Cultural Survival aims to strengthen Indigenous women radio journalists’ leadership and improve their participation in decision-making spaces. Three years ago, we initiated a project "for a more visible world in an invisible world", a process of capacity building and accompaniment in community radio journalism with an intercultural approach to gender adapted to the reality of Central America. In late 2018, we extended the project to Colombia and Mexico.
Zyania Roxana Santiago Aguilar (Zapotec), seventeen, is one of Cultural Survival’s Indigenous Community Media Youth Fellows from Radio Calenda, La Voz de Valle in Oaxaca, México (pictured above in center). Zyania was only three years old when she began at Radio Calenda, leading the creation of children’s program until she was 12. In 2007, she won second place in the "AMARC-60" anniversary contest.
Sócrates Vásquez García (Ayuujk Jääy, Pueblo Ayuujk) joins Cultural Survival as Community Media Grants Coordinator.
MINI SUBVENCIÓN DE ACOMPAÑAMIENTO PARA LA SOLICITUD DE UNA CONCESIÓN DE USO SOCIAL INDÍGENA
Cultural Survival se complace en anunciar su primera Convocatoria de propuestas para el Proyecto de Mini Subvenciones de Acompañamiento para la Solicitud de una Concesión de Uso Social Indígena de Radiodifusión Sonora (Radio) dirigida a radios comunitarias, organizaciones Indígenas o comunidades y pueblos Indígenas.
Sergio Rivera Hernández Indígena Nahua de Puebla, México, fue desaparecido de manera forzada el 23 de agosto cuando se dirigía a su comunidad.
Zapotec, Wixarica, Odami, and Nahuatl are four of the 68 Indigenous languages spoken in Mexico. Cultural Survival supports many Indigenous community radio stations around the world, including two organizations that are producing radio programs to be broadcast in these languages.
Cultural Survival condemns the murder of the Purépecha environmental activist Guadalupe Campanur Tapia, whose body was found on January 16, 2018 in the municipality of Checrán, Michocán, Mexico. She was strangled to death by two unidentified killers. Investigators have not indicated that Campanur’s death was due to her activism, but they have not ruled it out either.
Land Acknowledgement
We acknowledge that we are headquartered on Massachusett land, in Cambridge, MA, and we thank the past, current, and future Indigenous stewards of this territory.