Radio Free Ir

Welcome to IR18.3 The theme of this podcast is the situation in Atenco Mexico with a special colloboration by Asian Dub Foundation and IR. Atenco is a classic indigenous land rights struggle: the Mexican government wants to build an airport and eject the people who live there, the people fight back and win. Although, the government tries again, this time with more soldiers and more brute force: killing, raping and imprisoning the "insurgents." A 14 year old boy is shot and 12 people are imprisoned; some given extremely harsh prison sentences of 100 years. The media coverage out of Mexico regarding it is massively biased, siding with the governments' view. You can watch an excellent documentary on Atenco "Breaking the Siege" on YouTube. For some time, IR had been aware of the siege of Atenco and had been following the news through its direct and underground channels. When Asian Dub Foundation contacted us about working on a collaboration around this issue, it made perfect sense to us. On this dubcast yo