Women on the Global Community Airwaves (Women on the Airwaves - for short) is a podcast series bringing you stories from around the world, told by the women on the global community radio-waves, who are the movers where they live, working to take back the narratives about women, working to reverse the old and reconstructing communication step by step.<br />The stories are brought to you by me, Birgitte Jallov, who have worked in this field for a lifetime, in many of the 70+ countries where I have worked, worldwide.<br />This podcast series will identify and document community media as platforms and channels for increasing women’s role in their communities and in consequence thereof, in society in general. <br />And it will seek answers to why and how – or why not?
Women on the Airwaves
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Women on the Global Community Airwaves (Women on the Airwaves - for short) is a podcast series bringing you stories from around the world, told by the women on the global community radio-waves, who are the movers where they live, working to take back the narratives about women, working to reverse the old and reconstructing communication step by step.<br />The stories are brought to you by me, Birgitte Jallov, who have worked in this field for a lifetime, in many of the 70+ countries where I have worked, worldwide.<br />This podcast series will identify and document community media as platforms and channels for increasing women’s role in their communities and in consequence thereof, in society in general. <br />And it will seek answers to why and how – or why not?
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November 7, 2023
Fernanda Maria, Radio Liberdade, Dili, Timor Leste
Fernanda Maria has worked for 12 years in Radio Liberdade, a community radio in Dili, the capital of Timer Leste. Radio Liberdade works with the 'Fundacão Media Development Centre' working to support women's voices in the media and the voices of other underrepresented groups.<br /><br />Radio Liberdade is one of some 15 community radio stations, struggling for survival, as Fernanda tells us - but she and her station have some ideas about how to turn the stations sustainable! Despite the challenges, new stations appear, not least because the spoken word is so important in a reality with and only 60 % literacy rate. <br /><br />Since 2016 Fernanda has worked on a special programme on 'Prevention of Violence Against Women and Girls and Gender-Based Violence' which she tells about in the podcast. Presently she works with Radio Liberdade to provide Journalism Training on Gender Sensitive Reporting.<br /><br />Timor-Leste's road to independence - achieved on 20 May 2002 - was long and traumatic in their struggle for self-determination. When their Portuguese colonial masters withdrew in 1975 – as they did in all other colonies including Mozambique - where one of the other radio women in this podcast series is from - Indonesia claimed the territory for itself and suppressed the independence movement. The UN took over the administration and supervised the territory's transition to independence in 2002.<br /><br />As Fernanda explains in our conversation, domestic and gender based violence is extremely high in the country – <a href="https://www.wvi.org/sites/default/files/Reducing%20GBV%20Evaluation%20summary_Final_A4_200%20copies.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">close to 60 % of the women</a> report to have been abused physically, so the focus of the radio station and the foundation – fundacão – which started it, is to work on ways of limiting violence against women. Radio Liberdade therefore works with a focus on Prevention of Violence Against Women and Girls and Gender-Based Violence, and this is also the radio programme Fernanda is engaged with.
October 25, 2023
Palmira Velasco, Senior Journalist, Researcher and founder of a women's community radio. Mozambique
<b>Palmira Velasco is a senior journalist,</b> who has been at the forefront of democratic journalism in Mozambique, where she in 1987 started as a reporter at the big, state-run daily newspaper Notícias.<br /><br />With the peace accord signed in 1992, after an 18 year war, intercepted by a few free years of socialism, Palmira in 1994 joined a group of journalists that started DEMOS, the first independent weekly.<br /><br />This stood on the shoulders of a 1991 new press law, approved by government after the new democratic constitution (1990) and a year before the final signature to peace. This is how central a free media was to the standard bearers of the new Mozambique. Palmira become a senior reporter in Demos, and an editor, where she had the opportunity to travel the region and he world widely.<br /><br /><b>During this time she co-initiated the Mozambican Women in Mass Media Association (AMCS) </b>of which she was the executive director for 12 years. It was as an initiative of AMCS that <b>Palmira co-initiated Mozambique’s first women’s radio: N’thiyana, meaning ‘Women</b>’ in Emacua, one of the 132 languages in Mozambique, mostly spoken in one of the most populous provinces of Nampula.<br /><br /><b>As a Community Radio Director Palmira was one of the driving forces in N’thiyana,</b> and in the podcast she explains why a women’s radio was important and what some of the major challenges were.<br /><br /><b>Since June 2016, Palmira works as a Programme Officer in Natural Resources and Gender section of the civil society based organisation: SKELEKANI.</b> She focuses on research on Gender and the impact of extraction in the communities affected by the impact of extractive industry. Palmira continues to use her journalistic past when she writes stories about the struggling communities – children and women - published in different Magazines in Mozambique and at SEKELEKANI’s sites www.civilinfo.org.mz
September 26, 2023
Jimena Lopes, Broadcaster in the feminist La Tribu FM, Buenos Aires, Argentina
<b>Jimena Lopez, broadcaster and assembly member of the community radio La Tribu FM, Buenos Aires, Argentina. </b><br /><br /><b>Jimena Lopez has been a part of the station for nearly ten years,</b> where she has had many different roles. Right now she is a part of the station’s communication team, responsible for Social media and other communication activities. She is also in the Station’s assembly made up by 20 core people, responsible for overall management, which meets up every second month.<br /><br /><b>La Tribu started in 1989 and has been going uninterrupted since. </b>Since 2006, when the new communication and media law[1] in Argentina legalized community media as the third sector with íts own regulations, La Tribu has been on air, legally. Jimena says that whereas the station is not a women’s station, it has a feminist approach in most of what it does.<br /><br /><b>La Tribu is run by a collective of around 20 assembly members,</b> who take turns on the many different administrative, practical and programmatic areas. The assembly members also work in the editorial groups, which also count many community members who come to the station, and take part in the ongoing training activities. Often, they are then, thereafter, effectively, softly integrated into the editorial teams, if and when they so wish.<br /><br /><b>The station therefore never has a shortage of community broadcasters </b>– and considers itself, sustainable. Part of the financial sustainability is secured through providing access to organisations who want to run their own programmes. When within the values and principles of the station, they can do so, and they pay for airtime and for rent of the studios. This secures a minimum financial basis along with projects that the station is a part of.<br /><br />L<b>a Tribu also has a cultural space in their radio-house,</b> which has a bar and hosts different cultural events. The radio and the cultural space complement each other very well. It helps the radio to remain a lively place, where all who want to approach the station with issues, stories – or a desire to become one of the team, easily can access.<br /><br /><b>Jimena estimates that Argentina has 2000 community radio stations,</b> which have mushroomed since the new 2006-law was passed. They are all different – both due to the place where they are situated (big city? Rural area?) and the local culture. La Tribu is very active in the Latin American AMARC network[2], where stations from the continent meet regularly in the big, general group – and where an active women’s network run projects together and meet up.<br /><br /><b>Jimena Lopez has a Social Communications Degree, is radio producer and host as well as Radio workshop coordinator. Jimena is also a Product Manager at an insurance company.</b><br /><b></b><br /><b>LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jimena-l%C3%B3pez-costantini-4359174b </b><br /><br />[1] https://www.loc.gov/item/global-legal-monitor/2009-11-23/argentina-new-media-law/<br />[2] https://www.amarcalc.org/
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