05.11.07

Mother’s Day Radio Launch Activities

Posted in Launch at 2:26 pm by Administrator

If you are in the Los Angeles, California area, come take part in our Mother’s Day Radio launch activities in May 2007. 

  • Circle of Healing: Reclaiming Womanhood on Saturday, May 5, 2007 9am-3pm.  Lotus on the Nile Wellness Center, 4307 S. Crenshaw Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90008.  Cost: Love offering.
  • Day of Rest and Uplift launch on Saturday, May 12, 2007 8am-9:30am.  Kenneth Hahn Park, 4100 South La Cienega Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90056.  Brown Area.  Cost: $4 park entrance fee.
  • Screening of Hip-Hop Beyond Beats and Rhymes and performance by Youth Movement Records on Friday, May 18, 2007, 7pm-10pm.  Art Share Los Angeles, 801 E 4th Place, Los Angeles, CA 90013 (If mapquesting, use 326 S Hewitt).  Cost: Free.  Arrive early to guarantee seating. 

Thank you to our community partners:

Art Share LA, Beautiful Struggle on KPFK radio (90.7fm), Brave New Foundation, California Black Women’s Health Project, DJ Beverly Bond, MDR Coalition, MDR Women’s Circle, Moms In Charge, Mother’s In Action Respect Me Coalition, Lotus on the Nile Wellness Center, Some of Us Are Brave Radio (KPFK), Soul Genesis, Spirit Awakening Foundation, and Youth Movement Records. 

Thank you to our participating radio stations:

KJLH 102.3fm www.kjlhradio.com

V100 (100.3fm) www.V100music.com

WERG 90.5fm www.WERGfm.com

Thank you to the MDR Community that has actively engaged in community action.  We have planted the seed.  Now let’s nurture it to full bloom.

To get involved in MDR Community action, email info@mothersdayradio.com or call 1-888-261-4580. 

NATIONAL DAY OF UPLIFT SATURDAY, MAY 12, 2007

Posted in Launch at 12:48 pm by Administrator

The Mother’s Day Radio initiative to create a space in mainstream media that respectfully represents women is launching its first annual National Day of Uplift on Saturday, May 12, 2007.  This is the Saturday of Mother’s Day weekend.

We have called for the participation of radio stations and broadcast companies to grant us 24 hours of rest from music with misogynistic and sexually degrading lyrical content.  We have called for 24 hours of music that respectfully represents women. 

Participating radio stations include Los Angeles, California’s KJLH 102.3fm www.kjlhradio.com, V100.3 fm www.V100music.com, and Erie, Pennsylvania’s WERG 90.5 fm www.WERGfm.com. 

Now we are calling on the participation of the community.  On Saturday, May 12, 2007, the nation will be asked to participate in a Day of Rest and Uplift in the following ways:

  • Wear all white on Saturday, May 12th in honor of and to pay homage to the women, young and old, of our communities.
  • Rest from physical, sexual, and verbal violence against women.
  • Uplift women with empowering, loving, forgiving, gracious and compassionate language and interactions (this is for both men and women).
  • TURN OFF radio stations that play music with degrading, misogynistic lyrical content.
  • TURN ON radio stations that support women with music that respectfully represents women.  Our participating radio stations have online streaming music at their respective websites. 
  • Purchase and play music that honors, uplifts and elevates women. 

We are calling for ONE VOICE in honoring women on Mother’s Day weekend 2007. 

Please join our efforts!

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