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Betreff: [Amarc-europe-members] AMARC Europe - Newsletter - Letter from the President December 2014
Dear friends and members:
Please, *find attached a letter from the President of AMARC Europe, Sally
Galiana.*
Have a nice week!
Miriam Meda
AMARC Europe
*World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters - Asociación Mundial de
Radios Comunitarias - Association Mondiale des Radiodiffuseurs
Communautaires*
*AMARC in Transition*
Dear Friends and colleagues of AMARC Europe, It has been a long time since
our last communication and this letter to you is a form of apology and an
explanation for that silence. Some of you might know that AMARC
International is experiencing a transformation. The former AMARC
International general secretary, Marcelo Solersvicens left in [...]
[image: picture]*AMARC strongly condemns the undercover police action
carried on against the Freie Sendekombinat*
28 November, 2014. The World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters
(AMARC) has been notified that between 2003 and 2006 an undercover police
agent of the state police of Hamburg infiltrated the structures of the
editorial staff of the German Free Radio Freie Sendekombinat (FSK). This
means a gross violation of the fundamental right of freedom [...]
[image: picture]*The new government of Saxonia (Germany) promises support
for the saxonian community radios*
By Michael Nicolai (Radio Corax) - After two months the new government of
Christ Democrats and Social Democrats came to their coalition agreement.
Through that the situation of the three community radios in Saxonia
could improve. Because in the agreement it is written that "community media
(non commercial radios) shall be getting more support. An amendment of the
[...]
[image: picture]*FM broadcasting will run at least until 2025 in
Saxonia-Anhalt (Germany)*
By Michael Nicolai (Radio Corax) - The Media Committee in the German
Federal State Parliament of Saxonia-Anhalt has decided to change the media
law in order to retain FM broadcasting at least until 2025. "Today's
decision ensures that the FM radio in the end of this year will not end up
as electronic scrap and that [...]
[image: picture]*Memory under construction: giving voice to forgotten
memory*
Agus Hernan (Antxeta Irratia - SNRL) - Between September 2013 and July
2015 11 radios from 8 different countries will be working in a Grundtvig
project entitled Memory under construction: giving voice to forgotten
memory. The countries and the peoples have had different attitudes when
confronting their problems they have in the recent past. For [...]
[image: picture]*25th November - International Day of Elimination of
Violence against Women*
Today is 25th November, the United Nations International Day of Elimination
of Violence against Women. And from today to 10th December, Humans Rights
Day, there are 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence Campaigns
to galvanize action to end violence against women and girls around the
world and to emphasize that such violence is a [...]
[image: picture]*Help African journalists fight the spread of Ebola*
The countries most threatened by the Ebola virus --Sierra Leone, Liberia and
Guinea-- are also those with the fewest resources to report on the crisis.
Three international organizations have launched an IndieGoGo crowdfunding
campaign to get vital equipment to local radio stations in the
worst-affected areas. The World Federation of Science Journalists (WFSJ) in
association with Hirondelle USA and [...]
[image: picture]*The World Radio Day 2015 is coming!*
13 February is World Radio Day -- a day to celebrate radio as a medium; to
improve international cooperation between broadcasters; and to encourage
major networks and community radio alike to promote access to information,
and free, independent and pluralistic media. UNESCO prepares to celebrate
the fourth edition of World Radio Day, to be held [...]
[image: picture]*Spain: Radio Nava at risk of closure in Asturias*
Radio Nava (Asturias, Spain) has started a campaign on the webpage
Change.org to avoid the 30.000 Euros fine imposed by the Spanish Ministry
of Industry. The radio station has been charged for using an unauthorized
frequency (only 3 community and free radios in Spain have legal licenses to
broadcast). Besides the legal actions that this community [...]
[image: picture]*Annual Conference of SNRL: Broadcasting, the challenge of
diversity*
1984-2014: 30 years of freedom of information. 2004-2014: 10 years of
Syndicat. Le Syndicat National des Radios Libres celebrates its 10th
Anniversary in Paris between 19th, 20th and 21st of November. This
Conference is celebrated among the challenges of media pluralism, freedom
of expression, cultural diversity and social proximity communication
in French society. Moreover, it tries [...]
*ReMC will challenge in court Spanish government plans to exclude community
TV from Digital platforms
*
A Coruña, 14 November 2014. The Community Media Network (ReMC) has decided
to file an administrative appeal against the royal decree of the Government
in the Digital Terrestrial Television (DTT). The Government has excluded
community television despite being bound by the General Law on Audiovisual
Communication 2010, which plans for television frequencies to be reserved
[...]
[image: AMARC Europe - Association Mondiale Radiodiffuseurs Communautaires
Europe]
Miriam Meda González
AMARC Europe - Association Mondiale Radiodiffuseurs Communautaires Europe
Rue de la Linière 11 - 1060 Bruxelles
http://www.amarceurope.eu
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