“Radio and news” is a project inspired by the expanded education movement, which is both communal and critical (formal and informal). This course is offered to our community as a tool with transformative, unifying, and informative potential. It acts as a space for separate spheres that coexist in the same town, Northfield, to come together, although they do so as distanced and differentiated entities. Through a series of conversation about different structural issues that affect immigrant members of Northfield each day, the neighborhood and academic community of Carleton college will become participants and collaborators in this educational process, both formally (in class) and informally (in a local community radio program called “El súper barrio latino”). This process of communal convergence and discussion will take place over the 10 weeks of the Carleton term and is comprised of various objectives: 

• To intervene in the state of “information poverty” that prohibits the immigrant community from being seen as a valuable resource at the table of community discussions. When we talk about “information poverty,” we are referring to the research from one pioneers in this field, Elfreda Annamary Chatman. Chatman believed that the right to information is not just an individual need, but a collective one as well. Access to information is necessary for the development of politically-able citizens that make up our communities and society. An informed individual, although never completely knowledgeable, holds the ability to distinguish the trivial from the essential, reclaim and defend their rights, and denounce unjust situations with informed arguments.  
• To offer information that is relevant to our goal of illuminating the structural causes of some of the problems that affect the lives of the immigrant community–one that is constantly segregated and discriminated against because of racial and economic differences. 
• To create a space of learning and civil exercise to be able to understand and develop potential ways of relating to and cooperating with the social, communal, and active space of Northfield. As such, we will explore possible routes of support and mutual collaboration.
• To learn and understand (some) of the community and institutional initiatives that celebrate participation as a strategy of community empowerment in the search for solutions to the issues we face. 
• To establish a space of inclusive, horizontal, and careful work in which everyone who participates is treated as a member of the same community. This confluence of people will help to open our formal educational process to the community, allowing the experiences, tools, and knowledge of others into our Carleton classroom. Often, these are the very voices that do not have the opportunity to participate in the distribution of knowledge that occurs in the classroom. The collaboration between Carleton and this collective will allow us to expand the work that Vecinxs Unidxs does. 
• As a final objective, we will write a collective and collaborative report in which we will collect the ideas and suggestions that arose from our many conversations. This list will be made publicly available on the radio and on the course website.