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Feminist
International Radio Endeavour -FIRE
World Social Forum
February
2002
Another
World is possible. Another Communication is possible!
The World Social Forum Multimedia Initiative
Janauary
18, 2002
Journalists from community media, networks and associations from Latin
America, Africa, North America and Europe will unite in the World Social
Forum Multimedia Initiative to be held during the World Forum in Porto
Alegre, Brazil : January 31 - February 5, 2002.
Each day, radio broadcasts will be transmitted by satellite to some
2,000 community radio stations throughout Latin America via the
Asociación Latinoamericana de Educación Radiofónica (ALER), to 35
community radio stations in South Africa via a partnership with the
National Community Radio Forum (NCRF), and world-wide via Radio
Netherlands. The team of
journalists will also web cast live in partnership with FIRE, Feminist
Internet Radio Endeavor based in Costa Rica. Written features and
reports will be distributed daily via the Latin American Information
Agency (ALAI) based in Quito, Ecuador and Cybersolidaires based in
Montreal, Canada.
Detailed programming information will be available on the World Social
Forum (WSF) Multimedia Initiative Web site at (www.infoposible.org).
Journalists from Latin America, Africa, North America and Europe will
cover this event in English, French, Spanish & Portuguese.
Audio programmes and feature texts and reports will cover the four
themes of the World Social Forum : Production of wealth and social
reproduction; Access to wealth and sustainability; Political power and
ethics in the new society; and Bolstering civil society and the public
realm.
This last theme is most closely linked to the democractic communication
movement and its work to defend human rights. The WSF will hold
workshops to address issues such as equality and diversity; media
democracy; the global civil society movement; cultural production and
cultural identity; migration (trafficking of women and children,
refugees, economic migration, slavery, rights, etc.).
The WSF proposes that another world is possible as it brings together
members of social movements world-wide. The WSF multimedia networking
space will work to demonstrate that another communication is possible.
With the goal of bringing information from a community-based perspective
to the world, different media groups will share their resources and
approaches to radio and print media on a daily basis. The WSF Multimedia
Initiative acts in solidarity with other independent media initiatives
covering the WSF.
The World Social Forum Multimedia initiative is a co-production between
community media, networks and associations : ALAI -The Latin American
Information Agency in Quito, Ecuador; ALER - The Asociación
Latinoamericana de Educación Radiofónica in Quito, Ecuador; AMARC -The
World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters and member stations
from its Radio voix sans frontières anti-discrimination radio network:
CNR-Peru, FM-Trinidad (Asuncion, Paraguay), KCSB-FM (Santa Barbara,
USA), ONDA (Berlin, Germany),
Radio One (The Gambia), Soshangawa Community Radio (Johannesburg, South
Africa), WORT-FM (Madison, USA); CUSO, an NGO based in Ottawa, Canada;
FIRE - Feminist Internet Radio Endeavor based in Costa Rica; the NCRF -
National Community Radio Forum in Johannesburg, South Africa, Radio
Netherlands based in Holland, UDECA - The Unión Dominicana de Emisoras
Católicas in the Dominican Repubblic; WACC - World Association of
Christian Communication based in the UK.
The WSF-Multimedia Initiative is financially supported by COPLA-CIDSE
members: Broederlijk Delen, Cordaid, Development and Peace, DKA,
Misereor, Trocaire. Special thanks to Development and Peace.
Together, we are working so that another communication is possible!
For more information, contact:
International : AMARC, Elvira Truglia tel. (1-514) 982-0351 fax. (1-514)
849-7129 elvira.truglia@amarc.org
For Latin America : ALER, Luis Davila tel (593-2) 524358 / 559012 fax:
(593-2) 503996 lucho@aler.org
ALAI,
Sally Burch tel: (593 2) 250-5074 / 222-1570 / 252-8716 fax: (593 2)
250-5073 sburch@alainet.org
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