Let's chop it up!

We'd love to hear from you!!! Shout outs, birthdays, announcements...send them our way.

You can interact with us during our show in the following ways:

Email: during the show we prefer you use the on air email: onair@utahfm.org and after the show, you can reach us at pacificeyeradio@radiofreeutah.org

On our Facebook group: Pacific Eye Radio

On Twitter: Pacific Eye Radio

Support our fellow Pacific Island artists...

Support our fellow Pacific Island artists! The band Against The Season is vying to be one of the opening acts on the X-96 Maverick Big Ass Show. Your vote can put them in the final running to be on that stage by going to this link.

Show #2 - From the Cradle to Prison Pipeline

HOT TOPICS

This Thursday we will address one of the most devastating phenomenon we see happening in our Pacific Island community, especially among Pacific Islander males, which is the tremendous increase in incarceration rates. In Hawaii alone, reports show that 9.1% of the state’s population is Native Hawaiians but they make up about 39% of the inmates in their state prison. In New Zealand, Maoris make up 14% of the general population but represent over 50% of the prison inmate population. We see this increasing trend sweeping across the United States, specifically among those who are black and brown and even more so here in the state of Utah among our Pacific Islander young men, whose arrest rates have tripled within the last five years, and are being locked up at a younger age and given longer sentences.

In this segment we will speak to a Hawaiian community activist and scholar who has been at the forefront of these discussions and who will help us unpack the reasons for this disproportionate numbers of incarceration, what is currently being implemented to address this issue, and how we can be proactive in our own communities to fight against the overrepresentation of Pacific peoples in prison.


TALK SPORTS WITH SETI MATUA

Seti Matua of Context Sports. will also stop by to give us an update about the NFL draft and which of our Pacific Islander young men were drafted and where they will be playing this coming football season.


PACIFIC EYE MEDIA WATCH
In our last show we introduced our Pacific Eye Media Watch segment, which will focus on anything and everything out there in the media in relation to Pacific Islanders. We encourage all our listeners to send in pictures, links, articles, etc, that you may come across that portrays Pacific Islanders. We will choose one item to highlight on our show each week.

This week we will discuss the controversial IPhone and IPod Touch game application—Pocket God—which focuses on killing Islanders as one of its key components. WTH?????!!!!!

According to one of their game review webpages:

The biggest success story of Bolt Creative right now is Pocket God. In Pocket God, you play the role of a fictitious god that oversees a miniature Pacific Island tribe living on an island. You can slap them into a volcano, electrocute them with lightning, feed them to the sharks, make them do a dance for you, and drop coconuts on their heads. This application has consistently been at the top of the iPhone application store list of bestselling apps. The game costs $0.99 and there isn’t much else to it.

LISTENER QUESTIONS


Every show we will answer a question sent in via email from our listeners. This week the question is from a young Samoan woman in San Bruno, California who asks:

I often hear other Polynesians talk about the “crabs in a bucket syndrome”. Many have said that this is part of our Polynesian culture. Where did this idea come from and has it always been part of our culture?

All of this and much more so DON'T MISS OUT!!! Tune in every Thursday from 9:00pm-10:30pm (MST) online at www.utahfm.org.

Please use this EMAIL to contact us about show information, content, music suggestions, event announcements, shout outs, etc...

One show down, many more to go...

Thank you everyone who listened and interacted with us on our inaugural show!

The listener map lit up with listeners from all over the world - New Zealand, Australia, Tonga, all from various states including California, Hawaii, Missouri, Arizona, Texas, Florida, and I'm sure I missed some - but, wow, thank you again for listening and supporting. We can't thank you enough.

Thank you also to our guest, Dr. Jim Fisher from the University of Utah. Also to our sports reporter Seti Matua of Context Sports.

Hopefully by the next show, our technical issues will be solved. Utah FM has been gracious enough to give us our own email at the station. You can use this email to contact us about show information, content, music suggestions, event announcements, shout outs, etc...

This email can be found HERE.

And a special thank you goes out to the Utah FM family - Mike, Troy, Rachael and all the wonderful sponsors...Volunteer, Grassroots Broadcasting Lives Online

~ Rich

Premiere Show - Media & Racism

We are extremely excited for the Pacific Eye Radio's debut on the airwaves tomorrow and we have a wonderful show lined up filled with hot topic discussions and progressive Pacific Island Music!

The first segment of our program will always be dedicated to critical issues that currently impact our Pacific Islander communities locally and globally.

On this first show, we will begin with a discussion of the news media and the role it plays in shaping our consciousness and projecting the society we live in. We will explore how the news media deals with race and ethnicity but more specifically about how they portray Pacific Islander communities. Is the news truly objective? Is there racism in the way the news is reported and what is being reported? Does the news have a specific agenda? How does one go about combating the negative stereotypes projected in the news media?

To help shed light on these very critical questions, we will be interviewing a pioneer in the area of media and journalism, Dr. James Fisher.

Dr. James Fisher is an Assistant Professor at the University of Utah’s Communications Department and is a scholar in cross-cultural theory and journalism. For the past 32 years Dr. Fisher has made a living as a reporter and writer, a photographer and designer and as an editor and publisher. He has worked for small town weekly papers, two of the states' largest newspapers, for arts magazines, the U.S. News and in southwestern America and around the world as a photojournalist in war zones. He recently served as the Executive Graphics Editor for The Salt Lake Tribune, where he redesigned the newspaper and brought digital technology to the art, photo and pagination departments.

...and that is only the beginning of the show... so you MUST tune in this Thursday from 9:00pm-10:30pm (MST) online at www.utahfm.org.

You can also send us questions and comments and we will read it live during the radio program. While we are on air, you can email us directly at onair@utahfm.org or send us messages on www.twitter.com/pacificeyeradio or on our FB Group Page

Only 2 Days Away!

As we come closer to our debut date, we would like to let you know there are different ways to interact with us during the show:

You can email us at onair@utahfm.org

If you are on Facebook, you can look up our group by our name Pacific Eye Radio. It is an open group so feel free to add yourself and leave us comments on the wall.

You can also leave comments in this blog.

Although there is a studio phone number, we will not take any phone calls on air since that line will be dedicated to our on-air guest.

Once again, the Pacific Eye Radio Show will debut this Thursday, April 23rd, 2009, at 9:00 PM to 10:30 PM Mountain Standard Time. Please be responsible for verifying what time zone you live in and synchronize with us or you'll be left off the canoe :)

Don't forget to tune in!!!

For more information on Utah Free Media, click HERE.

Our very own show!

We could hardly contain the excitement but now we can finally let the cat out of the bag!

Next Thursday, April 23, 2009, our new show, the "Pacific Eye Radio Show" will debut on Utah Free Media in our regular time slot of 9:00 p.m. to 10:30 p.m Mountain Standard Time.

We are so excited and honored to be a part of this exciting revolution in media and broadcasting, and Utah Free Media is in the forefront of this revolution. As bandwidth and frequencies become more limited, trends already indicate that in the near future, digital will be the way to go.

Soon we will be able to stream content into our automobiles, our portable stereos, and who knows what else. Unless corporate America finds a way to eff this up as they have done everything else, this could be the democratizing of radio that will save us from the crap on the radio today and Utah FM will be right there......yeah! Down with the establishment..LOL...I'm all for revolution.

Ok, enough of the soap box.

The Pacific Eye Radio Show will feature, of course, the lovely music of Pacific Islands, but we also aim to bring the issues that affect our global Pacific Island communities to the forefront, for thorough discussion. We will also bring you the news from the Pacific, sports, entertainment reports and any information relevant to our communities.

Most importantly, we are honored to be amongst great company - people like Babs De Lay, who is also a major sponsor of the station and a person who I adore and respect very much, since I was a young lad. Can't forget "The Voice of Reason" Tom Barberi and the ex-staffers and DJ's of KRCL who created this wonderful space, and thank you Rachael Bradford, Utah FM's program director, for giving us a time slot so we can yappity yap :)

So don't forget - join us next Thursday, April 23rd at 9:00 pm to 10:30 pm MST for 90 minutes of great radio....

~ Rich