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December
Open Letter from the Free Radio Austin Collective - Published in the Austin Chronicle: the station might be no more, but the battle rages on (Dec. 22)
Save low-power radio! - Op-ed piece from Ralph Nader was published on the same day President Clinton signed a bill to gut the plan (Dec. 21)
Micro-Broadcasters Dealt A Blow - Wired News has reaction from both the FCC, a former pirate, and inside-the-Beltway advocates of the LPFM service following Congress' decision squash it (Dec. 19)
FCC Shelves Plans for Low-Power Radio Stations - The San Francisco Chronicle's story on the Congressional override of the LPFM plan (Dec. 18)
Law firm asks Supreme Court to consider First Amendment issues in radio raids - The Freedom Forum's update on the Beat Radio case (Dec. 6)

November
Naked City: Ill Communications - Austin Chronicle singes the FCC for its heavy-handedness in dealing with the double busts of Free Radio Austin (Nov. 24)
FRA Fights On - In the rubble left after its second FCC raid, a flyer is discovered that pretty much sums up the station's intent (Nov. 6)
FRA Wreckage - Radio cops aren't nice when they come a second time to Free Radio Austin - clutter and silence is left in their wake (Nov. 6)
Free Radio Austin Busted AGAIN - The police hit the Texas station twice within a month (Nov. 6)
Free Radio Austin Studio Pics - Photo of the aftermath left after the second raid of the station in less than a month (Nov. 6)

October
FCC To Monitor Auction Site for Illegal Items - Agents are now making weekly sweeps of eBay in hopes of keeping 'export only' gear away from undesirables (Oct. 24)
Big Radio Bites Back! - Somebody got some good spin on Salon (Oct. 16)
94.9FM will return after these fascist messages! - An eyewitness description of multiple visits the FCC recently made to Humboldt (CA) Pirate Radio (Oct. 1)
Low Power to the People - American Journalism Review provides a general update of the grassroots LPFM scene (October)
The Trailer Park Show - Free Radio Austin Raid Photos - Comprehensive gallery of the action snapped as it happened (October)
FAIR: Open Letter to the NAB - Written by FAIR analyst Steve Rendall after he witnessed a nasty confrontation between Clear Channel protesters and company DJs in San Francisco. (October)
Media Money - The Columbia Journalism Review's analysis on how corporate broadcasters influenced the election (September/October)
The Transistor Triangle - Good summary of the current marriage of media, politics and business, from the Media Alliance's Media Review (September/October)
The Next FCC Giveaway: Digital Radio - LPFM advocates explain the threats surrounding this supposed 'improvement' to radio (September/October)

September
Protesters crash broadcasters convention - nine arrested - Excellent story by the San Francisco Bay Guardian on one day's events during the anti-NAB protests (Sept. 27)
Banned by the NAB - San Franscisco Bay Guardian reporter gets his press credentials pulled from the NAB Radio Convention when he took pictures of protesters inside (Sept. 27)
The K Chronicles - September 27th, 2000 - Salon.com cartoon puts the pro-LPFM argument to pictures (Sept. 27)
Pirate Airs Satanic Music on Public Radio - Somebody hijacked Wisconsin Public Radio's translator station in Green Bay and went to town for more than five hours (Sept. 15)
2000 NAB Convention Protest - Partytown Perspective
Partytown Radio was present and wired for the festivities, think of this as their media scrapbook of it (September)
NAB 2000: Exclusives - Very comprehensive coverage of the NAB's 2000 radio convention and the resistance it drew, from the San Francisco Bay Guardian (September)

August
Rebel Without a Pause - The Orlando Weekly profiles Rayon Payne, aka NSX, before he's convicted and sentenced to prison for pirate radio. (Aug. 29)

July
USA v. Dunifer - 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals - Free Radio Berkeley dealt another blow - broadcasting ban upheld (Jul. 20)
Who's Got the Power?: Challenges to Low-Power Radio - The Benton Foundation on the state of the pending LPFM rollout - and the last-minute Congressional attempt to silence the new stations (Jul. 18)
American Nightmare - If a ghost story could be a format, this Austin, TX pirate broadcaster would be its king (July)
Free Radio Takes Aim at Corporate Media - Dated labor news piece on microradio and LPFM in Milwaukee; a good connection of causes. (July)

June
Radio Active - Wired magazine does a feature on the LPFM movement, talking to most of the major players and includes some profiles (June)
Interview with Stephen Dunifer, Microradio Pioneer - A detailed Q-and-A with Dunifer on the reasons for going unlicensed (June)

May
Transmission Impossible - The Village Voice profiles an unlicensed station in the Bronx (May 24)
FCC Investigation Leads to Arrest of Unlicensed FM Radio Operator - Pirate radio arrests are few and far between, but they still happen (May 17)
Senator John McCain's Floor Statement on the FM Radio Act of 2000 - McCain introduces "alternative" LPFM legislation (May 8)

April
Attack on Low-Watt Radio - High-profile left-wing buzzletter CounterPunch weighs in on the Congressional action over LPFM (Apr. 20)
Revolution *Not* Televized: Microradio.net Streams A16 to Pirate Stations - Free Seattle Radio and its aggressive netcasting side provided live audio coverage of the spring protests in Washington D.C. (Apr. 16)
Whole Earth - Micro-Powered Radio - Slightly condensed history of LPFM, with a focus on the microradio movement (April) (Archive.org link)

March
Big radio airs the sound of sameness - An in-depth report on Clear Channel's domination of radio in the Cincinnati radio market and around the nation. (Mar. 19)
Allston-Brighton Community Radio Returns - After going off the air following FCC interference, ABCR returns to the air on the AM dial. (Mar. 9)
Doug Brewer Fined $10,000 for Selling Unauthorized Transmitter - As announced in the FCC Daily Digest (Mar. 3)
Low Power Radio: Technically Sound and Vastly Popular - Media Access Project responds to the NAB's interference scare tactics (March)

February
Micro Management: Approval of Low-Wattage Stations Keeps Microradio Under FCC's Thumb - Austin Chronicle explains why Free Radio Austin won't play by the new rules (Feb. 18)
A New Kind of Radio - From Eat The State: a look at the FCC's decision to legalize LPFM, and the kinks in the new policy which will force future change (Feb. 2)

January
Mini-stations would bring diversity but could also make radio more fuzzy - The Detroit News finds an LPFM schism in the management of the city's public radio station (Jan. 26)
Pirate Radio Goes Legit - Salon.com gets both sides of the story on the eve of the historic vote to legalize LPFM again (Jan. 19)
The Feds' Ramsey Electronics Raid Blow by Blow - Slashdot.org talks to both sides about the controversial action against this hobby kit maker (Jan. 5)
Concealed Transmissions: The Story of InterferenceFM - Anonymous commentary on the London pirate scene and how content affects how authorities respond to stations. (2000)