Project TUPA was created by Free Radio Berkeley to empower indigenous, campesino and barrio communities in the Americas with the tools, technology, knowledge and skills to build and maintain their own community broadcast stations. Project TUPA (Transmitters Uniting the Peoples of the Americas) is...
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Project TUPA was created by Free Radio Berkeley to empower indigenous, campesino and barrio communities in the Americas with the tools, technology, knowledge and skills to build and maintain their own community broadcast stations. Project TUPA (Transmitters Uniting the Peoples of the Americas) is a non-profit project under the fiscal sponsorship of Global Exchange in San Francisco, California.


Even though 70 percent of the population in South America live under nominally left of center governments, much of the broadcast media is under the control of media conglomerates. Indigenous, campesino and barrio communities lack the resources to effectively counter the private media outlets. Communication is a fundamental, inalienable human right. Empowering local communities with low cost broadcast stations, gives a voice to people who are otherwise totally cut off from any other means of communication they can control and speak to one another with.
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Project TUPA needs your financial support to equip communities throughout Latin America with their own broadcast stations. Project TUPA offers four to five day radio camps that teach people how to build an FM broadcast transmitter and set up a radio station through direct hands-on learning....
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Project TUPA needs your financial support to equip communities throughout Latin America with their own broadcast stations. Project TUPA offers four to five day radio camps that teach people how to build an FM broadcast transmitter and set up a radio station through direct hands-on learning. Workshop, participants are able to walk away with an assembled 40-watt transmitter and necessary equipment to create a community broadcast station capable of covering an area up to 8-10 miles in radius.

Unlike electoral campaigns and lobbying efforts, donations to Project TUPA produce concrete and tangible results at relatively low cost. A complete FM broadcast station can be placed on the air for less than $2000.
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Direct hands on learning opportunities in electronics and radio for youth 16 and up. Knowledge of the tools, technology and skills needed to maintain communication through low power community radio. Opportunities to learn about culture in Latin America and how media effects our life's. Volunteers...
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Direct hands on learning opportunities in electronics and radio for youth 16 and up. Knowledge of the tools, technology and skills needed to maintain communication through low power community radio. Opportunities to learn about culture in Latin America and how media effects our life's. Volunteers will also learn about human rights and freedom of speech through media and current events pertaining to the vision of our organization
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