Steppin' Out Of Babylon: Radio Interviews

Luz Ruiz works with a group called COMPPA which, translated into English is "Coalition of Popular Communicators for Autonomy". She also works with the Prometheus Radio Project out of Philadelphia. This interview took place at the Barnraising with Prometheus assisting PCUN ( Treeplanters and Farmworkers United) to set up a low power FM radio station in Woodburn, Oregon where the union is based. Ruiz shares some of her experiences and goals with using community radio as a tool for bringing about peace and social justice. Most of COMPPA's work has involved facilitating the appropriation of media tools for indigenous organizations setting up media outlets in Mexico. Their work focuses there largely on farmworker and immigrant rights.Ruiz hopes to see her work providing relief in the struggle between people who wish to live their lives with dignity and mutual respect versus huge corporate enterprises often notorious for their heartless agendas. Individuals controlling such enterprises have ruined entire communitie