Savage Stupidity.Com Online
Petition:
"Boycott"
To: To
Sponsors of The Savage Nation
We, the
undersigned, hereby affirm our disgust and dismay at the commercial support
given Michael Savage by corporate America and pledge to boycott all companies
who purchase advertising on "The Savage Nation" (complete list is available via
the SavageStupidity.Com web site on
the "Boycott" page).
We support the
Oregon Coalition Against Hate Radio and other organizations actively promoting a
boycott of Savage Nation advertisers.
"The content is an
unbroken stream of hate and chauvinism directed against women, people of color,
liberals, immigrants and in particular people of Middle Eastern heritage and
people of the Muslim faith. We condemn this message of hate..." said Tom Nelson,
spokesman for the Coalition Against Hate Radio (press release with full details
on campaign available at http://www.ofme.net/PressRelease.html).
"The message that
[radio stations broadcasting The Savage Nation are] sending to communities of
color, immigrants, and in particular to all people of Middle Eastern ancestry
and to Muslims, is that you are not wanted in this country, that you have no
value and that you should not expect any respect here," said spokeswoman Mona
Goode of the Oregon Friends of the Middle East. "That is a message that we must
actively and vocally oppose."
The dominance of
"hate radio" is not a market-driven phenomenon, but a product of conscious
decisions made by conservative media-conglomerates to silence alternative
voices. This is not a sustainable situation for democracy.
We call upon the
FCC to restore the "Fairness Doctrine", the federal requirement (abandoned in
the Reagan administration) that broadcast stations leasing the public airwaves
had to allow a certain amount of time for opposing views on political issues.
We call upon radio
stations to voluntarily implement the "Fairness Doctrine" in their own
programming, and restore balanced discourse to the airwaves by featuring local
and syndicated "liberal" talk show hosts on a regular basis.
Sincerely,
The
Undersigned