BULLETIN NO. 10

CORRESPONDENCE

The lesbians who participated in the First Metropolitan Encounter of Lesbians and Feminist Lesbians in Search of Dialogue in Mexico City declared themselves against xenophobia, the war in Chiapas, the privatization of education, electricity, national oil resources and archeological patrimony.

They declared they were in favor of dialogue between authorities and the General Strike Committee to resolve the five-month old strike in Mexico's National Autonomous University (UNAM), and in favor of a proposal for an anti-discrimination law for sexual minorities, both in Mexico City and at a federal level.

The participants demanded access to feminist communications media, calling on these to open up spaces for articles and images about lesbians. They also demanded that all media disseminate images that dignify lesbians and to cover the range of sexual diversity. The lesbians also said they favored the right of every women to freely choose her sexual orientation.

From: Metropolitan Lesbian Meeting, Mexico City.

Brazilian Women's Radio Network

The Fifth Encounter of the Women's Radio Network was held in the city of Macapá, capital of the state of Amapá, in northern Brazil, August 11-15. More than 60 women participated in the meeting, from 13 different states, mainly from the north and north east.

Two days of training were held before the encounter, with workshops led by Tachi Ariola, coordinator of the Women's Network AMARC, on the importance of training for women. Radio personality Mara Regia DiPerna spoke of Gender and Radio; Ines Amarante on Radio Drama; Regina de Castro on radio journalism; Lise Guimares of the Gender Secretariat of the Brazilian Association of Community Radio and Tais Ladeira of Cemina spoke on the importance of community radio.

The other days were dedicated to thinking about how to maintain the Network and to study the Network's actions since the last Encounter, and defining priorities for next year's meeting. On the last day a workshop was conducted on the RITS - The Information Network of the Third Sector in the Internet, thus beginning a relationship between the Women's Radio Network and new communications technologies.

From "Cemina"
cemina@redeh.org.br