Next door to Cultural Survival's Community Radio Project monthly training and production session, a week-long workshop on video production was also getting underway with the help of two documentary filmmakers, Hanna Adock and Karin Stowe, from the University of Winchester, England.
After an exhaustive international search, Cultural Survival’s board of directors has named Suzanne Benally as the new executive director of the organization—the first Indigenous director Cultural Survival has had. She is Navajo and Santa Clara Tewa from New Mexico.
Cultural Survival mourns the loss of Wampanoag tribal rights advocate Alice Lopez, who passed away at the young age of 49. Please read Alice's family's obituary below.
The Cultural Survival staff and volunteers from community radio stations continue to meet with leaders of the Guatemalan Congress about the Community Radio Law (Bill number 4087). Cultural Survival is working with 205 community radio stations in Guatemala to legalize community radio broadcasting. The hurdle continues to be getting the bill on the agenda for a vote by the full Congress.
As the movie Avatar is rereleased in theaters, the movie's website (www.avatarmovie.com) is featuring a link to Cultural Survival's website, along with several other Indigenous organizations with which Cultural Survival is partnering. To see the page, go here and click on "Explore Real Pandoras on Earth."
Land Acknowledgement
We acknowledge that we are headquartered on Massachusett land, in Cambridge, MA, and we thank the past, current, and future Indigenous stewards of this territory.