Monthly Archives: April 2022

WACC partners highlight digital challenges, opportunities for Latin America community media

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Jorge Guachamin, director of CORAPE- Ecuador, shared lessons from his organization’s work in supporting community radio stations across the country. In particular, Guachamin noted CORAPE’s efforts to empower migrants and host communities in the border region between Ecuador and Colombia, an initiative that WACC has been supporting since 2020. Genesis Cruz, coordinator of Voces Nuestras-Costa Rica, spoke about her organization’s… Read more »

Study of how Indigenous people are represented in Canadian media shows room for improvement

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An analysis of news coverage of the Wet’suwet’en and Coastal GasLink Pipeline conflict by nine Canadian media outlets shows that they have not only reported the issue differently, but that only two of them practiced a “more neutral and objective” reporting, says a recent media monitoring study conducted by three University of Toronto students, in collaboration with WACC Global. “How… Read more »

Media Activism Against Extractivism

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04 Apr 2022 Media Activism Against Extractivism Posted at 00:00h in Comment by Saskia Rowley Social movements need to embrace participatory media practices to organize in their struggles against an extractivist economic model A hugely significant bill has been making its way through the Brazilian congress. According to Amazon Watch, Bill 191/2020 is a piece of legislation that “in addition… Read more »