Posted on 03/06/2006 5:06:10 PM PST by CaliFReeper1
UAC Calls for Protest of Al-Jazeera Network's Planned American Station. Rally/Protest Planned for April 30th in Washington DC
Al-Jazeera, the television network that many call the propaganda wing of the radical Islamist movement in the world, is scheduled shortly to launch their network in English aimed at Americans with their new studios being in Washington DC. The United American Committee objects to the establishment of the network in America; "It's as if Joseph Goebbels, the Propaganda Minster for Hitler, were to have set up a station in America during WWII." says Lee Kaplan, member of the UAC executive committee. Al-Jazeera plans on launching their 24 hour 7 day a week channel in America this spring. In response, the UAC is calling for a 24 hour 7 day a week protest in front of the Al-Jazeera studios to begin Sunday April 30th and continue daily indefinitely. The new studio of Al-Jazeera America is located at 1627 K St. NW, Suite #200, Washington, DC 20006. Anyone interested in helping to organize this protest please send an e-mail to info@unitedamericancommittee.org
The UAC realizes that the American government can not, nor should make any law to prohibit Al-Jazeera from broadcasting in America, but feels that it is the duty of the American people to let the network know that they are not welcome in the United States, and to send a message to any cable providers not to carry Al-Jazeera's planned American station which the UAC feels broadcasts propaganda sympathetic to the enemies of the U.S.
United American Committee member Robert Sandoval reacts to the news of Al-Jazeera America and the UAC's planned protest; "I support a free media, and do not wish for the government to interfere, but when that media is planning on broadcasting to my children messages from our enemies and videos of beheadings, it's the peoples right to stand up against it."
Al-Jazeera has drawn criticism from the U.S. for broadcasting footage of killed and captured American soldiers, and has failed in assisting the U.S. Government in tracing sources of video footage provided to the network by Al-Qa'eda operatives. Yosri Fouda, of Al-Jazeera said in a BBC News interview the reasons for Al-Jazeera's popularity; "For western audiences, part of the shock is in seeing American and British dead bodies and POWs."
The network often broadcasts exclusive messages from bin Laden and other top terror leaders involved in the global Jihad against the West. Messages which are not screened by any government terror experts. "They can be broadcasting messages from bin Laden in which he commands his followers to take specific actions, and these messages would not be at all screened prior to its broadcast." says UAC founder & Chair Jesse Petrilla, "We must not let this happen."
The protest against Al-Jazeera's American network will kick off at their studios on Sunday April 30th at 12:00 noon. The location is 1627 K St. NW, in Washington, DC 20006. The studio's phone number is 202-327-8200 if you wish to voice your opinion.
More information will be forthcoming and posted on the United American Committee's website: http://www.UnitedAmericanCommittee.org Anyone wishing to help organize this event please contact the UAC via e-mail at info@unitedamericancommittee.org
Those far outside of the DC area who can not attend the April 30th protest at the Al-Jazeera studios are urged to write letters to Al-Jazeera stating that their propaganda is not welcome on U.S. soil.
Al-Jazeera's new U.S. studio is at 1627 K St. NW, in Washington, DC 20006. The studio's phone number is 202-327-8200
It's a ways off but we're going to have to all help the UAC make this rally big if the other media is to pay attention to it
BamaFan = Apologist
I am stunned by your statement. As much as the MSM hates the US, they at least are American. And Al-Jazeera is nothing more than Anti-US filth.
The flaws inherent in the MSM's reporting are no reason not protest Al-Jazeera. I for one am telling my Cable Company that I will cancel if they broadcast Al-Jazeera.
Let's hope Ala-Carte pricing arrives soon.
Al-Jazeera does so much to turn the peoples opinions against America's efforts in the war in Iraq
We need to be united about this. If they broadcast Al-Jazeera, we cancel.
Bump.
Yeah, a portion of the AJZ employees will probably be bad apples, just like the bad apples in our own media. But at least we'll get a return on our "investment" (cost: a few more biased media maggots to go w/ the multitudes we already have-----benefit: the positive effects from the good apples)
Additional members of the biased media vs. bird flu - it's a tough choice...
The answer has to be putting big-time financial pressure on any cable or satellite TV systems that are willing to pick up their trashy programming...
I have Disk Network, for example, and I will drop them in a New York minute if they add Al-Jaz to their line-up. That will be the last nickel they get from me...
Economic pressure is the only pressure that will stop this... The power of the Boycott/dollar is real: all else is just B.S. in a situation like this.
"Al-Jazeera is nothing more than Anti-US filth."
I'm interested in how much of it you have watched to reach this conclusion, given that your cable company apparantly doesn't carry it yet?!
Al-Jazeera in print, is nothing more than anti-Us filth,and I can fairly extrapolate that their TV version will be more of the same.
At the risk of incurring some of the wrath which is being directed at you, I agree with you.
Watch the documentary "Control Panel" on Al-Jazzeera's handling of the invasion of Iraq.
The head of programming himself said he'd work for Fox news in a second if he ever got the offer. Of course there was pro-Arab bias there, but no more than the anti-American bias of CNN.
Al-J panders to its audience. So what.
I NEVER refuse to consider data, whatever its source.
I'd rather have information than not have it.
The website is useful for Middle East news. By the standards of ME media, it's far and away the most objective and unbiased outlet. It's also the only place, for instance, that most people in the region will see broadcast of speeches of western leaders. I don't so why we would want to discourage it when, at the very least, it's a starting point.
If comcast replaces MTV with AJ I'll send them an extra dollar.
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