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SPROUTS RADIO FROM THE GRASSROOTS

Sprouts Have you produced something for radio that you would like to showcase nationally? We'll air it.
Sprouts Radio from the Grassroots is a 29-minute weekly program featuring radio content being produced by grassroots community radio stations, Indy Media Centers, and other independent production groups. We celebrate these many vital and diverse voices by bringing them to a national audience. Sprouts is produced collaboratively by radio producers across the country; sometimes even the world.

Our mission:

Showcase unique and diverse content being produced at community radio stations and other grassroots media groups
Encourage production collaboration across geographical distances via the Internet

Air news and cultural stories - that are unique to local areas - to a national audience

Bring new and fresh voices and stories to the airwaves

Encourage new producers, connecting them to other progressive producers

Increase communication between all producers-of-conscience

MAKE A SPROUTS SHOW

AIR SPROUTS

Protests in Oaxaca and California

PROTESTS IN OAXACA AND CALIFORNIA

Thursday, October 12, 2006.
Produced by Dori Smith, Pacifica Affiliate WHUS in Storrs, Connecticut.

FSRN's Shannon Young reports from Oaxaca where teachers and others have walked for miles to protest corruption and unfair wages. They were met by helicopters as they tried to remove Governor Ulises Ruiz from office. "Most major state and municipal government offices in the capital have been blockaded by public school teachers and members of the so-called Popular Assemebly of the People of Oaxaca -or APPO as it's known in Spanish," she reports.

Serving the Homeless: Midnight Run

SERVING THE HOMELESS: MIDNIGHT RUN

Thursday, October 5, 2006.
Produced by Marc Sophos and Christine Potter at WDFH Lower Hudson River Hudson River Valley's Community Radio Alternative Dobbs Ferry, New York.

Midnight Run is a homeless support organization based in Dobbs Ferry, New York, just north of New York City. In this week's Sprouts, we go along on a Midnight Run, and talk to Midnight Run volunteers as they bring food, clothing, and companionship to the street homeless of Manhattan.

LABOR DAY IN THE OLD CAPITOL OF THE CONFEDERACY

The South Shall Rise Again, But NOT The Way They Planned!

Thursday, April 14, 2006.
Produced by: Christopher Maxwell, WRIR-LP, Richmond, Va.

This week's stories: WRIR was inspired by a listener who was very active in Pacifica who has moved to Richmond Va and brought in the Pacifica Archive of the 1934 San Francisco Waterfront Strike.

WRIR's News Talk and Public Affairs committee (overseeing 14 locally produced shows and independently produced shows each weekday from 8am to 5pm) decided to create a whole series of our specials *around* that Pacifica Archive.

Political Satire From Nashville

POLITICAL SATIRE FROM NASHVILLE Thursday September 14th, 2006. Produced by Ross Falzone producer, WRFN-LP Nashville, TN This program contains political satire bits and original music that has been featured in Ross Falzone regular comedy program at Radio Free Nashville.
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Casino On the Hill

CASINO ON THE HILL

Thursday September 7th, 2006 .
Produced at WRCT Pittsburgh by Andalusia Knoll, Music by: Dr. Goddess

The Hill District of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania had historically been one of the most prosperous and influential black neighborhoods in the United States until thousands of residents were evicted for the construction of a sports arena. New urban development in the form of a slots casino and a hockey stadium is currently being proposed for this area. This episode of Sprouts will feature the debate surrounding Casinos in the Hill District.

Will Ohio's Votes Count?

WILL OHIO'S VOTE COUNT?

Thursday August 31, 3PM EST.
Produced at the studios of the Columbus Community Radio Foundation in Columbus, Ohio Music by Victoria Parks

This week's program examines the status of voting rights in Ohio. The off-mic question which preceeded each interview with the guests on this program was; "Is Ohio a state where an eligible voter can register with relative ease and then go to the polls on election day and have a reasonabe expectation of being able to cast his or her vote un-hindered and hen have hat vote recorded correctly and counted?"

Making a Sprouts Show

To schedule your Sprouts production or for information, contact producer Ursula Ruedenberg

PRODUCING A SHOW FOR SPROUTS

Sprouts provides an excellent way for producers across the country - even the world - to meet, speak, and collaborate. Production is done on a volunteer basis. Any community-based producer or station that contacts us with interest in producing a Sprouts show may do so. Production rotates between stations to feature the variety of unique approaches that exist. We welcome new producers and provide training, support, and feedback via conference calls and other forms of communication.

If there is a program that you have produced locally that you think merits being showcased nationally, consider making it into a Sprouts show. Or if you would like to produce an original show for Sprouts that will bring national attention to an artist, an issue, or a breaking news story contact us also. We maintain a flexible schedule and can accommodate a timely story that needs immediate national attention.

Airing Sprouts

BRING SPROUTS TO YOUR AIRWAVES !

Currently, approximately 20 radio stations air Sprouts Radio From the Grassroots regularly. Many more stations air the program intermittently.

Sprouts is distributed by Pacifica Radio via satellite and Internet. Producers who make Sprouts shows are welcome to dirtibute their own shows elsewhere as well.