[Imc-london-audio] Radio TADAMON! - Amplifying Lebanon's Struggles for Social Justice.

[Stefan Christoff]

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Date: Tue, 16 May 2006 00:15:16 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tadamon! <tadamon at resist.ca>


Radio TADAMON! - Amplifying Lebanon's Struggles for Social Justice....

Tadamon! [Solidarity!, in Arabic] is a Montreal-based collective of 
social-justice organizers & media activists, working to build relationships of 
solidarity with grassroots political movements for social and economic justice 
between Beirut & Montreal....

In May 2006, Tadamon! launched a monthly 1 hour radio program on CKUT 90.3fm, 
which broadcasts in Montreal the 1st Tuesday of each month between 5 & 6pm 
local time & is uploaded to the Internet for rebroadcast on community / public 
broadcasters throughout Canada, Lebanon & the world.

Radio TADAMON! will address the historical & contemporary political situation 
in Lebanon at a time when the country & the entire region is undergoing 
momentous political change. Political struggles for social justice in Lebanon & 
Montreal will be highlighted through interviews, documentaries, audio collage & 
reports that emphasize voices that go unheard in the corporate or state-run 
media....

Radio TADAMON! aims to highlight the political, social & cultural work of 
grassroots movements in Lebanon involved in projects, campaigns & organizing in 
support of social and economic justice, equality and human rights for ALL 
people living in Lebanon.

During the summer of 2006, members of Tadamon! Montreal will be travelling to 
Lebanon as part of an international solidarity delegation. Arriving in Beirut 
in June 2006, the delegation will focus on developing connections of 
cooperation & solidarity between grassroots political organizing & independent 
media networks in Beirut and Montreal....

As part of this delegation, Tadamon! will be producing it's monthly radio 
program from Lebanon for broadcast in Montreal, Lebanon & throughout the world, 
in collaboration with member stations of the National Campus Community Radio 
Association of Canada & Free Speech Radio News [FSRN].


* To Download / Listen to Radio TADAMON!: On Tuesday May 2nd, Tadamon! 
broadcast it's first radio program on CKUT 90.3 fm in Montreal.... Below are 
links / information on programming from Radio TADAMON!'s first broadcast, which 
was produced in collaboration with the Electronic Intifada.

Audio Documentary - Burj el-Shemali Refugee Camp
Radio TADAMON!, the Electronic Intifada

Listen to a radio documentary on Burj el-Shemali refugee camp, located on the 
outskirts of the southern Lebanese city of Tyre and home to upwards of 20 000 
Palestinian refugees. Recorded in Burj el-Shemali during the summer of 2005, 
this documentary focuses on the present day political, economic & social 
situation facing the Palestinian residents of the camp, within the context of 
ongoing major political changes taking place in Lebanon.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article4686.shtml

Audio Interview: From Montreal to Ein el-Hilweh
Radio TADAMON!, the Electronic Intifada

Listen to an interview with Ahmed Abdel Majeed, a stateless Palestinian born 
and raised in Ein el-Hilweh refugee camp in southern Lebanon, who was deported 
from Montreal Canada in November 2003. In Montreal Ahmed was an active member 
of the Coalition Against the Deportation of Palestinian Refugees, a group of 
Palestinians in Montreal organizing against deportation by Canadian immigration 
authorities.

http://electronicintifada.net/v2/article4688.shtml

[This radio documentary & interview were recorded in Beirut Lebanon & produced 
in Montreal by Sawsan Kalache & Stefan Christoff of the Independent Media 
Center of Beirut & Tadamon!....]

Radio TADAMON! - Broadcast Announcement:

Download a radio announcement outlining the Radio TADAMON! project, which 
features an outline of the radio program & clips from well know journalists & 
social activists in Lebanon.

http://radio.indymedia.org/news/2006/05/9817.php


* Broadcasting Radio TADAMON!: Currently Tadamon! is seeking to connect with 
community & public radio broadcasters & Internet podcasters / broadcasters who 
are interested in broadcasting Radio TADAMON!. In order to facilitate wide 
distribution / broadcast of the program, Tadamon! will provide high-speed 
Internet download access to ALL features, interviews & documentaries broadcast 
on the program through our website & other independent media outlets on the 
Internet.

Please contact Tadamon! to receive broadcast details, schedule & to discuss 
rebroadcast....


* Supporting Radio TADAMON!: If you are interested in getting involved with 
Radio TADAMON!, or would like to support Tadamon!'s independant media work 
politically or financially, please get in touch....! We are seeking political 
endorsements for our June 2006 delegation to Lebanon & financial solidarity for 
our work in Lebanon.


in Solidarity, Tadamon! Montreal
tadamon[at]resist.ca / 00 514 690 8499


TADAMON!: Basis of Unity....

Tadamon! [Solidarity!, in Arabic] is a Montreal-based collective of 
social-justice organizers & media activists, working to build relationships of 
solidarity with grassroots political movements for social and economic justice 
between Beirut & Montreal.

In the context of historic political changes taking place in Lebanon, Tadamon! 
through it's political work, aims to support struggles for social justice and 
human rights of ALL people living in Lebanon, through direct coordination and 
organization between activists in Beirut & Montreal.

In Montreal, Tadamon! aims to organize within the Lebanese Diaspora, through 
popular education, cultural work and political action, which address struggles 
facing the Lebanese community, such as immigration, racism, poverty and labour 
rights.

Through organizing work both locally and internationally, Tadamon! aligns 
itself with social justice movements in Lebanon, Canada and internationally 
which are anti-capitalist & anti-authoritarian in nature.

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