La Revolucion Comunicativa offers a brief overview of the rise of community radio and TV in Venezuela. A burgeoning community media movement is spreading across the country. It is profoundly democratic, uncensored and vibrant with participation from the communities the stations serve. In an age of increasing media mergers and consolidation what's happening in Venezuela offers a story of success and hope.

But this movement did not develop overnight. Years of struggle through censorship and repression [before Chavez was elected president] combined with catalyzing events helped build the momentum that exists today for creating media of, by and for the people. And profit-driven corporate media still wield tremendous influence in the country, dominating radio, television and news print. Media wars continue to rage in Venezuela but people are getting involved and asserting their right to communicate over the free and public airwaves. And the Chavez government is helping to facilitate this democratization of broadcast media.

Our film provides an overview of the major events helping build momentum in the community media movement and offers a glimpse into just a handful of the hundreds of community stations broadcasting in Venezuela today.

Hopefully our film inspires more questions than it answers. The purpose of this website is to provide a forum for people to learn more, ask questions, create dialogue. What can we learn from the events taking place in Venezuela? What from their system is desireable and applicable to the US media landscape. Does greater media democracy in Venezuela offer a window into wider participatory democratic changes taking place there, changes that we can study and learn from?

Please send us related blogs, questions, articles, links to more resources, anything relevant that conrtributes to important dialogue concerning media democratization in Venezuela and around the world.

Thanks for your interest

Venceremos

Greg Miller and Sean Kriletich