Following the astonishing successes of cooperative human reaction in resistance to the state sponsered repression, and ugly corporate desire exposed at the Seattle WTO Round in November and December of 1999, MicroRadio.net is once again STREAMING live music mixed with live reports from the streets in D.C. to a growing global network of micro- pirate- and community- broadcasters.

\"Not everyone in the world has a computer and a high speed [broadband] internet connection needed to obtain streaming audio,\" says DJ Realtime of FSR! 87.9 FM Free Seattle Radio. \"Those things are too expensive for many people to afford. FM radio, on the other hand is super fuckin cheap.\" Realtime explains that FSR! is a pirate radio outfit operating clandestinely with a 25 watt hilltop transmitter located somewhere in Seattle. \"We broadcast on an unused frequency low on the FM band. When we found out this shit was goin down over in D.C.,\" says Realtime, \"we knew we had to do our part to get the word out to folks here in town. We downloaded the stream from MicroRadio.net and broadcast it on 87.9 FM.\"

\"For 5 bucks [US] almost anyone can get a boombox and tune into the revolution\" says \'Sarge\', another pirate in the FSR! collective. \"Unlike the internet which is still in it\'s infancy, radio is a 100-year-old communication technology...\" she explains, \"... so it has the widest possible reach of all mass mediums, as it is nearly ubiquitous and so damn cheap.\"

\"Corporations think they rule the airwaves. We say \'fuck them!\' and we\'re doing our part to confront corporate media in their efforts to monopolize the people\'s airwaves,\" explains Ben Livingston, a \"deprogrammer\" from Studio X, a MicroRadio.net content provider.

In conjunction with independent media sources such as indymedia.org, A16.org, FIRE.or.cr, and micro pirate radio broadcasters like FSR! in Seattle and FRSC 96.3FM in Santa Cruz, MicroRadio.net is sending out news and music for the revolution. If you know any broadcasters in your area, have them tune into the revolution @ www.MicroRadio.net and rebroadcast it in your community.

\'Aeon Blue\' of FRSC is pretty enthusiatic to be part of a growing network of micro radio stations. \"We have been broadcasting locally here in Santa Cruz on pirate FM for 5 years without a license, but we have never been part of anything like this, this rocks! We have about 40 programmers here, and some folks had to give up their shows in order for us to carry the MicroRadio.net feed from D.C., but we are excited to do it.\"

\"Up here in Seattle, we realized that we couldn\'t sit around forever and wait for the coporate media do provide us what we wanted, because it was never gonna happen.\" relates jonathan jay of MicroRadio.net \"Waiting for others to act in your interests is a trained helplessness instilled in us by the consumer society: \'Just work your brains out, give us your money, and we\'ll do it all for you.\' That\'s bullshit. It trains people to be passive receptors of corporate culture, and that will get us all nowhere. The result of that is you stop living your own life, and stop creating for yourselves. It is a kind of sickness and dependency that corporations strive to create in each of us: to turn us into consumers, and then to break consumers into demographic sectors.

As a small part of the global effort to combat this globalizing sickness (as represented by organisations like the WTO, the IMF and the World Bank), we in Seattle at MicroRadio.net -- and there are about 90 of us making radio programs each month -- we say fuck all that. In solidarity with the protestors stuggeling in D.C. and in solidarity with people all over the world stuggeling to lead personally meaningful lives of self-determination, we send our stream to you.\"

You can send us your comments via email to: studiox (at) MicroRadio.net, or you can call into the studio at area code 206.443.3208 and we will patch you directly through the board and out the world wide web. \"It is fucking excellent. Never before have so many people had the opportunity to do what we now suddenly find ourselves being able to do: speak to the world. It is pretty damn exciting\" says jay. \"Tune in to the evolution.\" It is indeed an exciting time to be alive.