{"id":40832,"date":"2019-11-28T07:49:36","date_gmt":"2019-11-28T11:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=40832"},"modified":"2019-11-28T07:49:36","modified_gmt":"2019-11-28T11:49:36","slug":"the-verge-whos-afraid-of-the-pirate-act-not-joan-martinez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/the-verge-whos-afraid-of-the-pirate-act-not-joan-martinez\/","title":{"rendered":"The Verge: “Who’s afraid of the PIRATE Act? Not Joan Martinez”"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Mark Hirst, who shares this article from The Verge<\/a>:<\/p>\n

When she was growing up in East Flatbush among the Haitian diaspora, former pirate broadcaster Joan Martinez \u2014 no relation to the New York radio legend Angie Martinez, despite what Joan claimed to her friends as a youth \u2014 said that the sounds of pirate radio were the backdrop to her childhood. \u201cStarting Friday night, all throughout the weekend, you would just hear all these like crazy DJs just talking and all this music,\u201d Martinez says. Her parents\u2019 apartment was the meeting spot for her whole family, a place where they\u2019d reminisce about being in Haiti. They needed a place that felt like home. Martinez says that, as a kid, she never understood why the stations they listened to only broadcast on the weekends. As she got older, there were fewer of them \u2014 and then in 2010, she says, they started to come back online.<\/p>\n