Many of you have already signed a petition to get Democracy Now! on both 88.1 FM WYCE radio and WGVU TV Channel 35 in Grand Rapids. This media alert is the last push in this campaign to get the award winning show with Amy Goodman on the local airwaves in our community.

Here is what you can do in the next few days:

1) Sign the Petition online and get others to do the same no later than May 19:

http://www.mediamouse.org/campaigns/dn-petition.php

2) We need as many people as possible to come to the May 20 Board of Directors meeting of the Community Media Center to lobby for them to air Democracy Now! on 88.1 FM WYCE. The meeting is at 6pm at the Wealthy Theatre, 1130 Wealthy. Everyone will have a chance during public comment to speak on why you want Democracy Now! to air on this community radio station.

3) If you cannot make the meeting on May 20, you can send an e-mail to the Executive Director of the Community Media Center Laurie Cirivello laurie@grcmc.org. We are also delivering petitions to WGVU TV Channel 35 next week, so we encourage you to send an e-mail to Michael T. Walenta, the station manager of WGVU:

http://www.wgvu.org/about/contactWGVU.html

Also, please encourage others to sign up for future Media Alerts by going to:

http://www.mediamouse.org/griid/contact.php

- The Grand Rapids Institute for Information Democracy (GRIID)
http://www.mediamouse.org/griid/