From the group REinFORM we want to show ours more energetic protest
by the action of the Jefatura Provincial de Telecomunicaciones of
Asturias about the community radios.This department (under the authority
of the Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Commerce) has started to send
letters to the residents of the flats where there is located the
necessary equipment to broadcast of some community radios of the region.
In those letters, the authorities required the neighbours to tell them
who is the owner of the equipment and they are threatened with possible
fines of up to 500.000 euros. We consider that the aim of this action is
to put pressure on the neighbours and to scare them because of giving
their consent to the installation of the free radios equipment.
This situation is in keeping with declarations of the Jefatura Provincial
to some of the affected free radios, in which it plans to close these
social media that have been many years broadcasting without the
possibility to obtain a license.
We understand that those letters to the neighbours are harassment and
criminalizations actions towars free and communitary Asturian radios by
an illegal situation that is responsibility of the autonomous and state
governments. Asturias has an important tradition of social media from
the beginning of 80’s. Despite of the essential work developed by these
citizen communication projects in the fields of promotion of the Asturian
culture, the citizen participation, the pluralism and the exercise of the
freedom of expression; the different governments have evaded the legal
recognition of these broadcasters, condemning them to an uncertainty and
defenselessness situation.
Instead of threatening the free and community radios, it is necessary
that the government puts into practice the article 4.1 of the Law 7/2010,
of 31th March, General of the Audiovisual Communication, that indicates:
“All the people have the right to receive the audiovisual communication
throught plural media, as much public, as comercial, as communitary, that
reflects ideological, political and cultural pluralism of the society”.
By all these WE DECLARED:
-Our support and solidarity with free and communitary Asturian radios.
-We demand the immediate cessation of pressure and harassment towards
free and communitary Asturian radios.
-The recognition of the work developed by these broadcasters and the
planning of licences as an obligation performance of the article 32.2
of Law 7/2010.
REinFORM
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This is a call from the Spanish Indignados in Amsterdam, asking for
support and solidarity to the Community radios in Asturias. Those
who wish to help and support the action, could send the following
communiqué to the address below:
Jefatura Provincial de Telecomunicaciones.
C/ Campomanes, 14
33008 OVIEDO
Teléfono: +34 985 21 12 90 Fax: +34 985 20 92 53
