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