Articles by World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC)
AMARC concerned over FTAA’s impact on communications sector
(AMARC/IFEX) – The following is an AMARC press release: Up for grabs: FTAA hits on communications Imagine turning on your radio and what you hear is commercial chatter announcing the next bar of soap being offered for sale on your new local TOP-40 station owned by a faceless media conglomerate somewhere in the US, but […]
AMARC denounces Czech authorities’ denial of right to communicate
(AMARC/IFEX) – The following is a 1 November 2000 AMARC press release: November 1, 2000: At their regional meeting in Hungary this October, the AMARC-Europe General Assembly denounced the recent actions of the Czech authorities in arresting protesters and denying their human rights, including the right to communicate. The arrests came while the International Monetary […]
Raid on community radio station
(AMARC/IFEX) – The following is an AMARC-International press release, followed by a 4 September 2000 AMARC-Uruguay statement: AMARC-International is concerned to learn of the raid on community radio station “La Marea FM” in Uruguay. The raid was carried out following a judicial order by Judge Gerardo Alvarez Escusel of Lascano, on the basis that “La […]
AMARC condemns attack on Radio One
(AMARC/IFEX) – AMARC has condemned the brutal attack on George Christensen and Radio One FM in Banjul. According to his family, Christensen, the owner and proprietor of Radio One, escaped with substantial burns to his face and body when his radio station was attacked on the morning of Thursday 10 August 2000 by unidentified thugs. […]
Concern over order to close radio station, confiscate its equipment
(AMARC/IFEX) – The following is a 23 July 2000 statement by Arturo Bretaglio, representative of AMARC-Paraguay: Asuncion, 23 julio 2000 On Friday 21 July, the National Telecommunications Commission (Comision Nacional de Telecomunicaciones, CONATEL), asked the Civil and Commercial First Instance Court, presided by Judge Maria Angelica Calvo, to close the FM TRINIDAD (95.1) community radio […]
Twenty-five IFEX members condemn IMF press policy on community media
(AMARC/IFEX) – The following is a 23 May 2000 joint action signed by twenty-five IFEX members condemning the International Monetary Fund’s press policy on community media: FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION GROUPS CONDEMN IMF PRESS POLICY ON COMMUNITY MEDIA Freedom of Expression groups meeting in New York today condemned the IMF press policy on community media as […]
IMF press policy condemned
(AMARC/IFEX) – The following is a 23 May 2000 AMARC press release: FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION GROUPS CONDEMN INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUNDâS PRESS POLICY ON COMMUNITY MEDIA Freedom of Expression groups meeting in New York today condemned IMF press policy on community media as counter to the freedom of opinion and expression. The statement, signed by twenty-seven […]
AMARC condemns assassination of celebrated radio journalist
AMARC has condemned the brutal assassination of celebrated journalist Jean Dominique. On 3 April 2000, the seventy year-old suffered various gun shots on the premises of his own station, Radio Haiti Inter, located in Delmas, next to Port-au-Prince. The radio station’s security guard, Jean Claude Louissaint, was also murdered. According to SICRAD (Service d’Information du […]