PROTESTERS LAUNCH LEGAL CHALLENGE TO REVOKE CLEAR CHANNEL LICENSES Radio listeners stage Halloween Action to Unmask hateful talk radio of Bill Bennett and Michael Savage On Friday, October 28th a month after Bill Bennett aired a racist remark about aborting black babies, Bay Area protestors will conduct a Halloween-themed direct action to revoke the broadcast license of host station 910 am KNEW. The protest is in direct response to Bennett’s statement on his “Morning in America” show, which airs from 3-5AM on Clear Channel-owned 910am, KNEW. Bennett remarked: “If you wanted to reduce crime, you could – if that were your sole purpose, you could abort every black baby in this country, and your crime rate would go down.” Audio Bennett is not the only KNEW talk show host to make hateful comments- Michael Savage, who was fired from MSNBC for telling a caller to “get AIDS and die” but who was promptly hired by Clear Channel, routinely calls immigrants “vermin” who are “raping, stealing, murdering and defecating on our lawns”. Protesters say this content is grounds for revoking KNEW’s broadcast license. “KNEW violates the public interest by broadcasting inflammatory content that incites fear and violence. We’ve petitioned the FCC to revoke KNEW’s license because Clear Channel should not be given a license to hate,” says has a responsibility to regulate the airwaves in the public interest,” says Taishi Duchicela, an organizer for the Youth Media Council

The direct action against KNEW will take place on Friday from 4:30pm to 6:00pm at Clear Channel Headquarters, at 340 Townsend Street between 4th and 5th Streets, San Francisco. Protestors will be wearing Halloween masks, doing a street theater piece to expose the hateful content on 910AM KNEW, and taking direct action to deliver a legal petition to deny Clear Channel’s license to broadcast KNEW and 106.1 KMEL, WILD 94.9, and 92.3 KSJO in San Jose. The public can make comments, in favor or against, any California radio stations, which are all applying for renewal through the FCC through November 1st. Visit , or Youth Media Council's Media Action Center under "Take Action" to file a public comment.

Coalition partners: Code Pink, Media Alliance, Youth Media Council, Acción Latina, Youth Movement Records, East Side Arts Alliance, and La Peña Cultural Center. Color of Change's Bennett Page