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by Nina Somera, Isis International
Intellectual activist Prof. Noam Chomsky reflects on the fundamentalisms, new media, state interventions and many more since the 9/11 events. The following is an excerpt of an interview that will be published in the forthcoming issue of Women in Action, “Maximum Intolerance, Mounting Resistance.”
Read more: More Perils than Prospects in Persistent Politics: An Interview with Noam Chomsky
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Nearly ten years since the September 11 events, we assess the depth and extent of various forms of discrimination, their manifestations as well as its resulting violence against individuals and polarisations
among communities of ideologies and praxis. The early part of the decade saw the enormous violations of human rights and national sovereignties in the name of security and solidarity against the “war on terror.”
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by Suman Basnet, AMARC
[Editor's Note: This article was originally published on 21 August 2009 in the AMARC website. Suman Basnet is the coordinator of AMARC Asia-Pacific]
The World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters, AMARC Asia Pacific has launched the 2nd training program on Community Radio Management and Advanced Radio Production Training for the Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA). The ten days long program began on the 17th of August 2009. Trainers Bianca Miglioretto, Isis International and Divya Wesley, Voices, India, are conducting the training for members of the SEWA community radio team at the SEWA Academy in Ahmadabad, India. SEWA received its community radio permit in June this year.
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While all appears to be tranquil in Bangkok at the moment, media activists are taking advantage of the present peace to unearth and untangle long-standing issues. One of them is the 20 per cent allocation of frequencies for community radios.
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The roads may cleared and embers may have died down but the distrust among neighbours has never been this overwhelming in Xinjiang. While it may be late to set the record straight on the causes of the riots, fair reportage can still salvage diverse narratives of the event without stimulating unnecessary grief and anger by choosing to magnifying some narratives and stymieing others.
Read more: Not Yet Developed: The Other Stories of the Urumqi Riots
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