[NFCB] Last minute call for Women's International Day programming

[Carol Pierson]

AMARC is hoping to get more programming from North American Community stations. If you have programming, get in touch with them right away.
 

This is Gabriela Mayorquín and I am helping the AMARC Secretariat coordinate this year's March 8 braodcast-campaign. I am contacting you because we have gotten rather a slow response to our call for programs from North America. I would like to have more radios in the US and Canada contribute some of their excellent programs to this year's campaign.

This year's focus theme is "Financing for women's equality and empowerment", yet programs on other women-related subjects are also welcomed. I am including some info regarding the uploading of programs to the AMARC server. Any help to better represent North America would be very appreciated.

 
 
Tune in to the International AMARC-WIN broadcast for Women's International




Day on March 8!





February 29, 2008, Montreal - This 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 24-hour




Webcast dedicated to women and gender issues. The Webcast will begin at




1:00 am GMT on Saturday March 8. To see a more detailed schedule and for




further information visit our website www.march8.amarc.org




 
This year, the campaign focuses on "financing for gender equality and




women's empowerment", a critical issue that The Commission on the Status




of Women of the United Nations has recognized as a priority and as the




central theme during its fifty-second session in 2008. This and many other




subjects about women will be addressed in documentaries, interviews,




debates, poetry and music produced by community radio broadcasters from




all continents.




 
The Forth Annual Women's International Day campaign broadcast will feature




programming in English, French, Spanish, Arabic, Filipino and many other




languages. Individual files are available for download.  We invite all




radio stations to re-broadcast the programs by downloading them from




www.march8.amarc.org






For more information, please contact Gabriela Mayorquín, at the AMARC




International Secretariat: gabriela at si.amarc.org






AMARC is an association of community radios with members  in over 110




countries. AMARC advocates for the right to communicate at the




international, national, local and neighborhood levels; and defends and




promotes the interests of the community radio movement through solidarity,




networking and cooperation. For further information visit www.amarc.org




 
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. To find out about other WIN programs




and actions visit www.win.amarc.org




 

Carol Pierson

President and CEO

National Federation of Community Broadcasters

1970 Broadway, Suite 1000

Oakland, CA 94612

510-451-8200

carol at nfcb.org