Friday, 6 February 2009

[creative-radio] Digest Number 2560

There are 11 messages in this issue.

Topics in this digest:

1a. Hey does anyone know of ANY software for Mac that will convert a
From: Jacques Value
1b. Re: Hey does anyone know of ANY software for Mac that will convert a
From: CPrize Foundation
1c. Re: Hey does anyone know of ANY software for Mac that will convert a
From: Doug Murray

2. Tsunami-affected Tamil Nadu village to get community radio station
From: George Lessard

3. Community Radio Station at Nagapattinam, Tamilnadu
From: George Lessard

4. Swaziland: S€ ¦'²gayoyo€ ¦'²s One FM, four others disqualified
From: George Lessard

5. Windhoek, Namibia: Karas FM admits challenges
From: George Lessard

6. TUNISIA: INDEPENDENT RADIO STATION UNDER SIEGE
From: George Lessard

7. M€ ¦éxico, DF, Mexico: En Michoac€ ¦án violento cierre d e radios co
From: George Lessard

8. M€ ¦ÉXICO, D.F.: Condenan cierre de radios comunitarias e n Michoac€
From: George Lessard

9. Update on community radio stations in India
From: George Lessard


Messages
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1a. Hey does anyone know of ANY software for Mac that will convert a
Posted by: "Jacques Value" hauntednapkin@yahoo.com hauntednapkin
Date: Thu Feb 5, 2009 8:37 pm ((PST))

.dvf file?
Switch claims to until you read the fine print (Windows-only).
Express Scribe also makes this claim, but it also does not work.
You would think VLC might, but no..

Any takers?

Sincerely appreciated,

B


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1b. Re: Hey does anyone know of ANY software for Mac that will convert a
Posted by: "CPrize Foundation" manager@cprize.org top_manager
Date: Fri Feb 6, 2009 6:23 am ((PST))

there's always the old standby to find answers...
http://www.google.ca/search?hl=en&q=.dvf+mac&btnG=Google+Search&meta=


[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]


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1c. Re: Hey does anyone know of ANY software for Mac that will convert a
Posted by: "Doug Murray" doug@borderfilms.com dougmurray85
Date: Fri Feb 6, 2009 6:33 am ((PST))

I had this problem too. There are two solutions, neither of which is
particularly handy:

1. If you have an Intel Mac, make it dual boot. Install Windows XP.
Install the Windows version of Switch. And boot in XP when you need to
convert.

2. Take a line out from your recording device and simply recapture the
audio on your Mac and save in any format you care to.

Like I said, these aren't great solutions -- but they worked for me.

Cheers!

Doug
San Pedro la Laguna, Guatemala

Jacques Value wrote:
>
> .dvf file?
> Switch claims to until you read the fine print (Windows-only).
> Express Scribe also makes this claim, but it also does not work.
> You would think VLC might, but no..
>
> Any takers?
>
> Sincerely appreciated,
>
> B
>
>

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502 42 68 73 32 Guatemala (currently)

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2. Tsunami-affected Tamil Nadu village to get community radio station
Posted by: "George Lessard" media@web.net themediamentor
Date: Thu Feb 5, 2009 8:40 pm ((PST))

Tsunami-affected TN village to get community radio station
Hindu - Chennai,India

New Delhi (PTI): The government on Thursday permitted a Madurai-based NGO
to establish, maintain and operate a Community Radio Station in Tamil Nadu
for empowering women, farmers and fishermen with critical information and
communication for disaster preparedness and management.

The Kalanjiam Community Radio Station, which is expected to be operational
within three months as per an agreement, will be set up by Madurai-based
DHAN Foundation in Vizhunthamavadi village of Keelayiur block in
Nagapattinam district of Tamil Nadu, an Information and Broadcasting
Ministry release said.

Nagapattinam district is a tsunami affected area. The Community Radio
Station is expected to serve particularly the women, farmers, and the
fishermen communities with information and communication relay
transmission that is critical for disaster preparedness and management.

The community management committee has made linkages with local government
institutions like panchayats, health centers, schools and disaster
management-related government institutions to establish a disaster
management mechanism to face natural calamities.

The Ministry said it expects that its initiative will help local people to
be better informed about developmental measures of the government and
promote transparency in the implementation of its schemes.
<http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/001200902051922.htm>


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3. Community Radio Station at Nagapattinam, Tamilnadu
Posted by: "George Lessard" media@web.net themediamentor
Date: Thu Feb 5, 2009 8:43 pm ((PST))

Community Radio Station at Nagapattinam, Tamilnadu
Press Information Bureau (press release) - New Delhi,India

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Government of India has
permitted the DHAN Foundation Madurai to establish, maintain and operate a
Community Radio Station at Nagapattinam, Tamilnadu. The Community Radio
Station is expected to be operational within three months as per the
agreement.

DHAN Foundation, Madurai is a Non Governmental Organization. The Kalanjiam
Community Radio Station will be established at Village-Vizhunthamavadi,
Block-Keelaiyur, Distt-Nagapattinam, Tamilnadu.

It may be recalled that Nagapattinam is a tsunami affected area. The
Community Radio Station is expected to serve particularly, the women,
farmers, fishermen and empower them with information and communication
critical for disaster preparedness and management. The community
management committee has made linkages with the local government
institutions like panchayats, health centers, schools and disaster
management related Government institutions to establish a disaster
management mechanism to face natural calamities.

The Ministry of Information and Broadcasting expects that the Community
Radio initiative of the Ministry will provide an opportunity to the local
communities to be better informed about the developmental initiatives of
the Government and promote transparency in the implementation of the
schemes.

<http://pib.nic.in/release/release.asp?relid=47290>


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4. Swaziland: S€ ¦'²gayoyo€ ¦'²s One FM, four others disqualified
Posted by: "George Lessard" media@web.net themediamentor
Date: Thu Feb 5, 2009 8:47 pm ((PST))

S€ ¦'²gayoyo€ ¦'²s One FM, four others disqualified
Times of Swaziland - Swaziland

Former Cabinet minister and radio personality S€ ¦'²gayoyo Magongo€ ¦'²s radio
application has been disqualified together with four others.

This news has been communicated to them. Magongo had made an application
through a company called Faze II Media (Pty) Limited where he is a partner
and his station would have traded as One FM. The four others were
Matsanjeni, Lubombo and Ngwempisi Community Radio Broadcasting Stations
and D€ ¦'²Nigma (Pty) Limited.

Yesterday the Swaziland Post and Telecommunications issued a press release
on the fate of the five applicants.

Some of the applications are said to have failed to meet the 12 guidelines
set.

"It is regrettable and unfortunate as a result that it has become
necessary to advise all applicants in respect of radio broadcasting
stations, both community and commercial, that their applications have been
disqualified. In light of the foregoing they are, however, encouraged to
re-apply following the rules," reads part of the statement.

When Magongo was reached for comment, he was still upbeat about his
chances of realising the dream of bouncing back to the profession where he
made a name for himself.

"I read the correspondence and we will go back to the drawing board to
ensure that we stick to the requirements that they have informed us of. I
have not lost any hope at all," he said.

One FM is billed to be a 24 hour channel.

<http://www.times.co.sz/index.php?news=5210>


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5. Windhoek, Namibia: Karas FM admits challenges
Posted by: "George Lessard" media@web.net themediamentor
Date: Thu Feb 5, 2009 8:51 pm ((PST))

Karas FM admits challenges
Informante - Windhoek,Namibia

Written by By Elvis Mboya
Wednesday, 04 February 2009

NEWLY introduced radio station, Karas FM, is facing challenges with regard
to organisational development, generation of advertising revenue, funding
and sustainability, management has confirmed.

Karas FM Spokesperson Ferdinand Jacobs said since the station went on air
on October 10 last year, it faced many challenges including providing
persistent and sustainable work and training for volunteers to bring their
skills to a mainstream media level.

Karas 102.3FM aims at recognising, promoting, and celebrating the richness
and values of the people of the South by building bridges between
different sections in the community for the purpose of social harmony,
cultural diversity and economic emancipation, Jacobs said.

Mindful of this reality, Karas FM endorses an earlier decision taken at a
Strategic Planning & Development Workshop in 2003, to broadcast in the
four most widely spoken languages in the region - these being Nama,
Oshiwambo, English and Afrikaans, with 40% of airtime allocated to Nama.

€ ¦'³We realised and stepped up to the plate to not only develop the skill
levels of our volunteers, but also to up the motivation levels of our
precious human capital, who selflessly are committed to produce quality
educative, informative and entertaining radio programmes,€ ¦'´ he said.
€ ¦'³It is worthy to note that these volunteers offer their services to the
community at no price, be it salary or other perks usually associated with
public and commercial radio stations.€ ¦'´

Jacobs also admitted that the level of social consciousness among
volunteers at the station differed from person to person, which required
constant constructive engagement.

€ ¦'³Our approach to sustainability hinges on two distinct principles. These
are financial sustainability & community participation and ownership,€ ¦'´ he
said.
€ ¦'³Judging from participation in our programmes by means of interviews, live
studio request, SMSes and vox pops, community participation levels are
satisfactory, but there is room for improvement.€ ¦'´

He added that as part of their community mobilisation strategy, Karas FM
would soon engage in visits to schools, churches, community forums and
open days to give students from different schools the chance to visit the
studios and familiarise themselves with the operations of a community
radio station.
Informante3@tgi.na

<http://www.informante.web.na/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3438&Itemid=104>


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6. TUNISIA: INDEPENDENT RADIO STATION UNDER SIEGE
Posted by: "George Lessard" media@web.net themediamentor
Date: Thu Feb 5, 2009 8:55 pm ((PST))

INDEPENDENT RADIO STATION UNDER SIEGE
IFEX - Toronto,Ontario,Canada

Tunisian plainclothes police surrounded and raided the offices of a
just-launched satellite radio station and detained one of its journalists
last week, the latest affront on independent journalism in the country,
say the IFEX Tunisia Monitoring Group (TMG) and IFEX members.

On 27 January, the coordinator of Radio Kalima, Dhafer Otay, was abducted
by plainclothes police officers outside the station's premises in Tunis.
Six hours later, he was released without charge, but threatened with
arrest if he continued working on the radio project.

The standoff at the offices, which also house two human rights groups,
IFEX member the Observatory of Press, Publishing, and Creative Freedom
(OLPEC) and the National Council for Liberties in Tunisia (CNLT),
intensified the following day with heavier police presence.

Dozens of officers obstructed those who tried to enter the building,
including high-profile lawyer Mohamed Abbou and journalist Slim Boukhdhir.
One activist, Makhlouf Zouhayr, who had come to express his solidarity
with the Kalima staff, was severely beaten by police, while Omar Mestiri,
managing editor of Kalima (the online publication), was attacked when he
tried to stop them.

Some of Kalima's reporters and contributors stayed in the building
overnight, fearing that if they left, they would be unable to continue
broadcasting.

Then on 30 January, police, accompanied by Tunisia's deputy prosecutor,
raided Kalima's studios, seized equipment, forced staff out and sealed the
building. Police have also allegedly surrounded the homes of two female
Kalima reporters, threatening and insulting them. One Radio Kalima
journalist, Hatam Boukesra, was arrested and detained for eight hours,
reports the Observatory for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders, a
joint programme of the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)
and the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT).

Mestiri, who tried to travel to Europe on 1 February, had his passport and
boarding pass confiscated, only to be returned to him when his plane had
departed.

At present, Kalima's offices remain sealed and surrounded by police.

Radio Kalima was started by the same team that runs the locally blocked
online news site Kalima. The station began satellite broadcasts early last
week, in addition to their previously web-only radio programming. Sihem
Bensedrine, a staunch free expression advocate and editor of Kalima, told
the International Press Institute (IPI) she's convinced that the launch
prompted the police assault.

"This is obviously a way to silence this radio ... They (the authorities)
can control all things on the land. They cannot control the sky, and for
this reason they are reacting like this. We will continue broadcasting on
satellite even after what happened today, and Radio Kalima will never be
silenced," Bensedrine said.

Abbou, who spent more than two years in jail for denouncing the increasing
use of torture since President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali seized power in
1987, told the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) the kidnapping of
Otay and the raid had no legal basis. "This is a new reminder that there
is zero tolerance for independent journalism in this country," he said.

The European branch of the World Association of Community Radio
Broadcasters (AMARC) is asking the EU to cease trading with Tunisia. "We
firmly condemn the dictatorship methods put in place by the Tunisian
government, and we ask the EU to block immediately all commercial
relations with Tunisia unless basic human rights are guaranteed," said
Mariano Sanchez, president of AMARC-Europe.

TMG is calling international attention to the Kalima siege and demanding
that the authorities stop the harassment of the Kalima staff. "These
events come as the latest affront in a long history of violations of the
right to a free press in Tunisia," said TMG chair Rohan Jayasekera.
"Journalists and human rights activists are frequently victims of
harassment, arbitrary violence and censorship."

Visit these links:
- TMG: http://campaigns.ifex.org/tmg/
- TMG statement: http://tinyurl.com/cj96tp
- IFEX Tunisia page: http://tinyurl.com/bmty5x
- Observatory: http://tinyurl.com/djk367

<http://www.ifex.org/en/content/view/full/100574/>


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7. M€ ¦éxico, DF, Mexico: En Michoac€ ¦án violento cierre d e radios co
Posted by: "George Lessard" media@web.net themediamentor
Date: Thu Feb 5, 2009 9:00 pm ((PST))

En Michoac€ ¦án violento cierre de radios comunitarias: Amarc
Cimac - M€ ¦éxico, DF, Mexico


Pueblos ind€ ¦ígenas tienen derecho a operar sus medios
En Michoac€ ¦án violento cierre de radios comunitarias: Amarc


De la redacci€ ¦ón

M€ ¦éxico, DF, 4 febrero 09 (CIMAC).- Ante el cierre violento de dos emisoras
comunitarias pur€ ¦épechas en Michoac€ ¦án, ocurridos durante enero, la
Asociaci€ ¦ón Mundial de Radios Comunitarias M€ ¦éxico (Amarc) conden€ ¦ó el uso
excesivo de violencia por parte de las autoridades en contra de
comunidades ind€ ¦ígenas que quieren ejercer su derecho a comunicar, pero que
el Estado mexicano se niega a reconocerles.

Uno de los cierres ocurri€ ¦ó el 29 de enero, cuando un centenar de elementos
de la Agencia Federal de Investigaciones (AFI) y de la Secretar€ ¦ía de
Comunicaciones y Transportes (SCT) se presentaron a la comunidad de
ind€ ¦ígena pur€ ¦épecha de Ocumicho, municipio de Charapan Michoac€ ¦án, para
cerrar la emisora comunitaria U€ ¦ékakua.

El otro fue el pasado 24 de enero, cuando personal de la AFI y SCT
confiscaron el equipo de transmisi€ ¦ón de la emisora comunitaria Ei€ ¦ámpiti,
en la comunidad pur€ ¦épecha de Nuevo San Juan Parangaricutiro.

La pol€ ¦ítica represiva de cierres de emisoras comunitarias, que a€ ¦ún no
cuentan con su permiso de operaci€ ¦ón no es la soluci€ ¦ón, dice Amarc en un
comunicado.

Hasta el momento, dice el texto, no se ha implementado una normativa que
haga efectivo el Art€ ¦ículo 2€ ¦º constitucional que otorga derecho a las
comunidades ind€ ¦ígenas para operar sus propios medios de comunicaci€ ¦ón, a€ ¦ún
cuando dichas comunidades han hecho sus peticiones de permiso para estar
dentro de la legalidad, la respuesta de las autoridades son largos
procesos burocr€ ¦áticos o el silencio.

La verdadera soluci€ ¦ón consiste en hacer una reforma legislativa y una
pol€ ¦ítica p€ ¦ública del Ejecutivo, que garantice la igualdad de oportunidades
y la participaci€ ¦ón ciudadana en los medios de comunicaci€ ¦ón de acuerdo a
los est€ ¦ándares internacionales emitidos al respecto por la Organizaci€ ¦ón de
las Naciones Unidas y la Comisi€ ¦ón Interamericana de Derechos Humanos.

Cabe remarcar, agrega, que el reconocimiento y fortalecimiento de la
radiodifusi€ ¦ón comunitaria se encuentra en el reciente Plan Nacional de
Derechos Humanos del gobierno federal.

U€ ¦ÉKAKUA

En el caso del cierre de la emisora U€ ¦ékakua, ocurrido el pasado 29 de
enero, a las 13:30 horas aproximadamente, 100 personas, entre personal de
la AFI y SCT, se presentaron a la comunidad de ind€ ¦ígena pur€ ¦épecha de
Ocumicho, municipio de Charapan Michoac€ ¦án, para cerrar la emisora
comunitaria.

Amagaron a dos mujeres j€ ¦óvenes para que se dejara de hacer la transmisi€ ¦ón
y se enterara la comunidad, de acuerdo con testimonios de integrantes de
la radio. A una de ellas se le tap€ ¦ó la boca para que no pudiera avisar a
los radioescuchas sobre el cierre, adem€ ¦ás las autoridades se negaron a
presentar los escritos para el cierre de la radio.

La emisora, que transmit€ ¦ía con una potencia de 5 watts en la frecuencia
del 104.5 de FM, transmit€ ¦ía en pur€ ¦épecha para una comunidad que tiene uno
de los € ¦índices m€ ¦ás altos de pobreza en el estado. Desde el 2003 hizo
gestiones para obtener permiso de operaci€ ¦ón cuando fung€ ¦ía como gobernador
L€ ¦ázaro C€ ¦árdenas Battel, quien turn€ ¦ó la petici€ ¦ón a la delegaci€ ¦ón estatal
de la SCT sin que obtuvieran una respuesta concreta.

EIAMPITI

En el caso de la radio Ei€ ¦ámpiti, el pasado 24 de enero, aproximadamente a
las 16:00 horas, personal de la AFI y de la SCT se presentaron en la Casa
de la Cultura del Ayuntamiento donde estaba en la emisora comunitaria, en
la comunidad ind€ ¦ígena pur€ ¦épecha de Nuevo San Juan Parangaricutiro,
Michoac€ ¦án, confiscando el equipo de transmisi€ ¦ón, cuando en ese momento la
radio no estaba transmitiendo.

Esta emisora inici€ ¦ó sus gestiones en el 2002 ante la Comisi€ ¦ón de
Desarrollo de los Pueblos Ind€ ¦ígenas (CDI) para que les apoyaran para la
obtenci€ ¦ón de su permiso de operaci€ ¦ón, sin embargo, la respuesta de esta
dependencia fue proponerles que ellos tuvieran en comodato la radio y la
CDI ser la titular del permiso, propuesta que no que aceptada por la
comunidad, pues no quer€ ¦ían la tutela de una instancia del gobierno, sino
ejercer plenamente su derecho como lo marca la constituci€ ¦ón.

FUERZA DESMEDIDA

En el caso de Ocumicho, dice Amarc, se despleg€ ¦ó una fuerza desmedida de
instancias del Estado en contra de una emisora de 5 watts de potencia, lo
cual establece una tendencia del actual gobierno a criminalizar el
ejercicio de la libertad de expresi€ ¦ón de aquellas comunidades m€ ¦ás
empobrecidas y excluidas del pa€ ¦ís.

Esa fuerza polic€ ¦íaca, dice la organizaci€ ¦ón, debiera estar encaminada a
combatir el crimen organizado y no a amedrentar a las comunidades
ind€ ¦ígenas que a pesar de todos sus esfuerzos y demandas para que se
cumplan sus derechos, el Estado mexicano, especialmente el Ejecutivo y el
Legislativo, se niegan a atender.

El Estado mexicano, en lugar de cumplir la gran cantidad de
recomendaciones de organismos internacionales de derechos humanos para el
reconocimiento de los medios comunitarios, lo que ha hecho es privilegiar
a quienes ya cuentan con medios de comunicaci€ ¦ón, mientras a las
comunidades m€ ¦ás vulnerables del pa€ ¦ís no s€ ¦ólo les deja en el olvido, sino
que adem€ ¦ás se les persigue.

09/GG

<http://www.cimacnoticias.com/site/09020404-En-Michoacan-violen.36497.0.html>


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8. M€ ¦ÉXICO, D.F.: Condenan cierre de radios comunitarias e n Michoac€
Posted by: "George Lessard" media@web.net themediamentor
Date: Thu Feb 5, 2009 9:02 pm ((PST))

http://www.proceso.com.mx/noticias_articulo.php?articulo=66067


JENARO VILLAMIL

M€ ¦ÉXICO, D.F., 4 de febrero (apro).- La Asociaci€ ¦ón Mundial de Radios
Comunitarias (AMARC) conden€ ¦ó este mi€ ¦ércoles el "uso excesivo de violencia"
de la AFI y la SCT, que el pasado 24 de enero enviaron a 100 elementos
para cancelar las transmisiones de las radios comunitarias de la regi€ ¦ón
pur€ ¦épecha de Ocumicho, municipio de Charapan, en Michoac€ ¦án.

En tanto, el Sistema Xiranhua Comunicaciones advirti€ ¦ó que el cierre
reciente de esta estaci€ ¦ón radiof€ ¦ónica, as€ ¦í como de las radiodifusoras
E€ ¦íampeti € ¦'¶en el 89.1 FM€ ¦'¶ y la de San Juan Nuevo Paranguaricutiro, tambi€ ¦én
en el municipio de Charapan, no frenar€ ¦án los planes para crear 12
estaciones m€ ¦ás en el territorio pur€ ¦épecha.

En un comunicado, el Sistema Xiranhua responsabiliz€ ¦ó a la Secretar€ ¦ía de
Comunicaciones y Transportes (SCT) y a la Procuradur€ ¦ía General de la
Rep€ ¦ública de actuar bajo presi€ ¦ón de "los monopolios informativos", a los
que acusa de pretender silenciar, una vez m€ ¦ás, a las comunidades
ind€ ¦ígenas.

Por su parte, Carlos Aparicio, representante en M€ ¦éxico de la AMARC, se€ ¦ñal€ ¦ó
que en el caso de Ocumichu se despleg€ ¦ó una "fuerza desmedida" en contra de
una peque€ ¦ña emisora de apenas 5 watts de potencia, lo que denota "una
tendencia del actual gobierno a criminalizar el ejercicio de la libertad
de expresi€ ¦ón de aquellas comunidades m€ ¦ás empobrecidas y excluidas del
pa€ ¦ís".

El 24 de enero, a las 16 horas, 100 elementos de la Agencia Federal de
Investigaci€ ¦ón (AFI) y de la SCT se presentaron en la casa de la cultura
del ayuntamiento, desde donde transmit€ ¦ía la emisora, para confiscar el
equipo de transmisi€ ¦ón, pese a que no se estaba difundiendo ninguna
programaci€ ¦ón.

La emisora transmit€ ¦ía desde 2003 e hizo gestiones a trav€ ¦és del gobierno
perredista de L€ ¦ázaro C€ ¦árdenas Batel y de la Comisi€ ¦ón de Desarrollo de
Pueblos Ind€ ¦ígenas (CDI) para obtener un permiso de la SCT, sin obtener
respuesta concreta.

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9. Update on community radio stations in India
Posted by: "George Lessard" media@web.net themediamentor
Date: Thu Feb 5, 2009 9:14 pm ((PST))

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Subject: [cr-india] Update on community radio stations in India - 2
From: "sajan venniyoor" <venniyoor@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, February 5, 2009 21:48
To: "CR India" <cr-india@sarai.net>
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There are now 41 operational CR stations in India, of which 38 are campus
radio stations (see list below)
Applications received (under new scheme) - 303
Applications rejected - 38
Applications being processed - 158
Letters of Intent issued (total) - 107

LIST OF OPERATIONAL CR STATIONS (31 JAN 2009)
**

1. Sri Venketswara Oriental College, Tirupathi, Andhra Pradesh
2. Sri Vishnu Engineering College for Women,Bhimavaram, Andhra Pradesh
3. Deccan Development Society, Hydrabad, Andhra Pradesh - NGO
4. Indian Institute of Business Management, Patna, Bihar
5. Vivek High School, Chandigarh
6. AJK Mass Communication Jamia Millia Islamia, Delhi
7. Indian Institute of Mass Communication, New
Delhi
8. Jagan Institute of Management Studies, Rohini, New Delhi
9. Jagannath International Management School, Vasant Kunj, New Delhi
10. University of Delhi, Delhi
11. Sardar Patel University,Vallab Vidyanagar, Gujarat
12. Mudra Instt. of Communication, Ahmedabad, Gujarat
13. University of Agricultural Sciences, Dharwad, Karnataka
14. Sri Bhagwan Mahaveer Jain College, Bangalore, Karnataka
15. DC School of Management & Technology, Kottayam, Kerala
16. The Society for Development Alternatives, New Delhi at Orchha, Madhya
Pradesh - NGO
17. Vidya Pratisthan's Institute of Information Technology, Baramati,
Pune, Maharashtra
18. Pune University, Pune, Maharashtra
19. Film & TV Institute of India, Pune, Maharashtra
20. Sri Manakula Vinayagar Engineering College,
Pondicherry
21. Guru Nanak Girls College, Ludhiana, Punjab
22. Banasthali Vidyapeeth, Banasthali.Rajasthan
23. India International Institute of Management, Jaipur, Rajasthan
24. Eminent T.T. Girls College, Diggi, Malpura, Distt.- Tonk,
Rajasthan
25. Anna University, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
26. Kongu Engineering College, Erode , Tamil Nadu
27. MOP Vaishnav College for Women, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
28. Erode Sengunthar Engg. College, Erode, Tamil Nadu
29. Holy Cross College, Tiruchirappalli, Tamil Nadu
30. Loyola College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu
31. Peace Industrial School, Dindigul, Tamil Nadu
32. PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, Tamil Nadu
33. Aditanar College of Arts & Science, Virapandianpatnam, Tiruchendur,
Tamilnadu
34. Sunbeam English School, Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
35. City Montessori School, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
36. CMS Degree College, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh
37. P.G.College, Ghazipur, Uttar Pradesh
38. Jadavpur University, Kolkata, West Bengal
39. Shree Ramana Maharishi Academy for the Blind, Bangalore
40. Mannvikas Samajik Sanstha, Satara - NGO
41. Institute of Management Studies, Noida
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Thursday, 5 February 2009

[creative-radio] Digest Number 2559

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1. Hacking Together a Community Radio Station in Jordan
From: George Lessard


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1. Hacking Together a Community Radio Station in Jordan
Posted by: "George Lessard" media@web.net themediamentor
Date: Wed Feb 4, 2009 11:31 pm ((PST))

Hacking Together a Community Radio Station in Jordan, Against ...
By Xeni Jardin
The idea of the station was born during the Ninth conference of AMARC, the
global community radio association held in Amman in November 2006. The
station I established AmmanNet was the local host of the conference and on
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Wednesday, 4 February 2009

[creative-radio] Digest Number 2558

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Topics in this digest:

1. Radio23.org is seeking new broadcasters
From: Jeff Simmons

2. World Radio TV Handbook (WRTH) UPDATE FILE AVILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD
From: George Lessard

3. Six Nations pair want CKRZ back on air
From: George Lessard


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1. Radio23.org is seeking new broadcasters
Posted by: "Jeff Simmons" radiotwentythree@gmail.com jefforysimmons
Date: Tue Feb 3, 2009 6:07 pm ((PST))

Radio23 is a non-commercial, freeform radio station dedicated to providing an
international platform for innovative and creative home broadcasters. Our broadcasters
use shared servers to broadcast from many different locations around the world, forming
an international community station.

We are currently gathering broadcasters from all over the world for a April 23rd launch of
our first channel.

All interested parties should contact radiotwentythree@gmail.com

Thank You.

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2. World Radio TV Handbook (WRTH) UPDATE FILE AVILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD
Posted by: "George Lessard" media@web.net themediamentor
Date: Tue Feb 3, 2009 6:14 pm ((PST))


From: "Sean Gilbert, International Editor - WRTH" <sean.gilbert@o2.co.uk>
Subject: WRTH UPDATE FILE AVILABLE FOR DOWNLOAD

WRTH is pleased to announce an update file for the Winter (B08)
International radio schedules is now available to download from:
http://www.wrth.com . The file is a pdf file and will require the free
adobe acrobat reader, available from http://www.adobe.com . The file
is 8 pages long and is approx 51kB in size.

Included in this file are updates for: Albania, Algeria, Armenia,
Australia, Austria, Benin, Croatia, Ecuador, France, Gabon, Germany,
Guam, India, Iran, Italy, Korea (Rep), Kuwait, Latvia, Lithuania,
Malaysia, Philippines, Poland Portugal, Romania, Russia, Taiwan,
Turkey, Ukraine, UK, USA, Vatican, Venezuela, Vietnam, Zambia and more.

We hope you find this a useful accompaniment to the printed WRTH.

Regards

Sean Gilbert, International Editor - WRTH and the WRTH editorial team.
sean.gilbert@wrth.com


What is WRTH?

World Radio TV Handbook or WRTH is now in its 63rd year. It is the
most accurate and complete guide to the world of radio on LW, MW, SW
and FM, available in any form.

It is divided into the following sections

Features - This section is in full colour and contains reviews of
receivers and ancillary equipment, articles on topical issues such as
digital radio, interviews with broadcasters, reception conditions,
colour maps showing the location of SW transmitters, and other topics
of interest to Listeners and DXers.

National Radio - This section covers the world's domestic radio
services. The listings are by country and include all stations
broadcasting on LW, MW and SW, and most stations broadcasting on FM,
together with contact details.

International Radio - Full details of all broadcasters transmitting
internationally are given in this section and are listed by country.
The schedules shown are the 'B' or 'winter' SW frequencies as supplied
by the broadcasters and confirmed by monitoring, together with any LW
or MW frequencies used. It also contains a sub-section showing
Clandestine and Other Target Broadcasters arranged by target country.
The 'A' or 'summer' schedules, along with updates to broadcaster
details, are available as a pdf download from this website in May each
year.

Frequency Lists - This section contains MW frequency lists grouped by
frequency within regions, lists of all international and domestic SW
broadcasts in frequency order, and international SW broadcasts in
English, French, German, Portuguese and Spanish shown by UTC.

Television - The TV section has details of the main terrestrial
national broadcasters, large regional networks, and some local
stations, arranged alphabetically by country.

Reference - This section has tables and listings of: International and
Domestic Transmitter sites, Standard Time and Frequency Transmissions,
DX Club information, International Organisations, and other essential
information.

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3. Six Nations pair want CKRZ back on air
Posted by: "George Lessard" media@web.net themediamentor
Date: Wed Feb 4, 2009 7:12 am ((PST))

http://www.ckrz.com/
Southern Ontario's #1 All Native Radio Station
Contact CKRZ
Phone: Administration (519) 445-4140
Toll Free 1866 445 CKRZ (2579)
On Air/Contest Line 519 445-4443
Email: ckrzinfo@ckrz.com
Snail Mail: P.O. Box 189 Ohsweken Ontario
1721 Chiefswood Rd

---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: [aboriginaljournalists] CKRZ
From: "Bob Kennedy" <infocom@pro.net>
Date: Wed, February 4, 2009 09:57
To: aboriginaljournalists@yahoogroups.com
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Six Nations pair want CKRZ back on air

SUSAN GAMBLE, EXPOSITOR STAFF

With the Six Nations radio station off the air, controversy is
swirling around a bid to take over the community broadcaster.

CKRZ 100.3 FM was shut down Sunday evening by its board of directors
after the station's debt began rising past $100,000.

After news of the impending closure came out last week, a community
couple stepped forward with a rescue plan to get the station back on
the air.

Steve Williams, president of Grand River Enterprises, the reserve's
huge cigarette manufacturer and the largest employer on Six Nations,
and Lynda Powless, the publisher of the Turtle Island News, a weekly
native paper, made a proposal to take over the operation.

"We did make a proposal," Williams said Tuesday, "but the board
turned it down due to personal issues and (the band) council said
they wanted to debate it."

Williams said he and Powless were prepared to take over the full debt
of the station and keep the staff running the operation.

'BIG MISTAKE'

"I think the board made a big mistake. It's deeply in debt and it's
not incorporated, so now the membership has to pay that debt."

Williams said he feels the board's decision wasn't based on concerns
about his involvement with the cigarette company or Powless's
involvement with another media outlet.

"I don't think that was it at all. It's personal. CKRZ was always a
'Roberta-and-Dave' radio station," he said, referring to former chief
councillors Roberta Jamieson and David General.

"They weren't unbiased and you can tell which way the board went.
It's very unfortunate."

However, board members reached Tuesday said they hadn't received any
official proposal from Williams and Powless and hadn't made any
decisions on such a proposal.

"We haven't turned down any proposal and haven't even entertained
one," said new board chairman Andrew Joseph.

"This isn't even our decision. It's up to the membership and we've
called an emergency meeting for Feb. 11."

Because CKRZ is a community radio station, it's run by a board of
directors and a paid membership of about 75 people called the
Southern Onkwehon:we Nishinabec Indigenous Communications Society, or
SONICS.

Joseph said the board hopes to get some direction from the membership
about whether it should dissolve the station's assets. It also will
present any potential proposals at that meeting.

BOARD PROBLEMS

An unexpected monkey wrench has been thrown into the shutdown plans,
though.

When the board brought in local lawyer Aaron Detlor to advise it
about taking the station off-air, Detlor examined CKRZ's constitution
and found that, due to a delay in the annual general meeting, several
board members' terms were over.

The five-member board lost a longtime member in December and it put
off its annual meeting because of it.

Former chairman Ward Laforme, Jr. and member Amos Key resigned on
Friday at the news that their terms were up and Joseph automatically
became the new chair. Now Joseph and another man are the sole
remaining board members.

Joseph said the first order of business may be to recruit a few new
-- and possibly temporary -- board members.

Laforme, the former chair, also said the board hasn't turned down an
offer by Williams and Powless.

"I think it was turned down by the chief and council but I don't
think the chief and council can do that legally, either," Laforme said.

Laforme is a Grand River Enterprises employee and said that Williams
is his supervisor.

"If Steve (Williams) and Lynda (Powless) were to buy it, it doesn't
affect GRE in any way because he's not acting as GRE but as a private
individual," said Laforme.

Key agreed that the board hadn't received or turned down any
proposals and said that, before his resignation, the goal was to
bring several possibilities to the membership to vote on.

"The board isn't against anyone in particular getting it. We don't
have that authority because it has to go to the membership."

Kathy Montour, CKRZ's fomer executive director, was at the station as
a consultant on Tuesday, working on finalizing records of employment
and working out severance pay.

"We've been hoping since November the two councils -- Six Nations and
New Credit -- would become our corporate sponsors. And, when we asked
for help with a revitalization plan, they said they would but we've
never heard anything about it."

Montour said listening habits have changed for all radio stations,
while the bottom has fallen out of bingo revenues -- once a critical
part of the station's income. It has also become increasingly
difficult to sell advertising due to land protests.

"We couldn't sell in Caledonia and now Brantford hates us. You can't
have people protesting on sites all through Brantford and then go to
them and say, 'Want to buy an ad?'"

Key, who invested 22 years of volunteer hours in the station, was
there on Sunday as the CKRZ went off the air.

"I said the last few words, telling people it was like burying a 22
year-old child," he said. "I thanked all the former staff, board
members and supporters and said hopefully it will rise from the ashes."

- - -

CKRZ MEETING

What: An emergency meeting of the SONICS membership to discuss the
future of CKRZ and entertain possible proposals from buyers.

When: Feb. 11 at 7 p. m.

Where: The Sports Den at the Community Hall in Oshweken. Note:
According to the SONICS constitution, people can buy memberships up
to 24 hours before an annual general meeting, but the board has the
discretion to accept or deny those memberships when it comes to voting.


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Tuesday, 3 February 2009

[creative-radio] Digest Number 2557

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Topics in this digest:

1. MENA Fw: Apply for the IWMF Elizabeth Neuffer Fellowship
From: tamara aqrabawe


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Date: Mon Feb 2, 2009 9:17 pm ((PST))


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Sent: Tuesday, February 3, 2009 12:53:55 AM
Subject: Apply for the IWMF Elizabeth Neuffer Fellowship



FEBRUARY 2, 2009
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Monday, 2 February 2009

[creative-radio] Digest Number 2556

There are 3 messages in this issue.

Topics in this digest:

1. Fwd: Re: Who Invented Radio?
From: George Lessard

2. Africa Policy Outlook 2009
From: George Lessard

3. New Radio Programs at the NCRA Program Exchange
From: George Lessard


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1. Fwd: Re: Who Invented Radio?
Posted by: "George Lessard" media@web.net themediamentor
Date: Sun Feb 1, 2009 5:23 pm ((PST))

---------------------------- Original Message ----------------------------
Subject: Re: [cr-india] Who Invented Radio?
From: "Vickram Crishna" <v1clist@yahoo.co.uk>
Date: Sun, February 1, 2009 03:33
To: media@web.net
"CR India" <cr-india@sarai.net>
--------------------------------------------------------------------------

Interestingly (for those who believe that Wikipedia is a generally suspect
resource), the referenced article carries information on JC Bose'
experiments, establishing in particular that they predated Marconi's work.

As has been seen in the case of both Darwin and Liebniz (evolution and
calculus respectively), publishing has been taken as more important than
demonstrating, but Bose deliberately chose to publish rather than patent,
not applying for any patent until 1904, when he took a patent for a
receiver. Yet the popular impression is that Marconi invented wireless
telegraphy, and he was even given a Nobel in 1909 (sharing it with Herman
Braun) for an innovation that he could not even patent. More significant
contributors, such as Popov, have remained pretty well unsung in history.
This seems to be an example of scientific duplicity of the most
extraordinary kind. Marconi did not even send the first voice signal.

Stubblefield, incidentally, working just about the same time as Tesla, did
not believe that his experiments centered around electromagnetic waves at
all. He was more concerned about finding a universal source of energy, and
the signalling that took place from his apparatus was a side-effect of an
attempt to transmit energy wirelessly. Tesla is also misquoted in one of
the references as not seeing any practical use for wireless signalling,
and that it was wasteful of energy, but many articles have been published
that he too sought to invent lossless (and wireless) energy transmission,
and I suspect that his remark was aimed along these lines.

Oddly, the first reference, Douglas Smith's article from World Radio
(2006), does not even mention Bose.

Incidentally, I recall a (possibly apocryphal) story that Marconi found
out about radio in the course of a cross-channel steamer journey, possibly
in 1894, when he met Bose (who was on his way to present a paper to the
Royal Society about his successful Calcutta experiments). I have not been
able to find the story online. Other references Georges has quoted mention
that he discovered it from his reading of Tesla's published work.

At any rate, although Marconi was probably quite a gifted entrepreneur, he
seems not to have had too many scruples about claiming credit for anything
that would further his business interests.

As many who have the good fortune to meet with Italian wireless
enthusiasts will affirm, the country came into its own during the past 30
years or so, when it allowed licencefree low power radio broadcasting,
which led to tremendous development of inexpensive radio transmitters.
While there are many gifted radio developers around the world, Italy
probably stands out for its concentration of talent.

India's abject failure to build a reservoir of skill here is a black
stain, reflecting its true attitude to scientific research and
development.

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: Thursday, 29 January, 2009 1:23:33
Subject: [cr-india] Who Invented Radio?

Who Invented Radio?
Historical accounts of discovery and invention sometimes sidestep the
truth. The development of radio provides a case in point.
http://www.ccrane.com/library/who-invented-radio.aspx

Who Invented Radio?
With his newly created Tesla coils, the inventor soon discovered that he
could transmit and receive powerful radio signals when they were tuned to
resonate at the same frequency. When a coil is tuned to a signal of a
particular frequency, it literally magnifies the incoming electrical
energy through resonant action. By early 1895, Tesla was ready to transmit
a signal 50 miles to West Point, New York... But in that same year,
disaster struck. A building fire consumed Tesla's lab, destroying his
work.
http://www.pbs.org/tesla/ll/ll_whoradio.html

Who Invented Radio?
Radio was not invented by any single person, but instead was a culmination
of several scientists' research, each of whom pioneered a different area
of electromagnetic radiation and radio waves during the late 1800s and
early 1900s. Among these men are well known researchers such as Heinrich
Rudolf Hertz, James Clerk Maxwell, David E. Hughes, Thomas Edison, and
Nikola Tesla.
http://www.tech-faq.com/who-invented-radio.shtml

Who invented radio?
The answer lies in how you define "radio" or "wireless." It has something
to do with whether you prefer an elite or populist view of historical
causation.
http://www.davidsarnoff.org/rcatechradio.html

Just Who Invented Radio
And
Which Was The First Station?
If you ask most people who invented Radio, the name Marconi comes to mind.
Usually KDKA Pittsburgh is the response when you ask about the first Radio
station. But are these really Radio's firsts? In the interest of curiosity
and good journalism, we set out to determine if these were in fact Radio's
firsts.
http://www.qsl.net/n7jy/radiohst.html

Invention of radio
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
This article covers the main arguments about who had what part in the
early development of radio.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Invention_of_radio

History of radio
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_radio


List of oldest radio stations
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The title of Oldest Radio Station is disputed by several in Europe (UK and
Germany), and in the United States and Canada.
Several potential contenders for the title of "Oldest radio station" are
listed below, organized by sign-on date:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_world%27s_oldest_radio_station


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Africa Policy Outlook 2009
Gerald LeMelle and Michael Stulman
Foreign Policy In Focus
January 27, 2009
http://www.fpif.org/fpiftxt/5814

Editor's note: The Africa Policy Outlook is an annual
publication released jointly by Africa Action and
Foreign Policy In Focus that highlights the key themes
and trends in U.S. Africa policy. See the appendix below
for a general schedule of African elections planned for
2009.

Overview

The outpouring of emotion across Africa when President
Barack Obama was sworn in had as much to do with his
heritage as with the possibility that he might reverse
some of the Bush administration's disastrous policies.
President George W. Bush trumpeted Africa as a foreign
policy success, highlighting the President's Emergency
Plan for Aids Relief (PEPFAR) as proof. He didn't
mention the extremely unpopular ideological limitations
on PEPFAR that he championed. He also failed to mention
the impact of his administration's other key initiatives
that were also important to African people. He didn't
talk about the dramatic increase in military spending,
the controversial creation of the United States Africa
Command (AFRICOM), the extremely flawed war on terror,
his unpopular unilateral and bilateral approaches to
various countries, the collapse of Somalia, his support
for undemocratic leaders, and the undermining of the
United Nations, particularly its peacekeeping
operations.

The Obama administration must immediately address the
continent's three massive humanitarian crises in
Somalia, Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of the Congo
(DRC), and respond to the desperate need for more United
Nations peacekeepers in all three of these nations.
Under Obama's leadership, U.S. policy also must help
Africa recover from the crisis brought on by the recent
spikes and sharp declines in food prices, cope with
terms of trade that virtually ensure Africa can't
compete in the global economy, and reverse a resurgence
of undemocratic governance - particularly in countries
that have strong military relations with our nation. In
addition, Africa needs to address other pressing
concerns, including education, climate change,
agriculture, clean water, health and transportation
infrastructure, and the effective coordination of
foreign aid.

Expectations for President Obama have become sky-
scraping. The challenges before him are enormous. One
thing he can do at no cost to the U.S. taxpayer is
change the tone of our foreign policy and the way our
policies are developed. Collaborative models in policy
design and implementation would bring far more
thoughtful and successful long-term strategies than the
present competitive and self-interested models that time
and again have left our policies misinformed,
shortsighted, and ineffective.

Military Might and Flawed Force

While a U.S. military presence on the African continent
is nothing new, the U.S. military footprint in Africa
expanded in a very alarming way during the last eight
years. In less than a decade it expanded from small
units of U.S. forces stationed in strategic regions into
AFRICOM, which became operational in October 2008.

Needless to say, this overt militarization of U.S.
policy towards Africa is a source for grave concern for
African civil society, government officials, and
advocates. The U.S. military doesn't have a good record
on the African continent. In fact, its implicit and
explicit support of regimes such as apartheid South
Africa, Mobutu's Zaire, and Samuel Doe's Liberia were
long factors in the destabilization inside and outside
those countries. Today, U.S. military might is seen
behind Rwanda's continued contribution in destabilizing
the Congo. U.S. forces are seen as the rearguard to the
Ethiopian army that overthrew the existing government in
Somalia.

So what will 2009 bring? It's difficult to tell what the
Obama administration will do, but what's not difficult
to see is the need to rehabilitate and reorient U.S.
policy towards Africa from military-guarded corporate
exploitation to one that's centered on human security as
a foundation for peace and development.

Somalia

Somalia is just one tragic example of where U.S.
involvement has directly undermined the cause of peace
and stability. The overthrow of the Islamic Courts Union
and the subsequent Ethiopian occupation has been an
overwhelming disaster. While many Somalis disapproved of
some of the more fundamentalist ways of the original
courts, most felt that they were well organized,
disciplined, and effective civil administrators who had
certainly provided Somalia with its first semblance of
order and leadership since 1991.

Today, the Transitional Federal Government (TFG) is
divided and ineffectual in the face of a growing
Islamist insurgency. Basic services like food, water,
electricity, transportation, and education are largely
unavailable. Though the Ethiopian army has just pulled
out of Somalia, its two-year tenure in Mogadishu was
punctuated by numerous accusations of human rights
violations. For two years, the TFG and the Ethiopian
army were both extremely unpopular, and yet they stand
as visual proof of what the U.S. once called its model
for the "Global War on Terror" in Africa. The Somalis
completely ignored a peace agreement between the former
moderate elements of the Courts, now called the Alliance
for the Re-Liberation of Somalia and the TFG as they
seethed over what has been done to them.

The civilian death toll since the invasion is now close
to 10,000. More than one million people have fled their
homes, including half of Mogadishu's population, and are
now living in makeshift refugee camps. The UN now
estimates that more than 3.25 million people currently
need food aid. As desperation for food and security
increases, it's not surprising to see disaffected
Somalis resorting to piracy and other forms of violence.
While every effort should be made to stop the violence,
long-lasting peace and stability can only be reached
when the root causes of poverty are addressed and a
government responsive to the needs of Somalis first is
in place.

The U.S. military and intelligence presence throughout
this debacle seriously hurt the U.S. standing throughout
the continent. Strategic blunders in Somalia include:
the U.S. role in orchestrating the Ethiopia's invasion
of Somalia, the CIA's funding of warloards, the U.S.
role in imposing a handpicked government, and not least,
cruise missile attacks on Somali villages resulting in
civilian casualties. These actions have engendered
strong feelings of hostility towards the United States
among Somalis.

If poverty and failed states are the biggest challenge
on the global terrorism front, then the U.S. military is
assuming a role in which it can't succeed. The military
is neither a policymaker nor a humanitarian agency, and
it's certainly not known for its sensitivity and
understanding of local issues. This is a role better
played by a strong United Nations and, one day, a strong
African Union.

The United States should also reassess its heavy
reliance on the military in Africa. The U.S. military
isn't designed to manage long-term issues of poverty
reduction, lasting security, building infrastructure,
and good governance. Rather, the United States should
consider establishing a Department of Global
Development, headed by a cabinet-level secretary that
would take a comprehensive approach to these issues in
the name of lasting security.

Sudan

This will be a critical year for Sudan's future. The
crisis in Darfur has grown and now affects the entire
region's stability. Conflicts in Sudan and Chad have
become mutually reinforcing. The joint UN-African Union
force (UNAMID) peacekeeping force authorized in July
2007 remains too understaffed and under-equipped to be
effective. Civilian displacements and killings in Darfur
continued throughout 2008 as UNAMID was reduced to
bystanders because of acute shortages of troops, road
transport, and helicopters. To date, less than half of
the authorized 26,000 full UNAMID force has been
deployed. Pursuing a parallel track of counterterrorism
intelligence sharing with Khartoum has undermined the
capacity of the United States to use diplomatic and
economic leverage to pressure the Khartoum government
into ending the genocide and allowing the full
deployment of UNAMID. Supporting UNAMID must be a
priority in 2009.

The Comprehensive Peace Agreement (CPA) calls for free
and fair elections early this year. Presidential,
parliamentary, state, and local elections are scheduled
for February but chances are they will be delayed. A
controversial census was conducted in 2008 but hasn't
been released yet. Some are already challenging its
authenticity.

The elections will take place at a time when the sitting
President, Omar Al Bashir is in line to be indicted by
the International Criminal Court (ICC) for crimes
against humanity, war crimes, and possibly genocide.
While some analysts fear that an indictment will derail
the elections, Bashir's National Congress Party has
given several indications that they will try and derail
the elections anyway. The ICC indictment should serve as
a pressure point to promote peace and justice in the
entire Sudan and surrounding region. These prospects for
justice could be reversed if the UN Security Council
votes to suspend the charges. Article 16 of the Rome
Statute - the accord that established the ICC - allows
the UN Security Council to suspend the ICC prosecutions
for a period of 12 months. This suspension is reviewed
annually and can be renewed indefinitely. The United
States has rightly opposed invoking Article 16 but must
now take the next step by signing on to the Rome Statute
to participate in and help strengthen this global
tribunal.

Democratic Republic of the Congo

In the DRC, the high hopes for peace and stability that
attended the historic 2006 multiparty elections are
giving way to despair and desperation as deadly fighting
continues in the North Kivu region between government
forces and rebels loyal to General Laurent Nkunda.
Nkunda's recent threat to expand his rebellion beyond
the eastern region to overun Kinshasa threatens to
plunge the whole country into deadly civil war again.
Experts estimate that 1,000 people die every day in the
DRC due to conflict-related causes. Over the last decade
the death toll is estimated at 5.4 million, making this
the world's deadliest conflict since World War II.
Continued fighting has displaced millions and created an
impossible situation for humanitarian workers. Food
shortages have resulted in mass mulnutrition and
starvation.

Naturally, the DRC's vast mineral wealth continues to be
at the center of conflict. Corporations and local elites
continue to use instability as a cover to plunder the
country's natural resources.

As tensions escalate, both government forces and rebels
have been fingered in gross human rights violations.
Women in particular have been the worst affected, as all
sides to the conflict have deliberately committed
despicable sexual atrocities. According to Professor
Yakin Ertuk, the UN Special Rapporteur on Violence
against Women, "the situation is most acute in South
Kivu, where non-State armed groups, particularly foreign
militia, commit sexual atrocities that are of an
unimaginable brutality and aim at the complete physical
and psychological destruction of women with implications
for the entire society."

The UN Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
(known by its French acronym MONUC), despite being the
largest UN peacekeeping mission in the world, has failed
to contain rebels or protect civilians. Over the last
year the mission's credibility suffered severely due to
repeated accusations of sexual abuse, and illicit guns
for drugs and minerals trade with Hutu rebels who
committed genocide in Rwanda.

To protect the Congolese people, the United States needs
to work cooperatively with the UN and civil society to
provide stronger civilian protection and resolve to end
the conflict. Again, the dismal relationship between the
United States and the United Nations undermined the
capacity of the international community to robustly
respond to the crisis. With full U.S. support, a beefed-
up and more professional UN peacekeeping force in the
DRC would be much more effective. Experts suggest that
MONUC must be expanded from the present force of 20,000
to 50,000 to effectively contain rebels, protect
civilians, and carry out its peacekeeping mandate. While
the African Union played a very important role in
brokering the peace that led to the historic 2006
mulitiparty elections, it's clear the AU presently lacks
capacity to go it alone in the DRC. Increased U.S.
support to both the UN and AU efforts in the DRC is
absolutely vital to enduring peace.

Women didn't participate in previous peace negotiations,
and they continue to be ignored despite the fact they
are often specifically targeted. Henceforth, all peace,
justice, and accountability negotiations must include
the newly formed Coalition for Women's Human Rights in
Conflict Situations Working Group, in the Great Lakes
region. The working group is comprised of the African
Women's Development and Communication Network (FEMNET),
Urgent Action Fund, Women and Law in Development, and
the Eastern African Sub-Regional Support Initiative for
the Advancement of Women.

Furthermore, the United States needs to reassess its
relationship with the powerful Rwandan Army. Today
Rwanda is a proxy for U.S. interests. Even while U.S.
officials insist that Rwanda isn't intervening in the
DRC, the recent report by the UN Security Council Group
of Experts confirms vast Rwandan support for General
Nkunda's Congress for the Defense of the People (CNDP).
This report included extensive evidence of high-level
communication between the government of Rwanda and the
Tutsi rebel group. Further, it details that Rwanda has
facilitated the supply of military equipment, officers,
and recruits, some of them children, and held
fundraising meetings and opened bank accounts for
Nkunda. Clearly, U.S. support for Rwanda hasn't resulted
in greater security in the Great Lakes Region. Instead,
the reality has been further destabilization and
violence.

Zimbabwe

Since Zimbabwe's 2008 elections, the longstanding
political and economic crisis has exploded into a
serious human tragedy. The country's crucial social
services, such as health, water distribution, and
education, have virtually collapsed. An unemployment
rate estimated at 90% and an inflation rate of over 230
million percent have left millions of Zimbabweans
condemned to abject poverty and the Zimbabwean currency
virtually worthless. A nationwide cholera epidemic has
killed more than 2,000 people and continues to infect
thousands more.

Mugabe keeps his illegitimate grip on power primarily
through coercion and patronage. U.S. dollars are used to
buy loyalty from the security forces.

As Zimbabwe plunges deeper and deeper into crisis, the
reality of a capitalist class profiting from the misery
and exploitation of people in Zimbabwe can't be ignored.
Mugabe's closest supporters continue to profit from
deals secured with unscrupulous businessmen in Europe
and the United States. The United States must support
the UN Stolen Assets Recovery Initiative (StAR). This
would hold developed countries accountable for the role
they play in the corruption present in developing
countries. This bilateral intiative would target the
source of corruption, which often includes bribes and
other illegal income provided to governments from firms
and individuals in developed countries. StAR would also
force developing countries to invest recovered funds in
social and anti-poverty programs. The World Bank
estimates that for every $100 million recovered, more
than 600,000 people could receive treatment for
HIV/AIDS, or 100 million people with malaria drugs.

The political situation in Zimbabwe is characterized by
a costly political stalemate, as the Global Political
Agreement signed between Mugabe and the opposition in
October 2008 is yet to be consumated because of
continued squabbles between the two leading political
parties - the Zimbabwe African National Union -
Patriotic Front (Zanu PF) and the Movement for
Democratic Change (MDC) - over distribution of power.
U.S. support for building an international consensus on
Zimbabwe based on human rights and will be crucial for
breaking the political stalemate in 2009.

Financial Crises

The financial crisis has shaken the U.S. economy and had
a rippling effect around the world. Initially,
developing countries were first largely unaffected by
the crisis, given that many of their local banks are
less integrated into the global financial system.
However, in November the World Bank revised its economic
outlook for developing countries and acknowledged that
developing countries "are now much more vulnerable, with
dwindling capital flows, huge withdrawals of capital
leading to losses in equity markets, and skyrocketing
interest rates."

The U.S. government has a rare opportunity to build a
new global economic system and reform the failed
policies of international financial institutions (IFIs).
A responsible lending framework would redefine the role
of development finance as a more equitable and
transparent course of action. Imposing inflexible and
strict conditions on development-oriented loans has
undercut the Millennium Development Goals, causing
developing countries to divert critical resources for
HIV/AIDS programs, education, and other important needs
to pay almost $14 billion annually on debt service to
the World Bank and International Monetary Fund (IMF).

Debt cancellation needs to become a priority in
reexamining the global economic system. In 2008 the
"Jubilee Act for Responsible Lending and Expanded Debt
Cancellation" (HR 2634/ S 2166) passed in the House of
Representatives by a 285-132 vote and cleared the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee on June 24, 2008. It failed
to pass by a narrow margin in the full Senate and most
likely will be reintroduced in 2009. It would allow for
expanded debt cancellation in developing countries and
require an audit of past loans.

As of late 2007, 11 of 24 Heavily Indebted Poor
Countries (HIPCs) surveyed by the International Monetary
Fund were facing litigation from 46 different commercial
creditors, also known as "vulture funds." A vulture fund
is a fund or investment company that seeks to profit by
buying distressed debt and suing for exorbitantly high
returns. Debt cancellation advocates are focused on a
particular subgroup of vulture funds - those that target
distressed sovereign debt. These companies buy up the
debt of poor countries at a big discount from the
original owner (either a government or a commercial
creditor) with the purpose of suing the indebted country
in court once the poor country has some money (often
after debt cancellation) to recover the original debt
and make a profit.

Of these 46 creditors, 25 received court judgments
against HIPCs amounting to about $1 billion on original
claims of $427 million. Their activity has increased the
debt burden of the world's poorest citizens and
undermined the gains of debt cancellation.

On August 1, 2007, Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA)
introduced the Stop VULTURE Funds Act (HR 6796). This
bill would outlaw profiteering from sovereign debt by
capping the amount of profit that a fund can reap
through litigating against poor countries to collect
defaulted debts. It also requires disclosures from any
fund that pursues vulture fund activity through the U.S.
courts.

This bill is one of the most important that must be
passed by the 111th Congress.

If accruing debt weren't dire enough for some of the
world's poorest countries, limits on social spending and
agricultural subsidies under the guise of trade
liberalization are often required for development
assistance. Due to this fact, developing countries have
suffered from increased food and oil prices, which have
been a source of conflict and have driven more people
below the poverty line. It's estimated that nearly 840
million people around the world are chronically hungry.
These numbers will likely rise as developing countries
are forced to spend a disproportionately large amount of
their income on food items. Ironically, the response of
the developed countries to the crisis, including the
United States, has been to increase spending on
subsidies on our own agricultural produce.

The World Trade Organization's Doha Round mistakenly
attempted to fix global food challenges by liberalizing
agricultural markets. Poorer producers have been left
without government support and developing countries have
grown increasingly dependent on imported food. Even
given the enormity of the financial crisis, the U.S.
government continues to perpetuate failed solutions for
Africa. More must be done to protect the poor. Fair, not
free trade must be adapted immediately as a part of
creating a new global economic system.

Sustainable Solutions on HIV/AIDS

2008 was a landmark year for U.S. leadership in the
fight against HIV/AIDS in Africa. In July, the U.S.
Congress passed The Tom Lantos and Henry J. Hyde United
States Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis,
and Malaria Reauthorization Act of 2008 that provides up
to $48 billion in pledges over five years to stop
HIV/AIDS, malaria, and tuberculosis worldwide. The
latest figures indicate that the annual number of AIDS
deaths is beginning to level off globally, after decades
of increasing mortality. But according to a 2008 UNAIDS
report, Sub-Saharan Africa continues to be the worst
affected area, accounting for over two-thirds of all
people living with HIV. With numbers still exceedingly
high, more needs to be done in order to meet the
challenges of the pandemic.

A gender-sensitive approach to alleviating HIV/AIDS must
specifically target women and young people. Vulnerable
populations continue to be disproportionately affected
by the pandemic, with an additional 370,000 children
under 15 becoming infected with HIV in 2007. National
government strategies need to acknowledge the
distinctiveness of male and female experiences in
addition to gender specific health risks. This will
begin to address the root causes of health disparities
related to HIV/AIDS.

In 2009, the U.S. government must continue the progress
that has been made in funding for HIV/AIDS. There's
still much work to be done to ensure that scientific
evidence, not ideology, drives funding for programs. By
allowing greater flexibility for local participants
(including civil society) to develop a plan to employ
U.S. foreign assistance, countries are able to develop a
specific program that will reach more people, more
effectively. This also encourages for greater
transparency and accountability.

Long-term sustainable solutions that include prevention,
early detection and testing, and treatment must now be
integrated into a bold new vision for global health and
U.S. foreign assistance. Focusing more attention on
using U.S. assistance to help build a health
infrastructure will improve Africa's ability to deliver
services, particularly in poorer and rural communities.
Without laboratories, nurses, or doctors to deliver
life-saving anti-retroviral (ARV) medicines, the effects
of our efforts are greatly reduced. An investment in
health infrastructure for HIV/AIDS can also be practical
in treating other diseases, such as tuberculosis,
malaria, cholera and more.

To accomplish this scale-up, the United States must
reform the way it coordinates foreign assistance. A new
Department of Global Development should be formed that
would have a mandate for policy consistency on the full
range of U.S. policies affecting poor countries, such as
health care, education, agriculture, trade, debt and
climate change. Human rights and development must be
integrated into the defense and diplomacy discourse to
ensure that the failed approaches to Iraq and Somalia
are never repeated. This new agency could prevent short-
term (and short-sighted) political goals from
undermining long-term development objectives.

Cultivating Conflict: Climate Change

The need for strong global leadership to fight climate
change has never been greater. As United Nations
Environmental Program (UNEP) Executive Director Achim
Steiner said in 2007, Africa "is the continent with the
least responsibility for climate change and yet it is
perversely the continent with the most [to lose] if
greenhouse gases are not cut." Global warming threatens
farmers and fishermen, flora and fauna, coastlines and
deserts, wetlands and savannah, and the critical
industries of tourism and agriculture. Dealing with the
consequences of the rich industrialized nations'
irresponsible climate management must not fall to
Africans alone. The richest countries must start holding
themselves accountable to the mandates of the Kyoto
protocol and the United States in particular now has a
chance to leave harmful ideology behind and provide the
leadership the world desperately needs. Simultaneously,
global polluters must extend resources and strategies
for African countries to adapt to the consequences of
climate change themselves.

The most natural international architecture to support
African adaptation to climate change is the United
Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
With 197 state parties, the UNFCCC (which led to the
Kyoto protocol) is the most universally supported
multilateral environmental agreement. The UNFCCC
mandates that Northern countries provide resources to
the Global South to finance climate adaptation and
mitigation programs according to the principle of
"common but differentiated responsibilities" among
wealthy and developing nations. Financial obligations
under the UNFCCC are considered distinct from existing
commitments to provide official development assistance
(ODA).

Rather than pledging support through the UNFCCC or
developing an alternative funding mechanism, the U.S.
and other donors have turned to the World Bank to
finance climate adaptation and mitigation efforts in
Africa and the rest of the Global South. From both an
environmental and economic justice perspective, the Bank
is the wrong institution to take on the climate crisis
in Africa. The World Bank remains a big investor in
polluting industries. During 2007 and 2008 it has spent
more on fossil fuel projects than on renewable energy
and efficiency programs. The Bank continues to follow a
flawed approach in pursuing major infrastructure
projects such as the disastrous Chad-Cameroon oil
pipeline. It's among the world's least transparent and
democratic institutions, burdened by fundamental issues
of trust with the very constituencies it professes to
serve.

Despite these criticisms, in September 2008, donors
pledged over $6.1 billion to the Bank's Climate
Investment Funds (CIFs). These funds are being claimed
by donors to fulfill existing ODA commitments,
effectively pitting climate adaptation and mitigation
programs against other development needs. Even more
disturbing, CIFs are being issued in the form of new
loans, rather than grants, forcing African countries to
accumulate new debt to deal with a predicament for which
they bare no responsibility. This will result in
diverting resources from education, health and
transportation infrastructure, anti poverty programs and
other important needs.

Climate change is a catalyst for crisis in Africa - from
land use rivalries in Sudan to persistent famine in
Ethiopia. According to James R. Lee, director of
American University's "Inventory of Conflict and
Environment" project, there will be several likely
correlations between global warming and conflict. First,
conflict will arise from scarcity of arable land. As
people are forced to move from the hardest-hit areas and
compete with others for a new home, land and fresh water
with neighbors will develop. However, a potential offset
to this is the possibility that certain areas that were
once uninhabitable may soon be accessible, and precious
resources may be easier to extract.

To alleviate and take responsibility for the effects of
climate change in Africa, the United States should lead
by example and take bold action to reduce its own carbon
emissions and offer responsible financing to African
countries threatened by climate change. This means
adequate grants (not loans) must support adaptation and
mitigation mechanisms whose design is informed by local
input. This financing should be channeled through the
UNFCCC or a new funding instrument grounded in the
principle of common but differentiated responsibilities"
and a truly multilateral decision-making process. While
it's important that environmental impact assessments
inform development policy in general, specific climate
initiatives are vital to ensuring the health, welfare
and human security of the African people.

Elections Appendix

Democratic governance is the foundation for stability
and economic progress. Nearly 20 nations on the African
continent are planning elections this year. The
international community can play an important role
supporting democracy and human rights. The U.S.
Government must support international treaties and
existing peacekeeping missions that uphold the rule of
law, government accountability, and civilian protection.
The African Union (AU) can play a key role in elections
on the continent, but financial, political, and
logistical support remains a challenge.

Algeria General elections (presidential and
parliamentary), April and December respectively

Angola Presidential election, September

Botswana Parliamentary election, October

Chad Parliamentary election, date not yet determined

Comoros Parliamentary election, April

Congo (Brazzaville) Presidential election, March

Democratic Republic of the Congo Gubernatorial
elections, date not yet determined

Equatorial Guinea Presidential election, December

Gabon Parliamentary election, January

Malawi General elections (presidential and
parliamentary), May 19

Mauritania Presidential elections, May

Mozambique General elections (presidential and
parliamentary), December

Namibia General elections (presidential and
parliamentary), November

Niger General elections (presidential and
parliamentary), November

Somaliland (an autonomous region, part of Somalia)
Presidential election, April

South Africa General elections (presidential and
parliamentary), between April and June

Sudan General elections (presidential and
parliamentary), from January to April

Tunisia General elections (presidential and
parliamentary), October

Gerald LeMelle is executive director, and Michael
Stulman is associate director for policy analysis and
communications at Africa Action. They are Foreign Policy
In Focus contributors.

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New this week on the NCRA Program Exchange
www.ncra.ca/exchange

WINGS #41-08 GAY MARRIAGE IN CONNECTICUT
http://www.ncra.ca/exchange/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=80415
Producer/Uploaded
By: Frieda Werden
Series: WINGS
Length: 0:28:40 (h:mm:ss)
1 Feb, 2009
Language: English

RAISING AWARENESS: EATING DISORDERS ON THE RISE
http://www.ncra.ca/exchange/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=80392
Producer/Uploaded
By: Kevin Midbo
Series: People First Radio
Length: 0:23:05 (h:mm:ss)
31 Jan, 2009
Language: English

CUPE 3903 RALLY SUNDAY JAN 25
http://www.ncra.ca/exchange/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=80369
Producer/Uploaded
By: Kristin Schwartz
Series:
Length: 0:29:15 (h:mm:ss)
30 Jan, 2009
Language: English

RENTERS AT RISK VS ELECTIONS BC
http://www.ncra.ca/exchange/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=80366
Producer/Uploaded
By: Jennifer Moreau
Series:
Length: 0:01:00 (h:mm:ss)
30 Jan, 2009
Language: English

355 - DAILY NEWS BREAK - JAN 28, 2009
http://www.ncra.ca/exchange/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=80332
Producer/Uploaded
By: Irma Arkus
Series:
Length: 0:03:30 (h:mm:ss)
28 Jan, 2009
Language: English

HEADLINES FOR THE WEEK OF JAN. 25 2009
http://www.ncra.ca/exchange/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=80330
Producer/Uploaded
By: CKUT News Department
Series: Weekly Headlines produced by CKUTs Community News Collective
Length: 0:08:06 (h:mm:ss)
28 Jan, 2009
Language: English

355 - DAILY NEWS BREAK - JAN 27, 2009
http://www.ncra.ca/exchange/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=80323
Producer/Uploaded
By: Irma Arkus
Series:
Length: 0:03:34 (h:mm:ss)
27 Jan, 2009
Language: English

UNCLE DON #300 - JANUARY 27, 2009
http://www.ncra.ca/exchange/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=80271
Producer/Uploaded
By: Christopher Earl
Series: Uncle Don
Length: 0:28:14 (h:mm:ss)
27 Jan, 2009
Language: English

STAND FOR THE DTES: PROTEST THE STREET SWEEPS & TARGETTING OF THE POOR!
(REPORT)
http://www.ncra.ca/exchange/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=80154
Producer/Uploaded
By: CKUT News Department
Series: Travel against Canada
Length: 1:30:09 (h:mm:ss)
27 Jan, 2009
Language: English

355 - DAILY NEWS BREAK - JAN 26, 2009
http://www.ncra.ca/exchange/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=80077
Producer/Uploaded
By: Irma Arkus
Series:
Length: 0:05:30 (h:mm:ss)
26 Jan, 2009
Language: English

INTERVIEW WITH HELEN HUDSON FROM THE CERTAIN DAYS COLLECTIVE
http://www.ncra.ca/exchange/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=80059
Producer/Uploaded
By: CKDU News Collective
Series:
Length: 0:00:00 (h:mm:ss)
26 Jan, 2009
Language: English

WINGS #40-08 WOMEN AND THE GHANA ELECTIONS
http://www.ncra.ca/exchange/dspProgramDetail.cfm?programID=80055
Producer/Uploaded
By: Frieda Werden
Series: WINGS
Length: 0:28:40 (h:mm:ss)
26 Jan, 2009
Language: English

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