Threats against alternative media

The “Ké Huelga Radio” is an free radio project, broadcasting in Mexico City at
102.9 FM which began in 1999, during the early weeks of the student strike of the
National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM, the biggest
higher-education-institution in Latin America) for the defense of gratuity and
quality of public education at every level. Since then, the radio station has kept
on as an alternative communication effort, looking to project the voice of the
different social movements and to propose another way to use mass media without
commercial formats that reproduce –all of them- and endlessly repeat the principles
of consumerism. We experiment with different ways of communicating and formats of
communication.


Recent experiences have proven the importance of having means of massive
communication as a tool for strengthening social resistance (for example recent
events in Oaxaca, Atenco and regarding “The Other campaign”). As a result of this,
the “Ké Huelga Radio” has been subject to threats in different occasions: we have
received threats against members of the radio, intimidating e-mails and
interference over our broadcasting frequency in the past 4 months. The tone of the
aggressions keeps rising as, last week (September 6th, 2007), we received a threat
of eviction by the federal government of Mexico. It has been said that force may be
used in order to dismantle the station and it is possible that apprehension orders
have been released against members of the project.


This isn’t an isolated case since, in the past weeks, attacks against student
organizations within the UNAM have increased, by university-authority-supported
groups and police. An example of this, are the threats against Regeneración radio,
another radio project from CCH Vallejo (one of the high school campuses of the
UNAM), not to mention the noticeable police presence throughout the whole
university.


With all that has been said in mind, we would like to inform that our FM
transmission will be suspended for a few days while we correct some technical
problems and we call for social and peoples organizations, workers in social
struggle, students, members of “La Otra Campaña” and other independent media to
repudiate and help us inform about these aggressions against our radio project and
to keep in touch with us through our live transmissions and by means of our e-mail
address  kehuelga@kehuelga.org in order to keep organized and collectively fight
back the repression that longs to silence our voices here in Mexico.


Ké Huelga Radio
Free and social radio
Radio against power
102.9 FM
http: // www.kehuelga.org