Mutsvangwa Lashes out at Journalists

By Raymond Maingire

The Zimbabwe Times – Zimbabwe’s former ambassador to China, Christopher Mutsvangwa, has branded Zimbabwean journalists a bunch of ignoramuses who are quick to criticize their government at the instigation of western powers.

The remarks by Mutsvangwa, a fierce defender of President Robert Mugabe’s controversial rule, invited angry protests from Harare journalists who felt he was trying to distract them from writing about the excesses of the Zimbabwean leader.

Speaking during a panel discussion which focused on the media environment under the envisaged Zimbabwe Media Commission (ZMC) at the national press club, the Quill Club Friday, Mutsvangwa said local journalists had little knowledge about American politics but were quick to eulogize it while criticizing their own.

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Gathering Evidence Effectively Guide

There has been a greater interest in asylum issues in the media, particurlarly the national newspapers. Although there is some reporting which is sympathetic to the plight of asylum seekers and refugees and recognises the contributions they can make, many stories highlight the presence of what are commonly termed ‘bogus asylum seekers’ who, it is argued, claim asylum even though they have not suffered persecution, in order to seek ‘a better life’.

The language of sections of the press can be mainly or frequently unbalanced, negative and in some respects potentially alarming.The press have the right to raise issues of interest to their readers but it is important to balance this against the need to respect human rights and the safety and cohesion of communities.

The Information Centre about Asylum and Refugees in the UK (ICAR) yesterday(09/12/09) published a document which is a rough guide to assist those seeking knowledge about UK asylum seekers and refugees to navigate secondary sources of data and information.

Many postgraduate students have chosen to focus their research on analysis of media coverage of asylum issues. Most local and national newspapers have their own websites. Some only have their
articles of the day online, others have free or pay-to-access online archives. A Google search will reveal most newspapers’ website details. A number of newspapers and broadcasters, such as the BBC and the Guardian, have dedicated sections on asylum and immigration issues.

A number of organisations and projects dedicated to interrogating the nature of media
representation of asylum issues (including HAT News – see page 35 of the guide)have also been established and these are a useful source for research reports and secondary analysis and commentary.

The guide, Gathering Evidence Effectively has been organised by type of information provider. The sections are as follows:
1. Government and statutory sector
2. Academia
3. Legal bodies
4. Voluntary sector
5. Inter-governmental organisations
6. Media
7. Think tanks
8. Professional bodies
9. Private research companies
10. Portals and information hubs
11. Archives of raw data for secondary analysis
12. Listservs

To read click Gathering Evidence Effectively

For more information visit the ICAR website.

Wilf Mbanga: ‘Zimbabwean government realised that burning the news attracts world headlines’

By Chris Kay

In Zimbabwe there are nervous and wishful whispers that the banned independent press may return. Yet, Wilf Mbanga, the self-expelled editor of The Zimbabwean newspaper based in the UK, is in no rush to fly home to the troubled country.

“It’s safe here for me. I don’t have to worry about a knock on the door at 4am in the morning,” he says.

A critic of President Robert Mugabe’s regime, Mbanga was arrested in 2001. In 2003 the government shut down Zimbabwe’s only independent national newspaper, The Daily News, where he was the publisher’s managing director.

“[The state-controlled media] declared me an enemy of the people,” he says. The same year he fled to the Netherlands before settling in the UK.

After working as a journalist for 40 years, Mbanga launched The Zimbabwean, a weekly newspaper, starting off with a modest circulation of 5,000 copies in the UK and South Africa.

“Zimbabweans in the diaspora are desperate for information from back home,” he explains.

Realising the popularity of The Zimbabwean, the print run increased to 200,000 and began to send truckloads into Zimbabwe itself. It soon became the country’s best selling newspaper.

The Zimbabwean is now at the heart of the struggle to dislodge Mugabe’s iron grip on the country.

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Uncovered: assessing media and communications needs and capacity of marginalised communities

Aims of the study

This report is the result of research to assess the capacity and training needs of specifi c groups in the area of media and communications and, secondly, to examine underlying attitudes towards the media amongst those groups.

It was commissioned so that Media Trust could design and deliver courses tailored to the requirements of refugees, migrant workers, black and minority ethnic (BME) and faith groups and those living in isolated rural areas.

Read full (ICAR et al., Oct. 2009) [text]

Exploring belonging through film

By Jenny Bourne

The projects are of differing sizes, address different age groups and have had access to different amounts of funding. But all have in common the ambition to work with young people in multiracial and deprived urban areas, to impart knowledge and skills about the media and, through film, to enhance young people’s awareness of their heritage and therefore their place in society today.

I’m Black and I’m proud

One of the first to embark on such a venture was BEAT – the Black Experience Archive Trust – in 2006. (See IRR News story: ‘Black Experience Archive Trust launch’) With backing from the Heritage Lottery Fund, members of Migrant Media – better known for hard-hitting documentaries on migrant labour exploitation and deaths in custody – worked through the Parkview Academy and the West Green Learning Centre in Tottenham (north London) with over forty Black young pupils of 12 or 13 years old. Meeting for two hours after school each week, the pupils were trained in digital media skills by Ken Fero and Soulyeman Garcia. At the same time discussions were held with the young people about the importance of knowing one’s heritage and they were encouraged to investigate their own communities to uncover the contributions that local Black people had made. Interviews were then set up and filmed with local Black people talking of their experiences in Britain – which ranged from being a pilot in the war to being part of a local rap crew.

BEAT co-founder Ken Fero explained how important it was for the young people to retrieve their own history. ‘When the anniversary of Windrush happened [1998] it was like if you didn’t come over on that ship, you didn’t exist. This project is all about pride in Black heritage which has been ignored for so long.’

In March 2007, the young pupils were taken to see the play ‘Black Heroes in the Hall of Fame’ at the Hackney Empire, an important theatre in east London, after which they had the chance to interview some of the cast members. And the comments of the youngsters were telling. From Sheddean, ‘At first I thought the performances were going to be boring but then when I saw a boy that was rapping I changed my mind. The bit I enjoyed most was the part when Malcolm X said “An eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth” … I found the whole day interesting and I have learned to be proud of who I am and my skin colour. As they said in the play “I’m Black and I’m proud”.’ From Carlynne, ‘The Black Heroes in the Hall of Fame was the most fun, exciting thing that I have ever see because it was about the black people in the days and how they lived. It was very hard, but they tried their best to cope.’ From Stephanie, ‘I was happy I went, impressed and inspired. This is the best source of information to learn black history … Mostly black people made a significant contribution to the world like we started music and dancing and if it were not for our contribution to England and America would not be the super-powers they are now.’

This educative outing obviously left a deep impression. As well as interviewing local people, the young people also wrote accompanying material about their own family and a Black person they found inspiring. This resulted in an exhibition of autobiographical panels from some of the teenagers who had taken part, with heroes ranging from Marcus Garvey to Thierry Henry (then a striker for north London club Arsenal). In June 2007 the BEAT community history of three CD Roms with nine hours of oral histories was given to the London Metropolitan Archives and a website containing a selection of video interviews and information about the project was also launched.

I’m here to stay

Manifesta, worked during 2008 along similar themes to BEAT, but on a larger scale and across Europe, with support from the Calouste Gulbenkian foundation, Portuguese Television RTP2 and the Equality and Human Rights Commission on its ‘Belonging’ project. Manifesta was set up by Institute of Race Relations’ chair Colin Prescod and cultural worker Marion Vargaftig, who have collaborated since 1996 to develop (marginalised) youth voices, using artistic expression. So ‘Belonging’ worked with youth, with the arts, with new media and with marginalised communities.

‘Belonging’ was a film project with over twenty 15 to 19-year-old young people from culturally mixed backgrounds in Newham (an area of east London in which many minority ethnic groups, including recent refugees, have settled), Casal da Boba (where many families from Cape Verde have lived in slums in Lisbon) and the 20th arrondissement (one of the poorest working-class areas of Paris where immigrants have traditionally settled).

According to Colin Prescod, ‘our first priority and leading ambition was to use the project workshops to encourage youth expression in regard to their excluded predicaments – to tap into, to promote and to platform their preferred ways of addressing matters … With “Belonging” we were engaging in interrogating the notion of “youth identity crisis” which is much touted as explaining cultural or social alienation experienced by new generations of peoples recently migrated and settled in metropolitan heartlands of the capitalist world system.’

‘Belonging’ encouraged young people of these urban areas to explore on film how migrations shape communities and how young people ‘manage multiple, flexible identities while belonging to more than one place’. Working with local creative video artists and film-makers in each place, the objective was to carry the voices and perspectives of young people not just to their own communities, but also on into the mainstream and to policymakers in the three countries. And the project was as much about how to engage with young people as it was about examining the ultimate output. (Even some of the adult animators in the workshops reported on their own personal growth as a result of the challenges specific to working with young people on ‘Belonging’.)

‘The lessons for policy-makers from our project are firstly not about what the film-works say, but about how the quality of (well intentioned) engagements with youth will influence the quality of outcomes of youth projects,’ says Prescod. ‘These will be lessons for project funders, as well as for project organisers and project deliverers.’ And the impact of the films is made at a number of different levels. ‘The films were first screened in young people’s neighbourhoods, then at a variety of public venues in their home cities, as well as internationally at media festivals and on youth media websites – fronted wherever possible by the young film-makers. Finally, these films have been incorporated as core materials in an education pack, specifically designed to address “citizenship” in the formal education curriculum.’

Before the filming began there were a number of small workshops. There was a ‘careful search and selection and preparation of the professional video-artists and film-makers as well as of the local historians who took charge of the workshops in each city neighbourhood’ and ‘deliberate and thoughtful “front-loading” of the workshops, eg priming the young participants with relevant historical and sociological information about their neighbourhoods/cities/nations.’ Close attention was paid to assisting the young participants through each stage of the process. The Lisbon and Paris workshops were ‘animated’ by up to ten adults for up to fifteen young people.

From the workshops emerged forty-three short films. Those about London focus on cultural identity and the idea of Newham being a multiracial melting pot – with many street shots of colourful sari shops and markets. Interestingly, those from Lisbon and Paris, explore more complex social and political aspects of belonging, often through reconstructed mini dramas, having a greater emotional impact. ‘J’y suis, j’y reste’ (‘I am here to stay’), for example, shows a young woman – impassive but firm – contesting day-to-day racism on the Metro.

According to the project coordinators they learnt ‘that the way young people feel is determined by a range of things including generational issues, male/female relationships, fear and danger on the streets, the role of the police … A recurrent theme in all three locations is doing nothing, having nothing to do and being bored; so too are issues relating to peer pressure … unsurprisingly, scenes of habitual prejudice and daily life racism are also represented in some of the films.’

The DVD entitled Belonging/Pertencer/Chez Nous, presenting eighteen of the short films is available in English, Portuguese or French from the Runnymede Trust in the UK. An education pack for use in schools to go alongside the DVD is also available.

To change the world

The last film project is run from a somewhat unlikely source – a charity which commemorates the work of 19th century social reformer Octavia Hill. The Octavia Foundation is a charity in west London which encourages community involvement, the delivery of employment and training opportunities and the promotion of financial inclusion and social care. In 2008, with a grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Foundation gave eight young west Londoners the opportunity to document the history of their local areas in a film tracing the evolution of Labroke Grove (in Notting Hill, west London) from the 1958 race riots to the present day. The young people attended research sessions and had training in film, interviewing, oral history and archiving. Grove Roots, the highly-acclaimed film they made, premiered in February 2009 at the Electric Cinema on Portobello Road and went on to be screened across the country and was widely reviewed in the national press.

Following up on that success, the Octavia Foundation embarked in 2009 on a ‘Hidden Heroes’ film project (since renamed Hidden Herstories) to celebrate the heritage of four local women – Jayaben Desai, Claudia Jones, Amy Ashwood Garvey and Octavia Hill herself – who had a profound impact on community welfare. With support from the Heritage Lottery Fund the new project started in July 2009 and runs for eighteen months. Twenty local young people, seven of them disabled, received training in researching and interviewing techniques as well as production skills for filming and editing an hour-long film and magazine. They also had seminars with key people knowledgeable about Black history such as Marika Sherwood (founder of the Black and Asian Studies Association), Hakim Adi (academic and author on Black History) and Colin Prescod and received disability equality training to promote inclusion within the group. The archive research and filming was carried out over the summer of 2009 and the DVD incorporating three documentaries will be launched on International Women’s Day in March 2010.

According to Gabrielle Tierney who coordinates the project the young people ‘have had in-depth and lively research searches, interesting day trips to places such as parliament and Ealing sudios, and, most importantly, they have had extensive training throughout. Their confidence has grown and they have made friends within the project.’ A worker at the Institute of Race Relations, which supported the project via its Black History archive, commented on the way that the young people benefitted fom the intellectual contamination of going out to new venues. Eighteen-year-old Moktar, of Pakistani descent, thumbing through the IRR’s copies of the West Indian Gazette for information on Claudia Jones and Amy Ashwood Garvey came across stories about Patrice Lumumba’s murder. ‘Who is he? Can we do a film on him next? He looks really interesting?’ Tamieke, a young woman, educated in Jamaica, found one of her old school primers on a shelf and delightedly explained to the group the fables about Anansi the Spider-man.

Mohammed Adam El Omrani, who was introduced to the project by friend Moktar, who had worked on Grove Roots, sums up what he has gained. ‘The experience was a chance to get to know my area’s history and a touch of history of society. This gave me the opportunity, not to just learn about the historical background of society, but its politics which lie beneath it. This gave me knowledge I needed to know and that knowledge gained needs to be used and spoken of as I am initially into politics. There is a lot of wrong in the world today, but to imagine what it must have been like 40-60 years ago, more than credit must be given. With the willpower and motivation people can actually strive to change the world and make it a better place and we should take this opportunity to use people like Claudia Jones and Octavia to learn by example and to change the world as much as we can. I’d like to quote Malcolm X, “Tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today”.’

Obviously such film projects involve much preparation and educative programmes that go far beyond mere technical classes. But handled in the right way, they can give young people a unique opportunity not just to interact as a group, not just to acquire new skills and learn about their histories but to harness their imaginations to the fight to change the world.

The Institute of Race Relations is currently conducting a two-year research project on ‘Alternative Voices on Integration’ funded by the Network of European Foundations (European Programme on Integration and Migration).

Social Good: iPhone App Lets You Give Work to Kenyan Refugees

By Ben Parr

For the last few months, Mashable has been exploring the potential of social media for Social Good. We have seen the power of Twitter and Facebook utilized to raise hundreds of thousands of dollars for charity (and to potentially raise $1 million to fight cancer).

But now we’ve learned of another use of social media for social good, and it does not involve raising money for charity. This morning, the Give Work iPhone app (iTunes Link) became available in the app store.

It’s a joint project between crowdsourcing platform CrowdFlower and the non-profit Samasource, a graduate of this year’s Facebook Fund class, whose goal is to train the less fortunate in Africa and elsewhere in quality assurance so that they can get work and make a living, while providing valuable data to real companies.

Pretend you’re Image Company Corporation, and you need to verify that A) a set of 10,000 images are of trees and that B) none of them are copyrighted. You could just look through all 10,000 with your own team, but they’re probably going to be more productive on higher level tasks.

So you send your task to CrowdFlower and Samasource. They place the task in the Give Work iPhone app. Then Kenyan refugees trained by Samasource do the image checks from a datacenter. And to assure quality and accuracy, an American iPhone user double-checks their work and verifies the refugee’s work. Now you have provided work for Kenyan refugees while providing value to the company (by lowering their costs).

The idea is one of the best and most useful iPhone apps we’ve ever come across. It combines crowdsourcing and mobile technology to not only provide value to thousands of companies that need to execute on low-level tasks, but more importantly it helps provide income for thousands of African refugees so that they can feed their families and give their children the education they deserve.

We can’t think of any other iPhone app that comes close to making the same impact on the world. And it does it in such an innovative way. CrowdFlower and Samasource have made it practical and accessible for all of us to help out those in need.

Source: Mashable.com

Mugabe’s moves stifle media plans

By Basildon Peta

It’s been a bad week for Zimbabwe’s embattled media. President Robert Mugabe appointed some of his top army cronies to run key state media bodies in what the Media Institute for Southern Africa has condemned as the “militarisation of the media”.

Zimbabwe’s arch-opportunist Jonathan Moyo, formerly the scourge of the media as information minister, then an independent, was readmitted into Mugabe’s Zanu-PF party. And now, the government has issued a warning to Mail and Guardian owner Trevor Ncube not to launch his new Zimbabwean daily, Newsday, as planned, on November 1, without a licence. Yet the government is launching its own new newspapers without licences.

Mugabe has not yet appointed the new Zimbabwe Media Commission tasked with licensing newspapers, even though Parliament submitted the names of nominees to him two months ago. But the state-owned Zimbabwe Newspapers Group has since launched two new publications, The Midlands Chronicle and Harare Metro, without the required licences. This prompted Ncube to announce that he would launch Newsday on November 1 without a licence, since there was no commission to give him one.

But Mugabe’s spokesman, George Charamba, said the government would move fast to shut down Newsday if Ncube launched it without a licence. It would also arrest its staffers. “If you find yourself on the street without proper registration, ahh, you are inviting us and we will react instantly,” said Charamba to a meeting of editors in Harare this week.

These developments have dashed any hopes that the government of national unity launched by Mugabe and Movement for Democratic Change leader Morgan Tsvangirai in February would lead to media freedom, as it was supposed to under the Global Political Agreement the parties signed as the framework for the unity government.

Particularly ominous for the media is Moyo’s return. As minister of information he masterminded the closure of four independent newspapers. The printing press of the Daily News, the only independent daily, was bombed and destroyed in 2001 at a time when Moyo was warning it would be “obliterated”. If Moyo is co-opted into a Zanu-PF strategy team as widely speculated, journalists fear his influence will again be malevolent.

Journalists and politicians have widely condemned Mugabe’s appointments of retired army generals and brigadiers to the boards of Zimbabwe Broadcasting Holdings, which enjoys a monopoly over broadcasting; Zimbabwe Newspapers, which publishes all major state newspapers and the country’s only two dailies; and the Broadcasting Authority of Zimbabwe, tasked with issuing broadcast frequencies.

Deputy Prime Minister Arthur Mutambara, leader of the smaller MDC faction, has said the appointments of the boards would be reversed because they were irregular and unprocedural.

“Those appointments are null and void,” Mutambara said. “The cabinet was not consulted, the prime minister was not consulted… We are going to reverse them.” However, neither Mutambara nor Tsvangirai has been able to reverse any of Mugabe’s past decisions. – Independent Foreign Service

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Rumble about the Jungle

How easily does extreme right-wing discourse slip into the way the media frames the world? Answer: Very easily.

The BBC website has a report on the argument by the Refugee Council that the UK should take some responsibility to grant asylum for vulnerable residents – children -of the squatter camp at Calais.

They are talking about children. Children who are living in a squatter camp. I think that qualifies as a humanitarian issue. Surely all our media hysteria about risks to children should also apply here?

But, in the interests of “balance”, presumably, the BBC gives at least an equal space to the views of Migration Watch, who carefully seek to redefine this issue to ignore the “children” bit. After a load of unchallenged nonsense such as an assertion that 80% of people who say the word “asylum” are admitted to the UK, their spokesman says

“You have to look at the system as a whole, you can’t just say there are vulnerable children” (from the BBC)

Now, I’m already on semiotic alert by the BBC’s description of this squatter camp as

the camp known as “the jungle”

And lo, there is a sidebar with links to previous BBC articles about this camp.

SEE ALSO
UK turns down ‘jungle migrants’ 18 Sep 09 | Europe
France to close migrant ‘jungle’ 16 Sep 09 | Europe
Migrant squalor in Calais ‘jungle’ 02 Jul 09 | UK
UN to help advise Calais refugees 01 Jul 09 | UK

Was a decision taken in early July to use the “jungle” word? Hmm, does that mean that it’s full of Africans? Yes, I believe it does. Jungle is a pretty loaded word. It arrives carrying echoes of the racist ideas that supported colonialism. That’s why we now say “rainforest”.

I don’t have a problem with calling the “rainforest” the “jungle”. However, I do have serious problems with the BBC calling a refugee camp a “jungle,” given that I don’t believe that trees and parrots are over-represented in the Calais camp.

And what is MigrationWatch? Surely that must be an organisation with equal credibility to the Refugee Council, given that it’s accorded equal billing by the BBC? Well, maybe it’s just me but I rather think not.

Its website says that

We are an independent, voluntary, non political body which is concerned about the present scale of immigration into the UK.

Let’s say “concerned” is putting it mildly. The word “rabid” would probably fill the bill better. Here are the first 3 of what they call “key facts”:

Net immigration has quadrupled since 1997 to 237,000 a year.
A migrant now arrives nearly every minute.
We must build a new home every six minutes for new migrants.

They have a press page where they record their appearances in the media: (When I say “their” I am not convinced that “they” exist far beyond their spokestwat, but that may be wishful thinking)

Bear with me while I paste in their media triumphs over the past couple of years. Unsurprisingly, the Daily Mail and Daily Telegraph are the favoured platforms – until the BBC started to see their glorious leader as a spokesman:

Migrant housing figures, Letter in The Daily Telegraph 25 July, 2009
25-Jul-2009
Turks increasingly turn to Islamic extremism: Al Qaeda’s reliance on Arabs is altering as recruits from Turkey and Turkic-speaking areas of Central Asia form a recent wave of trainees, experts (sic) say.
By Sebastian Rotella Los Angeles Times – 20-Jul-2009
At last, the truth about immigration and council house queue jumping
By Andrew Green The Daily Mail, London – 30-Jun-2009
Statisticians are right to publish and be damned By Sir Andrew Green,
The Times – 12-Feb-2009
We must create a culture of solidarity, not offer amnesties
Editorial from The Catholic Herald 28-Nov-2008
How many more people can our small island take? As population heads towards 70 million has the penny dropped for Labour? by Sir Andrew Green The Daily Mail – 19-Nov-2008
Devastating demolition of the case for mass immigration by Sir Andrew Green, Chairman of Migration Watch UK, The Daily Mail – 01-Apr-2008
Immigration is making matters worst (sic) Letter by Sir Andrew Green
The Surrey Advertiser – 07-Dec-2007
Hold back the immigrant flood By Sir Andrew Green,
The Sunday Times – 04-Nov-2007
‘We must act now to cut immigrant numbers’ Commentary by Sir Andrew Green, The Daily Telegraph – 24-Oct-2007

Plus this “1 Sep 2009 … Sir Andrew Green was interviewed on the Today Programme at 8.35 this morning about the asylum seekers’ camp near Calais”

Who is Sir Andrew Green and why are his views so much more worthy of media attention than, say, mine? A Guardian profile from 2005 says his friends are unanimous that he’s not a a racist. Oh, well, that must be OK, then.

Apparently, he can’t be a racist, because he was British Ambassador to Saudi Arabia…….

The portrait that emerges from those who know Sir Andrew is of a shy, private individual, “a right old Tory, Daily Telegraph reader”, and also a “very religious” man who held regular evangelical meetings at the British embassy in Riyadh. (from the Guardian, 4 Nov 2005)

A very religious man. LOL Regular evangelical sessions.. Double LOL. Why am I not surprised that this right-wing figurehead for an ugly ideology is also an “evangelical Christian”? Indeed, “suffer the little children” may have become his new watchword, if we consider his Calais stance.

Just to show exactly how “unracist” the former ambassador is:

The row offered Sir Andrew an opportunity to renew his argument on the BBC’s Today programme, when he said: “We have no problem with immigration from Poland, which is valuable to all sides.” (from the Guardian, 4 Nov 2005)

So Eastern Europeans are OK?

But. almost all the migration to the UK that makes up the numbers that Migration Watch presents (e.g UK supposedly needs to build a house every 6 minutes for migrants) is from EC countries. This apparently doesn’t worry “Migration Watch”.

Shouldn’t they call it “Non-white Migration Watch” and have done with it, then? Clearly not, because even the BBC would then have problems presenting Sir Andrew Green’s views on its main pages, in the name of balance.

Article first published 19 September 2009 [www.whydontyou.org.uk]

HAT News is not responsible for the content of this article or for any external internet sites. The views expressed are the author’s alone.

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