[PEN-L:1832] Mexico Radio Simulcast Feb 9 --Collaboration Sought (fwd)

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> Date: Thu, 07 Dec 1995 12:24:35 -0500 (EST)
> From: Global Community Centre <gccwat@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: ncra-info@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: ggrierson@xxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Mexico Simulcast Feb 9
>
> Att'n:    Spoken Word/Public Affairs Programmers,
>           Campus and Community Radio Stations of North America
> From:     the Mexico Solidarity Network of Canada,
>           c/o Global Community Centre, Waterloo, Ontario
> Re:       Radio Documentary on Origins of Zapatista Conflict in
>           Mexico, to be simulcast February 9, 1995
> Date:     December 7, 1995
> _________________________________________________________________
>
> February 9, 1996 will be the first anniversary of the invasion of
> the Lacondon jungle in Chiapas, Mexico by the Mexican federal
> army.  To commemorate this, the Mexico Solidarity Network of
> Canada is producing a one-hour documentary of the orgins of the
> armed uprising in Mexico and the Zapatista-led struggle for
> change since.  We would like to see as many radio stations across
> the continent request a copy of this program and air it
> simultaneously, at 4-6pm (local time, depending on where you are)
> on February 9.  Please consider this notice as a request that you
> partcipate in this campaign by requesting our tape and sending us
> a donation ($10 suggested) to cover our costs of copying and
> sending it out.
>
> A small group of volunteers in Waterloo, Ontario will be
> producing the one-hour program in early January, using tapes of
> different Mexican speakers who have visited Canada.  We hope to
> have it ready to distribute by mid-January, so that stations can
> have a chance to pre-listen to it and run promotional carts for
> the show which will accompany the tape.  Also, if you know of
> quality audio material that would be appropriate for the program,
> please let us know or send it to us as soon as possible.  We hope
> to produce a list of participating radio stations across the
> country to add to the tape and promotional material so listeners
> can get a sense of the amount of cooperation that went into the
> program.  We are also producing a promotional poster for the
> radio program which will be sent with the tape so that interested
> volunteers in your community can further promote the event.
>
> The radio program is part of a two-pronged strategy that the
> Mexico Solidarity Network is planning to commemorate last year's
> February 9 invasion.  The following day, February 10, 1996, we
> are encouraging groups in cities throughout the continent to plan
> demonstrations in front of Mexican Consulates and Embassies or
> other events to draw attention to the invasion anniversary if the
> communities fon't have an embassy or consulate.  The radio
> program and promotional cart and poster will make reference to
> this, leaving space for the input of local information on the
> local event, if any.
>
> The February 9, 1995 invasion of the Mexican army was a brutal
> violation of the January 12, 1994 ceasefire between the Mexican
> government and the Zapatista Army of National Liberation.  The
> invasion displaced over 30,000 (mostly) Mayan people living in
> communities previously occupied by the Zapatistas, forcing them
> to flee to the mountains without food for days and eventually to
> return to find their crops and homes destroyed and their valuable
> farm implements stolen.  Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo
> justified the invasion by saying that he was going in to arrest
> Zapatista spokesperson Subcommander Marcos, whose identity had
> supposedly been revealed by intelligence forces days earlier.
> Marcos was never arrested, but the objective of terrifying the
> local population and harrassing Mexican and international human
> rights activists was achieved.  An underlying motivation for the
> invasion was revealed shortly afterwards when an internal memo of
> the Chase Manhattan Bank written in January was discovered,
> urging President Clinton to make the multi-billion dollar bailout
> loan for the devalued peso conditional on Zedillo's elimination
> of the Zapatistas as a way to restore investor confidence in
> Mexico.
>
> In summary, please:
>      1. Request a copy of the tape by contacting the address
>      below.
>      2. Plan to air it on your station between the hours of 4 and
>      6pm, your time, on Friday, February 9, 1996.
>      3. Spread the word to local activists to get them to
>      organize an event on Saturday, February 10 and to promote
>      both the radio show and event.
>      4. Tell us about, or send us, any quality audio material you
>      have on the Zapatista conflict.
>      5. Keep us informed of your community and radio station's
>      activities related to the project.
>
> Mexico Solidarity Network (MSN)
> c/o Global Community Centre, 89-91 King Street North, Waterloo,
> Ontario, Canada N2J 2X3 phone: 519-746-4090 fax: 519-746-4096
> email: gccwat@xxxxxxxxxxx
> Please send a copy of your requests to: ggrierson@xxxxxxxxx
>
> P.S. If anyone knows how to access a similar list of public and
> campus and community radio stations, please let me know, or post
> it to the list yourself and tell me. --Marc Xuereb, MSN
>
>
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