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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“Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls in Urbanity & Part 2: 25 Years Later: The EZLN
Thursday, 1/17/2018, on American Indian Airwaves, 7pm to 8pm (PCT) Listen at: http://www.kpfk.org “Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Urbanity & Part 2: 25 Years Later: The National Liberation Zapatista Army (EZLN) Colonial Refusal and Resistance in Chiapas” Part 1:____________________________ Annita Lucchesi (Southern Cheyenne Nation), researcher for the Urban Indian Health Institute’s Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women & Girls: A snapshot of data from 71 urban cities in the United States Report (http://www.uihi.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Missing-and-Murdered-Indigenous-Women-and-Girls-Report.pdf) and doctoral student at the University of Lethbridge, joins us for the first segment of today’s program to discuss in detail the Report’s findings, colonial state barriers in gathering information, massive underreporting of MMIWG, how systemic the problems are, American mass media culpability in censoring/distorting the issue, updated information since the November 2018 Report publication, plus more. With approximately 71% of Native American population living in urban environments, and over the half the urban populations comprised of Indigenous women and girls, the Report’s findings demonstrate the massive underreporting of urban Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls is paramount epidemic. Report Highlights: there were only 506 cases of identifiable missing or murdered indigenous women and girls since 1943; in 2016, there were 5,712 reports of missing American Indian and Alaska Native women and girls, though the US Department of Justice’s federal, missing persons database, NamUs, only logged 116 cases. Turn in for more information. Part 2:____________________________ Jordan Marie Daneil (Lakota Nation), Native Hearts Rising Coalition, organized, along with Cheyenne Phoenix, the January 12th, 2019 “Missing and Murdered Indigenous Panel Discussion: The Epidemic, The Stories, The Solutions” held at the Eastside Café in Los Angeles, CA. Jordan Marie Daneil spoke at the event on a wide array of solutions for missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. This segment of today’s program is sound from the 1/12/2019 event. Part 3:____________________________ Dr. Faviana Hirsch, Coyote Radio Correspondent, joins us for the third segment of today’s program as part of our mini-series on “25 Years Later: The National Liberation Zapatista Army (EZLN) Colonial Refusal and Resistance in Chiapas”. The 25th Anniversary of the National Liberation Zapatista Army (EZLN) Chiapas Uprising occurred 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. American Indian Airwaves regularly broadcast every Thursday from 7pm to 8pm (PCT) on KPFK FM 90.7 in Los Angeles, 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/ or https://www.kpfk.org/on-air/american-indian-airwaves/