Between February and May of 2019, Cultural Survival awarded small grants to Indigenous communities to initiate, continue, or complete procedures to obtain concessions to use a radio frequency in the FM or AM band in Mexico.
Between February and May of 2019, Cultural Survival awarded small grants to Indigenous communities to initiate, continue, or complete procedures to obtain concessions to use a radio frequency in the FM or AM band in Mexico.
Cultural Survival se complace en anunciar su Segunda Convocatoria de propuestas para el Proyecto de Subvenciones de Acompañamiento para la Solicitud de una Concesión de Uso Social Indígena de Radiodifusión Sonora (Radio) dirigida a radios comunitarias, organizaciones indígenas o comunidades y pueblos Indígenas.
“Para hacer minga tiene que haber maíz y madre tierra, pero la madre tierra debe estar sana.”--Carmen Lozano (Kichwa)
On February 9, 2019, Óscar Cazorla, 62, was found murdered in his home in Juchitán de Zaragoza, Oaxaca, Mexico.
“Los Pueblos Indígenas tienen el derecho de establecer sus propios medios de comunicación en sus propios idiomas y de tener acceso a todas las formas de medios no Indígenas sin discriminación”. - Declaración de la ONU sobre los derechos de los pueblos Indígenas, artículo 16.
“Indigenous Peoples have the right to establish their own media in their own languages and to have access to all forms of non-Indigenous media without discrimination.” --UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Article 16.
4th International Indigenous Peoples Corn Conference will take place in Vicente Guerrero, Tlaxcala, Mexico on March 7 & 8, 2019. It will be organized and sponsored by: the International Indian Treaty Council, Proyecto de Desarollo Rural Integral Vicente Guerrero A.C., and Asamblea de Pueblos Indígenas por la Soberanía Alimentaria en México as part of the Indigenous Peoples Alliance for Traditional Knowledge, Food Sovereignty and Climate Change.
Co-sponsored by: Cultural Survival and Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance
Cultural Survival aims to strengthen Indigenous women radio journalists’ leadership and improve their participation in decision-making spaces. Three years ago, we initiated a project "for a more visible world in an invisible world", a process of capacity building and accompaniment in community radio journalism with an intercultural approach to gender adapted to the reality of Central America. In late 2018, we extended the project to Colombia and Mexico.
Zyania Roxana Santiago Aguilar (Zapotec), seventeen, is one of Cultural Survival’s Indigenous Community Media Youth Fellows from Radio Calenda, La Voz de Valle in Oaxaca, México (pictured above in center). Zyania was only three years old when she began at Radio Calenda, leading the creation of children’s program until she was 12. In 2007, she won second place in the "AMARC-60" anniversary contest.
Reconocimiento de tierra
Reconocemos que nuestra sede está en la tierra de Massachusetts, en Cambridge, MA, y agradecemos a los administradores Indígenas pasados, actuales y futuros de este territorio.