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- Subject: SUPPRESSION OF MEDIA FREEDOM - PLEASE READ
- Date: Thu, 21 Jan 1993 22:19:35 +0000 (GMT)
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- IMPORTANT! Serious posting from an English college.
-
- Today (Thu 21 Jan) University Radio Bailrigg in Lancaster was
- closed down by its own student Union.
-
- The basic premise behind this is that the Union do not like URB making money
- off its own back. For this reason they have changed the locks and stopped us
- broadcasting.
- We have a highly successful deal with a local nightclub, for which
- we provide Djs and publicity. This knocks spots out of the Union-run
- nightclub in the area, which offers jobs to the entire Exec, who stand to lose
- if their club performs poorly... You can sense their motives now.
-
- With no warning given of any grievance they had with us, they simply
- stormed our station and closed it down. This occured late at night,
- not during office hours, but after an Exec meeting from which independent
- observers were excluded (democracy?). The mass meeting held two days
- previously was not consulted.
-
- We need your help.
-
- This is a dangerous precedent. With funding from unions minimal and
- soon to disappear (union budgets are tight and the pressure on radio
- stations is ever-increasing), how else are we to operate a
- radio station?
-
- We are therefore putting this out as a general appeal to as many
- free-thinkers as possible to please, if you could spare just a few
- pounds/dollars/whatever and a few minutes of your time to send a fax of
- support and protest to the Students Union at Lancaster University, UK on
- the following number:
-
- +44 524 846 732
-
- This will help to show the union that they are not able to simply ride
- roughshod over a few individuals and there are people all over the world
- who feel as strongly as we do over this travesty of democracy
-
- Your help will be greatly appreciated. This is NOT a joke.
-
- Thankyou in advance....
-
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