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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The Pathway for Indigenizing Mexico’s New Constitution
“The Pathway for Indigenizing Mexico’s New Constitution: Respecting Indigenous Peoples and Afromexican Rights in the Constitutional Reform Process” Marcos Aguilar, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Academia Semillas del Pueblo and Head Of School at Anahuacalmecac International University (http://www.dignidad.org/), joins us for this special program to provide listeners a critical and in-depth update: on the Final Forum on the Consultation for the Legal and Constitutional Reform to Address the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Afromexicans in Mexico held on August 4, 2019 at the UCLA Labor Center, the complications and successes so far in the constitutional reform process, what the potential implications are for Indigenous peoples and Afromexicans, the possibilities and struggles for a major paradigm shift towards a plurinational state in Mexico, the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, Indigeneity, Indigenous pedagogical practices as part of the “Schools” participation in the Final Forum on the Consultation for the Legal and Constitutional Reform to Address the Rights of Indigenous Peoples and Afromexicans in Mexico, plus more. The settler colonial state of Mexico’s estimates the Indigenous population is 17 million, or a little over 20% of Mexico’s population is Indigenous. The Afromexican population, Indigenous people of African descent, is approximately 1.38 million people, and Mexico has the largest Indigenous population in the Americas with 78 distinct indigenous peoples, communities, and/or nations according to the country’s Census Bureau. Moreover, in Los Angeles County, CA -where the school is located- there is an estimated one-million, plus Indigenous peoples from different original locations on Mother Earth. Thus, the trajectory, process, and struggle for reforming and Indigenizing Mexico’s constitution potentially could impact millions of Indigenous peoples throughout Mexico and surrounding Indigenous lands. 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 4pm-5pm); WCRS FM 98.3/102.1 in Columbus, OH, and on the Internet at: www.kpfk.org. Archived American Indian Airwaves programs can be heard here: https://www.kpfk.org/on-air/american-indian-airwaves/, https://www.kpfk.org/archives/, and https://soundcloud.com/burntswamp.