Making Waves: Community Media as Community Rights

As a Neoliberal Economic Order continues to spread across the world, displacing people from their lands and privatizing their public resources, communities across Latin America are increasingly turning  to community media as a tool of resistance to capitalist globalization. In this multi-media presentation The Prometheus Radio Project and Palabra Radio will highlight the central role that media has played in building popular power from the women in Oaxaca, Mexico who led a take-over of corporate and state media outlets in protest to the complete media black-out of the popular rebellion; to a rural Guatemalan Community using a radio station to fight a mining project; to migrant farmworkers in Immokalee, Florida broadcasting programs about economic human rights on their Low Power FM radio station.