The Public Information Committee began as the Democracy Now Committee who continues to encourage the area’s Public Radio Station, WVTF to broadcast “Democracy Now!”.
Working to get Democracy Now ! program, broadcast by Public Radio in our area.
Since June of 2008 Plowshare Peace Center has sought to reason with WVTF about airing Democracy Now!, an award-winning news and analysis program, which would be free to the station for a one-year trial. Democracy Now! corresponds well with the mission of public radio, which was created to facilitate diversity and to “encourage a sense of active constructive participation” by the public, and to “actively explore, investigate and interpret issues of national and international import…(to) enable the individual to better understand himself, his government, his institutions and his natural and social environment so he can intelligently participate in effecting the process of change.”
Experience Democracy Now! TV and Radio
Latest update: Plowshare’s WVTF Campaign Scores Major Victory
More on Democracy Now!
Vigil – Demonstration at WVTF Radio Station Every third Friday
You are invited to meet with us the third Friday of the month to hold signs along the road leading up to the radio station. Please meet us behind the Red Lobster on Franklin Rd., and we will walk together to the site on Kingsbury Lane..
Overview from the Public Radio Campaign click here
We ask you to support our efforts to bring Democracy Now! to Southwestern Virginia, and our campaign for a Community Advisory Board at WVTF. · Click here for a SAMPLE LETTER TO WVTF’S GENERAL MANAGER Mr. Glenn Gleixner, General Manager, WVTF – FM Radio, 3520 Kingsbury Lane, Roanoke, VA. 24014 . E-mail: geg@vt.edu
For more infomation, contact Mike Bentley at
mbentle1@verizon.net
