Radio Indígena 3.2.0

MICOP started its radio station, Radio Indígena 94.1, as an online-only access station in 2014. Three years later, the organization was able to raise enough funds to purchase its own antenna and achieve the dream of having a low-power FM station. Since its inception, Radio Indígena has been used as the strongest and most effective organizing and outreach tool for indigenous, immigrant, and rural communities. Due to their lower educational level and long hours of manual labor, farmworkers rely heavily on radio for information and entertainment. Radio Indígena attempts to bring both together to provide programming that is easy to understand and digest in Spanish at a 4th-6th grade school level. Radio Indígena’s unique value proposition lies in the additional programming it can provide in at least seven Mixtec, Zapotec, and Purépecha languages. As we train farmworkers who speak other indigenous languages ​​as volunteer DJs, we expand our language base and reach, connecting other isolated indigenous families with services and programs they would otherwise know very little about.

Radio Indígena currently features 40 hours per week of live programming and traditional indigenous music scheduled 24 hours a day. Radio Indígena features 23 live radio programs covering topics from community organizing, labor rights, access to health and mental health, self-help and wellness, as well as native indigenous music programs. Of these live radio programs in 2021, six were new programs: “Todo Sobre la Vacuna,” “Contigo y al Dia,” “La Hora Oaxaqueña,” “Chileneando,” “Navegadores de Salud,” and El Campesino y Sus Derechos. Radio Indígena rebranded, with a new logo, program labels, and a commitment to educational and musical selection that captures and defines our philosophy and culture.