Anyone evere listen to Radio for Peace International?

[EstimatedProphet]

Used to be shortwave, and hopefully will be soon again. Right now it's an internet radio station. good stuff. Wide range of issues.
They just played a song called "What Would Jesus Bomb?"

http://www.rfpi.org/

[BiggJawn]

1. Yes, and I miss them.

Dirty damn tricks the new regent of their University pulled on them. The guy must be bucking to take over for Jische when he retires.

I hope they find some land and get a license soon.

"Washington is unhappy with your programming" indeed!

[EstimatedProphet]

3. According to the site I looked at

They got shut down by a billionaire corporatist. Do you know the whole story?

[BiggJawn]

4. Followed some linksr and found their version of what happened.

Since Jim Latham was/is there, I think he's got the skinny on what went down.
Try this one:
http://www.earthisland.org/project/newsPage2.cfm?newsID=539&pageID=177&subSiteID=44

I have a stinking suspicion the BFEE is involved somehow. Why should anyone in Costa Rica give a rat's ass what the Chimp's mis-administration thinks about your broadcasts? Let Unkle Karl order the VOA to start jamming if they're that worried.

[EstimatedProphet]

5. This certainly would indicate BFEE's thumbscrews

Over the years, UPAZ had been a stable operation, Latham relates. The campus "had only five administrators over the past 16 years." Throughout this pre-Strong era, RFPI broadcast what Latham proudly characterized as "Pacifica-style programming" -- i.e., a range of pacifist and politically challenging progressive views inclined to rock the status quo.

"Peace, justice and the environment were our concerns," Latham said. He remains unapologetic for airing programs that were critical of US militarism. "Over the past three years, we broadcast a lot of programs on the issue of the globalization of the planet," Latham adds. One of RFPI's most popular broadcasts was Amy Goodman's US-produced talk show, "Democracy Now."

After Strong arrived on the scene, Latham alleges, "there was a distinct lack of communication. Control was a problem." Several UPAZ staffers cautioned the RFPI staff that some powerful people had been disturbed by the "anti-US flavor of your broadcasts."
"The first action they took was to cut our high-speed Internet access. That immediately cut out Pacifica and Amy Goodman," Latham recounts, "but we were able to reestablish a connection using microwave hookups."

The-Edge asked Latham if he sensed any link between the "mainstreaming" of UPAZ and the installation of the unelected Bush administration in Washington. At first, Latham dismissed the suggestion but, on reflection, he did recall how he came to feel "a fear running around the whole faculty. It seemed that anyone who spoke out got terminated." And, for some members of the UPAZ faculty, Latham confided, there was a "palpable fear" of incurring the wrath of the Bush administration.

From
http://www.earthisland.org/project/newsPage2.cfm?newsID=539&pageID=177&subSiteID=44

[EstimatedProphet]

2. there was also just a comedian on who got some zingers it!

Guy's name was Santiago. He just talked about Republican hypocrites-
Bush: "Iraq is not a holy war, and God is on our side"
Corporatists for Bush: "They are fundamentalists, so they believe in the literal truth of the Bible, and they made their money in oil, a fossil fuel"
Will durst is supposed to be coming up

[jonnyblitz]

6. I used to listen to them ALL THE TIME in the 90's on shortwave

right after OKC bombing and I heard the militias and far right had shortwave shows so in my search to listen to those wackjobs I found RFPI. I used to listen all the time. It's been about 5 years..

[EstimatedProphet]

7. It was the best

Consistently, professionally progressive. I hope it can come back.