ACTION ALERT: Please join Monday's "kneeling" march from Camp Casey to Dick Celeste's office.
Student and community groups to ask Colorado College president to add Democracy Now! to KRCC programming: Plan "kneeling procession of unheard voices".
WHEN: Monday, December 5, at 1 PM
WHERE: Camp Casey (802 N Nevada, Toons parking lot)
CONTACT:
Eric 460-2836
eric@campcasey.info
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A sustained campaign by Colorado College students and KRCC listeners to convince the radio station management to add programming from Democracy Now! will culminate, Monday, in a kneeling march to present letters and petitions to the college's president, Dick Celeste. We have chosen to crawl several city blocks on our knees from the peace camp, Camp Casey, to President Celeste's office in Worner Center.
We are marching on our knees on the pavement in winter weather, not in protest of Mr. Celeste, the college, or its radio station KRCC, but in solidarity with people who suffer under oppression. Democracy Now! devotes much of its news coverage to stories often overlooked by mainstream media, and has won awards for it's coverage of the plight of East Timor, and of Nigerian people exploited and murdered by Chevron Oil.
Crawling is an appropriate symbolic action because we are bringing attention to the importance of Democracy Now!, which is often the only broadcast program to tell the stories of people who are being driven to their knees every day.
Marchers who prefer to walk are also invited. We will have plenty of posters and banners to carry, along with the letters and petitions.
Those marching on their knees will use walking staffs which will trail a long red banner which reads WE WANT DEMOCRACY NOW!
Colorado College students have been working on a similar signature-gathering campaign within the student body. A delegation of students will petition President Celeste in his office at 1pm, IN ADVANCE of the arrival of the community procession.
So come to walk or come to kneel, but please come to show support for independent news at KRCC.
More ideas for participating in the procession:
WHEN: Monday, December 5, at 1 PM
WHERE: Camp Casey (802 N Nevada, Toons parking lot)
CONTACT:
Eric 460-2836
eric@campcasey.info
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A sustained campaign by Colorado College students and KRCC listeners to convince the radio station management to add programming from Democracy Now! will culminate, Monday, in a kneeling march to present letters and petitions to the college's president, Dick Celeste. We have chosen to crawl several city blocks on our knees from the peace camp, Camp Casey, to President Celeste's office in Worner Center.
We are marching on our knees on the pavement in winter weather, not in protest of Mr. Celeste, the college, or its radio station KRCC, but in solidarity with people who suffer under oppression. Democracy Now! devotes much of its news coverage to stories often overlooked by mainstream media, and has won awards for it's coverage of the plight of East Timor, and of Nigerian people exploited and murdered by Chevron Oil.
Crawling is an appropriate symbolic action because we are bringing attention to the importance of Democracy Now!, which is often the only broadcast program to tell the stories of people who are being driven to their knees every day.
Marchers who prefer to walk are also invited. We will have plenty of posters and banners to carry, along with the letters and petitions.
Those marching on their knees will use walking staffs which will trail a long red banner which reads WE WANT DEMOCRACY NOW!
Colorado College students have been working on a similar signature-gathering campaign within the student body. A delegation of students will petition President Celeste in his office at 1pm, IN ADVANCE of the arrival of the community procession.
So come to walk or come to kneel, but please come to show support for independent news at KRCC.
More ideas for participating in the procession:
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