ACTION ALERT!!! Protest Hot 97!

Just moments before it was about to play, Hot97 banned this ad about Nov 2: http://www.worldcantwait.org/media/nov2nyc.mp3

The ad itself was a collaboration of artists Boots Riley from The Coup and Miles Solay from Outernational. It can break down walls. For some working inside the station, the idea of this spot reaching millions of urban youth in New York at this critical time was inspiring. But the owners of Hot97, Emmis Corporation, had their legal department call Hot 97 and ordered them to pull the ads. They do not want the World Can't Wait message reaching the youth who would be the soldiers in their unjust wars!!

Email/Call the following NYC radio stations -- demand their radio stations play the ad Hot97 Banned! Tell them you're walking out, and that the Bush regime will be driven out! If they won't play the ad, tell them to interview you about the walkouts at your school! Tell them why the world can't wait! Make sure to email/tell them the above link, so they can hear the ad.

Power 105.1 power1051fm@clearchannel.com
WBAI info@wbai.org
KROCK webmaster@krockradio.com or call 212-246-5762 or go to http://www.krockradio.com/ to send an instant message!!!
Fordham university's radio station: 718 817-4550 or email: thefolks@wfuv.org or, better yet, email each staff person: http://www.wfuv.org/wfuv/email/
Z100: 1-800-242-0100, -212-239-2300, Z100@clearchannel.com, send text msg: 55100
Columbia University's station: american@wkcr.org OR ial@wkcr.org or news@wkcr.org (212) 854-9920
WNYC radio: 212-669-3333, listenerservices@wnyc.org
WFMU: http://wfmu.org/mailus.php or Office Phone: (201) 521-1416 or On Air Phone: (201) 200-9368 Or send a message to the station manager: http://wfmu.org/email.php?id=30&return=%2Fmailus.php
1010wins: info@wins.com
WNYU: Office: 212-998-1660FM & NetRadio Studios: 212-998-1818To contact the on-air DJ via Instant Messenger (IM), the screen name is wnyuradio or email the program.director@wnyu.org or news@wnyu.org or psa@wnyu.org

Call Ennis Communications at IR@emmis.com or call (317) 266.0100, and let them know that their actions have only given us one more reason to NOT WAIT on November 2nd. Demand that they lift the ban immediately. Call and email Hot 97 at (212) 229.9797, hot97@hot97.com

Tell Hot 97 to take off the muzzle. Tell them they were right to approve the ad and they should play it now. Then download the ad into your cell phones and ipods and play them everywhere. Here are the words to the ad:

Hey, this is Boots Riley from The Coup.
The world can't wait to drive out the Bush Regime.
November 2, no work, no school.
We gonna march.
Join us. 12 noon at Union Square.
Come on, you seen the pictures.
Bush made torture into a sport and justifies it.
You saw Iraq destroyed by a war based on lies.
We all watched Bush leave people to die in New Orleans and treat people like criminals.
This regime is what's criminal. The Bush Regime is out to remake the world.
Unending war, a devastated environment, forced religion, no right to abortion, no dissent, no critical thought.
We have to stop this now. If we don't we will be forced to accept it.
The future we get is up to us.
The beginning of the end of the Bush Regime starts Wednesday November 2.
Join us at 12 noon at Union Square.

Minutes before its scheduled airing, Emmis Communications, owners of Hot 97 in New York, pulled the plug on the World Can't Wait, Drive Out the Bush Regime Ad. Hot 97 is "the" number one rap station in this city. The station itself had consciously approved the content of the ad knowing that this was both controversial and important.

Youth today have come of age under the gruesome shadow of the Bush Regime. An entire generation has been betrayed, brutalized, criminalized, enlisted, denied reproductive rights. The US Military saturates the youth "market" with slick high-tech ads aimed at turning young people into cannon fodder and the Christian Right spends millions to indoctrinate youth with politics of intolerance and punishment. We stand at this unprecedented time in history. The energy and creativity of young people around the country will take this movement to the level where it will be unstoppable.This cannot go down this way.

Organizer Sunsara Taylor: “The refusal of Hot97 to air our ads for November 2nd shows even more urgently the need for thousands to pour into the streets on Wednesday to break open the political atmosphere and take a big step towards forcing the Bush regime to step down.”

TO RADIO STATIONS: Here is what you can do: PLAY THE BANNED WORLD CAN'T WAIT AD TODAY before November 2nd. Send this email to everyone you know in the media. Call in to local radio stations, send to place you think you can get this on the air. Forward this to press contacts and get it posted prominently on websites. Get dejays to talk about this on the air and announce it at gigs.

But most importantly PLAY THE SPOT - it says it all. Check it out www.worldcantwait.org or Call 866-973-4463