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Protest at KQED Today!
Come down to 2601 Mariposa (in the Mission) to protest KQED. PBS, NPR of
1. violating their mission and the public's trust in NOT providing "a voice for groups in the community that may otherwise may be unheard."
2. Prostituting the public's airways in support of corporate greed and aggressive war.
3. Deliberately limiting voices of reason, dissent and resistance.
4. Pretending to be sponsored mainly by public subscriptions when vast sums of their program underwriting is from giant corporations, banks, insurance companies, military contractors and the U.S. government with whom they constantly collude.
5. Allowing to go unchallenged the U.S. government and right wing advocates of war crimes, aggression, torture, fascism and every manner of anti-Americnanism.
1. violating their mission and the public's trust in NOT providing "a voice for groups in the community that may otherwise may be unheard."
2. Prostituting the public's airways in support of corporate greed and aggressive war.
3. Deliberately limiting voices of reason, dissent and resistance.
4. Pretending to be sponsored mainly by public subscriptions when vast sums of their program underwriting is from giant corporations, banks, insurance companies, military contractors and the U.S. government with whom they constantly collude.
5. Allowing to go unchallenged the U.S. government and right wing advocates of war crimes, aggression, torture, fascism and every manner of anti-Americnanism.
Come down to 2601 Mariposa (in the Mission) today, April 8, at noon to protest KQED. PBS, NPR of
1. violating their mission and the public's trust in NOT providing "a voice for groups in the community that may otherwise may be unheard."
2. Prostituting the public's airways in support of corporate greed and aggressive war.
3. Deliberately limiting voices of reason, dissent and resistance.
4. Pretending to be sponsored mainly by public subscriptions when vast sums of their program underwriting is from giant corporations, banks, insurance companies, military contractors and the U.S. government with whom they constantly collude.
5. Allowing to go unchallenged the U.S. government and right wing advocates of war crimes, aggression, torture, fascism and every manner of anti-Americnanism.
1. violating their mission and the public's trust in NOT providing "a voice for groups in the community that may otherwise may be unheard."
2. Prostituting the public's airways in support of corporate greed and aggressive war.
3. Deliberately limiting voices of reason, dissent and resistance.
4. Pretending to be sponsored mainly by public subscriptions when vast sums of their program underwriting is from giant corporations, banks, insurance companies, military contractors and the U.S. government with whom they constantly collude.
5. Allowing to go unchallenged the U.S. government and right wing advocates of war crimes, aggression, torture, fascism and every manner of anti-Americnanism.
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For those who have no idea where 2601 Mariposa is:
Mariposa is "17 1/2 Street", i.e., parallel to and between 17th and 18th Streets. It runs east from Harrison.
If I recall correctly, KQED is located around Florida or Bryant. If your coming from 16th Street BART, best bet is to walk east to Harrison, turn right on Harrison two blocks to Mariposa, and left on Mariposa a few blocks to KQED. If you take a bus on 16th Street, get off on Bryant, walk south to Mariposa, and, if you don't see the demo, look for 2601.
Mariposa is "17 1/2 Street", i.e., parallel to and between 17th and 18th Streets. It runs east from Harrison.
If I recall correctly, KQED is located around Florida or Bryant. If your coming from 16th Street BART, best bet is to walk east to Harrison, turn right on Harrison two blocks to Mariposa, and left on Mariposa a few blocks to KQED. If you take a bus on 16th Street, get off on Bryant, walk south to Mariposa, and, if you don't see the demo, look for 2601.
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If yopu cannot attend the ongoing protest at KQED...then send an email , fax or call:
tv [at] kqed.org
tel: (415) 553-2871
(415) 863-2476
(415) 864-2000
(415) 553-2129
fax: (415) 553-2118
fax: (415) 553-2815
fax: (415) 553-2227
KQED is supposedly a public station, yet your station offers no real news of the Bay Area's vast opposition to the currrent state of affairs in this country & around the world.
While US troops kill journalists, you protect their crimes & air only censored & "balanced coverage" clips from "embedded reporters".
While consitutional crimes are being commited in Washington against US citizens , and yesterday in Oakland law abiding demonstrators are shot at & wounded here in the Bay Area.
I cannot believe that KQED staffers can sit idly by and offer tacit approval of the US gov'ts & police state aggression.
I cannot understand your news coverage, with it's blanket bias and overwhelming silence on the true nature of the current war.
Millions of people around the world have condemned our leaders for waging an unecessary war, and a majority of people in the Bay Area have negative assessments here as well.
You are actually evolving into becoming international war criminals yourselves by your non actions...
Yet KQED continues to present the preposterous gov't line & parrot the corporate line of your deep pocketed corporate sponsors in your media coverage.
LIES LIES LIES
I will no longer support the station in any way, manner or form...
tv [at] kqed.org
tel: (415) 553-2871
(415) 863-2476
(415) 864-2000
(415) 553-2129
fax: (415) 553-2118
fax: (415) 553-2815
fax: (415) 553-2227
KQED is supposedly a public station, yet your station offers no real news of the Bay Area's vast opposition to the currrent state of affairs in this country & around the world.
While US troops kill journalists, you protect their crimes & air only censored & "balanced coverage" clips from "embedded reporters".
While consitutional crimes are being commited in Washington against US citizens , and yesterday in Oakland law abiding demonstrators are shot at & wounded here in the Bay Area.
I cannot believe that KQED staffers can sit idly by and offer tacit approval of the US gov'ts & police state aggression.
I cannot understand your news coverage, with it's blanket bias and overwhelming silence on the true nature of the current war.
Millions of people around the world have condemned our leaders for waging an unecessary war, and a majority of people in the Bay Area have negative assessments here as well.
You are actually evolving into becoming international war criminals yourselves by your non actions...
Yet KQED continues to present the preposterous gov't line & parrot the corporate line of your deep pocketed corporate sponsors in your media coverage.
LIES LIES LIES
I will no longer support the station in any way, manner or form...
"...the Bay Area's vast opposition to the currrent state of affairs in this country & around the world."
Prove it. Show me some poll results.
Prove it. Show me some poll results.
First of all, fascism wasn't brought on my minorities, but by majorities. Hitler was elected.
Second, minority does not mean "fascist."
Third, blocking traffic is nonviolent civil disobedience, not violence and not "fascism." Or was Martin Luther King a "fascist" for organizing sit ins, strikes and marches? You FReepers are fucking idiots. Get a clue.
Second, minority does not mean "fascist."
Third, blocking traffic is nonviolent civil disobedience, not violence and not "fascism." Or was Martin Luther King a "fascist" for organizing sit ins, strikes and marches? You FReepers are fucking idiots. Get a clue.
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed individuals can change the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has." -- Margaret Mead
It's a good thing that we have polls, otherwise we might have to actually think about the issues that concern our communities rather than just join whatever side is currently winning in the polls. Hey, my poll shows that when given a choice between being shot with rubber bullets and beanbags, 63% of Argentinean-Americans prefer beanbags. What do you think it means that 63% in the bay area support removing Hussein? Does that justify the illegal invasion of a foreign nation and the consequent murder of its people? Didn't think so.
"... we hardly take the trouble to pretend that the rule of the majority is not at bottom a rule of force." -- Walter Lippmann
Think back to civics class: what did our forefathers think about the idea of majority rule? That's right, they were tremendously afraid of it. Thus, America was not a direct-democracy. Thus, the electoral college was created. A public opinion poll will never validate an immoral action, no matter how high the numbers are.
"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience." -- Atticus Finch in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird
Hopefully, someday people will stop allowing their political and social conscience to be led by the latest public opinion poll and actually learn to evaluate the actions of those that govern us on a moral rather than a popular scale. Then we will take a step toward a more functional democracy.
"When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong." -- Eugene V. Debs
It's a good thing that we have polls, otherwise we might have to actually think about the issues that concern our communities rather than just join whatever side is currently winning in the polls. Hey, my poll shows that when given a choice between being shot with rubber bullets and beanbags, 63% of Argentinean-Americans prefer beanbags. What do you think it means that 63% in the bay area support removing Hussein? Does that justify the illegal invasion of a foreign nation and the consequent murder of its people? Didn't think so.
"... we hardly take the trouble to pretend that the rule of the majority is not at bottom a rule of force." -- Walter Lippmann
Think back to civics class: what did our forefathers think about the idea of majority rule? That's right, they were tremendously afraid of it. Thus, America was not a direct-democracy. Thus, the electoral college was created. A public opinion poll will never validate an immoral action, no matter how high the numbers are.
"The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience." -- Atticus Finch in Harper Lee's To Kill a Mockingbird
Hopefully, someday people will stop allowing their political and social conscience to be led by the latest public opinion poll and actually learn to evaluate the actions of those that govern us on a moral rather than a popular scale. Then we will take a step toward a more functional democracy.
"When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong." -- Eugene V. Debs
I stopped watching KQED when I realized that I was watching them give kudos to sponsors that include huge pharmaceutical and automobile companies. I was disgusted. Not only do they advocate the war, they advocate the senseless suffering of animals and overconsumption of oil. The programming's not worth it (they only show the good stuff when it's time to blather on about my money and how they need it. My money is better spent elsewhere.
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