MANILA, Philippines – Thirty years since the People Power non-violent uprising that overthrew the corrupt regime of Ferdinand Marcos and martial law, Filipinos head to the polls. The anti-establishment mayor of Davao city, Rodrigo Duterte, is favoured to win the…
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Dictatorship & Democracy in Philippines – CBC The World This Weekend
Tagged with: 1986, 2016 elections, adam bemma, CBC The World This Weekend, EDSA, Ferdinand Marcos, Ferdinand Marcos Jr., Grace Poe, Manila, People Power, Philippines, regime, Revolution, Rodrigo Duterte
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Tanzania: Cattle trails become dangerous erosion ‘super-highways’
A community reporting project with Tanzanian high school students, and aspiring journalists, Loomoni Morwo, 19, Agnes Daniel, 18, for FRW. Jeremiah Chuma stares down into a chasm. He is standing only a stone’s throw from his family home in Ngarash,…
Tagged with: adam bemma, Agnes Daniel, Arusha, climate change, community journalism, community reporting, community reporting project, Ellie Turner, Geography teacher, Indigenous Education Fund of Tanzania, Loomoni Morwo, media development, Monduli, Orkeeswa Secondary School, soil erosion, tanzania
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Bringing Gender Equity to the Airwaves in South Sudan
Tune into 88FM in Malualkon, South Sudan, and likely you’ll hear more than the news and music. You’ll hear the voices of community role models. “I want to be a mirror of my nation,” said Aquilina Adhel, a journalist from…
Tagged with: adam bemma, airwaves, community radio, gender equality, gender equity, Internews, media development, radio, South Sudan, The Radio Community, trainer, training, USAID, women, women journalists
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Montréal, tales of gentrification in a bohemian city (redux)
Montreal, tales of gentrification in a bohemian city. Montréal: histoire de la gentrification d’une ville bohème. This 80 minute documentary examines the rapid push for condo development in Montréal. Residents speak about how this development is having an effect in…
The proliferation of e-waste in Africa (full length documentary)
Used – second hand- electronics arrive on the shores of Ghana to help bridge Africa’s digital divide. Much of what arrives from North America, Europe and Australia is beyond repair and ends up at an Accra slum known as “Sodom…
Tagged with: accra, adam bemma, Africa, cbc radio, digital divide, digital dumping ground, e-waste, electronic waste, environmental issues, Ghana, radio documentary, slum, sodom and gomorrah, the world this weekend
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Rights Radio Report #3: War & Peace games
Every year at McGill University in Montreal, Canada, political science students undergo an intensive peacebuilding exercise. This is all part of a class to train students how to overcome bureaucratic obstacles post-conflict. McGill professor Rex Brynen created a unique peacebuilding…
Tagged with: adam bemma, brynania sim, canada, human rights radio, mcgill university, montreal, radio documentary, war and peace games
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