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8:00-8:01 Billboard:
Hope Dies Last - An Hour with Legendary Broadcaster and Author
Studs Terkel
8:01-8:06 Headlines
Radio For Peace International Under Siege in Costa Rica
INTRO: The only shortwave radio station dedicated to peace
and social justice in the Western Hemisphere is under siege
by the UN mandated University For Peace where it is housed.
In July, the university served an eviction notice to the radio
station staff, who refused to leave. We go to Costa Rica to
speak with the station’s CEO from inside the locked
studios.
The only shortwave radio station dedicated to peace and social
justice in the Western Hemisphere is under siege. Founded
in 1987, Radio for Peace International broadcasts Democracy
Now!, Free Speech Radio News, and other independent radio
programs as well as United Nations.
Radio for Peace International is housed on the grounds of
University for Peace, a United Nations mandated university
located in El Rodeo, Costa Rica. On July 21st, the University
served an eviction notice to the radio station staff. Armed
guards employed by the University locked the station’s
access gate and patrolled the premises. They ordered the staff
to evacuate the facilities in two weeks. A number of Radio
for Peace International employees refused to leave the station.
Supporters delivered supplies and food to the locked station
and a group of listeners is collected donations for a legal
defense fund.
Well yesterday the United Nation's University for Peace began
to use aggressive means to force the shut down of the station.
At noon they cut off the water supply to the remaining 8 staff
and volunteers holed up in the building. Four hours later
the University cut the telephone lines. Security guards have
turned away reporters and cameramen who have come out to try
to enter the campus.
Since the University is owned by the United Nations, they
are claiming immunity from all laws and law enforcement; the
station has little power against this major act of censorship.
- James Latham, CEO of Radio for Peace International, speaking
to us from inside the locked studios.
Link: www.rfpi.org
8:06-8:07 One Minute Music Break
8:07-8:58 Hope Dies Last - An Hour with Legendary
Broadcaster and Author Studs Terkel
Studs Terkel, 91, has worked as an activist, a civil servant,
a labor organizer, an ad writer, a television actor, and a
radio DJ, among many other occupations. But since the 1960s,
he's been particularly well-known as a world-class interviewer,
a writer and radio personality who draws celebrities and,
far more often, average citizens into sharing their oral histories.
For 45 years, Studs Terkel spent an hour each weekday on
his nationally syndicated radio show, conversing with famous
and not-so-famous guests and with a loyal audience of Chicago
listeners.
With his unique style of oral history on subjects such as
race, war and employment, Terkel has spent decades interviewing
Americans across the country, creating intimate portraits
of everyday life and chronicling changing times through this
century.
Hope Dies Last is the latest in the series of American oral
histories he's been publishing since his first book, Division
Street: America appeared in 1967. In the thirty-six years
between then and now, he's covered, in separate books, the
Great Depression, World War II, race relations, working, the
American Dream, and aging. Hope Dies Last features interviews
with presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, Voices in the
Wilderness founder Kathy Kelly, Tom Hayden and many others.
- Studs Terkel, His books include My American Century,
Division Street, Hard Times, Working, The Good War (which
won the Pulitzer Prize for nonfiction), and Spectator. His
latest book is Hope Dies Last featuring interviews with
presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich, Voices in the Wilderness
founder Kathy Kelly, Tom Hayden and many others.
Link: www.studsterkel.org
8:58-8:59 Outro and Credits
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Democracy Now! is produced by Mike Burke, Sharif Abdel Kouddous,
Ana Nogueira, Elizabeth Press, Jeremy Scahill and Parvez Sharma.
Mike Di Filippo is our engineer.
Thanks also to Uri Galed, Angela Alston, Orlando Richards,
Simba Russeau, Johnny Sender, Rich Kim, Joe Murgio, John Randolph,
Chris Zucker, Karen Ranucci, Denis Moynihan, Eric Rweyemamu
(RAY MA MU), Jenny Filipazzo and Isis Phillips.
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