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What Is a Barnraising?
Prometheus Barn Raising
Portsmouth Barnraisers Need Your Support!
A diverse assembly of community members is needed to get the New Hampshire LPFM off the ground!
"The Portsmouth Community Radio WSCA-LP 106.1 F.M., is holding a Radio Station Barnraising in September and is looking for folks to help with food, offer a road-worthy car, or perhaps a backyard for a barbecue for a hundred or so folk... The three-day barnraising is scheduled for Sept. 10, 11 and 12, and is the last step to hitting the air!"
Click here to read more
of this Portsmouth Herald article.
Click here to stay in-site and learn more about our next barnraising, September 10th-12th, in Portsmouth, New Hampshire!
In the spirit of neighbors pulling together to put up a new building, Prometheus gathers low power radio applicants, journalists, radio engineers, students, lawyers, musicians, activists and folks from across the country to raise the antenna mast, build the studio... and flip on the station switch!
Meet some of the other new FM Stations and meet
some of those that got left out
About the Barn Raiser
Our next barnraising will be with the Seacoast Arts and Cultural Alliance in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, September 10th-12th! New Hampshire is the home state of Senator Judd Gregg, one of the leading opponents of Low Power FM. Prometheus has many friends and allies from various social movements in New England, so this barnraising promises to be jam-packed with cross-pollination from old and new friends! More information about our pre-barnraising New England Tour, and the event itself, coming very soon. That information will be made available here.
Prometheus most recent Radio Barn Raiser was in early December, 2003 in Immokalee Florida. We helped the Coalition of Immokalee Workers put their new, low-power FM station on the air.
More about the Coalition of Immokalee Workers
Prometheus Barnraisings allow new programmers to meet and new stations to compare notes on fundraising and equipment. In addition, broadcast professionals can share their skills with the new low power radio station licensees. In the process, participants gain hands-on experience and learn from a wide range of workshops and classes on radio production and media issues. The events are also a chance for radio activists to plan the course for future media activism and continue the fight to put the media into the hands of the people and communities.
About Tidal Wave
Alternative media convergence in preparation for the massive civil society response to the WTO meeting in Cancun. Workshops on transmitters, journalism, running radio stations, media issues... in English, Spanish and possibly other languages. Prometheus was there! Want to find out more? Email Dave Arney and ask him about his trip! Pictures coming soon!
About Thin Air
Thin Air Radio is a project of the Washington State environmental group, Citizens for Clean Air. Thin Air will provide a fresh perspective for Spokane with a mix of progressive public affairs and a wide spectrum of music from traditional to experimental. The station will be a media outlet for the marginalized voices of the movements for peace, social, economic and environmental justice, human rights, democracy, multiculturalism, freedom of expression and social change. Citizens for Clean Air will join a growing number of environmental groups providing radio stations for their community with a level of public service and diversity unthinkable for the corporations that own the rest of the spectrum.
About the Coalition of Immokalee Workers
The CIW is a community-based farm worker organization. Their members are largely Latino, Haitian, and Mayan Indian immigrants working in low-wage jobs throughout the state of Florida. They fight for fair wages and the right to organize. They may be best known as the leaders of the nationwide Taco Bell boycott.
More about the Immokalee Barn Raising
South Arundel Citizens for Responsible Development (SACReD) has been working to control sprawling development In the Chesapeake Bay area. SACReD was granted one of only 4 licenses issued in the state of Maryland, and plans to continue its focus on threats to the local environment. However, SACReD member Michael Shay promises that on their station "All sides will be represented... There is nothing better than an informed community making informed decisions."
The SACReD Barn Raising held in southern Maryland was the largest gathering of Low Power FM Radio advocates ever. More than 150 LPFM applicants, supporters, and others interested in community-based media attended the conference. At the end of the conference, with new skills and experiences gained from the weekend of learning, attendees "flipped the switch" and launched WRYR FM 97.5.
Check out the highlights from our first
Barn Raiser in Southern Maryland
Bird Street Media Project
The second Prometheus Radio barn raising was successful, culminating in another new low power FM radio station on the airwaves - this one, KRBS, serves Oroville, California. KRBS (Radio bird Street) is a volunteer-based, non-profit, commercial-free radio station. We're a community station that offers eclectic music and diverse public affairs programming. Our volunteer broadcasters locally produce nearly all of the programs. We are dedicated to our vision of being a vital tool in our community for education, information and entertainment.
Check out these revealing photos from the
Barn Raising
Visit Radio Bird
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