civil.

A través del servicio a sus miembros, el trabajo en redes y el
desarrollo de proyectos, la Asociación Mundial de Radios Comunitarias,
AMARC reúne una red de más de 4,000 radios comunitarias, Federaciones y
aliados de radios comunitarias en más de 115 países.
El principal impacto global de AMARC desde su fundación en 1983, ha sido
de acompañar y apoyar el desarrollo de un sector mundial de
radiodifusión comunitaria que ha democratizado el sector de medios de
comunicación. AMARC aboga por el derecho a la comunicación a nivel
local, nacional e internacional y defiende y promueve los intereses del
movimiento de las radios comunitarias a través de la solidaridad, el
trabajo en redes y la cooperación.

Nota: AMARC, envió una carta al primer ministro Naser Dahabi, el 16 de
diciembre del 2007, en relación a la decisión del gobierno para que
emitir una licencia de radiodifusión en la región de Zarqa, pero aún no
ha recibido noticias del primer ministro.

Para mayor información contactar:
Marcelo Solervicens, secretario genera de AMARC, secretariat@si.amarc.org
Daoud Kuttab, Director de Ammannet y Vice-présidente de AMARC
dkuttab@ammannet.net.

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2b. Re: Fw: Alert : Women Radio in Jordan - Radio de Mujeres en Jordani
Posted by: "francois leca" capdebleu@yahoo.com capdebleu
Date: Fri Feb 6, 2009 10:54 pm ((PST))

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--- On Sat, 2/7/09, tamara aqrabawe <aqrabawe@yahoo.com.au> wrote:

From: tamara aqrabawe <aqrabawe@yahoo.com.au>
Subject: [creative-radio] Fw: Alert : Women Radio in Jordan - Radio de Mujeres en Jordania - Radio de femmes en Jordanie
To: "mena Amarc" <mena@lists.amarc.org>, "Thomas von der Osten-Sacken" <thomasvdo@yahoo.de>, "Creative Radio groups" <creative-radio@yahoogroups.com>, "Derrick Harvey" <derrick_harvey@hotmail.com>
Date: Saturday, February 7, 2009, 5:29 AM

La version en français suit...
La versión en español sigue ...

AMARC deeply disturbed by refusal to license community radio in Jordan
Valley

For further information:
Marcelo Solervicens, Secretary General of AMARC, secretariat@si.amarc.org
Daoud Kuttab, Director of Ammannet and Viceprsident of AMARC,
dkuttab@ammannet.net

AMARC est profondément préoccupée par le rejet de la licence de la radio
communautaire des femmes de la Vallée du Jordan

Montréal, 6 février le 2009, l'Association mondiale des radios
communautaires (AMARC) est préoccupé et déçue par la décision prise le
29 janvier 2009 par le gouvernement de la Jordanie de rejeter la demande
de licence d'une radio communautaire des femmes dans la vallée du
Jordan. Selon Daoud Kuttab, directeur d'AmmanNet et vice-président
d'AMARC, aucune explication n'a été donnée pour justifier le rejet.
Les
nouvelles ont soulignée que douze autres radios indépendantes et de
télévision qui avaient présenté une demande ont été également rejetées
dans la même session du Cabinet.

Nous sommes particulièrement attristés par la décision concernant cette
station de femmes, parce que celle-ci avait été mise sur pied pendant
notre neuvième conférence globale, qui a eu lieu à Amman en 2006, sous
les auspices du premier ministre de la Jordanie. Des délégués de plus de
93 pays différents participant à l'AMARC 9 ont été impressionnés par le
début de changements dans la politique envers les médias de la Jordanie
et ils se s'ont offert d'aider avec la formation afin de mettre sur pied
une station de femmes. Conseillés par des activistes jordaniens de la
société civile, un nombre de nos délégués ont visité la Vallée du
Jordan, ils y ont conduit un séminaire et ils ont aidé à la formation de
femmes jordaniennes. Les délégués de l'AMARC ont également contribué
à
la recherche de fonds afin de commencer une petite station de radio. Le
rejet de sa demande de licence est un grand coup contre la liberté
expression et le pluralisme des médias en Jordanie de même qu'aux droits
de la communication des femmes et les communautés dans le besoin dans le
secteur rural de la vallée du Jordan.

L'AMARC appelle le gouvernement de la Jordanie de changer sa décision et
de considérer une révision de la loi de l'audiovisuel afin d'encourager
au lieu de décourager l'établissement de radios communautaires. Nous
attirons l'attention spécialement sur l'important travail des
activistes
des médias jordaniens qui ont récemment proposé un projet alternatif de
loi de l'audiovisuel au gouvernement jordanien, aux parlementaires et
activistes de la société civile.

l'établissement d'un secteur mondial de la radio communautaire. L'AMARC
fait plaidoyer pour le droit à la communication au niveau international,
national, local et de quartier et défend et promeut les intérêts du
mouvement des radios communautaires à travers la solidarité, le
réseautage et la coopération

AMARC está profundamente preocupada por el rechazo de la licencia de una
radio comunitaria en el Valle del Jordán

Para mayor información contactar:
Marcelo Solervicens, secretario genera de AMARC, secretariat@si.amarc.org
Daoud Kuttab, Director de Ammannet y Vice-présidente de AMARC
dkuttab@ammannet.net.

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