Jermani Ojeda Ludena:
I have attended the “Right to access to media and challenges faced by Indigenous Peoples” event at the Indigenous Media Zone of the UN headquarters. Since I work with fellow Quechua broadcasters this event helped me to know indigenous journalists from different parts of the world who are at the frontline producing and disseminating news about our communities. It helped me to understand what we understand about indigenous journalism. This is news producing and disseminating but by indigenous peoples. This counteracts big and corporate media narratives about indigenous people by putting on the public domain news from and produced by indigenous struggles. This kind of journalism means activism.
However indigenous journalists around the world in most of the experiences are targeted by political and economic powers because they disseminate news about indigenous struggles territories against dominant political and economic powers. At the end of the event, we agreed in strengthening the indigenous media caucus and create a network of indigenous journalists to collaboratively work and support each other with the help of the United Nations.
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