Number 235, April 2001
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Fr.Martin Newell,
"Peace is more than the absence of war". So,to promote real peace, based on justice, silent and hidden conflicts have to be brought into the light, and to achieve reconciliation these truths must be faced with honesty.
Robert Russell
The human spirit is so resilient. Nobody embodies this more than editorial and social cartoonists in the midst of hardship.
Reproduced from One World Action
Most disabled people in Nicaragua are poor, but because of gender discrimination life presents even more problems for the country's 200,000 disabled women. Felicity Manson, OWA's Central America Programme Officer, reports on the work of an organisation using the media to change perceptions.
Making Waves: Stories of participatory communication for social change, by Alfonso Gumucio Dagron:
This report compiles stories from 55 communication initiatives, every one a gem. The report is downloadable as a PDF file.
For its 25th Anniversary, Project Censored has just posted to the web its list of the top 25 censored Media Stories of 2001.
This year the report has an introduction from Noam Chomsky looking back at a quarter of a century of censored news.
Jeremy Rifkin
Question: what is the single most valuable piece of property worth owning at the dawn of the information age? Answer: the radio frequencies - the electromagnetic spectrum - over which an increasing amount of communication and commercial activity will be broadcast in the era of wireless communications. Our PCs, palm pilots, wireless internet, cellular phones, pagers, radios and television all rely on the radio frequencies of the spectrum to send and receive messages, pictures, audio, data, etc.
Sean Hawkey
Many poor rural areas depend on radio for information. Distance-learning, primary health care, farming advice, and electoral information in many areas are only available from the radio.