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On February 13, 2017, Minga Peru's Executive Director Eliana Elias and Cultural Survival's Deputy Executive Director Mark Camp together lead a discussion at Cultural Survival’s headquarters in Cambridge, MA to celebrate World Radio Day. Despite it having snowed 12 inches that morning, the conference room held an intimate group of old and new faces.

Ti qacachajij ri ojer qab’anikil pa ruwi’ri tzuqun’ik kichin ri qajotay

3ra Conferencia Internacional del Maíz de los Pueblos Indígenas, 7 al 9 de marzo de 2017 

“Protegiendo nuestros orígenes ancestrales para garantizar la Soberanía Alimentaria de nuestras generaciones futuras.”

 

La Declaración de Tecpán

9 de marzo de 2017

 

Cultural Survival and Toronto-based WACC are pleased to announce the first round of grantees of our Community Media Grants Project partnership, an initiative strengthening international Indigenous community radio stations' broadcast infrastructure and systems. Ensuring that Indigenous communities have a viable and critical medium for dissemination of news, information, community events, historical documentation, education and entertainment, the project aims to enhance community efforts to establish and ensure sustainability of Indigenous community-controlled media.

​​​​​​​Que quede en la historia, todos los hombres y mujeres que promovieron la radio, la radio va servir para defender nuestros derechos y defender nuestro idioma, como lo es el Q’eqchi’ manifestó la profesora Guadalupe Quinich de la Junta Cargadora del Consejo de Comunidades Indígenas del Estor, durante la inauguración de la Radio Comunitaria Xyaab’ Tzuultaq’a, el 05 de marzo de 2017 fecha que coincidía con el inicio del Año Nuevo Maya, Joob Tz’ikin.
March 2, 2017 marks the one year anniversary of the murder of Berta Cáceres, Honduran Lenca activist leader who had successfully campaigned to stop a hydroelectric project in Lenca territory.
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