On June 30, 2009, a military coup ousted the democratically elected government of Honduras and president Manuel Zelaya. In response to a proliferation of misinformation in the corporate media concerning this coup, the Prometheus Radio Project along with local immigrant organizing group, Juntos, and the news website, Upside Down World, hosted an event at the Philadelphia Library to offer an alternative perspective. The event entitled "Community Media in times of popular struggle, political mobilization, and repression- from Venezuela to Oaxaca to Honduras" featured Adrienne Pine, a militant anthropologist, assistant professor at American University in D.C., and the author of "Working Hard, Drinking Hard, on Violence and Survival in Honduras", Ramor Ryan, an Irish anarchist writer who lives in Chiapas, Mexico and reports on popular struggle, and Prometheus’ own Cory Fischer- Hoffman and Andy Gunn.

Adrienne Pine spoke to the more than 100 people in attendance about the severe repression against those opposed to the Coup government, especially those involved with community media outlets including participatory radio stations. Ramor Ryan and Cory Fischer-Hoffman contextualized the Honduran Coup against a backdrop of repression and resistance across Latin America. Then Prometheus’ Technical and Training Director Andy Gunn spoke about his recent trip to Honduras working with Community Station Radio Lenca and about the nationwide media blackout blocking any information about the huge grassroots resistance to the coup.

Following the event, over 70 people marched from the Library to the offices of the Philadelphia Inquirer demanding that they stop printing lies about the Honduran Coup.