RADIO PIRATES.

• Position: Brief Article

Washington, D.C.

In early October, hundreds of microradio activists (small, unlicensed radio operators) marched on the headquarters of the Federal Communications Commission and the National Association of Broadcasters to protest the ban on community access to radio airwaves. The activists also sent a team up to Capitol Hill to lobby Congress. In the past two years, the Federal Communications Commission, under pressure from the National Association of Broadcasters, has intensified its crackdown on low-power broadcasting. Microbroadcasters at Dupont Circle constructed huge puppets, including...