Kick Off Event: IP video conference on Indigenous Community Radio

Fri, 04 Apr 2008 19:23:47 GMT

by Brian Walmark.

Hi Fernando,
I'm bringing in Franz, Verlin and Martine into this discussion... KORI is promoting discussion by Indigenous Peoples in the English-speaking world on the role communication plays in addressing local priorities on such things as control over natural resources and climate change though this meeting space...
We need to populate the Communications Platform with case studies and best practices... (Rick Garrick and I are working on that)
To promote discussion, I am making a list of people that I have met and presented with at various conferences and gatherings... (I'm working on that)
To draw attention to the Communications Platform, KORI will host three IP video (with streaming video) events... The first will focus on Community Radio, the Second will be on Newspapers and the third will be on on-line environments...
Community Radio will be first because I have identified some presenters from Wawatay Radio, Metis Nation Radio and two African Graduate students from Guelph who have extensive experience with community radio back home... I am going to ask Michael Gurstein to help us identify someone in either Australia or New Zealand who has access to IP video who can talk about their experiences with community radio down there... I know some of the kids in Fort Severn were listening to broadcasts from a Indigenous radio station in Australia who called themselves either dangerous mob or angry mob but I can't find the url...
I like your idea of engaging some NAN youth at the community level who might want to participate as a way to voice their ideas in audio to share with other community radio stations up north...
I like the idea of having a separate platform for each communication tool (community radio, newspapers and web-based environments) but linked to the main Communications Platform....

We need to attract people to the Communications Platform... We need people to encourage people to participate and not just watch... We need to encourage young people to get involved ... For me the KI crisis, has clearly demonstrated the power of communication tools ... We have much to share with one another and much to learn as well...
If anyone has any ideas, please feel free to share them... Check out what what First Nations peoples are doing in Central and South America ... They are engaged in building a platform similar to ours... To see it, click here...
Brian

KI leadership remain jailed for contempt arising out of struggle to protect traditional lands

Fri, 28 Mar 2008 16:57:13 GMT

by Brian Walmark.

KI leaders remain in jail for contempt arising from the First Nations continuing struggle to protect their traditional lands from mining development… This morning CBC Radio reported that Ontario’s Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and NAN Grand Chief Stan Beardy met with jailed KI Chief Donny Morris… To see other media stories about the KI struggle, click here… KI has been extremely effective at using communication tools to draw national attention to its struggle over natural resources control… The national media is now covering this story closely… Is anyone aware of other First Nations using communication tools so effectively to draw attention to their priorities? If so, can you identify them?

Welcome! Please introduce yourself.

Fri, 29 Feb 2008 15:07:39 GMT

by Franz Seibel.

My name is Franz and I work with Keewaytinook Okimakanak in Thunder bay, Ontario CANADA. I help with some of the video conferencing and research activity to support the First Nation communities that we serve.

Resource Planning Discussion

Kick Off Event: IP video conference on Indigenous Community Radio

KI leadership remain jailed for contempt arising out of struggle to protect traditional lands

Welcome! Please introduce yourself.