Music: Indigenous Radio Benefit with Maneja Beto (fwd)

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Music: Indigenous Radio Benefit with Maneja Beto

http://www.austin360.com/event/events/Entertainment/event?hidActionName=PreviewEvent&eventid=66830

>From the Promoter: Austin-based Colectivo Caracol invites the public to
a benefit to a benefit on November 11, 2005 for three indigenous
community radio stations in Southern Mexico. The event begins at 8:30
p.m. at Ruta Maya International Headquarters, 3601 South Congress Ave.,
with music by DJ E Be Lo, Alteza, and Maneja Beto. The proceeds will go
directly to three indigenous community radio stations whose organizers
live here in Austin and attend the University of Texas. A five dollar
donation is requested.

The Colectivo Caracol, who also produce the program Radio Caracol airing
Thursdays on KVRX UT Student Radio, have organized the November 11
benefit to kick off a campaign of news and technical exchange between
community radio programs in Mexico and Austin. The three stations
broadcast in Spanish and local indigenous languages. They are Radio
Antzetik, a Tsotsil language station in Oventik, Chiapas; Radio Ayuuk,
a Mixe language station in Guichicovi, Oaxaca; and the newly forming
Radio Cieneguilla, which will broadcast in Chatino.

Said Emiliana Cruz, a Chatina woman from Cieneguilla and UT-Austin
graduate student, "This radio station will support the Chatino language
revitalization project begun two years ago." The three stations have the
common objective of keeping the local people informed and allowing
communities to have their own means of communication. The three
stations are part of a new wave of native language stations that began
in 2003.