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<span style="font-size:small"><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Across the country, schools are closing and prisons are opening. </font></span><span style="font-size:small"><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">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.</font></span><span style="font-size:small"><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> </font></span><span style="font-size:small"><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Corporate ownership of the media guarantees that groups challenging the corporate agenda fight an uphill battle to get our messages out. <br>
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<font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span style="font-size:small"></span><span style="font-size:small"></span></font><span style="font-size:small"><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">After a 10 year struggle, media justice advocates successfully passed the </font><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><a href="http://www.prometheusradio.org/we_won" target="_blank">Local Community Radio Act</a></font><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> in 2011. </font></span><span style="font-size:small"><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Now, there is a one-time opportunity to </font></span><span style="font-size:small"><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">open up access to the </font><span><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">airwaves</font></span><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> for social justice groups.</font></span></p>
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<li style="margin-left:15px"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FXKGK73gMb8" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Radio Comunitaria</font></a><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"> - ¿Por qué son importantes las Radios de Baja Potencia (LPFM) para las comunidades?</font></li>
<font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif"><span style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(35,35,35)"></span></font><li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">In These Times 4/28/12- </font><span style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(16,85,204)"><a href="http://inthesetimes.com/article/13119/radio_is_about_to_get_better" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Radio Is About to Get Better</font></a></span></span></li>
<li style="margin-left:15px"><span style="font-size:13px;color:rgb(35,35,35)"><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">The Nation 3/12/12- </font><a href="http://www.thenation.com/article/166749/revolution-radio" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)" target="_blank"><span style="text-decoration:underline;color:rgb(16,85,204)"><font face="'trebuchet ms', sans-serif">Revolution on the Radio</font></span></a></span></li>
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