page_title: Prometheus Radio Project
section_title: Barnraisings
hierarchical_section_title: Prometheus Radio Project / Barnraisings
caption_attribution_description: English: Studying the console at the WMXP Barnraising, June 2007
context_page_description: The Prometheus Radio Project is a non-profit advocacy and community organizing group with a mission to resist corporate media consolidation and radio homogenization in the United States. Founded in 1998 by a small group of radio activists in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Prometheus has participated in the community radio movement by providing technical training, helping marginalized communities gain access to affordable media outlets, and creating a network of low power community radio stations. A lot of Prometheus' efforts have focused on legal advocacy for low-power FM stations.
context_section_description: In the spirit of the Amish barn-raising tradition, where a community comes together and erects an essential structure, Prometheus holds radio barnraisings. These events bring together the local community with community radio advocates from around the world to build a community radio station, while advancing the movement for media democracy. Prometheus barnraisings gather Low Power FM radio advocates, journalists, radio engineers, students, lawyers, musicians, activists and other folks from across the country to build a studio, raise an antenna mast, and put the station on air for the first time – all over the course of three days. At a typical barnraising, the organization invites expert facilitators to lead workshops on a wide variety of topics, like understanding the workings of the FCC, introductions to various aspects of radio engineering, updates on media and democracy campaigns, and how radio can promote social change today. In the inclusive spirit of Prometheus's mission, the events are open to the public.
  Prometheus has held eleven community radio barnraisings to date:
  WRYR-LP – February 16–18, 2002 – Deale, Maryland with South Arundel Citizens for Responsible Development
  KOYO-LP – April 12–14, 2002 – Oroville, California with the Bird Street Media Project (originally KRBS-LP)
  KOCZ-LP – November 15–17, 2002 – Opelousas, Louisiana with the Southern Development Foundation
  KYRS-LP – October 24–26, 2003 – Spokane, Washington with Thin Air Community Radio (who later launched full-power station KYRS)
  WCIW-LP – December 5–7, 2003 – Immokalee, Florida with the Coalition of Immokalee Workers
  WSCA-LP – September 10–12, 2004 – Portsmouth, New Hampshire with Portsmith Community Radio
  WRFN-LP – April 1–3, 2005 – Pasquo, Tennessee with Radio Free Nashville
  WXOJ-LP – April 5–7, 2005 – Northampton, Massachusetts with Valley Free Radio
  WRFU-LP – November 11–13, 2005 – Champaign-Urbana, Illinois with Radio Free Urbana
  KPCN-LP – August 18–20, 2006 – Woodburn, Oregon with Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste
  WMXP-LP – June 8–10, 2007 – Greenville, South Carolina with the Malcolm X Grassroots Movement
  WGXC-FM – September 24–26, 2010 – Hudson, New York with Free103point9
  Prometheus has also been active internationally, working with groups in Guatemala, Nepal, Colombia, Jordan, Kenya, and Tanzania.
caption: Studying the console at the WMXP-LP Barnraising, June 2007.
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