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Sunday, 5 July 2009

[creative-radio] MENA Human Rights Handbooks for Journalists in Africa

Human Rights Reporting Handbooks for Journalists

Journalists for Human Rights (jhr) programmes promote Rights Media, the
process of writing, collecting, editing, producing, and distributing media
that creates societal dialogue on human rights issues. In an effort to
mobilise local media to create awareness of human rights in their stories,
jhr developed this series of Human Rights Handbooks for Journalists in
Africa...
http://www.comminit.com/en/node/297008/376

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Saturday, 4 July 2009

[creative-radio] MENA Call For Submissions / New Adventures in Sound Art

. Call For Submissions / New Adventures in Sound Art / HOME - Deep
Wireless, Sound Travels & SOUNDplay Festivals / Toronto, ON /

Deadline Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2009

New Adventures in Sound Art invites artists of all ages and nationalities
to submit works on the theme HOME for consideration in 2010 future
programming for the annual Deep Wireless, Sound Travels, and SOUNDplay
festivals, produced by New Adventures in Sound Art in Toronto, Canada.

Artists may submit works in one or all of the following four categories:
1) Radio Art,
2) Electroacoustic Music & Sound Art,
3) Videomusic and
4) Installation Art (Note: please send separate submission forms for each
entry).

Individual interpretations or variations on the theme HOME are encouraged,
but should be realized with sound as the primary component.

All submitted works must respond in some way to the theme HOME in order to
be considered for 2010 NAISA programming.

1) Radio Art (for Deep Wireless)
The Radio Art category is for works conceived for radio or that use radio
and other wireless technology in their creation and that play with the
medium. Works submitted to this category must be less than 60 minutes in
duration. Special consideration will be given to 1 minute radio art pieces
for broadcast as well as 1 page proposals for collaboration on translocal
broadcast performances.

Pieces will be selected for broadcast within Canada and on several
international radio stations in May 2010 as part of the Deep Wireless
Festival of Radio and Transmission Art.

Both Canadian and International radio art submissions will be considered
for inclusion in the following:

-The Deep Wireless 7 radio art compilation CD
-The Radio Art Interventions (1 minute pieces played guerilla-style on
radio stations during the Deep Wireless festival)
-The Radio Art Salon - a listening gallery of radio art works exhibited
for the month of May.

2) Electroacoustic Music & Sound Art (for Sound Travels)
The Electroacoustic Music & Sound Art category is for multi-channel and
stereo works less than 20 minutes in duration and conceived for concert
performance or presentation in the Sound Travels festival of sound art.
Preferred formats for performance presentation include 5.1, octaphonic, 12
and 16-channel formats in both acousmatic (tape), live and mixed formats.
Please indicate in the notes the intended format of presentation and any
required instrumentation or specialized equipment.

3) Videomusic (for SOUNDplay)
The Videomusic category is for works that explores non-narrative
abstraction with equal emphasis on sound and image. Submitted works will
be considered for video screenings with either stereo or multi-channel
playback. Submitted works will be considered for screenings in either a
performance venue or a small-size gallery alongside other works selected
from this call for submissions.

4) Installation Art (for Deep Wireless, Sound Travels or SOUNDplay)
Installation proposals of previously realized works for site-specific and
gallery installations with no fixed duration will be considered for
presentation as part of Deep Wireless, Sound Travels or SOUNDplay.
Site-specific works can be for indoor or outdoor locations. Works can use
multichannel or single channel playback and may incorporate any number of
media, but must feature original sound as a primary element. Preference
will be given to small to medium scale interactive works that appeal to
all ages. Please attach a list of the necessary equipment required to
mount the installation and which of these items can be supplied by the
artist. Submissions should include audio, video or audio-video
documentation of previously realized versions of the work.

Submission Guidelines

Please submit a completed submission form (in digital format if possible)
along with the proposed works on CD or DVD.

For multichannel works, please include a stereo reduction for reference
purposes only. For video works, please include a DVD copy for reference
only. Screening and multi-channel masters will be requested later if the
work is to be programmed. For installation works or performance proposals,
please attach a list of required equipment with indications of equipment
that can be supplied by the artist.

Materials will not be returned. Please don't send original copies.

Submissions must be postmarked no later than September 30, 2009 and mailed
to: New Adventures in Sound Art
601 Christie Street #252
Toronto ON M6G 4C7

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Friday, 3 July 2009

[creative-radio] MENA AFRICA: Media & freedom of expression - PAMBAZUKA NEWS 440

Media & freedom of expression

PAMBAZUKA NEWS 440: LINKS & RESOURCES

The authoritative electronic weekly newsletter and platform for social
justice in Africa

Pambazuka News (English edition): ISSN 1753-6839

EGYPT: PROMINENT BLOGGER STAGES SIT-IN

http://tinyurl.com/ko2mvr

Wael Abbas, a leading Egyptian blogger and activist who has documented
police abuse in the country in recent years, staged a sit-in for 10
hours after security confiscated his computer upon arrival from
attending the Talberg Forum in Sweden.
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GAMBIA: AFRICAN LEADERS URGED TO INTERVENE IN VIOLATIONS

Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA) is once again calling on
President John Atta Mills and other African leaders currently meeting
in Sirte in Libya to condemn the systematic campaign being waged by
President Yahya Jammeh's administration to undermine media freedom and
freedom of expression in The Gambia.

http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/media/57487
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GAMBIA: NEW TWIST IN JOURNALISTS' "SEDITION" CASE

The trial of seven Gambian journalists accused of publishing with
"seditious intention" will now continue at a High Court in Banjul
instead of the Kanifing court where the trial began. On July 1, 2009,
the accused, four newspaper journalists and three executives of the
Gambian Press Union (GPU) were summoned to appear on July 3, instead
of the original adjourned date of July 7.

http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/media/57442
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NIGER: CSC'S PRESIDENT CLOSES DOUNIA RADIO AND TV STATION

Daouda Diallo, President of Conseil Supérieur de la Communication
(CSC), Niger's media regulatory body, on June 29, 2009 banned
Niamey-based independent Dounia TV and Radio station for broadcasting
a statement calling on Mamadou Tandja to resign as President of the
country.

http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/media/57419
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WEST AFRICA: ECOWAS COURT DISMISSES GAMBIAN GOVERNMENT OBJECTION

The ECOWAS Community Court hearing the case of torture brought by Musa
Saidykhan, a Gambian journalist against the operatives of the Gambia's
notorious National Intelligence Agency (NIA), on June 30, 2009
dismissed the preliminary objections raised by the Gambian government,
the defendant in the case. According to the Community court, Saidykhan
is a citizen of West Africa and that the court is mandated by the
ECOWAS protocol to hear human rights violation cases brought before
it.

http://www.pambazuka.org/en/category/media/57420
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ZIMBABWE: JOURNALISTS IN COURT TO MAKE MEDIA COMMISSION ORDER LEGALLY BINDING

http://www.swradioafrica.com/news030709/mic030709.htm

The freelance journalists who were barred from covering the COMESA
summit recently, have made an application in the High Court to make a
court decision legally binding. High Court Justice Bharat Patel ruled
in June that the Media and Information Commission (MIC), led by
Tafataona Mahoso, was now a defunct body and no journalist should be
required to register with it.
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[creative-radio] Behind the News - "Best Music on an Economics & Politics Radio Show"

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Date: Fri, July 3, 2009 16:16
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"Best Music on an Economics & Politics Radio Show"
Village Voice Best of NYC 2005

podcast:
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Facebook group:
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Just posted to my radio archive
<http://www.leftbusinessobserver.com/Radio.html>:

July 2, 2009 Leo Panitch, author of this cover story inForeign Policy,
on why the bourgeoisie is interested in Marx (and, of course, why they
should be) * Jackson Lears, author of Rebirth of a Nation: The Making
of Modern America, 1877-1920, on American regeneration (mainly through
violence) after the Civil War

it joins:
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June 25, 2009 Alyssa Katz, author of Our Lot, on the homeownership
fetish and the housing bubble/bust * Liza Featherstone (author of this
article, and, it should be disclosed, wife/beloved of the host) and
Adolph Reed on the burdens of college tuition and how the problem can
be solved by making it free

June 18, 2009 Dan Fleshler, author of Transforming America's Israel
Lobby, on the exaggerated power of the lobby and what can be done
about it * Hamid Dabashi of Columbia University on the Iranian
election and its aftermath

June 11, 2009 Alfredo Corchado, Mexico bureau chief of the Dallas
Morning News, on Mexican drug gangs on both sides of the border *
Justin Fox, author of The Myth of the Rational Market, on the loopy
notion of market efficiency and its toxic political effects

June 6, 2009 (KPFA version) Steffie Woolhandler on the (very high)
contribution of medical costs to personal bankruptcy (article here) *
Bethany Moreton, author of To Serve God and Wal-Mart, on Christian
free enterprise and the Behemoth of Bentonville

May 30, 2009 (KPFA only) Daniel Geary, author Radical Ambition, on the
life and thought of C. Wright Mills * Claudia Goldin on the labor
market penalty suffered by women who have a kid

May 23, 2009 (KPFA only) Vijay Prashad of Trinity College on the
Indian elections * David Skeel of the University of Pennsylvania Law
School on how bankruptcy (rather than trillion dollar checks) could be
used to deal with the financial crisis

April 30, 2009 Andrew Ross, author of Nice Work If You Can Get It, on
life and labor in precarious times * Michael Yates, author of Why
Unions Matter, just out in a second edition, on just that topic

April 23, 2009 William Robinson, UCSB sociology prof under attack by
the Zionist lobby, on his case (more, with links, here) * Richard
Seymour, keeper of the Lenin's Tomb blog and author of The Liberal
Defense of Murder, on the U.S. left, and imperialism under Obama *
Paul Mason, author of Meltdown, on The Crisis

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Community Radio Around the World

Sunday, 5 July 2009

[creative-radio] MENA Human Rights Handbooks for Journalists in Africa

[creative-radio] Human Rights Handbooks for Journalists in Africa

Saturday, 4 July 2009

[creative-radio] MENA Call For Submissions / New Adventures in Sound Art

[creative-radio] Call For Submissions / New Adventures in Sound Art

Friday, 3 July 2009

[creative-radio] MENA AFRICA: Media & freedom of expression - PAMBAZUKA NEWS 440

[creative-radio] AFRICA: Media & freedom of expression - PAMBAZUKA NEWS 440

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