Social, political, workers, students and academics, human rights and alternative media make up the Coordinator on behalf of Alternative Communication, Community and People. In the context of public debate about the media, understand that it infringes the right to alternative communication media, popular and community. That is why we organize and mobilize to assert their legitimacy and to express our demands.
Successive governments and business groups have put the media to serve their own interests. Instead, alternative media, community and popular play an important role to build a separate communication of those sectors. For its construction and conception of communication as a social space for participation, are conceived from and to the community as part of organizational processes, debate and decision of social sectors to which the system marginalized in various ways (economic, social policies). This is reflected in the social ownership of means, such as construction of its programming and management.
Freedom of expression and communication rights are guaranteed not only by avoiding any kind of monopoly (private or state) but safeguarding the rights of all sectors, especially those who day by day build a supportive communication, participatory and pluralistic to defend the interests of workers and the popular sectors.
With the endorsement and support of successive governments since the dictatorship to the present, large companies have taken over the communication media oligopolies pose. privileged positions obtained from these gains. Communication transformed into a commodity. Always serve their interests, and acted discriminated against popular sectors , condemning their struggles and goals of social transformation, often accusing them of being violent, and hiding the true reasons for their claims.
not better perspective if you look at the precarious working conditions of media workers in the media. The constant demands of journalists, cameramen, editors, diagrams, technical, etc., Are unheeded by the employer and the union bureaucracy. The precarious political work goes hand in hand with political attacks freedom of expression: that is why they are often censured for not sharing the political positioning of the company.
Today, after having been enacted into law Audiovisual Communication Services, alternative media are still not recognized in its reality, identity and practices, because they require legal, technical and economic factors that are not consistent with characteristics. Although some of these means managed, with great effort, to comply with the provisions of the enforcement authority AFSCA, their rights are being violated in favor of commercial media and / or aligned with national and provincial governments . This is the case of Channel 13 Giramundo of 770 AM Mendoza and Buenos Aires.
alternative media, community and grassroots have specific characteristics. Therefore, they can not demand the same requirements as commercial media, nor to other nonprofit entities, such as many NGOs, unions and foundations
linked to political and economic power.
For all this, we must continue to fight for respect our right to communication. Defending the legitimacy and practice of alternative and community media from any exclusion by the state and large multimedia. Accompanying the struggles of the press workers commercial media.
We will fight for conditions in which alternative media and grassroots community to continue to function, and we will defend street from any persecution, discrimination or abuse. Because this struggle is part of a more general fight for workers and the popular sectors , demand:
- In media advocacy community, alternative and popular, not the declaration of illegality and seizures. No persecution of media and journalists.
-Grant
licenses for all community media in the frequencies and applied powers. Competitions differentiated for community media. No appropriation by commercial media or government of frequencies used by community media.
- Special arrangements for community media: Exemption of all liens. Do not pay a rights management [1].
- Equal opportunities for various communications projects. Resources for community media.
call on all organizations communication, social, political, professional, and university students, human rights and men and women who share those ideas to apply and participate in space.
[1] are entities that act as intermediaries between the medium and the author of a work. Usually generate profit at the expense of the artist through the media.
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