Videazimut
Lecture, c. 60 min.
Simin Farkondeh ©1998

Excerpt of "VIDEAZIMUT DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES":

Communication is a right of peoples, of communities and of
individuals. Communication is a fundamental activity of human
beings, individually and in society. It is essential to
democratic life at all levels, as it is to any process of
development. The right to communicate is seriously undermined by
the workings as well as the structures and dominant models of
communications systems. Inequality of access to the means of
production and dissemination exist between the North and the
South but also within each country, in the North as well as in
the South. The International Coalition for Democratic
Communication known as Videazimut is composed of organizations
and individuals using video and television as a means to the
democratisation of communications. The Coalition is dedicated to
defending and broadening access to voice and image for all those
who are presently marginalised from them, in the South and in the
North. The Coalition understands communication to be a vehicle
for the expression of the social project of a collectivity, and a
vehicle for developing solidarity and mutual respect between and
amongst those collectivities. The Coalition considers itself to
be part of an international movement towards the creation of a
pluralist network of self-determined voices.

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