Low power radio stations may not have Clear Channels candlepower, but what they lack in wattage they make up in commitment.

By Alyson Zureick

Published in The American Prospect
Web Exclusive: 08.17.05

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Almost everywhere in the United States, radio is a medium obsessed with delivering ears to advertisers (or underwriters). This story is not about radio as we have come to know it. It is about a station devoted to educating and organizing farm workers.

Read Steve Pierce's Progressive article

J.J. Tiziou took some magnificent photographs of the Immokalee Barn Raising. Check out his website to see them and find out about his other projects.

Pictures of the Barn Raising

In an effort to give a voice to migrant workers, dozens of radio techies from around the country descended on the farming town of Immokalee over the weekend to build a community radio station.

Miami Herald article

Janna Graham also wrote an article about the Barn Raising for the Canada's grassroots national newspaper, The Dominion.

The Dominion article

How the CIW station will work:

The station starts with the On Air Studio. Audio will start either with one of the sources: the microphones, (a, b and c), the cd players( d &e), the turntables(f&g), the phone patch (m), the computer (n), or whatever (h). It its good to have a few free spaces on your mixer or patchbay in so that people with their own audio sources (like minidisc players) can plug directly into the mixing board- so buy a mixer with more inputs than you think you need at first.