04.25.07
Posted in Community Action at 4:51 pm by Administrator
MDR Community,
We are learning every day the power of our Unified Voice. Roberts Broadcasting is “banning programming and music lyrics that it deems violent, sexist and racist” from its Hip-Hop radio station. Russell Simmons is now recommending eliminating certain words from radio play and deeming them “extreme curse words.”
Al Sharpton’s National Action Network, the NAACP, and community organizations like Mothers In Action are stepping up with campaigns to address the misogyny, degradation and violence in the current mainstream rap market.
As a community, we are understanding and exercising the power of our One Voice. This work requires the whole community–not just those public figures we deem leaders–to stand in unity and SPEAK!
This is our last Wednesday in April. Again today, we will be emailing, calling and faxing the radio stations and broadcast companies. We are not asking them to bleep out a few explicit words. We are calling for 24 hours of rest from songs whose lyrical content is misogynistic, degrading and disrespectful in nature. We are calling for 24 hours of music programming that respectfully represents women. We are calling for a day to honor and elevate ourselves on the public airwaves.
Please visit the Community Action section of the MDR blog (www.mothersdayradio.com/blog4) for instructions, a list of stations and contact information, and for the MDR official cover letter to be included in your emails. Let us set a record today in call ins, emails and faxes.
We are the One Voice, the collective momentum, that can create a shift in the recording and broadcast industries. Our work has just begun.
A friend recently sent me this quote and I share it with you. “Courage is not the absence of fear, but the decision that something else is more important.” –Ambrose Redmoon
Let us make the decision to be courageous and ensure that our ONE VOICE is heard!
~Shaunelle Curry, Executive Director of Mother’s Day Radio
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04.18.07
Posted in Community Action at 4:19 pm by Administrator
Greetings MDR Community,
We thank you for your consistent effort in emailing the radio stations and broadcast companies during our Wednesday Days of Action and Agitation. Because of your efforts, we have begun conversations with radio station execs and have received written responses to your efforts. Let’s continue to DRIVE IT HOME!
We have two Wednesdays left in April and we are closer to our goal. Today and April 25th, we will add phone calls and faxes to our agitation strategy. Please check out the list of stations published in the Community Action category of our blog (www.mothersdayradio.com/blog4/). You will notice that we have added new stations, per your request, and have included the available telephone and fax numbers to many of the stations and broadcast companies. Remember to include the MDR Official Cover letter in your emails, also found in the Community Action category of our blog.
Please phone, fax, and email these companies with your request for their participation in one Day of Rest and Uplift on Saturday, May 12, 2007 of Mother’s Day weekend.
Mother’s Day Radio is calling for 24 hours of rest from music with misogynistic, sexually degrading, lyrical content. We request 24 hours of music that respectfully represents women. We are calling into accountability the recording industry, the broadcast industry, the listening community and consumers. We are not putting our efforts into blaming, but into holding the industry and ourselves accountable to creating needed, systemic change.
Remember, Mother’s Day Radio is a CALL TO ACTION by the community to make clear how we want women to be represented in Hip-Hop culture and to implement a strategic plan for attaining it. This is an action of cooperation with artists, providing them with an opportunity for the creative self-expression of love, worth and value in their particular medium.
Thank you, again, MDR Community. In order to maintain clear records of your outreach, please ”CC” info@mothersdayradio.com in your email agitations, as many of you have already been doing. We will be sure to follow up with those stations.
Thank You!
~Team MDR
www.mothersdayradio.com
www.mothersdayradio.com/blog4/
www.petitiononline.com/60806/petition.html
www.myspace.com/mothersdayradio
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04.04.07
Posted in Community Action at 3:55 pm by Administrator
Greetings MDR Community,
Thank You once again for participating in our collective Day of Action & Agitation. Every Wednesday in April we will be emailing radio stations to request their participation in a Day of Rest and Uplift for women via the radio. You also have an opportunity to express your concerns and constructive insight in these emails. Instructions and a list of radio stations and contacts are posted in the “Community Action” Category of our MDR blog.
You are welcome to send in emails any day of the week. However, our collective days of impact will be on April 4th, April 11th, April 18th, and April 25th. So, be sure to partipate on those days as well.
Thank you for your participation. As “we uplift a woman, we uplift a nation!”
~Team MDR
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