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29th October 2009, 02:12
Excerpts from http://americas.irc-online.org/am/6185
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"Before, we could say that the media was a branch of the Brazilian elite, but today, with the growth of financial capital in the hands of the media, we can say they are an organic part of the elite itself"... the bank Bradesco is one of the major shareholders of the daily paper O Estado de São Paulo
"it is essential to destroy the media monopoly in order to diversify the media. The struggle to democratize communication requires the construction of a broader political project, capable of radically transforming the structures of our societies."
less than 10 groups... control the major communication networks, including television, radio, newspapers, magazines, and web pages
"Fight so that each settlement or community in inland Brazil has its own popular media outlet, such as a free community radio station. Fight for the democratization of all of society's media"
"We believe that there are measures in the communications field which, together with radical political and economic transformations, contribute to the implementation of the necessary changes for a truly just and equal society. For this reason, we demand the end to the criminalization of popular and alternative radio stations, and the revision of all public radio and TV concessions"
It is evident that to counteract the subcontinent's swing to the left, the media has boycotted the left's integration in the region and worked systematically to erode the support of governments that show a Latin Americanist vocation. The tools normally used are the silencing of information, biased reporting, and constant editorializing.
http://americas.irc-online.org/images/irc/1575.jpg
Some 25 years ago, given the shameful concentration of land ownership, one of the region's principal social movements was born in the thriving south: the Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST).
The organization's core struggle is therefore the democratization of land ownership.
the movement publicizes its cause via land recuperations, occupations, and camps
One of the dangers is that the cause of the MST will become isolated in rural matters and forget to include the cities.
There is also a section of contacts for organizations with which the MST is in solidarity. Among them are Amnesty International, Brazilian human rights organizations, organizations working on the issue of forcibly disappeared people such as the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo in Argentina, the Unique Workers' Center (CUT) in Brazil, and the Latin American Coordination of Farm Organizations (CLOC)... In the same way, a relationship with the Homeless Workers' Movement has been established. It is they who survive in the corners of Brazil's cities, the poorest among the poor.
More: http://www.mstbrazil.org/?q=node/620
http://americas.irc-online.org/images/irc/1576.jpg
"Before, we could say that the media was a branch of the Brazilian elite, but today, with the growth of financial capital in the hands of the media, we can say they are an organic part of the elite itself"... the bank Bradesco is one of the major shareholders of the daily paper O Estado de São Paulo
"it is essential to destroy the media monopoly in order to diversify the media. The struggle to democratize communication requires the construction of a broader political project, capable of radically transforming the structures of our societies."
less than 10 groups... control the major communication networks, including television, radio, newspapers, magazines, and web pages
"Fight so that each settlement or community in inland Brazil has its own popular media outlet, such as a free community radio station. Fight for the democratization of all of society's media"
"We believe that there are measures in the communications field which, together with radical political and economic transformations, contribute to the implementation of the necessary changes for a truly just and equal society. For this reason, we demand the end to the criminalization of popular and alternative radio stations, and the revision of all public radio and TV concessions"
It is evident that to counteract the subcontinent's swing to the left, the media has boycotted the left's integration in the region and worked systematically to erode the support of governments that show a Latin Americanist vocation. The tools normally used are the silencing of information, biased reporting, and constant editorializing.
http://americas.irc-online.org/images/irc/1575.jpg
Some 25 years ago, given the shameful concentration of land ownership, one of the region's principal social movements was born in the thriving south: the Landless Rural Workers' Movement (MST).
The organization's core struggle is therefore the democratization of land ownership.
the movement publicizes its cause via land recuperations, occupations, and camps
One of the dangers is that the cause of the MST will become isolated in rural matters and forget to include the cities.
There is also a section of contacts for organizations with which the MST is in solidarity. Among them are Amnesty International, Brazilian human rights organizations, organizations working on the issue of forcibly disappeared people such as the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo in Argentina, the Unique Workers' Center (CUT) in Brazil, and the Latin American Coordination of Farm Organizations (CLOC)... In the same way, a relationship with the Homeless Workers' Movement has been established. It is they who survive in the corners of Brazil's cities, the poorest among the poor.
More: http://www.mstbrazil.org/?q=node/620