Radio

Community Radio And Social Power

May 23, 2023 Victor M. Toledo, Resilience. Create! Community, Media Democracy, Mexico, Radio

If we are facing a crisis of civilization and therefore need a civilizational transformation, a total paradigm shift, then everything that decentralizes, localizes, makes society horizontal and empowers must be disseminated and celebrated. We are talking about amplifying social power in the face of economic (capital) and political (State) powers, since social power is the only way to overcome the tremendous social and environmental crisis that humanity is suffering today. Participatory communication is one of the phenomena that has grown exponentially not only in Mexico, but in much of the world. If the Internet has facilitated the spread of all kinds of social networks, then the appearance of community radio has meant the creation of an alternative means of communication against the monopoly of public and commercial radio.

Indigenizing The Airwaves

March 20, 2022 Kalvin Valdillez, Last Real Indians. Create! Indigenous culture, Indigenous Peoples, Media, Radio

For over 50 years, the Daybreak Star Cultural Center at Discovery Park has been a space for local Native Americans to connect and celebrate their culture. Whether gathering to attend their annual powwow or Indigenous People’s Day celebration, or perhaps visiting art exhibits or attending one of their many cultural events throughout the year, Natives of all ages, and from multiple tribes across the nation, have shared laughs, stories, tears, traditions, artwork and meals with one another at Daybreak Star. The cultural center has earned a special place in the hearts of many. The Daybreak Star Cultural Center is headquarters to the United Indians of All Tribes Foundation, a non-profit organization established in 1970, when a collective of over 100 urban Seattle Natives reclaimed Indigenous land near the Magnolia neighborhood, which would then become Discovery Park.

Supreme Court Of New York Stops Pacifica’s Attack On WBAI

October 8, 2019 Pacifica Radio in Exile, Popular Resistance. Resist! Democracy, Media, Pacifica Radio, Radio

Berkeley-In the morning, a crew of Pacifica Foundation board members led by brand new IED John Vernile, locked out the staff at WBAI-FM in New York and then fired them all, told the landlord to rent the space to someone else, and started piping in content from the West Coast over mid-Manhattan. In the night, the Supreme Court of New York told them to stop it and restored WBAI's facilities, equipment, studio space, employees and control over the airwaves. If this feels to you like a flashback, well there's a reason for that. Two decades ago, the Pacifica Foundation locked out employees at Berkeley's KPFA and started piping in content from Texas. At that time, the nonprofit's board was united in their desire to teach KPFA a lesson and extract the millions in license value. Not this time.

Rohingya Refugees Seek To Create Their Own Radio Station To Change The World

November 27, 2018 Staff, Al Jazeera English Create! Myanmar, Nationalism, Racism, Radio, Refugees, Technology

In September 2017, hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees fled Myanmar, where the military was waging a brutal offensive against them that the United Nations has described as "a textbook example of ethnic cleansing".

National Plutocrat Radio: Corporate 1%’s Dominate NPR’s Boards

July 3, 2015 Aldo Guerrero, www.fair.org Educate! Classism, Corporatism, Elitism, Patriarchy, Public, Radio

For a public radio service, NPR is notoriously known for its lack of diversity within its staff, audience and guests invited onto their shows—problems that NPR has itself acknowledged (6/30/14). A new FAIR study finds thatNPR’s diversity problem also extends into the board of trustees of its most popular member stations: Two out of three board members are male, and nearly three out of four are non-Latino whites. Fully three out of every four trustees of the top NPR affiliates belong to the corporate elite. While a majority of the board is populated by NPR station managers with backgrounds in public media, the rest of the board members have strong ties to the corporate sector. This includes NPR CEO Jarl Mohn, who has an extensive background in commercial media, having held executive positions within E! Entertainment, MTV and VH1.

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