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Women's International Day -- Third Annual Internet Broadcast
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Women's International Day -- Third Annual Internet Broadcast
Date: Sat, 24
Feb 2007
Contribute to March 8th Broadcast!
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On March 8th,
the Women's International Network of the World Association of Community Radio
Broadcasters (AMARC-WIN) will celebrate Women's International Day
with a Third Annual Internet Broadcast. The 24 hour broadcast will be
dedicated to the United Nations Security Council Resolution 1325 on
Women, Peace and Security. The audio marathon will be broadcasted at http://www.march8.amarc.org
Community
radio producers from Asia-Pacific, Middle East, Africa, Europe, North America and
Latin America and the Caribbean will dedicate this day to highlight the
effort of women working for peace and security. The programs featured will
include documentaries, interviews, debates, poetry and music and much more.
This
multilingual broadcast campaign mobilizes community radios around a global issue and
encourages them to use new communication technologies such as the Internet to
extend the reach of their words.
Radio stations
around the globe are invited to download the audio files from the AMARC March 8
website and broadcast them in their radio stations during the whole month of
March 2007.
Share your
radio programs; contribute to this years March 8 radio marathon. AMARC WIN is
looking forward to your pre-recorded material that focuses on women, peace and
security. Material on other subjects will also be welcomed. The language,
length and format of the audio programs are discretionary. Please send us your
material in MP3, OGG or WAV format. For the broadcast on March 8 we need it
by March 2, any material sent later will also be posted on the website
throughout the whole month of March 2007. For more information visit: http://www.march8.amarc.org or contact
Sophie Toupin at sophie(at)amarc(dot)org.
AMARC is an
international non-governmental organization serving the community radio
movement, and linking more than 3,000 community radios in over 110 countries.
AMARC aims to support, defend and promote the interests of community
broadcasters through solidarity and international cooperation.
The AMARC
Women's International Network is a large assembly of women communicators
working to ensure women's right to communicate through and within the
community radio movement.