To read and sign our online petition calling for 24 hours of rest from denigrating and sexually objectifying lyrics and a full day of music that uplifts and respects women and humanity, visit www.petitiononline.com/60806/petition.html.
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Logo design by Stephen Bruce and event photos by Clemente Bogle.
Art Share LA, Beautiful Struggle on KPFK radio (90.7fm), Brave New Foundation, California Black Women's Health Project, DJ Beverly Bond, MDR Coalition, MDR Women's Circle, Moms In Charge, Mother's In Action Respect Me Coalition, Lotus on the Nile Wellness Center, Some of Us Are Brave Radio (KPFK), Soul Genesis, Spirit Awakening Foundation, and Youth Movement Records.
Taking part in Revolutionary Action can be as simple as writing your name, forwarding an email, or making a phone call. It can be as bold as speaking up when it's more comfortable to sit in silence. It can mean making a trip to your local radio station, writing a letter, or spending your money (read "ENERGY") on music that edifies and uplifts you.
Following are 5 simple ways you can get involved in MDR Community Action. We know that your lives are full, and we thank you for your support.
Sign the MDR Petition calling for 24 hours of rest from degrading musical content and a full day of music radio programming that elevates and uplifts. Click on the link on this page. MDR PETITION
Request a hard copy of the petition and collect signatures from friends, family, community members, and co-workers. Email info@mothersdayradio.com and request a petition with signature sheets. Fax completed signature sheets to 323-410-0422. Or mail them to P.O. Box 60806, Los Angeles, CA 90060.
Call your local radio station and inform the program managers about our efforts, then request their pledge to the day of rest and uplift. Playlists have been created to support the DJs in formatting the Mother's Day program. Email info@mothersdayradio.com and request radio pledge sheets.
Participate in a day of agitation. Send emails to local radio stations, mega media conglomorates, and the FCC on our days of community agitation. Let them know we stand as ONE VOICE in creating change.
Forward emails and announcements you receive about these efforts to your friends, family, and online groups. Encourage one another to get involved.
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ABOUT MDR Mother’s Day Radio is an ever expanding coalition of individuals, youth agencies, women’s groups, schools, churches, community organizations, and businesses who share the vision of elevating the images of women in music.
Our goal is to organize and implement successfully a call to action that results in a day of rest and uplift for women on radio. This day of rest and uplift is known as Mother’s Day Radio and kicked off on the weekend of Mother’s Day 2007.
MDR Objectives
To secure one day of radio that plays no songs containing lyrics that emphasize the body parts and sexual attributes and activities of women.
To secure one day of radio that plays songs containing lyrics that highlight and recognize the strength, honor, value and wisdom of the mothers, daughters, sisters—the women—of society.
To secure the creation, marketing and distribution of a “Mother’s Day Album” that is a collaboration of national recording artists singing music that uplifts women by honoring the strength, honor, value and wisdom of women.
To organize the youth across the country as leaders in the movement for Mother’s Day Radio.
To rally together women in solidarity to support Mother’s Day Radio.
What this is all about:
There have been many debates on the state of Hip-Hop culture, rap music lyrics, the integrity of the music, where it comes from and how it depicts elements of Black and 'urban' life. This is NOT one of those debates.
There have been outright verbal attacks on Hip-Hop culture and the artists and their lack of social responsibility. This is NOT one of those attacks.
This is not a question of the validity of requesting that a human being's worth be espoused within a form of entertainment that may or may not be controlled by the artists themselves.
This IS a CALL TO ACTION by women, youth and the men we love to make clear how we want women to be represented in Hip-Hop culture and to implement a strategic plan for attaining it. This is an action of cooperation with artists, providing them with an opportunity for the creative self-expression of love, worth and value in their particular medium.
Who I'd like to meet:
MDR wants to meet people who are aware of their mental, physical, spiritual and political power to create the world in which they want to live. We want to connect with people who will EXERCISE this power to ensure that the world they envision is indeed the world they create.
We want to meet people who are UNcomfortable inside of the box of apathy and social lethargy. We choose to connect with people who see a vision beyond the box, and who step, hop, or leap out of the box with single-minded focus in pursuit of their grand vision. And we connect with those who would be so bold as to remove the box from the path of our children who come behind us.
MDR is calling out to a community who ACTS when it is CALLED TO ACT. This community understands its POWER to create change by embodying the change. It uses its collective VOICE to speak words that ignite constructive action toward the fulfillment of its goals. It listens to its people, it makes adjustments as necessary, and it serves the greater good. This is the MDR Community. Individuals, organizations, and institutions coming together in solidarity to make a positive impact on generations to come, you have found your way HOME. WELCOME.
MOTHER'S DAY RADIO PETITION EXCERPT:
One of our supporting organizations, Teen Outreach Progam (TOP) St. Louis, is a dynamic group of youth, 14-17 years of age. In an attempt to support the creation of songs with beats and rhythms that they enjoy, performed by some of their favorite artists, with lyrics that respectfully represent the women that they learn from and value in their daily lives, the TOP teens have this to say:
"We are behind this movement because women brought us into this world and it is not right to disrespect them. Upon researching lyrics, we found lyrics that objectify women, such as saying they should sell their bodies or strip. We found lyrics that call women inappropriate names, such as b***h, wh***, trick, slut, etc. We would like to hear songs on Mother's Day weekend of 2007 with a Soul, R&B, Hip-Hop, and Rap flavor that show women as queens, equals, and people who bring life into this world."
Hello! If you went to my page, you probably noticed my music playing on there. That is Brian O'Neal and he's awesome! I just like to let everyone know about him and his music. You can check him out at www.myspace.com/brianoneal. Request him as a friend and drop him a line.... He's a really nice guy, too.
He has a new song out right now that you can hear on his page called “Island Sun” featuring Rod Tate.
Kevin Wicks was a 38-year old father of two little girls. He had worked at the U.S. Post Office for 19-years.
Does that sound like somebody who would point a gun at a police officer???
If you think that’s a trip, check this out: the Inglewood Police officer who murdered Kevin Wicks on Monday of last week is the same cop who shot and murdered 19-year old Michael Byoune on May 11th.
Wicks’ murder is the 3rd in Inglewood in as many months.
Join us today as we talk with activist and attorney Nana Gyamfi of Human Rights Advocacy about grassroots, people approaches to police murder in our communities …
“Success: A New Beginning, Inc.” has been engaged in the process of developing and nurturing “non-traditional leaders” in our community for the last four years. They’ll be graduating their latest class of folks – 32 in all – this Saturday at L.A. Trade Tech College. We’ll be speaking with Maryanne Galindo of SANBI to explore exactly what a “non-traditional leader” is …
Whether you are a Hip-Hop Head or not … if you lived in Los Angeles during the 90s, you knew about the Good Life on Exposition and Crenshaw. The Good Life was a place where you could not only get a healthy eat on, but on Thursday nights if you were an aspiring MC you could step up to the mic, and the audience would be treated to cutting edge hip-hop in a positive environment.
A new film about those nights and those MC’s at the Good Life is winning awards everywhere it shows. It’s called “This is The Life,” and we’ll “chop it up” and ‘freestyle’ about “The Life” with the director, Ava DuVernay, and sample some of that music.
Thandisizwe Chimurenga will have all-a-dat and more today, on Some of Us Are Brave.
TODAY
2:00 pm Pacific / 5:00 pm East Coast
KPFK
90.7 FM in Los Angeles
98.7 FM in Santa Barbara
Listen in @ work / the library / yo house @ kpfk. org
Us as women gotta be aware that men like this are out here and im trying to tell every women i know about this we gotta be careful of the men we decide to be with sexually because this world is crazy we gotta protect ourself's spread the word mama!!
Some of Us Are Brave: A Black Women’s Radio Program
On TODAY'S SHOW, Thursday, January 17, 2008:
Host Kali Alexander talks to some folks who are truly transforming our community. Yoga instructors Purusha Hickson and Adrienne Smith will drop by to talk about transformation through the science of yoga, and filmmaker Tajamika Paxton will keep the yogic vibe alive with a sneak peek at her latest soulful comedic work, A Fat Girl's Guide to Yoga.
We'll also hear from Dr. Sharroky Hollie of Culture and Language Academy of Success (CLAS) who is on a mission to provide culturally responsive teaching to children in our community. Hear about the fight he and the parents and staff of CLAS are currently involved in with the L.A. Unified School District to keep the doors open. All of this and more, today on Some of Us Are Brave.
2:00 p.m. Pacific Standard Time
90.7 FM in Los Angeles
98.7 FM in Santa Barbara
Throughout the planet at www.kpfk.org
The mission of Some of Us are Brave Radio is to provide an empowering space for women of Afrikan descent to speak our truth and present our perspectives to the world. We work to be a resource for the communities from which we come, and to make a contribution to the global movement for racial, economic, political and social
