All, below is a fine article by Nick Grace, of Clandestine Radio, on the
current effort of STGDP to open the airwaves to NADD and Gambians.  NADD is
going to be heard and ain't nothing anyone can do about it.  Please have
your folks and friends in the Gambia tune in on Wednesday, Thursday, and
Friday for our radio broadcast test run and get their feedback on the
reception and quality of the broadcast.  There input will help us greatly.
More good news is on the way folks.



Target: Gambia
>By Nick Grace
>April 26, 2005
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>The Gambia joins the growing list of tyrannies targeted by opposition radio
>broadcasts this week with the launch of a weekly fifteen-minute news
>program
>produced by Web savvy exiles in the United States.
>
>The program, which had not been named at press time, is the latest effort
>coordinated by Save the Gambia Democracy Project (STGDP) to promote press
>freedoms, democratic liberties, respect for human rights, the rule of law
>and good governance inside the West African nation.
>
>Test broadcasts, Clandestine Radio Watch (CRW) has learned, will be
>conducted on April 27, 28 and 29 between 2000 and 2015 GMT on 9430 kHz. The
>test broadcasts will contain excerpts of interviews in the Wollof, English
>and local languages for the purpose of testing reception inside Gambia and
>will not contain a station identification. Formal broadcasts will begin
>soon
>thereafter from an undisclosed transmitter location.
>
>STGDP is a relatively new movement that was formed on the Gambian
>Independence Day, February 18, in 2004 after months of intense online
>chatter among exiles throughout North America. It was formally launched on
>the campus of Morehouse College in Atlanta - Martin Luther King, Jr.'s alma
>mater, an irony not lost on its members.
>
>The group has sought to make a direct impact on the country's political
>scene and successfully brought the fragmented opposition together under the
>National Alliance for Democracy and Development (NADD). Its efforts,
>including the new radio program, are meant to send a signal to the regime
>of
>former Sergeant Yahya Jemmah that the upcoming elections in October 2006
>will be no cakewalk.
>
>Since taking power in 1994, Jemmah's consolidation of power has proceeded
>against the winds of democratic change sweeping across the world - and
>inside Gambia. Attempts to pass severe restrictions on the press in 2002
>led
>to mass outrage and, ultimately, a repeal of the legislation. More recent
>attempts to muzzle the press, however, have been more successful and even
>deadly. What began with arson attacks, intimidation and threats finally
>culminated in the murder of Deyda Hydara, editor and co-owner of a private
>weekly and stringer for Agence-France-Presse and Reporters San Frontieres.
>
>The U.S. State Department considers such developments as "shortcomings,"
>however, and in 2002 "determined a democratically elected government had
>assumed office" in Banjul and lifted sanctions, according to its 2005 human
>rights report. While engagement is touted as official policy, none of the
>U.S.-funded NGOs run democratization projects or maintain a presence in
>Gambia.
>
>The Gambian diaspora finds itself going alone.
>
>The radio program, sources within STGDP tell CRW, is a grassroots effort
>dependent upon the generosity of its supporters and should be considered a
>wake-up call to those in the regime that whether through print, radio or
>the
>Internet the pulse of freedom cannot be silenced.
>
>"We are going to be a force to open the people's eyes," STGDP Spokeswoman
>Sigga Jagne told CRW. "We are not bound by the same sanctions our domestic
>journalists face. Through our programs we will send a message of hope to
>our
>people inside the Gambia that those of us outside do care and are willing
>to
>do what it takes to bring change."
>
>Save the Gambian Democracy Project can be reached through its Web site at
>www.sunugambia.com.
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