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LPFM Supporters Send Letters to
Congress
(10/16/00)
In October, several prominent organizations
sent letters to Congress expressing there opposition to Low Power Radio
Legislation. For more information, click here.
The following is a list of people and
organizations who have supported low power radio. The list starts out with
the most
prominent supporters, then lists:
A one-page version of this list is available
for download here in a
PDF file (7KB).
This list is not comprehensive. In addition,
28 members of the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights sent a letter to
Congress in June. A copy of this letter is available here in
PDF format.
PDF (Portable Document Format) files can be
viewed by downloading the free Acrobat
Reader.
Most Prominent
Supporters:
American Library Association
AFL-CIO
Ben
Bagdikian, Berkeley Communications Dept.
Black Citizens for a Fair
Media
Jackson Browne
Communications Workers of America
Consumers
Union
FCC Local State Government Advisory Committee
Indigo
Girls
Int'l Bridge, Tunnel, and Turnpike Association
League of
United Latin American Citizens
Louisiana Music Commission
Low Power
Radio Coalition
Evang. Lutheran Church in America, Dept. for
Com.
Ellis Marsalis
Media Access Project
Gen'l Bd. of Glob.
Minist., The United Methodist Church
NAACP
National Bar
Association
National Council of Churches of Christ, Com. Comm'n
National Council of La Raza
National Federation of Community
Broadcasters
National Hispanic Foundation for the Arts
National
League of Cities
Rainbow/PUSH Coalition
Bonnie Raitt
Solveig
Singleton, CATO Institute
United Church of Christ, Ofc. of
Communication, Inc.
United States Catholic Conference
United States
Public Interest Research Group
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Human and Civil
Rights Organizations
African
American Media Incubator
Anti-Racist Action
Cleveland Talk Radio
Training Consortium
Cultural Environment Movement
Fairness and
Accuracy in Reporting
Massachusetts ACLU
Media Action Network for
Asian Americans
Minority Business Enterprise Legal Defense &
Education Fund
Minority Media and Telecom. Council
National Asian
American Telecom. Assoc.
National Association of Black
Journalists
National Council of La Raza
National Hispanic Council on
the Aging
National Hispanic Media Coalition
National Indian
Telecommunications Inst.
National Latino Telecommunications
Taskforce
National Lawyers Guild
NOW Legal Defense and Education
Fund
Native American Journalists Association
Puerto Rican Legal
Defense and Education Fund
The Civil Rights Forum
The Feminist
Majority
Watsonville, CA Human Rights Committee
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Media
Organizations
Americans for Radio
Diversity
Citizen's Media Corps
Denver Radio Coalition
Detroit
Metro Times
Metro Detroit Broadcasting Corporation
Microradio
Empowerment Coalition
Mondellus Pressa and Haitian Community
Radio
Mount Pleasant Broadcasting Club
National Federation of
Community Broadcasters
Project on Media Ownership
Prometheus Radio
Project
Real Detroit
Women's Institute for Freedom of the
Press
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Consumer and
Environmental Orgs.
Commercial
Alert
Consumers Union
Ralph Nader
Jamie Love, Director, Consumer
Project on Technology
Telecom. Research and Action Center
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Libraries and
Schools
Black College
Communications Assoc.
Brookland High School, Brookland, AK
El
Cerrito High School, El Cerrito, CA
George Washington
University
Libraries for the Future
Middle Country, NY, Public
Library
New School for Social Research
Pomona College
University
of Washington
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Governmental
Entities
City of Berkeley
33
Michigan Cities and Counties
76 Michigan State Legislators
New York
State Thruway Authority
Port Authority of New York and New
Jersey
City of Santa Monica
Cty of Seattle, Citizens Telecom. and
Technology Advisory Broad
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Musicians and
Artists
Detroit Blues Society
Ian MacKaye (Fugazi)
Jam Rag
Michigan Music is World Class
Campaign
Jenny Toomey
Mike Watt
Zeitgeist Community Gallery of
Cambridge, MA
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Academics and
Scholars
Barbara Ehrenreich,
Author
Stuart Ewen, Author
David Barsamian, Director, Alternative
Radio
Elaine Bernard, Harvard Trade Union Program
Chairman Chris
Campbell, Xavier Univ
Mark Crispin Miller, New York University
Ron
Danials, Center for Constitutional Rights
Dee Dee Halleck, Deep Dish
TV
Loretta Ross, Nat'l Ctr. for Human Rights Education
Herbert
Schiller, Prof. Emeritus, Univ. of CA, San Diego
Juliet Schor, Harvard
University
Howard Zinn, Professor Emeritus, Boston
University
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Religious
Organizations
Abyssinian Baptist
Church
Catholic Archdiocese of Detroit
Council of Calvin Christian
Reformed Church
Jewish Center of Crown Heights
National Religious
Broadcasters, Caribbean Chapter
The Society of Friends
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College Radio
General Managers
Bradley
University
Brown University
Carthage College
Fashion Institute of
Technology
Furman University
Georgetown University
Long Beach
City College
Miami (Ohio) University
Northern Illinois
University
Oklahoma State University
Penn State Harrisburg
St.
Norbert College
St. Louis University
Seattle University
Suffolk
University
Texas A&M
University of Arizona
University of
California-Pomona
University of Maryland
University of
Michigan-Dearborn
University of North Carolina-Wilmington
University
of South Florida
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Webster
University
Winthrop University
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