Action 249, Enero 2003
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Norman Solomon helps to Decode some top buzz words of 2002, Marwaan Macan-Markar spells out how Community Media Look for Ways to be Heard and the problems of e-waste, and the need for civil society engagement are examined. Glenine Hamlyn gives a reflection, there is news on Palestine and Kate Azuka Omenugha writes on "Constructing ‘Africanness’: Cross-cultural Reading of Images of African Women in the News". There is report from WACC scholar Luisa Nitti and a reflection on "Expectations" by WACC President Musimbi Kanyoro.
Luisa Nitti
- Are you protestant?, professor Mary Venturini of the Pontifical Gregorian University of Rome asks me.
- Yes, I’m Methodist, I replied, and I feel a little bit shy… In the class I am the only protestant, most of the people come from abroad (especially from Eastern Europe and Asia), some of them are Catholic priests…
Kate Azuka Omenugha
Constructing ‘Africanness’: Cross-cultural Reading of Images of African Women in the News
Ms. Kate Azuka Omenugha is a new applicant to WACC membership. She is researching the ambivalent relationship between Western and non-Western feminism on issues of representation of women in the media.
Norman Solomon
How words are used can be crucial to understanding and misunderstanding the world around us. The media lexicon is saturated with certain buzz phrases. They're popular -- but what do they mean?
The International Center of Bethlehem (ICB) hosted an Intercultural Media Consultation between November 24 and 29, 2002. After many failed attempts to schedule the event in Bethlehem it was finally held in Jerusalem. Bethlehem, at the time of writing remains a Closed Military Area, with all inhabitants under house arrest by Israeli occupation forces. Bethlehemites were not allowed out of Bethlehem to travel the 7 km to Jerusalem for the event, but using some ingenuity and at personal risk some of the hosts managed to attend with other participants from Palestine, Israel, USA, Germany, UK, Lebanon, Spain and Denmark.
Sean Hawkey, Bethlehem, 2 December 2002
When Nahed Fawaregh became pregnant earlier this year she and her husband felt blessed, she was due to give birth in the first days of December and would travel to the nearby maternity hospital in Bethlehem.
Musimbi Kanyoro
The following is a sermon preached at the World Council of Churches chapel, December 16, 2002. Text: Luke 1:46-56.
Mary and Elizabeth symbolize for me the community of church or civil society tied together to stand up against the odds before them. They tell me about the need we have for each other as human beings, to hear one another, to advise and to help one another. This is why we gather here to pray and listen to the scriptures together. It is the reason we organise to campaign, to demonstrate, and to resist evil together.
Glenine Hamlyn
Recently on the radio I heard an interviewer use the term “axis of evil“, and although this phrase had already been around for longer than I cared to know, something made me start. For the first time, or so it seemed, the interviewer was using the term without inverted commas. It had become part of accepted discourse.
This is a CRIS Campaign Issue Paper. Issue papers are intended to initiate discussion around issues related to the WSIS.
While the rise of e-waste may seem tangential to the question of communication rights, it is an important development that should be understood by all participants in the discussion about how to best democratise access to information and communications technology (ICT).
Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK, Nov 25 (Inter Press Service) - Satien Chantorn, a fruit farmer, has become the symbol of defiance of an information revolution that is gradually spreading across Thailand.