[Rfu-barnraising] Housing volunteers needed for barnraising!

[faith swords]

Dear friends,

Can you help us host the wonderful volunteers who will help build your new 
community radio station in Mid November?

>From November 10-14, hundreds of people will converge on Urbana to help us 
"raise the roof" on our community's new low power FM station -- WRFU Radio 
Free Urbana, 104.5FM.  The Urbana-Champaign Independent Media Center 
(IMC), in collaboration with Prometheus Radio Project, a national 
grassroots radio organization, will host a Radio Station Barnraising 
during the weekend of November 11-13, 2005 -- the first ever in the 
Midwest!  And we need your help to house Barnraising participants who are 
driving, flying, hitching, training and busing to the area.  If you have 
an extra couch, a guest bedroom, an unused futon, or even a spare bit of 
floor space you're willing to share, please respond.  We're especially 
interested in people who live within a mile of downtown Urbana.

The Barnraising will feature the construction of the entire station with 
the help of hundreds of volunteers from around the globe; and on November 
13th we'll have a new community radio station on the air.  Radio Free 
Urbana will be broadcasting out of the new IMC Community Media and Arts 
Center and will reach most residents in Champaign and Urbana. The program 
schedule will feature an eclectic mix of talk, music, and radio drama 
including shows on food commentary, Chicano issues, "drum n bass", and 
sound art (to name just a few).  Members of the community will run these 
programs, and everyone is invited to put in a show request, as well as 
attend the Barnraising in November. For more information, check out the 
Prometheus Radio Project site at http://prometheusradio.org/urbana/.

If you are willing to house some of our out of town guests during the 
Barnraising, please fill out the housing volunteer form located at:

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=614281417440

or contact me directly at faith at ucimc.org with any questions you might 
have about housing or anything else related to the Barnraising!

Let me know & thanks for your help,

Faith Swords
Housing Coordinator
WRFU Barnraising