American Indian Airwaves (AIA), an Indigenous public affairs radio porgram and, perhaps, the longest running Native American radio program within both Indigenous and the United States broadcast communication histories. Also, AIA broadcast weekly every Thursday from 7pm to 8pm (PCT) on KPFK FM 90.7 Los Angeles (http://www.kpfk.org). Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aiacr American Indian Airwaves is produced in Burntswamp Studios and started broadcasting on March 1st, 1973 on KPFK in order to give Indigenous peoples and their respective First Nations a voice about the continuous struggles against Settler Colonialism and imperialism by the occupying and settler societies often referred to as the United States, Canada, Mexico, and the Latin and South America countries located therein. American Indian Airwaves operates as an all-volunteer collective with no corporate sponsorship and no underwriters.
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“25 Years Later: The National Liberation Zapatista Army (EZLN) Colonial Refusal & Resistance”
Thursday, 1/3/2018, on American Indian Airwaves, 7pm to 8pm (PCT) Listen at: http://www.kpfk.org “25 Years Later: The National Liberation Zapatista Army (EZLN) Colonial Refusal and Resistance in Chiapas” Richard Stahler-Sholk, Professor of Political Science at Eastern Michigan University (https://www.emich.edu/polisci/instructors/sholk.php) joins us for an exclusive one-hour special program on the 25th Anniversary of the National Liberation Zapatista Army (EZLN) Chiapas Uprising occurring on January 1st, 1994 (“Mexico”), the same day the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) went into effect. Critical issues of reflection, change, and progress on the EZLN’s decolonial struggles and practices will be discussed along with Mexico’s newly elected “leftist” president, Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) of the National Regeneration Movement (MORENA), and its implications for Indigenous peoples and their respective First Nations and responses by the National Indigenous Congress created by the EZLN in 1996. Moreover, issues regarding the adversities and impacts of the United States, Mexico, and Canada (USMCA) North America Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) replacement of the NAFTA of 1994 challenging Indigenous sovereignty, the AMLO administration’s questionable honoring of the San Andres Accords signed between the EZLN and the Mexican government in 1996, the AMLO’s administration bolstering militarization (i.e. military budget increase and the creation of a new National Guard that will be composed of between 120,000 and 150,000 members by 2021), opposition to the $6 Billion Maya Train Project which will operate through Palenque, Chiapas; the role of the Indigenous peoples providing humanitarian relief to political refugees, plus a lot more will be covered on tonight’s program. American Indian Airwaves regularly broadcast every Thursday from 7pm to 8pm (PCT) on KPFK FM 90.7 in Los Angles, CA; FM 98.7 in Santa Barbara, CA; FM 99.5 in China Lake, CA; FM 93.7 in North San Diego, CA; FM 99.1 KLBP in Long Beach, CA (Mondays 3pm-4pm); WCRS FM 98.3/102.1 in Columbus, OH, and on the Internet at www.kpfk.org. Missed shows for the past 60 days can be accessed at: http://archive.kpfk.org/