Cultural Survival stands in support of Bill 4087, Community Media Law, which is currently being considered in the Guatemalan Congress. A vote on this bill could be scheduled for as soon as Tuesday, February 9, 2016 and in order for it to pass, 105 of the 158 members of congress must vote in its favor. Bill 4087 would modify the existing Guatemalan telecommunications laws to allow access to non-profit community radio licenses for each municipality in Guatemala.
Riding the tides of Guatemala’s recent political uprising, congressional allies in Guatemala have managed to insert the Community Media Bill 4087 onto the agenda in Congress this week in Guatemala City.
La Iniciativa de Ley 4087 de Medios de Comunicación Comunitaria finalmente está avanzando en el Congreso de la República con el apoyo de la diputada Sandra Moran, (Bancada Convergencia) y el diputado Amílcar Pop, (Bancada Winaq). La Iniciativa 4087, que legalizaría la radio comunitaria en el país, fue presentado originalmente en 2009, pero se ha estancado durante años.
Photo by Felipe Canova. Forum on Land grabbing in Latin America, La Ceiba, 2011.
From January 16-18, 2016, Cultural Survival, Fundación Comunicándonos, AMARC (Central American Sub region), Voces Indígenas Panamá, the General Guna Congress, Asociación Sobrevivencia Cultural and Indigenous community radio representatives will bring together representa
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.
