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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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