The AMARC Japan Working Group, in cooperation with AMARC’s Asia Pacific and the association’s international secretariat is planning a Radio Forum in the city of Saporro where the G8 leaders will meet in July. The invitation to attend, reproduced below in English, French and Spanish, invites community radio journalists to bring their laptops, radio equipment and sleeping bags, so it looks like their planning some do do programming from the site. I’ll be watching for further announcements of their plans. If you have any information or ideas, feel free to post a reply or email me.
AMARC Japan announces and calls to participate in the G8 Radio Forum in Hokkaido
June 7, 2008 Kobe, Japan. AMARC Japan Working Group, in cooperation and support from AMARC International and AMARC Asia-Pacific, announces and calls community media journalists and civil society organisations to participate in the Radio Forum that will open in Hokkaido, Japan from June 30th to July 10th, 2008. The Forum is organized in the backdrop of the G8 summit, which is scheduled to be held from July 7-9, 2008 in Hokkaido.
The Radio Forum will be based at the citizens media centre buildings in the city of Sapporo and surroundings of Lake Toya, where the 8 world “leaders” will meet and chat. The G8 members are Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Japan, the United States of America, Canada (since 1976) and Russia (since 1998). Together, these countries represent about 65% of the world economy. The European Commission is also represented at all the meetings. The annual summits are the most visible elements of the G8 process.
The Radio Forum will cover and broadcast, among other events, the official summit, the Alternative G8 Summit, the Indigenous Peoples’ Summit, demonstrations and workshops. The radio programmes will be broadcast through local community radio stations and live-streamed on the G8 Radio Forum website. Furthermore, at the AMARC webpage, community radio stations will be able to download multilingual audio files in English, French, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, Korean, Thai, and Japanese to broadcast them to their communities.
Participants are required to purchase flight tickets to and from Japan by their own. Free accommodation and airport pick-up and drop may be arranged by AMARC Japan. Please bring your laptop, radio equipment (audio recorder and microphone), and sleeping bag. Interested journalists from community radios are strongly recommended to contact AMARC Japan at amarcjp@tcc117.org as soon as possible for documents related to the proposal as well as paper work for visa and other necessary logistic coordination. Please contact either Junichi Hibino, AMARC Japan Working Group, Leader, or Matsuura Tetsuo, AMARC Asia-Pacific, Vice President for East Asia.
Through service to members, networking and project implementation, the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters AMARC, brings together a network of more than 4,000 community radios, Federations and community media stakeholders in more than 115 countries. The main global impact of AMARC since its creation in 1983, has been to accompany and support the establishment of a world wide community radio sector that has democratized the media sector. AMARC advocates for the right to communicate at the international, national, local and neighbourhood levels and defends and promotes the interests of the community radio movement through solidarity, networking and Cooperation. For further information visit http://www.amarc.org
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*AMARC Radio Forum for G8 Starts in Japan*
July 4 2008 Sapporo, Japan. AMARC Japan Working Group and CR journalists from all regions of AMARC, including Pulsar news Agency, have started the Radio Forum in Sapporo, Japan to cover alternative civil society activities as well as the official G8 summit, which is scheduled to be held from July 7-9, 2008 in Hokkaido.
The Radio Forum is based at the citizens media centre buildings in the city of Sapporo and surroundings of Lake Toya, where the 8 world “leaders” will meet and chat. The G8 members are Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Japan, the United States of America, Canada (since 1976) and Russia (since 1998). Together, these countries represent about 65% of the world economy. The European Commission is also represented at all the meetings. The annual summits are the most visible elements of the G8 process.
The radio programmes will be broadcast through local community radio stations and live-streamed on the G8 Radio Forum website http://www.g8-radioforum2008.org. Furthermore, at the AMARC webpage, you may listen to podcast or download multilingual audio files in English, French, Spanish, Italian, Chinese, Korean, Thai, and Japanese to broadcast them to your communities.
Through service to members, networking and project implementation, the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters AMARC, brings together a network of more than 4,000 community radios, Federations and community media stakeholders in more than 115 countries. The main global impact of AMARC since its creation in 1983, has been to accompany and support the establishment of a world wide community radio sector that has democratized the media sector. AMARC advocates for the right to communicate at the international, national, local and neighbourhood levels and defends and promotes the interests of the community radio movement through solidarity, networking and Cooperation. For further information visit http://www.amarc.org
*AMARC JAPAN ANNOUNCES G8 SUCCESFUL RADIO FORUM COVERAGE *
July 10 2008 Sapporo Japan. The Japan group of the World Association if Community Radio Broadcasters, AMARC, annouced the end of a succesful ten-day coverage by the Radio Forum of the G8 summit in Tokayo and civil society alternative activities in Sapporo. The coverage was a first for AMARC Japan and was done in collaboration with AMARC global network in Asia-Pacific, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean and Europe. You can view and download the audio files, scripts, and photos from the “G8 Radio Forum 2008″ website at http://www.g8-radioforum2008.org/
This very first attempt in Japan of establishing citizens media centres and alternative coverage of the G8 summit and its related events, seminars and workshops attracted great attention from Japanese society and strongly showed the presence and possibilities offered by Japanese and world independent, citizens, alternative, and community media. Japanese Mass media covered this radio forum in more than 20 shows and articles which are not always precise but helped Japanese people knock on the door of civil society and media.
This year the team of Radio Forum was made up by 10 Japanese and 13 community radio activists coming from all regions of the AMARC Community Radio Network. They were : (1) From Africa: Bedy Mbow (Jokko FM, Senegal); Moussa Pouye (Jokko FM, Senegal); Haby Diallo (Radio Belekan Kati, Mali); (2) From Latin America:Milza Denisse (Radio - Tierra Fecunda, Peru); Carlos Aparicio (Radiobembafm, Mexico); (3) From Europe: Sascha Klinger (Germany); Viviana Uriona (Radio Attac, Germany); Valentina Vella (Amisnet, Italy); Iscra Coronelli (Italy); Carlo Cascione (Radio Vallekas, Spain); (4) From North America Jun Stinson (United States); (5) From Asia: Imam Prakoso (Combine, Indonesia); Ahn Byong Cheon (Gwanak FM, Korea).
The participants contributed more than 30 Live Programmes (Over the air, Satellite); 70 Recorded Programmes; 21 Live Phone Reports and 81 Audio&Text Materials uploaded on the web. AMARC Japan will conduct a survey to all the participants this year to have feedback and reflection to help make radio forums more efficient in the future.
Through service to members, networking and project implementation, the World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters AMARC, brings together a network of more than 4,000 community radios, Federations and community media stakeholders in more than 115 countries. The main global impact of AMARC since its creation in 1983, has been to accompany and support the establishment of a world wide community radio sector that has democratized the media sector. AMARC advocates for the right to communicate at the international, national, local and neighbourhood levels and defends and promotes the interests of the community radio movement through solidarity, networking and Cooperation. For further information visit http://www.amarc.org