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>The following is from HAITI INFO. For more information contact them
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>                 *   *   *   HAITI INFO   *   *   *
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>            News direct from the people and organizations
>             of Haiti's democratic and popular movement
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>                    4 May 1996, Vol. 4, #13
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> RADIO VKM INAUGURATED
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>LES CAYES, May 1 - Over three hundred friends and supporters spent
>today celebrating the opening of Radyo Vwa Klodi Mizo (Voice of
>Claudie Museau Radio), the memory of Jean-Claude Museau (a teacher
>and a founder of MUPAC who was beaten to the point of death by
>soldiers and released to die in January, 1992) and celebrating the
>democratic and popular struggle in general. In addition, over and
>over, participants denounced the policies of the government, the
>lack of justice and widespread impunity, and U.S. domination of
>Haitian affairs.
>
>Arriving on foot, on bicycles and in cars from as far away as
>Gonaives, men, women and children, and Museau's father, gathered
>at the La Cayenne restaurant and listened to members of a
>teacher's union, non-governmental organizations, poets, musicians
>and local leaders, and then visited the new station, located over
>a small restaurant. RVKM's 20-watt transmitter covers the city and
>nearby region with a small rooftop antenna. RVKM hopes to someday
>get a bigger transmitter and install an antenna on a mountain.
>RVKM is a project of by Mouvman Inite Pep Okay (MUPAC) and Mouvman
>Peyizan Sid. [See Haiti Info v.4 #7 and last issue]
>
>"A Different Kind of Communication"
>
>For three hours, the assembly listened, sang and danced before
>walking along the shore to the studio. After a moment of silence,
>a local teacher explained that the radio is a "community radio
>that will work for and in the sense of the people of Les Cayes"
>and that it is also "a popular radio, a radio of the people... it
>is the hope and pride of a valiant people." RVKM's slogan is: "A
>different kind of communication for a different kind of society."
>
>After explaining the radio's history, a MUPAC member listed its
>objectives, which include to create space for popular expression,
>enable everyone to experience popular culture, encourage popular
>talent, facilitate cultural exchange and interchange and
>solidarity with other popular struggles, provide space for the
>women's movement and to "fight  reactionary ideas" with
>information and education. Other speakers included those from the
>non-governmental organizations that helped RVKM start up.
>
>Anti-imperialist, anti-neoliberal
>
>MUPAC and other groups chose May 1, commemorated as "Day of Work
>and of Agriculturalists" in Haiti, because they wanted to stress
>the radio's link to the worker's struggle. A member of a nearby
>Tet Kole Ti Peyizan Ayisyen chapter had an angry statement from
>"the people who work the land" to "the people who always bluff."
>Reading, with difficulty, he said: "We are shocked to hear
>President Preval and all his acolytes preaching the salvation of
>privatization... We know there is no country where privatization
>brought the people a solution!... We ask all organizations... to
>meet, to rise up across the country, and we say, 'Down with the
>pets, the restaveks (child-slaves) of the Americans! Down with
>privatization! Long live the people's struggle!'"
>
>A highlight of the ceremony were the poems and songs.  Tet Kole
>singers sang "Haiti is not for sale" and "The Criminals must be
>judged." IJA, a group of young "engages" (commited to the popular
>movement) musicians, sang "Yankee Hypocrisy" about the U.N., the
>O.A.S. and U.S. State Department, and an homage to Museau.
>
>RADA (Rassemblement d'Artistes) presented poems and songs, one
>celebrating Museau, another calling for people to continue the
>struggle. Guitarist and singer Betoni, sang a "Mr. President"
>which warns: "If you are on the people's side in their demands, if
>you respect your promises, we'll yell 'Long live!'" but "If you
>trick us, we will not fail to yell 'Down with the President!'" The
>song covers land reform, privatization and other issues.  Fanm
>Vanyan of Les Cayes ended the ceremony with a rousing "We will not
>give up the battle," where everyone sang and danced along before
>processing to downtown.
>________________________________________________________
>Bruce Girard
>AMARC - Pulsar
>Email: bgirard@pulsar.org.ec
>http://www.web.apc.org/amarc/pulsar.html
>Tel: +(593-2) 525-521    Fax/Tel: +(593-2) 542-818
>Avenida America 3584, Casilla 17-01-1171, Quito, Ecuador
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