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FCC v Prometheus Radio Project was a United States Supreme Court case dealing with media ownership rules that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) can set under the Telecommunications Act of 1996. The case dates back to Third Circuit rulings from 2002 that have blocked FCC decisions to relax media ownership rules related to cross-ownership of newspapers with television and radio broadcast stations. In the present case, the Supreme Court ruled unanimously in April 2021 that the FCC had not made arbitrary and capricious rulemaking decisions in the context of the Administrative Procedure Act, nor had the requirement to review minority ownership of stations under Congressional mandate as stated in the Third Circuit's ruling, reversing this last ruling and allowing the FCC to proceed to relax cross-media ownership rules. Background. In the United States, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) had been given authority under the Communications Act of 1934 to set media ownership rules of broadcast services such as radio and television that served the same community as to manage the broadcasting spectrum. In 1975, the FCC enacted a rule restricting cross-media ownership, preventing newspapers from also owning broadcast services, as to reduce concentration of media ownership that had been occurring in the years prior. While the FCC could not regulate newspapers, they could extend their regulation on broadcast services to cover cross-ownership. The 1975 rule led to a number of debates on the cross-media ownership rules, as they were found to become barriers to entry into the market. Among other functions, the Telecommunications Act of 1996 instructed the FCC to perform a review of its rules related to media ownership every four years and repeal rules that no longer made sense in the current market as to foster competition within the communications industry. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app

Petri Dish was a member of the founding collective of Radio Mutiny, 91.3 FM in Philadelphia, and a founder of the Prometheus Radio Project. In part 2, he talks with Mark Dunlea about his recent experience in helping two community radio stations in Alaska, including his current efforts in Philadelphia. Part 1 of 2.

Petri Dish was a member of the founding collective of Radio Mutiny, 91.3 FM in Philadelphia, and a founder of the Prometheus Radio Project. Petri Dish goes around the country helping community radio stations like Hudson Mohawk with the engineering needed to get on the air. He talked with Mark Dunlea of HMM about his work on community radio, including his current efforts in Philadelphia. Part 1 of 2.

On April 1, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Federal Communications Commission v. Prometheus Radio Project. Writing for the unanimous court, Justice Kavanaugh explained that the FCC's 2017 decision to modify its media-ownership rules was not arbitrary or capricious under the Administrative Procedure Act. The distinguished panel that joined us to discuss oral arguments is returning to discuss the ruling and its implications. Featuring: -- Ms. Jane E. Mago, Consultant in Media Policy and Law; former General Counsel, Federal Communications Commission-- Hon. Michael O'Rielly, Visiting Fellow, Hudson Institute; former Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission-- Mr. Christopher J. Wright, Partner, Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis; former General Counsel, Federal Communications Commission-- Moderator: Mr. Lawrence J. Spiwak, President, Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal and Economic Public Policy Studies; Executive Committee Member, Federalist Society's Telecommunications & Electronic Media Practice Group

On On January 19, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Federal Communications Commission v. Prometheus Radio Project. The question before the Court was whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit erred in vacating as arbitrary and capricious the Federal Communications Commission orders under review, which, among other things, relaxed the agency’s cross-ownership restrictions to accommodate changed market conditions.Ms. Jane E. Mago, Consultant in Media Policy and Law and former General Counsel of the FCC, Hon. Michael O'Rielly, Visiting Fellow at the Hudson Institute and former Commissioner of the FCC, Mr. Christopher J. Wright, Partner at Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis and former General Counsel of the FCC, and Mr. Lawrence J. Spiwak, President, Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal and Economic Public Policy Studies, join us today to discuss this case's oral argument.

On January 19, 2021, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Federal Communications Commission v. Prometheus Radio Project, an imoportant case involving issues of media ownership. Specifically, the Court will decide whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit erred in vacating as arbitrary and capricious the Federal Communications Commission orders under review, which relaxed the agency’s cross-ownership restrictions to accommodate changed market conditions.Featuring: -- Ms. Jane E. Mago, Consultant in Media Policy and Law; former General Counsel, Federal Communications Commission-- Hon. Michael O'Rielly, Visiting Fellow, Hudson Institute; former Commissioner, Federal Communications Commission-- Mr. Christopher J. Wright, Partner, Harris, Wiltshire & Grannis; former General Counsel, Federal Communications Commission-- Moderator: Mr. Lawrence J. Spiwak, President, Phoenix Center for Advanced Legal and Economic Public Policy Studies; Executive Committee Member, Federalist Society's Telecommunications & Electronic Media Practice Group

FCC v. Prometheus Radio Project | 01/19/21 | Docket #: 19-1231

A case in which the Court will decide whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, below, erred in vacating as arbitrary and capricious the FCC’s orders that substantially changed its approach to regulation of broadcast media ownership.

A case in which the Court held that the Federal Communications Commission's 2017 decision to repeal or modify three of its media ownership rules was not arbitrary or capricious under the Administrative Procedure Act.

The U.S. Supreme Court for exactly 82 minutes on Tuesday morning heard a consolidated oral argument in "FCC v. Prometheus Radio Project," the Commission's appeal of a lower court's remand of its cross-ownership media rule rewrite. Fletcher Heald & Hildreth attorney Davina Sashkin provides an exclusive analysis of what transpired in this podcast, presented by DOT.FM.

FCC v. Prometheus Radio Project

QUESTION PRESENTED: Whether the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 3rd Circuit erred in vacating as arbitrary and capricious the Federal Communications Commission orders under review, which, among other things, relaxed the agency’s cross-ownership restrictions to accommodate changed market conditions. SUPPORT what we are doing here by contributing to our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/supremecourt

Audio Interference 69: What a DJ really is —- Microbroadcasting with Radio CPR and Prometheus Radio Project The following is a recording of an event that happened in july of 2019. Archive volunteer Colin moderated a conversation with founding members Marnie Brady, Amanda Huron, and Athena Viscusi of radio CPR a pirate radio station in Mt. pleasant D.C. and Petri Dish, of Radio Mutiny and Prometheus Radio Project. Speaker Bios: Marnie Brady / DJ Poinsettia launched the Neighborhood Power Hour as part of Radio CPR, Washington, DC where she converged her work in community organizing for immigrant rights, land, & housing with action research interviews & mix tapes over the airwaves. As part of Radio CPR, Marnie started a tech club to learn more about how sound travels. Now in Brooklyn, Marnie is part of the organizing committee for the national Homes for All campaign. She's starting a job as assistant professor in politics & human rights at Marymount Manhattan in the fall. DJ Maude Ontario (AKA Amanda Huron) is a co-founder of Radio CPR, a community radio station that broadcast from D.C.'s Mt. Pleasant neighborhood, 1998-2018. She currently works as an associate professor of interdisciplinary social sciences at the University of the District of Columbia, the public university serving Washington, D.C. Her research interests are in urban geography, housing justice, and D.C. history. She plays drums in the bands Puff Pieces and Weed Tree, and is a native of Washington, D.C. PeteTridish has built studios, raised towers, drafted regulations, passed a law through congress, been the plaintiff in a federal lawsuit against media consolidation, started non-profits, and been arrested as a protester on various occasions. He has been a radio pirate, a policy advocate for community media, a carpenter, an environmental educator, a solar energy system installer, a squatter, a homeless shelter volunteer and an activist in many social movements since the age of 16. Athena Viscusi, Radio Free Mount Pleasant DJ and member of Stand for Our Neighbors.

Audio Interference 69: What a DJ really is —- Microbroadcasting with Radio CPR and Prometheus Radio Project The following is a recording of an event that happened in july of 2019. Archive volunteer Colin moderated a conversation with founding members Marnie Brady, Amanda Huron, and Athena Viscusi of radio CPR a pirate radio station in Mt. pleasant D.C. and Petri Dish, of Radio Mutiny and Prometheus Radio Project. Speaker Bios: Marnie Brady / DJ Poinsettia launched the Neighborhood Power Hour as part of Radio CPR, Washington, DC where she converged her work in community organizing for immigrant rights, land, & housing with action research interviews & mix tapes over the airwaves. As part of Radio CPR, Marnie started a tech club to learn more about how sound travels. Now in Brooklyn, Marnie is part of the organizing committee for the national Homes for All campaign. She’s starting a job as assistant professor in politics & human rights at Marymount Manhattan in the fall. DJ Maude Ontario (AKA Amanda Huron) is a co-founder of Radio CPR, a community radio station that broadcast from D.C.’s Mt. Pleasant neighborhood, 1998-2018. She currently works as an associate professor of interdisciplinary social sciences at the University of the District of Columbia, the public university serving Washington, D.C. Her research interests are in urban geography, housing justice, and D.C. history. She plays drums in the bands Puff Pieces and Weed Tree, and is a native of Washington, D.C. PeteTridish has built studios, raised towers, drafted regulations, passed a law through congress, been the plaintiff in a federal lawsuit against media consolidation, started non-profits, and been arrested as a protester on various occasions. He has been a radio pirate, a policy advocate for community media, a carpenter, an environmental educator, a solar energy system installer, a squatter, a homeless shelter volunteer and an activist in many social movements since the age of 16. Athena Viscusi, Radio Free Mount Pleasant DJ and member of Stand for Our Neighbors.

The FCC lost in court for the fourth time on September 23, in what’s become a really bad habit in the case known as Prometheus Radio Project v. FCC. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals keeps sending the Commission back to do homework to justify with evidence the changes it wants to make in loosening […] The post Podcast #213: Four Strikes for the FCC’s Media Ownership Policy appeared first on Radio Survivor.

The FCC lost in court for the fourth time on September 23, in what’s become a really bad habit in the case known as Prometheus Radio Project v. FCC. The Third Circuit Court of Appeals keeps sending the Commission back to do homework to justify with evidence the changes it wants to make in loosening […] The post Podcast #213: Four Strikes for the FCC’s Media Ownership Policy appeared first on Radio Survivor.

Bio Cheryl A. Leanza (@cleanza) is the President of her consulting firm, A Learned Hand, LLC, www.alearnedhand.com.  In this capacity she serves as policy advisor to the United Church of Christ's historic media advocacy arm and as the Co-Chair of the Leadership Conference of Civil Rights Media & Telecommunications Task Force.  Her other clients have included the Progressive States Network, Leadership Conference Education Fund, National Federation of Community Broadcasters, Future of Music Coalition, Public Knowledge, and Native Public Media, among others. Ms. Leanza helped to lead the victorious effort to pass the Local Community Radio Act, and has been a leader in public interest advocacy for more than 15 years, including advocacy for diversity in media ownership, protection for children in media, and other policies furthering First Amendment principles, including open Internet.  She has represented non-profits before the Federal Communications Commission, in the U.S. Appellate courts and before Congress, and has been widely quoted in the trade and mainstream press on these issues. Ms. Leanza's prior positions include a stint as Principal Legislative Counsel for telecommunications at the National League of Cities where she was lead lobbyist for local elected officials during the period when Congress was debating changes to local cable television franchising laws.  She also spent six and one-half years as Deputy Director of Media Access Project and began her career in the Federal Communications Commission's honor attorney program. Ms. Leanza is a cum laude graduate of the University of Michigan Law School and the Ford School of Public Policy and teaches at Georgetown University's Department of Communications, Culture and Technology.  Ms. Leanza serves on the board of the Prometheus Radio Project and has served as Vice Chair of the Media and Democracy Coalition, as well as on the Federal Communications Bar Association's Executive Committee and the Foundation Board.  She is admitted in the District of Columbia and New York; and in the United States Supreme Court; U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia, Third, Fourth, and Ninth Circuits. Resources A Learned Hand, LLC United Church of Christ Office of Communication The Leavers by Lisa Ko News Roundup Donald Trump Jr. communicated with Wikileaks Juilia Ioffee reports for the Atlantic that Donald Trump, Jr. exchanged direct messages via Twitter with Wikileaks during the 2016 presidential campaign. The exchange went on at least through July of this year. 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Pete Tridish works as a radio engineer, building low power and full power community radio stations. He initially did this work with Prometheus Radio Project and now with International Media Action. “Back when I was working with Prometheus Radio Project, which was a group that worked to expand the low power radio service and create […] The post Podcast #72 – Pete Tridish Celebrates an LPFM Success Story appeared first on Radio Survivor.

Pete Tridish works as a radio engineer, building low power and full power community radio stations. He initially did this work with Prometheus Radio Project and now with International Media Action. “Back when I was working with Prometheus Radio Project, which was a group that worked to expand the low power radio service and create […] The post Podcast #72 – Pete Tridish Celebrates an LPFM Success Story appeared first on Radio Survivor.

Pete Tridish, Kate Wendland Duncan/December 9, 2013 Joseph A. Gervasi interviews “Pete Tridish,” a founder of Philly’s Radio Mutiny pirate radio station and the Prometheus Radio Project (which he retired from two years ago after working with them for thirteen years) and Kate Wendland Duncan, who founded Radio Mutiny with Pete and others and is now a part of the Rebellious Nursing group. Pete and Kate talk about founding the (in)famous pirate radio station in West Philly in the late ’90s, their peculiar assortment of DJs, and their problems with the FCC that led to series of very clever (and funny) press stunts. In the wake of the demise of Radio Mutiny in the early 1990s, Pete went on to help form the Prometheus Radio Project, which helped to change laws regarding radio broadcasting in signicant ways and start community radio stations all around the US and, indeed, the world. Kate has recently been involved with Rebellious Nursing, a group of social activist nurses who recently held a successful conference (in part organized by Kate) in Philadelphia. This interview comes highly recommended to social/political activists and community organizers. The word “punk” is not mentioned once. Prometheus Radio Project International Media Action Rebellious Nursing The post LOUD! FAST! PHILLY! Episode 43: Pete Tridish, Kate Wendland Duncan of Radio Mutiny, Prometheus Radio Project, Rebellious Nursing, International Media Action appeared first on Cinepunx.

Pete Tridish, Kate Wendland Duncan/December 9, 2013 Joseph A. Gervasi interviews “Pete Tridish,” a founder… The post LOUD! FAST! PHILLY! Episode 43: Pete Tridish, Kate Wendland Duncan of Radio Mutiny, Prometheus Radio Project, Rebellious Nursing, International Media Action appeared first on Cinepunx.

Will Floyd is a technical director at Prometheus Radio Project. Prometheus Radio is a non-profit group focusing on building community radio stations.

Making Contact's media mission is to give voice to those who don't usually make it on to the airwaves. We look back on how we did in 2013 and bring you up to date on our most compelling and resonating stories of the year. From pregnant women in prison who've been mistreated; to the tomato fields of Florida, where the power of community radio helps workers take action. Then out west, to a national forest in California, where wildfires are raising questions about fire management techniques. We'll also get updates on where those stories stand now. Featuring: Courtney Hooks, Justice Now! campaign and communications director; Kimberly Jeffrey, formerly incarcerated mother; Tina Reynolds, Women on the Rise Telling HerStory (WORTH) co-founder and chair; Samantha Rogers, California Coalition for Women Prisoners assistant; Bonnie Lowenthal, California Assembly Member and chair of the California Legislative Women's Caucus; Domingo Jacinto & Rolando Salas, WCIW DJ's; Brandy Doyle, Prometheus Radio Project; Tracy Rosenberg, Common Frequency Board member; Howard Hunter, Chips fire information officer; Neil Lawrence, Forestry Project Director for the Natural Resources Defense Council; Tom Tidwell, National Forest Service Chief; Timothy Ingalsbee, Firefighters United for Safety, Ethics and Ecology (FUSEE) co-founder; Scott Stephens, UC Berkeley associate professor of fire science. For More Information: California Coalition for Women Prisoners Women on the Rise Telling HerStory Legal Services for Prisoners with Children Birthing Behind Bars Justice Now Critical Resistance California Prison Moratorium Project All of Us or None National Advocate for Pregnant Women The American Congress of Obstetricians and Gynecologists FCC on Low Power FM Radio Prometheus Radio Project Common Frequency Coalition of Immokalee Workers Young People's Project Firefighters United for Safety, Ethics and Ecology National Wildfire Suppression Association US Forest Service Stephen's Lab: Research and Education in Wildland Fire Science Articles: California was Sterilizing its Female Prisoners as Late as 2010 California Legislators Urge Speedy Inquiry into Prison Sterilizations Female Inmates Sterilized in California Prisons without Approval The Movement to Stop Prisons From Shackling Women in Labor Builds Low Power Radio Stations vie for FCC Licenses Don't Touch That Dial! Low-Power Radio Is About to Make FM Hot Again $19.5k Seattle grant helps Hollow Earth radio reach for Low Power FM license Fighting Fires is Big Business for Private Companies One Earth: A Survival Guide for the Planet by Richard Manning Forest Service Orders “Aggressive Initial Attack” on Wildfires—Despite Consequences Grass is burned to study Indian culture Getting Burned: A Taxpayer's Guide to Wildfire Suppression Costs Videos: Diana Kasdan Discusses the ACLU's Anti-Shackling Initiative Multiple Videos of Testimonies from Women Being Shackled Community Radio By and For the People: The Impact of Low Power Radio What would you do with a community radio station? The post Making Contact – December 27, 2013 appeared first on KPFA.

Have you ever wanted to run your own radio station? Well, this October, the government agency responsible for administering America's airwaves, is giving you and your neighbors…the opportunity to create your own low-power FM radio station. It could result in hundreds or thousands of new radio stations across the US, and could radically change the countries' media landscape. On this edition we visit current LPFM stations, communities hopeful to have their own frequency soon, and find out how you can get involved. Special Thanks to The Prometheus Radio Project for some audio used in this show. Featuring: Domingo Jacinto & Rolando Salas,*WCIW DJ's; Cam Tu Nguyen, Vietnamese American Young Leaders Association community organizer; Brandy Doyle, Prometheus Radio Project Policy Director; Autumn Labbe-Renault, Davis Media Access Executive Director; Jeff Shaw, Davis Media Access Production Manager; Roots & Emmett Brady, KDRT Programmers, Albert Sykes. Young People's Project Director of Policy and Advocacy; Tracy Rosenberg, Common Frequency Board member; John Friedman, Southern Development Foundation President, Arlene Sweeting, WSLR Station Manager.  For More Information:   FCC on Low Power FM Radio  Prometheus Radio Project  Common Frequency Coalition of Immokalee Workers Vietnamese American Young Leaders Association Young People's Project KOCZ WSLR KDRT Davis Media Access Insect News Network Articles: Don't Touch That Dial! Low-Power Radio Is About to Make FM Hot Again $19.5k Seattle grant helps Hollow Earth radio reach for Low Power FM license   The post Making Contact – Low Power (Radio) to the People appeared first on KPFA.

The Prometheus Radio Project is an impressive grassroots organization that has successfully opened the radio airwaves to communities after big corporations had effectively locked up unused radio channel for years. Prometheus Policy Director Sanjay Jolly joins us for Episode #61 of our Community Broadband [no-glossary]Bits[/no-glossary] podcast. Our conversation ranges from the recent history of pirate … Continue reading "Prometheus Joins Us to Discuss Community Radio and Internet – Community Broadband Bits Episode 61" ★ Support this podcast ★

On the August 22, 2013 edition of Tell Somebody, we hear from Malcolm Byrne, deputy director of the National Security Archive, about their release of recently desclassified documents on the 60th anniversary of the overthrow of Mohammed Mossadegh that are believed to be the first formal acknowledgement by the CIA of their role in the coup. In a segment recorded the day that whistleblower Chelsea Manning, formerly known as Bradley Manning, was sentenced to 35 years in prison, we hear from Nathan Fuller of the Bradley Manning support network.  The morning after this was recorded, Manning released a statement through her attorney that she wished to be known henceforth as Chelsea. In the final segment, as a deadline for hundreds, possibly thousands, of new low power FM radio stations rapidly approaches, we re-air a March, 2012 interview with Brandy Doyle of the Prometheus Radio Project about the potential of LPFM. This page and the podcast are produced and maintained by Tell Somebody and may or may not reflect the edition of the show broadcast on the radio. Click on the pod icon above, or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" to save a copy of the audio file to your computer. You can also subscribe to the podcast, for free, at the iTunes store or other podcast directory. If you have any comments or questions on the show, or problems accessing the files, send an email to mail@tellsomebody.us Click here to "like" Tell Somebody on facebook. Follow Tell Somebody on twitter: @tellsomebodynow.

Amplify our voices: Expanding Community radio across the US. Jeff Rousset, National Organizer for the Prometheus Radio Project, considers the past and future of battles for radio broadcast rights among Indigenous communities in the United States.

The US Human Rights Network hosted a webinar in partnership with Prometheus Radio Project on August 21, 2012 to share information about how community groups can start their own low power FM community radio stations. Jeff Rousset of Prometheus Radio Project shared the history of Low Power FM (LPFM) radio stations, the larger media context in the U.S, and offered information on the upcoming opportunity to apply for LPFM radio stations along with the logisitcs of starting a station. Cruz Salucio and Adrian Alcantar from the Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) shared ways they are using radio to get the word out about worker's rights, emergency situations, community building and organizing efforts. Danielle Mkali of Main Street Project shared how groups in Minneapolis are organizing to start LPFM radio stations. After a 10 year fight, media justice advocates successfully passed the Local Community Radio Act in 2011. Now, there is a one-time opportunity to open up access to the airwaves for social justice groups. In the next year, nonprofits and community groups will have a historic opportunity to apply for thousands of new non-commercial FM radio licenses! This will be the first time urban areas can apply and the last big chance ever to get a radio license. These Low Power FM (LPFM) multimedia stations can be broadcast studios and organizing hubs for our movements. They can be a powerful local organizing tool featuring local artists and news. Conservative forces are mobilizing to get these licenses and build more right-wing stations. We need to organize social justice groups to get these stations instead and build a national communications infrastructure that's owned and controlled by our movements.

Show #22 Hour 1 | Guests: Tristen Mayes of KDEE, Pete Tridish of Radio Mutiny, Vanessa Graber of The Prometheus Radio Project | Show Summary: Tristen Mayes Host/ Content Director of KDEE 97.5FM shares his expereince running a LPFM station. Pete Tridish Co-Founder of Radio Mutiny and the Prometheus Radio Project talks about why LPFM is better than corporate programming and Vanessa Graber community director for the Prometheus Radio Project shares how you can get LPFM on the air. Plus, as always Angie's demented sidekick Buttercup (GottaLaff) describes the news as seen through her corkscrew lens.

The March 27, 2012 edition of Tell Somebody features Brandy Doyle, Policy Director for the Prometheus Radio Project speaking about the historic opportunity for new community radio stations in the wake of the signing into law of the Local Community Radio Act in January, 2011 and an FCC ruling issued on March 19, 2012 about implementation of the law. After that we heard Making Contact's Andrew Stelzer in excerpts from a panel discussion at the National Conference on Media Reform in Boston in April, 2011, and part of Michael Moore's speech at the Left Forum in New York on March 17, 2012. Click on the the pod icon above or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose "save target as" to save a copy of the audio file to your computer.  You can also subscribe to the podcast, for free, at the iTunes store or your podcast directory.  If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us

"How would this country be different if there was community radio in every one of our towns." Brandy Doyle - Policy Director with the Prometheus Radio Project. The July 20, 2011 edition of Tell Somebody featured a conversation about The Prometheus Radio Project.  With a successful decision in Prometheus v FCC, passage of LPFM legislation and numerous 'barn-raisings' of new community radio stations, when Jim Hightower says "people who say it can't be done should get out of the way of the people who are doing it" he could well be talking about The Prometheus Radio Project. Listen to Brandy Doyle talk about all of that, plus Prometheus upcoming appearance at The Grass Roots Radio Conference in Kansas City. Click on the the pod icon above or the .mp3 filename below to listen to the show, or right-click and choose save target as to save a copy of the audio file to your computer.  You can also subscribe to the podcast, for free, at the iTunes store or your podcast directory.  If you have any comments or questions about the show or any problems accessing the files, send an email to: mail@tellsomebody.us

A life-long human rights activist and people's lawyer in Greenville, SC, Nwangaza is the founder/coordinator of the Afrikan-American Institute for Policy Studies & Planning and Malcolm X Grassroots Movement for Self-Determination, a current representative on the Pacifica Radio Affiliates Board, past national chairperson of the Jericho Movement and ran for U.S. Senate in 2004 as a Green Party candidate.Nwangaza learned the power of radio as an organizing tool early in life from her parents who worked in international evangelical radio broadcasting. During her early years as a civil rights activist she dedicated herself to the betterment of her community and the oppressed in general. As an established activist and lawyer, with the assistance of her community and Prometheus Radio, she helped launch (June '07) WMXP, a low power community radio station. WMXP (95.5 fm), The Voice of the People, is Greenville's only non- commercial, community owned, operated, and funded radio station and is a project sponsored by the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement. The station gives a voice to the voiceless and a home to knowledge, community enrichment and social justice advocacy. Nwangaza's interest in forming the station was driven by her desire to use the power of radio in the interest of liberation of people for political purposes, in a culture of consciousness and resistance. As she puts it: "Media is a life-line, not a commodity.".This is a wide-ranging conversation that shows the power of low-cost, low-power FM community radio as a vehicle for community organizing and local artistic, cultural and polictical expression. Topics include a contextual discussion of racism in today's culture and the criminal in-justice system along with why the station was developed and examples of hands-on community use of radio as a tool in community empowerment and youth leadership development projects, WMXP programming practices and more.Recorded at the Grassroots Radio Conference, Portland, Oregon in July, 2008.Websites of interest: Prometheus Radio Project

Before I got the job I have now, I applied to work at the Prometheus Radio Project.  Because I thought this was a hip, alternative group of people, I put a few things on my resume that I normally leave off. For example, the work I did with the Industrial Strength Freak Show and the Lulu Tech Circus.It's something special when your job interview starts with "So you're the circus man..." and ends with "You were the most fun."The Voice of Free Planet X theme was written and performed by Russell Collins of www.clockworkaudio.net

Luz Ruiz works with a group called COMPPA which, translated into English is "Coalition of Popular Communicators for Autonomy". She also works with the Prometheus Radio Project out of Philadelphia. This interview took place at the Barnraising with Prometheus assisting PCUN ( Treeplanters and Farmworkers United) to set up a low power FM radio station in Woodburn, Oregon where the union is based. Ruiz shares some of her experiences and goals with using community radio as a tool for bringing about peace and social justice. Most of COMPPA's work has involved facilitating the appropriation of media tools for indigenous organizations setting up media outlets in Mexico. Their work focuses there largely on farmworker and immigrant rights.Ruiz hopes to see her work providing relief in the struggle between people who wish to live their lives with dignity and mutual respect versus huge corporate enterprises often notorious for their heartless agendas. Individuals controlling such enterprises have ruined entire communities for a profit by monopolizing the relay of information and promoting themselves as some kind of help to the national economy even thought the facts tend to reveal the opposite. Ruiz thinks that if the people of a community have the resources to voice their dissent when faced with the threat of corporate plunder dressed up as "development", they may have a much better chance to avoid ruin. She points that with radio as a communications tool, illiteracy does not present a barrier to getting information.Although she does not discourage the use of licensed low-power community radio station, Ruiz makes the decision to refer to unlicensed radio broadcasting as "free radio" than "pirate" radio, indicating a conscious awareness that participation in the free flow of information constitutes a basic natural right for which we must show respect.Recorded August 2006.

Ramon Ramirez, president of PCUN (Northwest Treeplanters and Farmworkers United) discusses his plans for the new multilingual, low-power FM radio station (KPCN) which PCUN members have erected in the town of Woodburn, Oregon. Ramirez gave this interview at PCUN's "barnraising"-- a gathering of union members and their families and and people who came from far and wide in the United States, from Mexico and Venezuela to work with the Prometheus Radio Project (http://prometheusradio.org) and PCUN to build this low power FM radio station, train people and get it on the air in one weekend in mid-August, 2006.The PCUN community radio station (KPCN-LP: 96.3FM) is offering music, culture and information in several languages of the indigenous people of the area, Spanish and English. One of PCUN's goals is to use low power FM radio to educate listeners to influence US Foreign and domestic policies, particulary US mmigration policy which directly affects many of the members of PCUN who are immigrant workers from Mexico, especially the state of Oaxaca. Ramirez talks about the enormous negative economic effects of NAFTA (eg- under-selling locally grown corn with genetically modified corn grown by agribusiness in the United States) on Mexico and other countries, causing workers to migrate to the US to literally survive. He also mentions how differently Mexican and Chinese immigrants are treated from Europeans immigrants. The radio station will also be used to provide information concerning domestic violence, women's leadership and sexual reproduction rights, to help people release some of their cultural and religious conditioning which leads to sexual repression and violence, and to create allies within the social justice movement, such as from African American communities, gay and lesbian organizations, and to help educate and organize against the widespread war and violence. PCUN needs help and support to get this wonderful community station fully operating.Recorded August 2006.

The Prometheus Radio Project was founded by Pete Tridish, a micropower broadcaster from Philadelphia, to support the low power FM radio movement. This 3-person paid staff, with the help of many volunteers and supporters, won a very important court case in June 04. The decision of the court prevents the FCC (Federal Communications Commission) from allowing even greater consolidation of corporate control of the media. Prometheus also helps start new micro-radio stations in the US and internationally. Tridish speaks about these things in the first half of the show.Kate Coyer, a PhD student at the University of London and a grassroots radio activist in indymedia and Prometheus among other audio projects, speaks in the second half of the show about a bill in the US Congress to legalize more low power FM stations. This interview was conducted at the Grassroots Radio Conference in California.