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Venezuelans Lose More Media Outlets as Chavez Takes Over Radio Stations

4:29 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|Latin America|Media|society|Venezuela · 3 Comments

3 Aug 2009

“Freedom of expression must be limited.”

That’s what Venezuela’s Attorney General Luisa Ortega said late last week when defending tough new legislation which would restrict what can be said on radio and television in Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela. No sooner had this statement been made did Venezuela announce the closing of some 34 radio stations:

More than a dozen of 34 radio stations ordered shut by the Venezuelan government went off the air on Saturday, part of President Hugo Chavez’s drive to extend his socialist revolution to the media.

The association of radio broadcasters said 13 stations had stopped transmitting, following an announcement Friday night by government broadcasting watchdog Conatel that 34 radio outlets would be closed because they failed to comply with regulations.

While I was shocked at the Chavez-ordered takeover of RCTV in 2007, I am not shocked by this massive squashing of freedom of speech and freedom of the press in these radio station closings. I’m just disgusted.

And so are lots of others. Protests have spontaneously broken out around Venezuela but I fear there is nothing to do now. How do you fight against this ideology?

We haven’t closed any radio stations, we’ve applied the law,” Chavez said on state television. “We’ve recovered a bunch of stations that were outside the law, that now belong to the people and not the bourgeoisie.”

Translation: “We’re closing down a bunch of stations that have criticized me because we can.”

A sad, sad time for Venezuela and I think it’s only going to get worse. One ray of light: activists are using Twitter to get the word out to the rest of the world on what’s going on in Venezuela. For updates, check out hashtag #FreeMediaVe on Twitter.com.

Via / Reuters

Celebrate the 4th of July with New Latin Radio Show

10:16 am By Maegan La Mala · Music|New York · 1 Comment

3 Jul 2009

radio I’m a fan of Latin Alternative and rock music pero have struggled to find a radio show that caters to my tastes (the exception is la Nueva Alternativa on WBAI pero my mami vieja as can’t usually stay up late enough to listen).

Just in time to celebrate the 4th bi-culturally comes “The Latin Alternative” from WEXT 97.7 (Albany, NY).

“There is something amazing about a radio station in Albany launching the nation’s first syndicated Latin-alternative radio show. In my childhood growing up in a small town outside of Albany, I couldn’t wait to leave the area and move to a bigger city that had a Latin alternative music scene,” says show co-host Josh Norek. “Ironically, now I live in Los Angeles and it’s an adventurous radio station in upstate New York that has taken the lead and launched the first syndicated show for the genre.”

‘The Latin Alternative’ will begin airing weekly on Saturday nights at 8PM Eastern Time starting on July 4th. Highlights of the program include a weekly ‘Spotlight Artist’ and a ‘Homegrown’ segment focusing on U.S.-based Latin alternative acts. Among the initial Spotlight Artists will be Grammy-winning acts Manu Chao, Café Tacuba, Aterciopelados and Los Fabulosos Cadillacs.

LISTEN LIVE (Saturdays at 8PM Eastern starting on July 4th) at: www.exit977.org

I know I’ll be listening in.

Second Time’s a Charm : Vl’s la Mala on Yo Soy Latino Radio Mañana

8:47 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Media|media justice|radio|VivirLatino|Women · Comments Off

15 May 2009

Last week my appearance on Yo Soy Latino show on 810 AM WEUS in Florida was mad short due to technical issues that can happen. Pero, host Jose Miranda was gracious enough to invite me back. That means that mañana, from 12-1 pm EST you can tune in (for non-Orlando area peeps you can listen online) and hear me discuss independent media, blogging, immigration, mami’hood, poetry and organizing and the ways all these intersect.

Jose also wanted me specifically to direct our readers’ attention to the health situation of a 14 year old Latina, Bridget Ayala Torres, who needs the community’s help.

There is a young 14 year old girl by the name of Bridget Ayala Torres, lying in Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami. She is fighting for her life and she needs our help. She has been told she has less then 3 months to live. Bridget needs to find a compatible bone marrow donor out there somewhere; but more importantly, she needs help with funds to make that fight for her life. Just ask yourself how far would you go to save a loved one, your parents, your brother/sisters, or your child? This child needs us. There will be upcoming events planned for her in Orlando and in Miami stay tuned for dates and times. For more information you can also contact Bridget’s

Aunt Lynette at (407) 538-1336 cell

(321) 558-1869 home

Represent gente!

Shameless Self-Promotion : VL’s Maegan la Mala on Yo Soy Latino Radio Hoy

9:32 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Florida|Media|media justice|radio · Comments Off

9 May 2009

Will I ever shut the hell up? Not likely gente. Today, the day before mother’s day, I will be on Yo Soy Latino on 810AM WEUS (Orlando, Florida area). You can listen live at the Yo Soy Latino site and even call in with questions!
I hope some will listen in.

Conservative Commentator: “There’s Trash in the White House”

24 Mar 2009

What would we do without Media Matters, the organization that monitors the disgusting right wing slant we are subjected to — in varying degrees — in mainstream media? Well, we might have actually consume this trash in order to find little gems such as this one. In this asinine rant with absolutely no substance to speak of, conservative commentator (and “ex-liberal Democrat”) Tammy Bruce sounds off with outrage about nothing after listening to a benign quote made by Michelle Obama. Have a listen:

Huh? How is what she said outrageous? Let’s look at the transcript:

BRUCE: But here’s Michelle Obama explaining to some kids what it was like for her growing up because she sounded like a white person, whatever that means.

OBAMA [audio clip]: I did do my best, getting good grades was always important to me, and it wasn’t because my parents were -

BRUCE: It’s all about her.

OBAMA [audio clip]: — hounding me or that they had the expectation, it was just something that I wanted for myself. I wanted an A. And I didn’t care whether it was cool, ‘cause I remember there were kids around my neighborhood who would say, “Ooh, you talk funny, you talk like a white girl.” I heard that growing up my whole life, and I was like I don’t even know what that means, but you know what? I’m still getting my A.

BRUCE: What? What? What — what is that? And then she devolves into that weird fake accent, like Hillary did when talking to black people. What? What is that? That’s, that — you know what that is.

DAVID AFTER DENTIST [audio clip]: Is this going to be forever?

BRUCE: Yeah, that – remember nitrous oxide kid, on You Tube. No it’s not going to be forever, nitrous oxide kid. It’s not. Can you — can you believe that?

OBAMA [audio clip]: So do I need to introduce myself?

BRUCE: What a shame. That must’ve just ruined her damn day. “I wanted the A for myself, and I wanted to do it, and ooh, they said you sounded like a white person, I don’t know what that means, but uhh.” Huh?

Man, oh, man. That’s who he’s married to, what does that tell you? This is what we’ve got — you know what we’ve got? We’ve got trash in the White House. Trash is a, is a thing that is color blind, it can cross all eco — ecosocionomic kind of categories, you can work on Wall Street or work at the Wal-Mart. Trash are people who use other people to get things, who patronize others, who consider you bitter and clingy.

Has Bruce been hitting the crazy juice? Michelle and Barack Obama are “trash” and the comment made by Michelle Obama is supposed to be evidence for this?

“People who consider you bitter and clingy…”? WTF? Sounds like a personal problem to me. Is this lady projecting her feelings towards her ex-BF onto the Obamas?

My diagnosis: mental problem mixed with deep-seated racism and a dab of grasping at straws. What do you think?

Via / Media Matters

Pro-Condom, Pro-Catholic?

3:02 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · sex · 1 Comment

12 Dec 2008

From Bianca Laureano there comes the news that the Catholic church and the National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health actually collaborated on a pro-condom, pro-choice, pro-Catholic ad! ::falls over dead:: Here it is:

Great job to all concerned, and thank you, Catholic Church, for finally centering the needs of the people!

NJ radio station calls for “illegal” roundup

5:11 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|Immigration|New Jersey|radio · Comments Off

22 Mar 2007

NJ_Monthly%20dave%202-1.jpg There’s something ugly on the radio waves in the Garden State. Some radio DJs (always the source of such high-brow entertainment) in New Jersey have put the call out to their listeners to report “suspected illegal immigrants” to the radio station, 101.5 FM, or to authorities:

The leaders say the radio station’s campaign – named “La Cuca Gotcha” – is clearly anti-Hispanic and may encourage racial profiling and other bias incidents against Hispanics.

“It’s a despicable campaign and clearly slanted at Hispanics,” said New Jersey Assemblyman Wilfredo Caraballo. “The campaign describes us as bugs that have to be stamped out.”

Hear Mamita Mala on NPR’s Latino USA

11:51 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Politics|radio|VivirLatino · 2 Comments

10 Nov 2006

VL East Coast Editor Mamita Mala was a guest on NPR’s Latino USA radio show yesterday talking about the Latino vote in this year’s elections. Mala threw down with a Latina republican who claims that “Latinos are Republicans, they just don’t know it yet” and talked about how many Latino young people disenfranchised by both political parties. Check out the show on the Latino USA website.

If you are listening to the complete show, you can hear Mala after Univision’s Maria Elena Salinas‘ take on Latino voter intimidation. Immediately after the Latino vote segment, you can hear authors Carolina Gonzalez and Seth Kugel talk about their new book, Nueva York: The Complete Guide to Latino Life in the Five Boroughs, which I am totally buying.

And if you’ve never heard it before, Latino USA is a great show. It should be required weekly listening.

Limbaugh: Undocumented immigrants “unwilling to work”

1:52 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Immigration|Media|radio · 6 Comments

28 Mar 2006

It comes as no surprise to anyone that Rush Limbaugh is anti-immigrant. However, a recent quote has left me in tailspin. Apparently he believes that immigration to the United States is Mexican president Vicente Fox’s way of eliminating a criminal element in Mexico — by exportation. And if that weren’t enough (hold on to your horses) he says that the immigrants that come to the U.S. are “unwilling to work”.

LIMBAUGH: One of the puzzling things about this to me, since President Bush has been in office, is his — you know, he had a very close relationship with [Mexican President] Vicente Fox, and I don’t –

CALLER: Right.

LIMBAUGH: I don’t — I — I think the opposite of what you suggest is actually what’s been happening. But look at it from Vicente Fox’s point of view. I mean if — if you had a — a — a renegade, potential criminal element that was poor and unwilling to work, and you had a chance to get rid of 500,000 every year, would you do it?

I guess that explains the endless lines of workers lined up in Home Depot parking lots in Atlanta or all those guys I see waiting outside of my local hardware store in San Francisco.

Whatever your politics, you have to be an idiot to think that immigrants entering this country illegally are here to do anything other than work. What good are they to their families unless they earn money to send back? Don’t you think the “criminal element” would just as soon stay in Mexico and be lazy than risk their lives crossing the border? Think about it.

Via / Media Matters

Latino radio sex talk has listeners vibrando

4:59 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Lifestyle|New York City|radio · 2 Comments

15 Feb 2006

The airwaves are heating up — at least the Latino airwaves — as multiple Spanish-language radio stations opt for talking about sex in the morning in between traffic and weather reports. The success of one NYC station’s morning programming has even been proved in the ratings — it beat Howard Stern:

DJs and callers discuss dildos, anal sex, group sex and not getting sex. Although no one—not activists, academics or community leaders—can readily agree on what all this raunchy sex talk means for Latinos, everyone is worried. And one thing is for certain: Howard Stern can’t keep up with it. New York’s leading Spanish radio show beat Stern’s blunt sex talk in Arbitron ratings in 2003 and 2004.

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