Posted on 08/10/2005 6:58:06 AM PDT by pabianice
Anti-war activists are asking San Francisco radio station KMEL-FM to remove the U.S. Navy as a sponsor of the annual Summer Jam concert in Mountain View, saying the station is "using hip-hop to promote the military to young people of color."
The high-profile event, set for Aug. 21, usually sells out the 20,000- capacity Shoreline Amphitheatre.
San Francisco's Global Exchange, the group Code Pink: Women for Peace and two dozen other organizations are leading a protest at noon today in front of the San Francisco offices of Clear Channel, which owns KMEL and nine other Bay Area stations.
In the weeks before the U.S. invasion of Iraq in 2003, Clear Channel -- the nation's largest owner of radio stations -- sponsored "Rallies for America" in several U.S. cities. The conglomerate's officials defended the events as supporting the military. Anti-war activists called them "pro-war" rallies.
The protesters allege in a letter they sent Clear Channel and KMEL last week that the Navy's sponsorship of the concert was an attempt to "promote the Bush administration's pro-war agenda."
Clear Channel spokeswoman Gabby Medecki downplayed the sponsorship.
"The decisions made for Summer Jam have all been made locally," she said, "including the decision to include the military, which has been a longtime sponsor."
In the Bay Area, Clear Channel also owns KQKE-AM, which carries the liberal Air America network's talk shows, and KNEW-AM, home to conservative Michael Savage.
"I think the diversity of our stations here speaks for itself," Medecki said.
KMEL and Navy officials did not return calls and e-mails Monday...
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San Freakcisco, that says it all. Read no further.
Just the latest example of lefty lies.
They claim they are against war or against Bush, but support the troops. Yet here they say, in essence, that the military is "pro-war" and are protesting the Navy specifically.
Those people are utter filth.
How dare they? Everyone knows that hip-hop should only be used to promote misogyny, gangsterism, and racial hatred.
Those people of utter filth benefit strongly from freedoms secured by the US military. The kind of people we are fighting would like nothing more than blowing them to Hell. They sit around, p*ss and moan why people hate us, but one reason is is because they do not have any respect for the American Left. I'd love to see a ship load of these creeps go over to Iraq and stage a Gay Pride march.
Radio Staion Should Play Every Half Hour "In The Navy" by the Village People...
They don't allow butt-crack pants in the navy anyway.
My question is why is the Navy spending money to sponsor rock shows in the first place?
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