People across Latin America and the United States are increasingly turning to community media as a tool of resistance. Now, Maka Muñoz, a Latin American radio activist and co-founder of Palabra Radio, is planning a cross-country tour to grow Spanish language, participatory radio in immigrant communities in the United States.

VIDEO :: The International Center for Journalists aims to build stronger and better-informed communities of Latin American immigrants by creating a corps of community radio reporters and citizen journalists who will develop and share higher-quality multimedia programming across stations and borders. more>

When Ricardo Ramón and Natalia Evangelista immigrated to the United States from Santa Inez, a small, arid farming town in the southern Mexican state of Puebla, they didn’t imagine that they would be fighting displacement again. “We have the same problems we left in Mexico,” said Ramon. more>