Radio Utopie

Check out how the „Native“ media reports on the colonial U.S. presidential election: I Indianz.Com > News > McCain cites tribes in GOP acceptance speech ——————————————— McCain cited his record as an opponent of corruption in his speech at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul, Minnesota. „I‘ve fought lobbyists who stole from Indian tribes,“ he said. McCain served two terms as chairman of the Senate Indian Affairs Committee. In his second term, he focused on convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, who was sentenced on Thursday for four years in prison for defrauding his tribal clients out of millions of dollars. ——————————————–

We meet in these Zapotec lands, coming from many different places and populations, men, women, mostly youth but also older people, representing our community radio stations and sharing our voices freely in an assembly, whose basis is to reflect upon and analyze our task of community-based communication in the face of a Mexican state that denies free access to the radio spectrum and in doing so impedes our right to information, communication and freedom of expression – the collective, fundamental rights of our peoples. The existing laws regarding communication do not correspond to the realities of our communities.