[rfu-automation] Fwd: [grc] "World Food Day" - October 16, 2008 - special day of programming

[Andrew Ó Baoill]

FYI - something we could/should look to be involved with? We could  
replace our morning automation (currently 'local music') with (some  
of) this content on the day?

Andrew

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> From: normstoc at wort-fm.org
> Date: October 4, 2008 1:08:30 PM CDT
> To: nfcb at mailman.lmi.net, grc at maillist.peak.org, pacificaannounce at yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [grc] "World Food Day" - October 16, 2008 - special day of  
> programming
>
> AMARC (the World Association of Community Broadcasters) will celebrate
> "World Food Day" on October 16, 2008 with a special day of  
> programming.
>
> The 2008 theme: World Food Security: the Challenges of Climate  
> Change and
> Bioenergy
>
> The Universal Declaration of Human Rights of 1948 first recognized the
> right to food as a human right. It was then incorporated in the
> International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights  
> (Article
> 11) adopted in 1966 and ratified by 156 states, which are today  
> legally
> bound by its provisions. The expert interpretation and more refined
> definition of this right are contained in General Comment 12 of the
> Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights (1999). The  
> Voluntary
> Guidelines to Support the Progressive Realization of the Right to  
> Adequate
> Food in the Context of National Food Security – the Right to Food
> Guidelines – were adopted by the FAO Council in 2004 and provide  
> practical
> recommendations on concrete steps for the implementation of the  
> right to
> food.
>
> ==================
> Any US-based station or independent producer that would like to  
> contribute
> programming on this theme (preferably in 15 minute or 30 minute  
> segments)
> should feel free to contact:
>
> Norman Stockwell <normstoc at wort-fm.org> by October 10th.
>
> For more information on the broadcast, and the possibility of using on
> your stations some of the programming generated by community radio
> stations around the globe, please visit:
>
> <http://www.amarc.org/index.php?p=World_Food_Day_2008&l=EN&nosafe=0>
>
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