“…There is, however, a growing school of scholars and practitioners (e.g., Barlow, 1988;Lewis & Booth, 1989;Dowmunt, 1994;Girard, 1992;Gunnar, 1994;Hochheimer, 1988Hochheimer, , 1993Huesca, 1995Huesca, , 1996Jankowski, Prehn & Stappers, 1992;Karpff, 1980;Post, 1974;Schulman, 1985;Srampickal, 1994;Strauss, 1993;Thede & Ambrosi, 1991;Widlok, 1981Widlok, , 1989Widlok, , 1992 who have been looking into the ways in which local peoples have been and are coming together to produce radio, television, newspapers and people's theater at the community level. Their intent is to reach out to other people for solidarity of purpose, for information, for entertainment, and, for greater control of their own destiny.…”