Current Projects
1. Democracy Now! Campaign
“When it mattered most, the mainstream media got it wrong, misleading the country into war.” The award winning news program Democracy Now! got it right. www.democracynow.org
Help us bring Democracy Now! to public broadcasting in this area:
- Sign the petitions (available at Ohio Valley PEACE meetings and events)
- Call during public radio and TV fundraisers and request that WV Public Broadcasting and Ohio’s WOUB carry Democracy Now!
- Ohio’s Athens Free Press Group
“We’ve got to get alternative content, . . . or this country is going to die of too many lies. . . . [Democracy Now!] is like nothing else on any television, corporate or public. It’s as if you opened the window in the morning and a fresh breeze rolls over you. . . . [It] doesn’t buy the Washington protocol that says the truth lies . . . between the Democrats and the Republicans.
“On Democracy Now! the truth lies where the facts are hidden, and Amy digs for them. . . . She believes the media should be a sanctuary for dissent. . . . You are the public in public broadcasting and . . . you can get the boss man at the big house to pay attention.”
“. . . persuade your local public television station to start airing Democracy Now!”
–Bill Moyers at the National Conference on Media Reform, Jan. 12, 2007
2. This Too Is America
A dramatic program addressing three areas of deep concern in America: Poverty, Racism, and War. “This Too Is America” provides a thought provoking and innovative view of our society. Noted director and playwright, Hal O’Leary, and a cast of community volunteers give dramatic readings from some of our history’s most important figures.
This program was first presented in April 2008 in remembrance of the March 19th fifth anniversary of the Iraq war and the April 4th fortieth anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.. Contact Ohio Valley PEACE about arranging a presentation at schools, civic meetings and other venues.