[IMC] Human Rights Radio: 8/21 Webinar on Opportunity to Build Community Radio Stations

[Danielle Chynoweth]

IMCistas and RFU members,

Could you help get the word out about about this webinar next week with US
Human Rights Network?

Danielle Chynoweth, Prometheus Radio Project
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*Human Rights Radio: *

*Webinar on Historic Opportunity to *

*Build Community Radio Stations!
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*Tuesday, August 21, 2012*

*11am PST/ 2pm EST*

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*REGISTER NOW<https://www.accuconference.com/customer/Registration/index.aspx?pkRegQG=fdc0a59d-d11d-4304-9359-c600e78f51b3>
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*Co-hosted by U.S.  <http://goog_220136901>Human
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Rights <http://goog_220136901> Network <http://www.ushrnetwork.org/> &
Prometheus
Radio Project <http://prometheusradio.org/>*

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Featuring special guest and USHRN members.


 Danielle Mkali, Program Director of Main Street
Project<http://mainstreetproject.org/>in Minneapolis,

who will share her experience organizing with groups in the Twin Cities to

build two new community radio stations in the city's poorest neighborhoods.


 Cruz Salucio of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers
<http://www.ciw-online.org/>(CIW) who will talk

about Radio Consciencia, CIW's Low Power FM radio station

which Prometheus

helped to build in 2003.

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Across the country, schools are closing and prisons are opening. Billions
are spent on wars while social services are cut. In the mainstream media,
victims of government policy are often framed as those responsible for the
social and economic crises we face. Corporate ownership of the media
guarantees that groups challenging the corporate agenda fight an uphill
battle to get our messages out.


 *We need to own and control our own media to tell our stories, express our
culture, and build a movement for human rights. *


 After a 10 year struggle, media justice advocates successfully passed
the Local
Community Radio Act <http://www.prometheusradio.org/we_won> in 2011. Now,
there is a one-time opportunity to open up access to the airwaves for
social justice groups.


 *In the next year, nonprofits and community groups will have a historic
opportunity <http://prometheusradio.org/start_a_station> to apply for
thousands of new non-commercial FM radio licenses!* This will be the first
time urban areas can apply and the last big chance ever to get a radio
license. These Low Power FM (LPFM) multimedia stations can be broadcast
studios and organizing hubs for our movements. They can be a powerful local
organizing tool, featuring local artists and news. Integrating new
technologies into these stations allows us to amplify our reach nationally
and globally. 90% of Americans currently listen to the radio once a week.


 We need to organize human rights and social justice groups to get these
stations and build a national communications infrastructure that's owned
and controlled by our communities.


 Prometheus Radio Project led this fight to expand independent media, and
is now providing start to finish support for social justice groups to
apply, build, and sustain these stations to amplify our movements for years
to come.


Join this webinar to learn how you can help build a new community
radio station in your community and support the expansion of independent
media nationwide.


 *REGISTER NOW FOR THE
WEBINAR<https://www.accuconference.com/customer/Registration/index.aspx?pkRegQG=fdc0a59d-d11d-4304-9359-c600e78f51b3>
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Sign up for email updates about Community
Radio<http://prometheusradio.org/want_to_start_a_station>
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Sign up for email updates from the US Human Rights
Network<https://app.e2ma.net/app/view:Join/signupId:1419145/acctId:1408122>

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 See more:

   - World Radio Day video <http://vimeo.com/41455053> 2/13/12 by the Main
   Street Project <http://www.mainstreetproject.org/>
   - Radio Comunitaria <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXKGK73gMb8> - ¿Por
   qué son importantes las Radios de Baja Potencia (LPFM) para las comunidades?
   - In These Times 4/28/12- Radio Is About to Get
Better<http://inthesetimes.com/article/13119/radio_is_about_to_get_better>
   - The Nation 3/12/12- Revolution on the
Radio<http://www.thenation.com/article/166749/revolution-radio>
   - Associated Press 1/16/12 - Airwaves Clear Slightly for Community
Radio<http://prometheusradio.org/content/airwaves-clear-slightly-community-radio>
   - Profiles of Existing Stations<http://prometheusradio.org/stationprofiles>

Please forward widely!
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