> Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:43:21 -0800
> From: activist.thepen@gmail.com
> Subject: Urgent Action: Keep The Heat On MTV (Viacom) For Their Censorship Of Ads For The Last War Crime Movie, About Indicting Cheney For Torture
> To: angusfarms@hotmail.com
>
>
> This week, Scalia, one of the villains in the Supreme Court's
> misnamed Citizens United decision, callously said if people don't
> like all the political ads unleashed by the new multi-million dollar
> super-PACS they helped create, then people can just turn off their
> TVs. We now know that the giant conglomerate Viacom Inc, through
> their MTV division, has a different solution, refuse to take any ads
> for movies with content they don't like.
>
> But we have a third and much better answer, speak out with courage
> now to demand the end of corporate control and censorship of our
> media. And you can also see the ad MTV refuses to run on this same
> action page.
>
> Protest Viacom Censorship Action Page:
> http://www.peaceteam.net/viacom_protest.php
>
> Already more than 6,000 of you have submitted this action page, to
> send your personal messages of protest directly to Viacom's main
> corporate headquarters, and we will soon be getting major media
> attention about this, whether they like it or not. That's all the
> more reason why we need to keep the heat on and keep those protests
> coming.
>
> We had thought it would be good to put some video from the movie on
> MTV's high definition screen in Times Square. But they demanded first
> a synopsis of the film, and blithely admitted in writing that they
> were likely to reject any ad on a possibly arbitrary political basis.
>
> One of our participants pointed out in their protest message, that
> Viacom claims as their corporate responsibility mission that they
> "educate[s] employees and audiences key pro-social issues to inspire,
> enlighten and ignite action". Whoever wrote those words was probably
> either fired by Viacom the day after or was apparently snickering
> while they were doing so.
>
> So please submit the action page now. This is potentially a game
> changing action for retaking citizen control over our public
> discourse, if only we can mobilize each and EVERY one of you to
> simply speak out.
>
> Protest Viacom Censorship Action Page:
> http://www.peaceteam.net/viacom_protest.php
>
> We know that some of you like Facebook and some of you do not. But
> you don't have to be a member to check out our new Facebook page for
> the movie, where you can see exclusive preview clips, still shots
> from the film and fascinating background material about this major
> soon to be released feature film, "The Last War Crime".
>
> The Last War Crime on Facebook:
> http://www.facebook.com/thelastwarcrime
>
> If you are a participant on Facebook, please "like" the page and
> share the content with your Facebook friends. In fact, you can click
> the "like" button at the top of Viacom action page also to register
> your support in that way for getting "The Last War Crime" out in real
> theaters. It's about indicting Cheney for torture . . . and isn't
> that something billions of people want to see?
>
> And you like rock and rock, check out the theme song of the movie,
> "It's A Crime", featuring the very best studio musicians and singers
> in Los Angeles. You can download the tune right now from iTunes for
> just 99 cents, and help to get the movie out that way as well.
>
> Theme Song Download:
> http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/its-a-crime-single/id495274915
>
> There's one more thing we want to ask you about. We were invited to
> participate in an event for Rocky Anderson, former mayor of Salt Lake
> City, who is working on putting together an independent campaign for
> president. We'd like your feedback. You may remember, in the
> aftermath of the health care bill debacle, we vowed to only work for
> independent candidates. As our participants, is this something you
> would like to see us get involved in?
>
> Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed
> to be ours, and forward this alert as widely as possible.
> Contributions to The People's Email Network are not tax-deductible
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>
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> From: activist.thepen@gmail.com
> Subject: Urgent Action: Keep The Heat On MTV (Viacom) For Their Censorship Of Ads For The Last War Crime Movie, About Indicting Cheney For Torture
> To: angusfarms@hotmail.com
>
>
> This week, Scalia, one of the villains in the Supreme Court's
> misnamed Citizens United decision, callously said if people don't
> like all the political ads unleashed by the new multi-million dollar
> super-PACS they helped create, then people can just turn off their
> TVs. We now know that the giant conglomerate Viacom Inc, through
> their MTV division, has a different solution, refuse to take any ads
> for movies with content they don't like.
>
> But we have a third and much better answer, speak out with courage
> now to demand the end of corporate control and censorship of our
> media. And you can also see the ad MTV refuses to run on this same
> action page.
>
> Protest Viacom Censorship Action Page:
> http://www.peaceteam.net/viacom_protest.php
>
> Already more than 6,000 of you have submitted this action page, to
> send your personal messages of protest directly to Viacom's main
> corporate headquarters, and we will soon be getting major media
> attention about this, whether they like it or not. That's all the
> more reason why we need to keep the heat on and keep those protests
> coming.
>
> We had thought it would be good to put some video from the movie on
> MTV's high definition screen in Times Square. But they demanded first
> a synopsis of the film, and blithely admitted in writing that they
> were likely to reject any ad on a possibly arbitrary political basis.
>
> One of our participants pointed out in their protest message, that
> Viacom claims as their corporate responsibility mission that they
> "educate[s] employees and audiences key pro-social issues to inspire,
> enlighten and ignite action". Whoever wrote those words was probably
> either fired by Viacom the day after or was apparently snickering
> while they were doing so.
>
> So please submit the action page now. This is potentially a game
> changing action for retaking citizen control over our public
> discourse, if only we can mobilize each and EVERY one of you to
> simply speak out.
>
> Protest Viacom Censorship Action Page:
> http://www.peaceteam.net/viacom_protest.php
>
> We know that some of you like Facebook and some of you do not. But
> you don't have to be a member to check out our new Facebook page for
> the movie, where you can see exclusive preview clips, still shots
> from the film and fascinating background material about this major
> soon to be released feature film, "The Last War Crime".
>
> The Last War Crime on Facebook:
> http://www.facebook.com/thelastwarcrime
>
> If you are a participant on Facebook, please "like" the page and
> share the content with your Facebook friends. In fact, you can click
> the "like" button at the top of Viacom action page also to register
> your support in that way for getting "The Last War Crime" out in real
> theaters. It's about indicting Cheney for torture . . . and isn't
> that something billions of people want to see?
>
> And you like rock and rock, check out the theme song of the movie,
> "It's A Crime", featuring the very best studio musicians and singers
> in Los Angeles. You can download the tune right now from iTunes for
> just 99 cents, and help to get the movie out that way as well.
>
> Theme Song Download:
> http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/its-a-crime-single/id495274915
>
> There's one more thing we want to ask you about. We were invited to
> participate in an event for Rocky Anderson, former mayor of Salt Lake
> City, who is working on putting together an independent campaign for
> president. We'd like your feedback. You may remember, in the
> aftermath of the health care bill debacle, we vowed to only work for
> independent candidates. As our participants, is this something you
> would like to see us get involved in?
>
> Please take action NOW, so we can win all victories that are supposed
> to be ours, and forward this alert as widely as possible.
> Contributions to The People's Email Network are not tax-deductible
> for federal income tax purposes.
>
> If you would like to get alerts like these, you can do so at
> http://www.peaceteam.net/in.htm
>
> Or if you want to cease receiving our messages, just use the function
> at http://www.usalone.net/out.htm
>
> usalone455b:14952
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