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Colombia is a besieged and deeply misunderstood country. While hostage negotiations and the war on drugs make headlines, indigenous Colombians are actively building an alternative battleground for justice and peace-and they're using the airwaves to do it. Award-winning journalist Mario A. Murillo introduces the world to Colombia's popular media movement, a fierce and creative force of change in this war-torn nation, linking the global struggles against media, corporate, and state plutocracy. Voices of Resistance vividly chronicles an indigenous-led, broad-based national effort to effectively transform society through media and organizing.The storytelling focus in these pages is indigenous radio, particularly the community-built media hub Radio Payu'mat. In one example of grassroots innovation, an indigenous reporter rides alongside a march on a radio-cicleta-a tandem bicycle with a loudspeaker and small transmitter. His bike-radio sends reports back to a student-run radio station, which relays that signal to Radio Payu'mat's 2,000-watt transmitter. As a result, a much larger audience suddenly has access to an event typically ignored by Colombia's commercial media.Unfolding against a backdrop of corporate globalization, militarization, and a racist media and political system, Murillo documents a community's resistance to a long history of undemocratic media that has deliberately excluded marginalized voices from the national airwaves. Voices of Resistance is the first book in English to reveal the convergence of a powerful movement with a national campaign for media and, ultimately, social justice.Mario A. Murillo is a host of WBAI's Wake Up Call and the author of Colombia and the United States and Islands of Resistance.

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Award-winning journalist Mario A. Murillo has worked in commercial, public, and community radio for over 22 years. He hosts and produces Wake Up Call on WBAI-Pacifica in New York. An associate professor at Hofstra, Murillo is also the author of Colombia and the United States and Islands of Resistance and contributes to El Diario/La Prensa and NACLAReport

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