Oregon's Farmworker Union starts radio station (broadcast in Spanish)

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.laborradio.org/node/4005



Oregon's Farmworker Union starts radio station - 08/22/2006

By Jacob Fenston
Northwest Treeplanters and Farmworkers United, or

P-CUN, will use the volunteer-run station to organize its
members in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. Ramón Ramírez is
President of P-CUN:

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“We always knew that the most effective means to
communicate your message to the community was through
the radio. Especially the Latino community. So we have
always used the radio as a means of providing information,
in mobilizing people. When we had community meetings or
forums, or mobilizations, we always used the radio to do
that.

Ramírez says with its own station, the Union won’t have
to buy time on commercial radio. Programming will be
produced by community members, and broadcast in Spanish
and several indigenous languages.
K-P-C-N went on the air at five P-M on Sunday.
For Workers’ Independent News, I’m Jacob Fenston.


Audio news for this and other stories: http://www.laborradio.org/files/lo/winsheadlines.ram

[melissinha]

1. Cool!

Very cool.... labor related radio in Spanish..... very cool.

[Omaha Steve]

2. Not just labor news!

It will also be democratic news. No rush. :-)

[melissinha]

4. Even better

I think that the Hispanic community needs to get real good news... I think that the stations that promoted the protests are doing well enough, but a Democratic/Union leaning radio station could really beneficial to the community.

how about "AAR en español"?

[1932]

3. REAL public radio. Cool.

I'd gladly trade KPFA and NPR for a radio station run by and for labor.