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From the Streets to Berkeley?s Airwaves
Youth Radio Gives Teens a Voice?And a Chance

By KYLE CRAWFORD - Contributing Writer -  Friday, October 14, 2005

Berkeley teen Brandon McFarland spent most of his youth on the streets of Oakland, surrounded by crime and drugs.

But today, McFarland, 19, spends his days trying to prevent others from disappearing down that path by teaching children at Berkeley's Youth Radio about a more promising option: music and news production.

McFarland "accidentally" joined the program's production team three years ago after he was approached by "Whiz," a broadcast training director who offered him a chance to join the cast of a radio show.

"I was a standard no-future kid," McFarland said. "The program made me realize I could do something really true. Youth Radio saved my life."

FULL ARTICLE AT http://www.dailycal.org/article.php?id=19965

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Chris Schuepp
Young People's Media Network - Coordinator
c/o ECMC (European Centre for Media Competence)
Bergstr. 8 / 11th floor
D-45770 Marl - Germany

 

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