Ké Huelga Radio (102.9 de FM) began in 1999 during the first weeks of the student strike called by the General Strike Council at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) to defend free public education.Since then, the radio has kept going as an alternative communication project that aims to broadcast the voice and the struggle of the different social movements. We propose another way of using the communications media without the repetitive formats that all project the same idea of consumption. We’re experimenting with different forms of communication.
Recent experiences have shown the importance of the communications media as a tool for strengthening social resistance. Because of our role in this, Ké Huelga has been threatened on several different occasions: several members of our radio collective have received threats and intimidating e-mails; moreover, there has been interference on our signal for the last four months.The aggressions were heightened on September 6, 2007, when the federal government threatened to evict us. There has been talk of the use of force to dismantle the radio and of arrest warrants that have been issued for project members.
This is not an isolated case, given that in recent weeks attacks have increased against student organizations at UNAM, which have been harassed by groups of hired thugs and plainclothes policemen. The compañeros at Regeneración Radio at CCH Vallejo have also received threats, and there have been attacks by hired thugs at other CCH high schools. Throughout the UNAM system, police operations are evident.
We wish to inform the social organizations and those of the peoples and workers in struggle, the students, the Other Campaign and the news media that our FM transmission will be suspended for a few days while we correct flaws in our equipment.
We call on you to repudiate and denounce these attacks against Ke Huelga from all possible spaces and to maintain communications through live transmissions and e-mail at in order to get organized and collectively combat the silencing repression in the country.
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