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112 Chapter 5laborers and domestic workers to create and distribute their own media,including several radio and audio projects, video projects, and a newspapercalled Jornada XXII . One IDEPSCA staff member had a long history of usingpopular communication in social movement struggles in Central Americaduring the late 1970s and 1980s. He described popular communication ashis main activity in those times, during which he worked with a team ofthree other organizers to create a nationwide network of social movementradio, as well as a newspaper that collected and distributed articles bystudents, workers, peasants, and women ’ s organizations throughout Honduras.32 He migrated to the United States as a refugee fleeing right-wingpolitical violence. Once in L.A., he connected with IDEPSCA, and duringthe early days of the organization he helped create a newspaper, a radioprogram, and later a short video documenting the organization ’ s activities.In the mid-2000s, IDEPSCA partnered with the Bay Area Video Coalitionto produce a video titled Neidi ’ s Story. 33IDEPSCA works to provide computers and Internet access to the communityat sites around L.A. The organization ’ s facilities include six computerslocated in the main office in Pico Union, four computers in theHollywood Day Labor Center, and four computers in the Downtown DayLabor Center, among others. It also provides intermittent classes in basiccomputer literacy. Organizers at IDEPSCA are interested in developing thecapacity of their base to critically analyze the mass media, and they run anumber of workshops with this aim. For example, in 2006 they screeneda series of documentaries about the anti-immigrant group the Minutemen,with screenings taking place at their main office, at Day Labor Centers,and at community sites. One organizer said that seeing the way the Minutemenand other anti-immigrant hate groups used the Internet to spreadtheir message and circulate racist depictions of Latin@s filled her with rage,but also inspired her. She wanted to see IDEPSCA ’ s base become digitallyliterate and gain access to ICTs so that they could “ become subjects whospeak, and authors of our own history. ” 34One of the organization ’ s long-term goals is to organize L.A. ’ s 26,000day laborers, using the network of Day Labor Centers and organizingcorners spread throughout the city. They run a streaming radio station outof the Downtown Day Labor Center, and are exploring the possibility ofsetting up low-power FM stations to reach workers on the corners. However,mobile phones are the communication technology that day laborers have