Tell Congress to Support Low Power FM Bill

By at 6:59 am Monday, Jul 20

Carrie McLaren is a guest blogger at Boing Boing and coauthor of Ad Nauseam: A Survivor's Guide to American Consumer Culture. She lives in Brooklyn, the former home of her now defunct Stay Free! magazine.

LPFM-lowpower-radio.jpg For you commies who support low-power community radio, today is Call Your Congressperson and Plea for Low Power FM Day. Prometheus Radio is behind an effort to pass the Local Community Radio Act (HR 1247/S592), which could open the airwaves to tens of thousands of new community radio stations across the country. It only takes a minute or two:
  1. Look up your Congressional Representative at Congress.org

  2. Find out if they have already supported the Local Community Radio Act. 
See a list of cosponsors at govtrack.us and search for Bill number HR 1147.

  3. Call the Congressional Switchboard at: (202) 224-3121 and ask to be connected to your Representative's office.

* If your representative is not a cosponsor tell him/her to support expanding Low Power FM all across the country and cosponsor the bill.
* If your representative is a cosponsor ask him/her to reach out to Congressional Leadership to let them know that this is an important priority around the county.
Info: Prometheus Radio
(Photo: Yaldabaoth)

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Carrie McLaren & Jason Torchinsky are coeditors of _Ad Nauseam: A Survivor's Guide to American Consumer Culture_. In previous lives, they worked together on the hopelessly obscure and now defunct Stay Free! magazine. He lives in LA and writes for the Onio

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