The Federal Communications Commission is at it again.  In 2002 and 2003, community radio activists from far and wide filed comments at the FCC, fighting a round of media deregulation that would have cut our voices from the airwaves and given companies like Clear Channel free reign over what we hearrd every day.  Because of your work, we forced the FCC to take back its terrible rules -- and together we won Prometheus vs. the FCC, the lawsuit that sent them back to the drawing board.

On June 21st, the FCC will put forward another set of rules -- and community media rabble rousers will lead the way once again.  As we get ready to tell the FCC how homogenized, corporate media hurts our families, and how community media empowers us to lead in our communities, please read this statement from Prometheus founder Pete Tridish.

And stay tuned -- there's a hot summer ahead for low power FM radio, community media, and the fight for our airwaves in the United States and around the world.

A printable version of the statement below can be found by clicking here .

 
Astrodome Radio and Hurricane-Affected LPFMs
Emergency Low Power Radio Station Went On Air

Volunteers from across the grassroots radio world worked furiously with Houston Indymedia to build a low power radio station to serve evacuees at the Astrodome. KAMP (Katrina Aftermath Media Project ) was on the air for a week, using an experimental low power license issued immediately by the FCC, when they were asked by local activists. The station broadcast information and programming relevant to the thousands of peopled evacuated to the Astrodome.

The six watt microradio station broadcast from an Airstream trailer in the parking lot, after Astrodome officials finally denied organizers permission to broadcast from within the Dome. Learn about KAMP and its troubles getting on the air , listen to audio from the station, and read about the project in the Village Voice .