WHYS-FM is an independent, progressive, community radio station broadcasting music, culture, news, and information programming for the Eau Claire, Wisconsin area. WHYS is a volunteer-operated, non-commercial radio station financed by listener, donor, and non-profit grant support. WHYS provides space for the representation of progressive voices, issues, and perspectives largely ignored, misrepresented, marginalized, and denigrated by mainstream commercial and non-commercial media, while seeking to foster values of human emancipation, substantive democracy, social and economic justice, global peace, ecological sustainability, and respect as well as appreciation for human and natural diversity.