the undersigned, community media, alternative and popular, social organizations, unions, student, political, human rights and cultural journalists and communicators workers and fighters / as in our people, we support the proposed regulation of Law 26,522 of Audiovisual Communication Services developed by the National Alternative Media Network (NRE).
consider these proposals embody the same spirit with which we have participated in various areas of public discussion of the law, which is simply to give battle for the democratization of communication.
To make this possible it becomes imperative that community media, alternative and popular actors are clearly defined as to which the law grants them specific rights and obligations.
Because it is these media that by its characteristics consolidate the processes of participation, discussion and decision of social sectors to which the model marginalized in various ways (economic, social and political). These media are born to communicate, this is the essence of their existence. And conceive of communication as a process of social participation. So be close to and with the community and this is reflected in the social ownership of means, such as construction of its programming and management.
The Proposed Rulemaking by the NRE axis makes the following points from the articles of the Law
1 - Explicit recognition of "community radio" - defined in art. 4 of the Act, as different actors within the privately owned providers of nonprofit (regulating the art.21)
2 - Bidding differentiated for "community stations" based on criteria of cultural roots and community involvement in the same (regulating the art. 33)
3 - Reserve, at least - 50 percent of frequencies and for the non-profit entities, for "Community stations (regulating the art. 89 in. f))
4 - awarding of licenses to" community stations "that have already precarious and provisional approval are on the air. (Regulating the art. 159)
5 - That the Enforcement Authority (AFSCA) to exhaust all instances and the available prior to declare the illegality of the "community radio" (regulating the art. 116)
6 - To be exempt from taxes under the law to "community radio" and to expand economic aid to these stations by allocating part of the fines levied by the implementing authority. (Regulating the art. 13 and art. 94)
7 - That in the event that the Enforcement Authority (AFSCA) to solve the frequency shift of a "community radio station," he rigged to ensure costs modification of technical parameters (regulating the art. 90)
The NRE raised in its public documents not only the importance of regulation but also the requirement to participate in the process of preparing the same and so is doing through this proposal that is essentially political.
Freedom of expression and communication rights are guaranteed not only by avoiding any kind of monopoly (private or government), but safeguarding the rights of all sectors, but especially those that build a daily supportive communication, participatory and pluralistic.
The struggle to democratize communication does not end with the new law. Now begins a new stage, a new step in the long battle we have been participating for years.
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