Radio La Colifata

February 6, 2005 11:04 AM

The patients are running the microphone. "Health is not the absence of infirmity...Health is the dignity of being human." A live radio show produced by residents of a mental institution in Buenos Aires. (Link in Spanish; English creator bio, news stories: BBC, VOA; documentary info (French); some MP3 episodes; related audio: otras colifatas, Radioteatro de Ever.)
posted by Mo Nickels (8 comments total)

how do you get in? none of the sidebar links work for me and it appears to require a username/password. the help implies that you get name/passwd via email or personally and doesn't say how to register online (i speak spanish, but may have missed something).
posted by andrew cooke at 3:38 PM on February 6, 2005

Hello, Mo?
posted by squirrel at 6:54 PM on February 6, 2005

bobby these links are crazy, please advise/explain yourself more completely next time

C-
posted by phylum sinter at 7:34 PM on February 6, 2005

You should have put (Validación requerida) on the post somewhere, too.
posted by blacklite at 11:08 PM on February 6, 2005

Apparently the patients are also running the post
posted by blacklite at 11:09 PM on February 6, 2005

I'm sorry, but none of the links required validation when I used them. I did not have to register for anything. It looks like they use referrers to validate visitors, so visiting this link http://www.lacolifata.org/ will then redirect you using a valid login.
posted by Mo Nickels at 6:18 AM on February 7, 2005

ah! thanks :o)
but it only transmits on saturadys from 3-7.30pm :o(
but i'll be in buenos aires next saturday :o)
posted by andrew cooke at 7:23 AM on February 7, 2005

Many thanks. I have been searching for info on this radio program for years. For a related but different community of patient activists see the documentary Every Little Thing about the French mental health community called La Borde. It will be playing at the end of the month at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley.
posted by derangedlarid at 1:20 PM on February 7, 2005