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mous nature, continues to welcome newcomers. Together, TAR pirates
brashly continue to take over the airwaves of Victoria and Nanaimo.
Jolly Roger and microphone in hand, TAR’s creating room for new
visions of radio culture and unlimited possibilities.
notes
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This chapter is dedicated to TemPest and everyone who has helped to make
TAR festivals happen, in every fabulous manifestation. It goes out particularly,
to those who have offered up their time, repeatedly, so that direct action and
celebration continue to flourish under the banner of TAR. Many thanks for
jumping on board!
1. The kit was purchased from the Quality Kits website. http://store.qkits.com/
results.cfm?CFID=7498705&CFTOKEN=21808383 (accessed May 15, 2009).
2. This kit was purchased pre-assembled from the UK, from Veronika:
AAREFF Transmission Systems. Veronika offers 1W, 12W, 30W, and 100W
transmitters and antennas. They have a good reputation of being reliable. Be
aware that you will have to pay customs upon entry into Canada. There are a
number of other online locations where one can purchase a transmitter kit or
fully functioning transmitter. They vary in quality. Veronika: AAREFF Transmission
Systems, http://www.veronica.co.uk (accessed May 15, 2009).
3. Hakim Bey, The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic
Terrorism (New York: Autonomedia, Anti-Copyright, 1991), http://www.t0.or.
at/hakimbey/taz/taz.htm (accessed January 22, 2009).
4. Jo Stanley, ed. Bold in Her Breeches: Women Pirates Across the Ages (San
Francisco, California: Pandora, 1995), 20.
5. www.myspace.com/temporaryautonomousradio (accessed July 20, 2009).
6. See Chapter 8 for more on how this has been done in protest situations.
7. All of those interviewed are using pseudonyms in order to insure their anonymity.
Pirate Emma P, email interview, January 14, 2009.
8. Gabriel Kuhn, “Life Under the Death’s Head: Anarchism and Piracy” in
Women Pirates and the Politics of the Jolly Roger, eds. Ulrike Klausmann, Marion
Meinzerin, and Gabriel Kuhn, (Montréal: Black Rose Books, 1997), 227.
9. Jo Stanley, ed. Bold in Her Breeches: Women Pirates Across the Ages (San
Francisco, California: Pandora, 1995), 10.
10. Angela Carter, “Preface to Come Unto These Yellow Sands” in The Curious
Room: Plays, Film Scripts and an Opera (London: Vintage, 1997).
11. Fancy Jennie Fortune, telephone interview, February 21, 2009.
12. Ibid.
13. Pirate Emma P, email interview, January 14, 2009.
14. TemPest, email interview, April 14, 2009.
15. Carla Brown, “Pirate Radio: a Voice for the Disenfranchised,” in Peace and
Environment News, (July-August 1996), http://www.perc.ca/PEN/1996-07-08/s-