Grassroots Groups Tell FCC: "Stop Hate Radio"!

Activists, members of community organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area who plan to attend the San Francisco Premiere of Broadcast Blues , also plan to Rally prior to the presentation of the film to highlight the need for Media Reform and to demand for the FCC to open a docket on Hate-Speech, misinformation and Media Consolidation, which is the model that allows a more widespread and uniform disemination of racist, xenophobic, nativist, homophobic, sexist, transphobic, et al, views to a nationwide audience already prejudiced with feelings of intolerance and hate.
And we have been seeing the results of their dehumanization of other human beings, people are being abused, discriminated, verbally bashed, beaten and even murdered by listeners of Hate-Radio, some of them (Listeners) have taken the arguments against targetted people and groups that the Shock Jocks make on a daily basis, to their logical, and in far too many times, fatal conclussions.

Firmly believing that one of the biggest, if not the biggest factor in the abuse and attacks against people and groups which are viewed as different, is hate speech in the media made possible by the extense consolidation of it, grassroots forces have concluded that the former needs to be stopped and the latter changed.

Members of The Hispanic / Latino Anti-Defamation Coalicion SF, this time joined forces with Common Cause and Media Alliance, to once again, mount a Rally / Demonstration against Hate Speech, Rush Limbaugh, Michael Savage, et al in San Francisco in front of the Victoria Theater prior to the showing of the San Francisco Premiere of Broadcast Blues by Emmy Award winner Sue Wilson on Sunday June 28 at 4:00p.m. - The Rally will be held before the showing of the documentary.

"We feel that this film is one everyone should see, specially the ones who are not that well informed about Media Consolidation and the harm it does to our Democracy and Communities." This is a common view held amongst the people who will be protesting.

It was shown in Sacramento CA on March 22 and it was a huge success together with the action they held there, now it is coming to San Francisco and the plans are to have a nationwide tour in a couple of months, Common Cause will be one of the Organizations sponsoring it.

Personally, the way I see it, is that people need to hear about this Documentary, what is all about and what we can do to take the media back, after all, we own the airwaves.

We need to publicize the film, the actions we are taking and can take - we need to keep up the pressure, our people will benefit, we need to have Media Reform, we need to have the FCC open a docket on Hate Speech, there is so much that needs to be done - the words of FCC Commission Acting Chairman Michael J. Copps are so true, in case you didn't know, he said that if we want to have any progressive reform enacted, we need to have Media Reform first to open up the Media to opposing points of view.

In addition, demonstrators are in agreenment and in support of the NHMC Petition to the FCC and will be asking attendees and the public in general, to also contact the FCC in support of the Petition.

SUMMARY: Hate speech against vulnerable groups is pervasive in our media – it is not limited to a few isolated instances or any one media platform. Indeed, many large mainstream media corporations regularly air hate speech, and it is prolific over the internet. Hate speech takes various forms, from words advocating violence to those creating a climate of hate towards vulnerable groups. Cumulatively, hate speech creates an environment of hate and prejudice that legitimizes violence against its targets.
Because the media has a powerful influence over people’s behavior and perceptions, it is not mere conjecture that hate speech over the media is producing concrete harms. As they have become the victims of more hate speech in media, hate crimes against Latinos have increased in frequency and in intensity. Indeed, hate crimes against Latinos have increased by 40% in just the last four years. And physical violence is not the only harm suffered at the hand of hate speech – studies show that such speech causes severe emotional and psychological distress to its targets. These harms may be particularly acute for Latino children given that children are uniquely susceptible to messages in the media.
The National Hispanic Media Coalition (NHMC) applauds President Obama’s commitment to equality and justice, and therefore respectfully requests that the FCC complement his efforts by initiating an inquiry into hate speech in the media.
Specifically, the NHMC requests that the Commission invite public comment on hate speech, inquire into the extent and nature of hate speech, examine the effects of hate speech, including the relationship between hate speech in the media and hate crimes, and explore options for counteracting or reducing the negative effects of such speech.
The NHMC is very supportive of First Amendment freedoms, and believes the cure for bad speech is not the suppression of speech, but more speech. The NHMC asks the FCC to shine a spotlight on those who use the public airwaves to promote a divisive agenda, heedless of the human cost.

PRESS RELEASE

For Immediate Release

Grassroots Groups Tell FCC: Stop Hate Radio!

At 3:00 PM on Sunday June 28, the Hispanic/Latino Anti-Defamation Coalition, Media Alliance, and California Common Cause will mount a rally outside the San Francisico Premiere of Broadcast Blues at the Victoria Theater at 16th and Mission. The message is clear: Tell the FCC to schedule hearings on Hate Radio. The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is the federal agency which oversees broadcasters.

"A recent UCLA study shows a correlation between hate radio and hate crimes. We are demanding the FCC listen to the public about this crucial public interest problem," says Dr. Marcos Gutierrez, radio host and director of Hecho en California Radio.

“Common Cause is concerned when a few corporations own our media resulting in less local programming and fewer viewpoints being broadcast. More alarming, we are hearing more `hate speech' including broadcasters spreading misinformation, stereotyping, and fostering violence against certain people or groups,” notes California Common Cause staffer Emily Pears.

Broadcasters say they have the right to exercise Free Speech, but Broadcast Blues director Sue Wilson challenges that assertion. "There is Free Speech, and there is Radio Speech. The two are not the same. When the radio dial is opened up to all points of view, radio speech will be free. Until then, it is owned and operated for a political agenda. That must change." Broadcast Blues reminds us that we the people own the airwaves, and that we do have the power to hold stations and the FCC accountable.

Tracy Rosenberg of Media Alliance says, "How is it in the public interest to call other human beings …vermin? If I were a regulator whose job was to rent out the nation's communication space, I'd look into that. That's what we're asking the FCC to do.”

The rally will be held at the Victoria Theater, 2961 16th Street, San Francisco, at the 16th St. BART station. The screening of Broadcast Blues will follow at 4PM. More information is at www.broadcastblues.tv

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Para distribucion inmediata

Los grupos de base dicen al FCC: ¡Parar el odio en la radio!

A las 3:00 P.M. del domingo 28 de junio, la Coalición Hispánica/Latino de la Anti-Difamación, la Media Alliance, y Common Cause de California montarán un rally enfrente del Teatro Victoria antes de la premier de Broadcast Blues en San Francisco en la calle 16 y la misión. El mensaje está claro: Decir al FCC que programe Audiencias sobre la radio del odio. La Comisión Federal de las Comunicaciones (FCC) es la agencia federal que supervisa los locutores.

" Un estudio reciente del UCLA demuestra una correlación entre la radio del odio y los crímenes de odio. Estamos exigiendo al FCC que escuche a el público sobre este problema crucial de interés público, " dice a Dr. Marcos Gutiérrez, anfitrión de radio y director del programa Hecho en California.

“Common Cause esta preocupado de que algunas corporaciones poseen nuestros medios resultando en menos programación local y menos puntos de vista difundidos. Más alarmante, estamos oyendo más “discurso del odio” incluyendo los locutores que diseminan información falsa, estereotipando y fomentando violencia contra ciertos gente o grupos” Hace notar Emily Pears que es empleada en la plantilla de Common
Cause de California.

Los locutores dicen que tienen el derecho de ejercitar su libre expresión, pero la Directora de Broadcast Blues, Sue Wilson, desafía tal aserción. " Hay discurso libre, y hay discurso de radio. Los dos no son iguales. Cuando el dial de la radio se abra a todos los puntos de vista, el discurso de radio será libre. Hasta entonces, se posee y es operado para una agenda política. Eso debe cambiar." Broadcast Blues nos recuerda que la gente somos dueños de las ondas, y que tenemos el poder demantener a estaciones y a la FCC responsables.

Tracy Rosenberg de la Media Alliance dice, " ¿Donde esta el interés público al llamar a seres humanos… bichos? Si yo fuera un regulador cuyo trabajo fuera el alquilar espacio de la comunicación de la nación, indagaría sobre éso. Eso es lo que estamos
pidiendo que la FCC haga.” El Rally será en el teatro de Victoria, 2961 calle 16th, San Francisco, en la estación de la 16th del BART,la proyección de Broadcast Blue seguirá a las 4PM. Para más información www.broadcastblues.tv

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HEAR AND VIEW WHAT SHOCK JOCKS ARE SAYING

Photo Slide Shows & Videos of the September 23, 2008 and August 15, 2007 Protests Against Michael Savage / Clear Channel

These are Photo Slide Shows of the First and Second Protests against Hate Speech, Defamation and Misinformation in the Media, specifically targeting Michael Savage / Clear Channel Communications / KNEW 910AM, at their Broadcasting Booth / Offices, located in the 340 Townsend Street in San Francisco California.

The first was held on August 15, 2007, during which we presented a written request to meet with the local Management of CCC to ask them to put a stop to the hateful language used by Mr. Savage against our community, specially against immigrants, for whom Michael Savage reserved his most poisonous and vitriolic attacks, furthermore, we requested a start to negotiations toward achieving a more inclusive make up of their personnel and staff, so it would reflect the diversity of the local communities they are obligated to serve, as per conditions for their broadcasting license as stipulated under the FCC rules.

After a year of refusals by the local Management of KNEW / CCC to engage in serious negotiations, the Hispanic / Latino Anti-Defamation Coalition SF, was compelled to make another attempt to call to their attention the seriousness of our requests, which one year later have become demands, to have their unrepentant-star-hatemongering-shock-jock, Michael Savage, removed from their programming lineup.

So, on September 23, 2008, members of the Hispanic / Latino Community, allied with other Communities and Organizations under the banner of the HLADC-SF, revisited the matter by demonstrating their frustration and righteous indignation at the callous refusals of KNEW / CCC / Michael Savage, to even make an effort in good faith, to hear our grievances and requests, that by now are demands, to stop the wrongs that are committed daily against us by Michael Savage / Clear Channel Communications / KNEW.

We hold Clear Channel Communications / KNEW / Michael Savage directly responsible for the increase of violent hate crimes perpetrated against our under-siege community.

The Photo Slide Shows below, document our two demonstrations / protests.
The photos and the slide shows were taken / created by Mr. Manuel Ortiz of Alianza Metropolitan News - (Click header to open/collapse box)

"September 23, 2008 Protest Against Michael Savage / Clear Channel"

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"August 15, 2007 Protest Against Michael Savage / Clear Channel"

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August 14, 2007 "The Savage Debate" SF City Hall Press Conf. (YouTUBE Video by the opposition)

August 15, 2007 "Protest Against Michael Savage / Clear Channel" (YouTUBE Video by the opposition)

More PhotoSlideShows from Manuel Ortiz on the Subject.

"Historia de una lucha sin fronteras" (Story of a struggle without borders)

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"En defensa de La Ley Santuario" (In defense of the Sanctuary Law)

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Shouts against the racist on the radio Michael Savage: ¡GO AWAY ANIMAL!

Voices of our people inflamed against the enemy #1 of the immigrant: Michael Savage

Edgard E. Martínez
AQUI NICARAGUA
Septiembre 23, 2008

Dozens of demonstrators in their majority Hispanic, congregated in front of the building of Clear Channel Radio, in the 340 of Townsend street, in San Francisco, California, to protest the radial station that allows the transmission in national chain to the United States, of a program of commentaries with an issue that has gained the repudiation of the immigrants generally, but very particularly of the Hispanics, to those who it attacks with excessive viciousness and which shows a shameless racism, this reason is why it is catalogued as the enemy number one of the immigrant community, the controvertial 'personality' is Michael Alan Weiner, that as the delinquents, is AKA " Michael Savage" , as proclaimed by himself with this apparent 'pseudonim.'

A people united, will never be defeated

The demonstrators arrived from all the points in Northern California, many of them in a train originating from San Jose, in the South Bay of San Francisco, which was boarded by dozens of Hispanos in the several stations of the line and arrived at 4 of afternoon, the precise hour programmed to start the demonstration and that was baptized as " The Hispanic Dignity Train".

The event was led by the conductor of radio, the colleague, Marcos Gutiérrez, who from his program "Made in California" that is transmitted from 1010 A.M. in San Francisco and 990 A.M. in Sacramento, and who made the call for the second consecutive year to protest against the pseudo commentator, with the support of his faithful radio listeners, several organizations and unions from NorCal.

Gutiérrez, in one of his interventions placed emphasis on the injurious and detrimental effects resulting from the attacks against the immigrants, from racists like Michael Savage, which have increased the attacks of hatred against them, according to statistical reports from the police and a recent FBI report.

The demonstrators delivered speeches of denunciation against Savage for the string of insults and calumnies that pour out everyday against the immigrants. Once more they demanded to the radio station the cancellation of this program and threatened an economic boicott against the sponsoring companies of the program.

Amongst the protesters, there were also Anglos-Saxons who also support the immigrants, specially our undocumented people, who as some speakers said " They break lomo" (Lomo=Back) - working hard to give growth to this nation which is also ours by adoption. Among the present of all the ages and sexes, transgender people (transsexuals) who also are victims, repudiated the intolerance and scorn held in the soul of this mental patient.

Shouts of GO AWAY ANIMAL were heard. An adolescent, Sean Griffin, shouted in English and Spanish, " I am son of an Anglo-Saxon father and proudly with a Mexican mother, and I say to you Michael Savage, lárgate" (lárgate=go away). Other children also came out in defense of their parents without legal documents in the nation and some of these interventions were transmitted live by radios 1010 and 990.

Of colleagues of the radios, Hispanic television outlets, and written press, fierce defenders of the immigrants from its spaces, we had the short-sightedness of NOT seeing anybody/anything… would have they been on special assignments somewhere out there?

This protest, to say that it was successful, exceptionally pacific and orderly, is saying too little and, supported by the sounds of the horns of the very many cars that circulate around that busy street, but for it's organizers, we will say that they must throw in more desire to the issue, because once per year it is like what the saying and the song of the Puma say: " One swallow doesn't make spring and a gull loses itself in the sea".

THE PROFILE OF THE SAVAGE

So that you know who this old poisonous old man is, we will tell you that he was born of a father with the same name, Michael Alan Weiner, of a Jewish family of Russian origins that lived in the Bronx and died to the 50 years of a heart attack. When Savage (Salvaje el equivalente en Español) writes or comments on his childhood he describes as "diffícult" started working from early age and blames his father to whom he describes as " Rude and with a profane personality" , as to the "profane" the way Michael judges his ancestor means he is telling him a lot: "disrespectful of the sacred, ignorant of everything, dishonest, bold, libertine and he only left out describing his father as a son of a b… "

I take the opportunity here to tell you dear Michael, that you give feelings of pity that you have been an abused boy, that you give feelings of pity that you keep such trauma that will accompany you to the grave and that this follows the abominable hatred that you feel for your fellow human beings, but, Why with our children? Since you remember that you said that children of undocumented parents were faking suffering of autism for gain. In the Bible, dear Michael, says that " With the stick that you measure, you shall be measured" and as you judge without reserve the damage that you can do and not moved by anything, I do the same with you, but without lowering at your levels nor to your condition of chronic congenital psychopath, gotten worse now at your 66 years by a galloping senile dementia.

Michael Savage, I share with the shout that people gave in front of the building of the radio chain from which they allow relief to your necrotic spirit and your nauseous morality, definitively YOU ARE an ANIMAL, because you do not meet the qualities to catalog you to be a human being, and to qualify you as a jerk, would take away dimension to the barbarities that you think and say.

To those at Clear Channel Radio, what a shame gentlemen to allow a " Yerbero" (This is what the Savage studied, ah and anthropology, but it did not serve him well because he didn't discovered himself in his own reality "not human nor social"), I was saying that they allow him to spit his microphones in total unawareness of even a minimum of ethical behavior with his audience, and if they boast that this individual has an audience from coast to coast of 8 million and sell a few dollars more, I will be denouncing their "Star" through the radio and television stations in which I work and that covers all of the Mexican Republic and 16 states in the United States with a modest audience of 86 million people. Be worthy gentlemen and not accomplices to this racist, unless you are one also. Have a good day gentlemen, and may God bless and forgive you.

Gritos contra el racista de la radio Michael Savage: ¡VETE ANIMAL!

Voces de nuestra gente enardecidas contra el enemigo #1 del inmigrante Michael Savage

Edgard E. Martínez
AQUI NICARAGUA
Septiembre 23, 2008

Docenas de manifestantes en su mayoría hispanos se congregaron frente al edificio de Clear Channel Radio, en el 340 de la calle Townsend, en San Francisco, California, para protestar con la estacion radial que permite la transmisión en cadena nacional a Estados Unidos, de un programa de comentarios que hace un sujeto que se ha ganado el repudio de los inmigrantes en general, pero muy particularmente de los hispanos, a quienes ataca con saña desmedida y haciendo gala de un racismo descarado, por lo que lo califican como el enemigo numero uno de la comunidad inmigrante, el controvertido personaje es Michael Alan Weiner, ALIAS como los delincuentes "Michael Savage" y a como el mismo se apodó, dizque pseudónimo.

Un pueblo unido, jamas será vencido

Los manifestantes llegaron desde todos los puntos del norte de California, muchos de ellos en un tren que proveniente de San José, sur de la bahía de San Francisco, que fue abordado por decenas de hispanos en las varias estaciones del trayecto y arribó a las 4 de la tarde, la hora precisa en que se habia programado la demostración y que bautizaron como "El Tren de la Dignidad".

El evento fue liderado por el conductor de radio, el colega, Marcos Gutiérrez, quien desde sus programas "Hecho en California" que se emiten por la 1010 AM en San Francisco y 990 AM en Sacramento, e hizo por segundo año seguido la convocatoria para protestar contra el pseudo comentarista y con apoyo de sus fieles radios escuchas y varias organizaciones comunitarias y sindicatos del norte del estado.

Gutiérrez, en una de sus intervenciones puso énfasis en lo nocivo y perjudicial que han resultado los ataques contra los inmigrantes de parte de racistas como Michael Savage, y que ha acrecentado los ataques de odio contra ellos y conforme reportes estadísticos de la policía y un reciente informe del FBI.

Los manifestantes pronunciaron discursos de denuncia contra Savage, por la sarta de injurias y calumnias que verte todos los dias contra los inmigrantes. Exigieron una vez más a la cadena radial la cancelacion de este programa y amenazan con causarles un boicott economico contra las empresas patrocinadoras de la radio.

Entre los que protestaron hubo también anglos que apoyan a los inmigrantes en especial a nuestros indocumentados, que como algunos oradores dijeron "Se rompen el lomo" trabajando fuerte para darle crecimiento a esta nacion y que es nuestra por adopción. Entre los presentes de todas las edades y sexos, repudiaron personas transgéneros (transexuales) quienes también son víctimas de la intolerancia y desprecio que almacena el alma de este enfermo mental.

Se escucharon gritos de VETE ANIMAL. Un adolescente Sean Griffin, gritó en inglés y español, "soy hijo de un padre anglosajon y orgullosamente con una madre mexicana, y te digo Michael Savage, lárgate" . Otros niños también salieron en defensa de sus padres sin documentos legales en la nación y algunas de estas intervenciones fueron transmitidas en vivo por las radios 1010 y 990.

De colegas de las radios, medios escritos y televisivos hispanos, fieros defensores de los inmigrantes desde sus espacios, tuvimos la miopia de NO ver a ninguno…estarian en algunas asignaciones especiales por ahí?

Esta protesta, de mas esta decir que fue exitosa y excepcionalmente ordenada y pacífica, apoyada por el sonar de los claxon de muchisimos autos que circulan por esa traficada calle, pero para sus organizadores diremos que le echen más gana al asunto, pues una vez por año es como el dicho y canción del Puma de que "Una golondrina no hace verano y una gaviota se pierde en el mar".

EL PERFIL DEL SALVAJE

Para que usted sepa quien es este anciano venenoso les referimos que nacio de un padre con su mismo nombre, Michael Alan Weiner, de una familia judía con los orígenes rusos que vivía en el Bronx y murió a los 50 años de un ataque al corazón. Cuando Savage (Salvaje equivalente en español) escribe o comenta sobre su niñez, la describe como "difícil" que trabajo desde corta edad y culpa a su padre al que califica de "Rudo y personalidad profana", en lo de "profano" como juzga Michael a su progenitor le quiere decir mucho: "irrespetuoso de lo sagrado, ignorante de todo, deshonesto, atrevido, libertino y solo le faltó calificar a su padre de hijo de p…"

Aprovecho aquí para decirte querido Michael, que das lastima que hayas sido un niño abusado, que das lastima que conserves semejante trauma que te acompañará hasta la tumba y que de esto se desprende el abominable odio que sientes por tus semejantes, pero, ¿Por qué con nuestros niños? Ya que recuerdas que dijiste que niños de padres de indocumentados fingian padecer de audismo para sacar provecho. En la Biblia, querido Michael, dice que "Con la vara que mides, sereis medido" y como tu juzgas sin reparo al daño que puedas hacer y sin inmutarte por nada, yo hago lo mismo contigo, pero sin bajarme a tus niveles ni a tu condición de psicopata congénito crónico, empeorado ahora a tus 66 años por una demencia senil cabalgante.

Michael Savage, comparto con el grito que la gente dió frente al edificio de la cadena de radio en que te permiten el desahogo de tu espíritu necrótico y nauseabunda moral, definitivamente ERES UN ANIMAL, pues no reunes las cualidades para catalogarte de ser humano y calificarte de patán sería quitarle dimensión a las barbaridades que piensas y dices.

A los de Clear Channel Radio, qué vergüenza señores permitir a un "Yerbero" (Eso estudió El Salvaje, ah y antropología, pero no le sirvió porque no se descubre asi mismo en su realidad "humana ni social"), le permiten, decia, a escupir sus micrófonos a total desconocedor del mínimo comportamiento con ética para su audiencia, y si alardean que este individuo tiene una audiencia de costa a costa de 8 millones y venden unos cuantos dolares más, yo estaré denunciando a su "estrella" por la cadena radial y televisiva en que trabajo y que cubre toda la república mexicana y 16 estados en Estados Unidos con una modesta audiencia de 86 millones de personas. Sean dignos señores y no complices a este racista, a menos que ustedes lo sean también. Pasen buen día señores, que Dios los bendiga y los perdone.

Hate speech in the media A threat to the internal security of the U.S.

By: Aurora Grajeda

Published in the Printed Edition of September 4-17, 2008 of the bilingual newspaper El Tecolote - (Versión en Español)

As hate speech spirals, a local group of community activists are organizing a demonstration in San Francisco against shock jock Michael Savage. The group, Hispanic / Latino Anti-Defamation Coalition SF, plans to rally in front of the building which houses radio station KNEW-AM where Savage transmits his nationally-syndicated program.

On his program, people hear Savage call for troops on the street "to protect us from the scourge of illegal immigrants who are running rampant across America, killing our police for sport, raping, murdering like a scythe across America while the liberal psychos are telling us they come here to work." Or that autism is a "fraud, a racket, that in 99 percent of cases is a brat who hasn’t been told to cut their act out" and to stop being ‘morons‘, a way where minority children get welfare and extra help in school, and who also tells fasting immigrant students "to starve to death, then we won’t have a problem."

These kind of statements act as fuel for people who are already angry, resentful and violent. Take, for instance, Jim David Adkisson, who entered the Tennessee Valley Unitarian Universalist Church in Knoxville, opened fire with a 12-gauge shotgun, killed two people and wounded six others during the presentation of a children's musical. In his car, police found a four-page letter in which he expressed his hatred of the "liberal movement’, and wrote he targeted the church "because of its liberal teachings" and his belief that "all liberals should be killed" because they were "ruining the country."

Inside Adkisson’s home, officers found "Liberalism is a Mental Health Disorder" by radio talk show host Michael Savage; "Let Freedom Ring" by talk show host Sean Hannity; and the book, "The O'Reilly Factor," by television talk show host Bill O'Reilly. These three continuously demonize liberals, immigrants and others.

On Glenn Beck’s nationally syndicated radio show, The Glenn Beck Program, he read an "ad" produced and posted by subscribers to his website, for a refinery that turns Mexicans into fuel (Mexinol).

Neil Boortz suggests giving nuclear waste to illegal Mexican immigrants to take back to Mexico and tell them "it’ll warm tortillas", plus they will be easy to spot because of the "glow" if they try to return.

Savage warns politicians about illegal immigrant "vermin."

Shock jocks insist their rants are not hurting anyone and that they are not inciting hate attacks. Meanwhile disenfranchised groups continue to be targeted. Take, for instance, the savage beating of Luis Eduardo Ramirez Zavala by a group of four young white males in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania on July 12.

An eyewitness to the beating who happens to be a retired police officer, heard the youths telling Ramirez’s friends to "get out of Shenandoah or the same thing would happen" to them.
"We saw a bunch of kids walking away and screaming things like "‘Go back to Mexico.’ We called the police," said Arielle Garcia, 17, a friend of Ramirez who was at the scene; Luis Eduardo died about 30 hours later.

Legislation and programs designed to provide basic human rights and services regardless of legal status are being curtailed or dismantled, while punitive anti-immigrant legislation is being enacted in localities in all the states and a number of hate groups and the violence leveled against minorities is on the rise. Human rights organizations are under attack, demonized for allegedly helping ‘criminals’

All of the above, plus immensely more, is made possible by the poisoning of the minds of millions of Americans, who are bombarded daily with outrageously false and inflammatory claims, designed to prejudice public opinion against groups and entire communities without allowing the opportunity to present opposing views and facts, which would refute the propaganda full of lies, misinformation and disinformation.

Aurora Grajeda is a community activist, member of the ‘Hispanic / Latino Anti-Defamation Coalition SF" currently organizing a demonstration in front the broadcasting booth of KNEW on Sept. 23, 4 to 6 pm, at 340 Townsend ST in San Francisco, whence Michael Savage transmits his program, to focus on the consequences of Hate Speech. and to demand that a more balanced view on the issues is presented in the Media so a much needed comprehensive debate in the public opinion arena takes place.

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First they came for the Communists,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I wasn’t a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics,
and I didn’t speak up,
because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me,
and by that time there was no one
left to speak up for me.

By Reverend Martin Niemüller. For his opposition to the Nazis, Niemüller was arrested in 1937, convicted of treason, and spent eight years in Sachsenhausen and Dachau concentration camps.

Anti-Hate Speech Demonstration Flyer "Hispanic Dignity Train" SJ to SF
Demonstracion contra El Lenguage de Odio Volante "Tren de La Dignidad Hispana" SJ to SF
Anti-Hate Speech Demonstration Flyer, San Francisco

Hate speech in the media A threat to the internal security of the U.S. (Post with Audio Clips of HateMongers)