Updating techniques used in the N30 protests in Seattle, activists are using newer tools like Twitter and microbroadasting to coordinate protester movements in anti-war actions.

"Given the broad investment across the country in translators and the unique service that they provide in both rural and more urban areas, often importing unique noncommercial channels, would the additional localism provided by LPFM justify the change in

This is really interesting, even if the authors are total corporate douches. The authors complain that low-power licenses interfere with corporate radio's requests to upgrade their equipment, just as it should be.

Via Dan Gillmor, FCC has given increasingly more citations to unlicensed FM operators.

Open channels that could be used by low-power community-run stations can gobbled up by non-profit translators, often by evangelical organizations broadcasting nationwide. These maps show the contrast between use by community LPFM and translator stations.

The FCC is stepping up enforcement of unlicensed microradio operators and levvying stiffer fines. This post suggests that people are still clamoring for access to the airwaves in urban areas.

A documentary about the microradio movement in the United States. I've done a fair amount of research on microradio, so I would love to see this film.

This mobile radio transmitter and internet access point is built on a three-wheel motorcycle/