reproduce the interview conducted by the Collective Canal 13 La Minga Giramundo of Mendoza, which is being interfered with by a commercial medium without the AFSCA give any response.
Giramundo struggling Channel 13
escrache After weeks ago to conduct the provincial AFSCA Giramundo Channel 13, the Regional Network Cuyo National Alternative Media made an open radio and a march in favor of community media, alternative and popular.
By Colectivo La Minga ( somoslaminga@gmail.com )
Despite the actions carried out Giramundo Channel 13, the Federal Authority for Audiovisual Communication Services (AFSCA) has not responded to the claim of invasion of the signal of Channel 13, by Omar Alvarez, manager of the southern Mendoza associated with Daniel Vila and José Luis Manzano, as well as Julio De Vido. Between bids for power and concentration of new monopolies, Channel 13 has been removed Giramundo smile more a businessman and politician. In this interview we talked about the state of the channel to date. After 16 hours the Cuyo region of the NRE, will open a radio station which will stress the importance in the defense of the alternative media.
What is the status of the channel after the cut was done in the street Emilio Civit and the letter sent to AFSCA document?
We have not had any response from the AFSCA, both provincial and national level. In fact, the charter document has not been answered. The signal from 13 is jammed now and do not know if Alvarez group or not. The biggest problem we're having is the kind of information they are accessing, where the organism has been completely indifferent to the conflict. So Friday we will take another step, moving around a little over conflict in particular, but in defense of community and alternative media, simultaneous to a similar measure to be given by the Coordinator for the defense Community communication, in Buenos Aires. After 16 hours, in km0 will open an open radio and then we joined the march Multisectorial Struggle, at 18 hours, against an increase in ticket.
In Buenos Aires has shaped the Coordinator on behalf of the alternative media, community and popular, how do you think of Mendoza the possibility of adding a space that allows organizations to go on the defense of the media?
Within the National Alternative Media Network, the regional Cuyo is a bit more active after Buenos Aires. The idea is to strengthen the regional coordinator to create one similar to that being born in Buenos Aires, but the specifics of our territory, to see which is the framework of partnership that we can see, but this is something that at this time is emerging. When we had to do a step in the door AFSCA was a framework of alliances that he Giramundo more particularly in concrete and not something that is beginning in the Regional. What we are aiming now to create a real articulation with other sectors that they can identify in this fight for our community and popular media.
The idea has to do with the possibility to think that this situation is now given in Mendoza, and which is not equal to that radio came with the amplitude of Buenos Aires, has to do with certain irregularities that had the law in these early days, where regulations have not had it, and a national framework. Think how, from every place we can achieve media advocacy community, alternative and popular, taking into account the processes of struggle, according to the organizational processes that are occurring in the territories and also to serve them. In this sense, understanding not as defense coordinator of the media but other forms of construction and other ways of communication that is not the same as the oligopolistic groups are doing in our country. Another form of communication that has to do with giving voice to the actors and actresses of the reality in which we, accompanied by processes of struggle and often visible in our reality situations which are not shown by these means and that appear to show actually but is quite biased.
AFSCA The owner of Mendoza, Gabriel Garcia, told us that Channel 13 is vacated and is no longer Álvarez. Yet you have claimed that there are still interference. Why do you think that since the authority is this scenario?
can be little doubt. The argument is that they can not do anything or engage in, nor give an answer because the law still did not have a regulation (now do.) But today there are many things that make noise, if this is the answer given by the body from the province of Mendoza, that something different to that first time we went to meet with Garcia and told us at first that "I believe that Alvarez already has 13." The answer is very different from that which was before now given. We keep checking the interference and they never found, neither with us or others, if channel 13 was occupied. Today we continue to have interference, then its no answer has to do with any other link. We do not understand why all the media in the province have come to say what the situation was going to have the airwaves after the law was regulated , posing as would be the distribution channels and remain AFSCA say anything until the law is supposedly regulated (now done). There is a rather ambiguous situation and a situation in which there is an alleged confusion in which we often do not know how to move. We understand that the process remains the fight and we have been respecting the institutional mechanisms that were given to us, in fact we recorded, we went to AFSCA both here and in Buenos Aires to send a letter document. So do not understand why there is no response or even an instance where we say why we are saying this. There is an instance where there is an openness to dialogue, which we have not closed; pero que desde ese lugar sigue sin haber posibilidad de saber qué está pasando. Hay otra información que está girando y que llega, por ejemplo: los medios comerciales o los mismos empresarios interesados en generar nuevos medios y que no se nos da la misma cabida cuando se nos tiene que dar una respuesta a los medios comunitarios.
Uno de los sectores que se movilizó en Mendoza, por la Ley de servicios de comunicación audiovisual, fue la Coalición. ¿Recibieron algún apoyo concreto de parte de este espacio?
La Coalición, después de la medida que nosotros hicimos against AFSCA facilities, but what he did was call and ask the media that they believed the media, such as the Group One had made use of our conflict to attack the law. Posed as we relied on our claims, but by the Coalition receive no greeting, no membership, no instance of approximation. In fact, when we had our first meeting was one of the partners forming the Coalition and he stated that he would propose you to join us in this action, but the Coalition was issued and said no, he could not face, to put in those terms, and did not is that we're facing the AFSCA but we are asking that we give explanations and to observe what the law says. Since the Coalition, through the media, we could find out who sympathized with us, but formally, in the face to face, there was no concrete backing. Always consider that this law had many places where it could be improved but we also understand that in this framework, and after raising the true democratization of the airwaves, which were the points at which we believed that this law was a step forward. Now we are coming to us but tomorrow it could be another half and we'll be on the street to defend.
What do you expect after the radio will open on Friday?
hope, first, continue to make visible that we are in struggle, the situation is not resolved and that Channel 13 is and must remain a community. To some extent we do in the face of society rather than a confrontation with the particular organism. Somehow it's the way we've taken to legitimize our struggle and keep adding to this building on behalf of community media, alternative and popular. We do not believe a response by the body but if we make it clear that if we lose channel 13, we lose the channel for long, because our equipment is tuned to the 13 and change means changing all our teams. In that sense we are demanding a response AFSCA and to ensure real and concrete way, the permanence of the media, community, alternative and popular, in the air.
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