6/8/09

Companies That Pulled Support from Rob and Arnie at KRXQ and KDOT | Send Praise

The following companies have pulled their support from KRXQ, not wanting to be associated with two men who laugh about children being abused. These companies listened to the show, and decided it was indefensible.
Actions have consequences.

Here’s contact information for the companies, for those who like writing thank-you notes:

[Copy and paste activist email list and note at bottom of post]

AT&T: mcoe@attnews.us
Bank of America: scott.silvestri@bankofamerica.com
Chipotle:mediarelations@chipotle.com
McDonald’s: walt.riker@us.mcd.com
Snapple: Jenni.Ottum@jda.com
Sonic: chris_taylor@sonic.com
Verizon: robert.a.varettoni@verizon.com
Wells Fargo: corpcsf@wellsfargo.com


Phones Number only

Nissan North America: 800-647-7261

Carl’s Jr (CKE Restaurants)
Guest Response Line:(877) 799-7827

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Feel free to copy and Paste email list and note~


mcoe@attnews.us,scott.silvestri@bankofamerica.com,
mediarelations@chipotle.com,walt.riker@us.mcd.com,
Jenni.Ottum@jda.com,chris_taylor@sonic.com,
robert.a.varettoni@verizon.com,corpcsf@wellsfargo.com,

Thank You for caring about children's welfare

To who it concerns,

Thank you for taking action and offering the only response that Rob and Arnie would take notice of.

By you withdrawing your fiscal support you have demonstrated responsibility and decency. By your response you have set a moral bar for the corporations that have not acted to endeavour to reach.

Thank you,

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On the web

Open Letters to KRXQ Sacramento | Parents of Gender Non-Conforming Children Speak Out For Tolerance


ROB Arnie & Dawn Show Statement June 7 2009

http://www.robarnieanddawn.com/
UPDATED JUNE 7TH, 2009, 11:50AM
TO OUR LOYAL ROB, ARNIE AND DAWN FOLLOWERS, WE HAVE FAILED YOU.
AS A SHOW, AS PEOPLE, AS BROADCASTERS,
WE HAVE SIMPLY FAILED ON ALMOST EVERY LEVEL.
WE PRESENTED OUR OPINIONS ON A VERY SENSITIVE SUBJECT IN A HATEFUL, CHILDISH AND CRUDE FASHION; AND THEN, GIVEN THE OPPORTUNITY TO RETRACT THOSE REMARKS, WE DEFENDED THEM.
SINCE THEN, YOU, OUR LOYAL LISTENERS, HAVE MADE IT CLEAR TO US THAT WE WENT TOO FAR. THE RESPONSE HAS BEEN OVERWHELMING.
NONE OF YOU SAID THAT WE COULDN’T HAVE OPINIONS, YET SO MANY OF YOU SAID THAT THE WAY WE GAVE THEM CROSSED THE LINE. FURTHER, YOU SAID THAT OUR ATTEMPT TO MASK OUR COMMENTS AS “JOKES THAT WOULD BE UNDERSTOOD BY OUR AUDIENCE,” WAS UNACCEPTABLE. I WOULD SAY NOW THAT IT WAS WORSE THAN THAT, IT WAS COWARDLY. YOU HAVE MADE THAT CLEAR.
WE HAVE REACHED OUT TO VARIOUS GROUPS AND ASKED FOR A CHANCE TO MAKE THIS RIGHT; TO RESPOND, WITH THEIR PARTICIPATION, TO THE EDUCATION THAT OUR AUDIENCE HAS PROVIDED US. THAT OPPORTUNITY HAS BEEN GRACIOUSLY GRANTED THIS THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 11TH. AT 7:30 A.M.
THE WORD APOLOGY APPEARS NO WHERE IN THIS LETTER FOR A REASON. WE ALREADY HID FROM DOING THE RIGHT THING ONCE AND WE’RE NOT GOING TO MAKE THAT MISTAKE AGAIN. APOLOGIZING IN A WRITTEN, POSTED STATEMENT IS A FORM OF COWARDICE. WE WILL SAY WHAT NEEDS TO BE SAID THIS THURSDAY.
ON A FINAL, PERSONAL NOTE, AS THE LEADER AND OWNER OF THE SHOW, I HAVE MADE THE DECISION THAT WE NEED TO REFRAIN FROM BROADCASTING NEW EPISODES UNTIL WE CAN ADDRESS THIS ON THURSDAY . WE WILL RETURN TO THE AIR AT 7:30 A.M. JUNE 11TH.
ROB WILLIAMSROB, ARNIE AND DAWN
Copyright 2008"Rob, Arnie & Dawn in the Morning" is a trademark of Williams Broadcasting IncorporatedAll rights Reserved 5345 Madison Ave. Sacramento, CA 94581 (916) 334-7777
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Glaad issued http://glaadblog.org/ a statement tittled " KRXQ Radio Host Rob Williams Declares Failure" in which they state that the Rob Arnie and Dawn show contacted them late Friday asking for a telephone conversation Monday.

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Are Arnie and Rob attempting to milk this event for maximum exposure or are they genuinely repentant?

Rob and Arnie's history leads me to be skeptical, but Rob and Arnie have this opportunity to change their ways.

kelli Busey
June 8, 2009
planetransgender

6/7/09

KRXQ & KDOT Anti Transgender Tirade | Submit a Complaint to The FCC

Autumn Sandeen at Pam's House Blend has posted a article and after the jump goes into step by step procedures to summit a complaint to the FCC regarding the 30 Minute Tirade advocating physical and emotional violence against transgender children broadcast by Rob Williams and Arnie States on KRXQ and KDOT.

Pam's House Blend article "Writing FCC Complaints About Arnie States' Shoe Throwing Comment On KRXQ & KDOT"





6/6/09

KRXQ Radio Hosts Have History of Obscenity Involving Children: TAKE ACTION

According to the Huffington Post article KRXQ Radio Hosts Have History of Obscenity Involving Children: FCC Report the radio station that recently aired a 30 minute diatribe belittling and attacking transgender childern have been fined $55,000 in 2004 by the FCC for it's attacks on womankind and children.

Listen to Audio of the 2009 KRXQ Broadcast advocating for beating gender non-conforming children by clicking this link

Why are these misogonystic, transphobic and homophobic people at KRXQ still allowed to broadcast? KRXQ offered no apology even after over 10 of major advertisers pulled there support.

The following companies have not removed their ads from KRXQ after learning of this outrageous behaviour.

Please email these companies and voice your condemnation of KRXQ. Please feel free to copy and past this email;

Dawn.fones.cv9s@statefarm.com,
david.m.oliver@supervalu.com,
steve.j.bloomquist@supervalu.com,
dbouffard@jewels.com,
Ellen.applen@us.redbull.com,
dale@sleeptrain.com,
kschopp@purina.com,
Keoni.Wagner@hawaiianair.com,
pdugan@mcneilwilson.com,
info@fypower.org,
mediarelations@pepboys.com,
investorrelations@pepboys.com,
info@LASIKworld.com,
procity@procitymortgage.com,


Please pull your advertising from KRXQ Radio in Sacramento.

I listened to KRXQ Radio’s segment about trans-gender children. I can’t imagine anything more cowardly than two grown men advocating violence against children.

Obviously the disk jockeys have the right to their opinions, and the right to voice them. But framing Rob and Arnie’s rant as a First Amendment issue is disingenuous. As a station they are responsible for the ignorance and hatred they promote. People–children–get killed over these issues. There’s more to free speech than the right to mouth off, and more to life than ratings.

Intentionally or otherwise, your continuing advertisements on KRXQ Radio indicate your support of Rob and Arnie’s positions. It is the DTAA's intention considering the present absence of a public retraction or apology from Rob or Arnie, to bring this situation to the forefront of consideration at KRXQ by exerting fiscal pressure.

We hope that you will join with the companies that have already endorsed diversity and equality by pulling your advertising from KRXQ until such time as KRXQ makes a public retraction and apology.

Sincerely,


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On the web

The Atlantic The Talk Radio Right

Dallas Transgender Advocates and Allies call to action

planetransgender Demand that KRXQ Radio Hosts Rob Williams and Arnie States Apologize for Encouraging Violence Against Transgender Children

Parents of Gender Non-Conforming Children Speak Out For Tolerance


TransYouth Famlies and Allies

6/5/09

Faith Has No Boundaries~The Bridge to Victory for LGBT Advocates


Like a fireman guiding a plume of water faith based GLBT advocacy focuses on the very root and cause of bigotry and ignorance.

LGBT faith advocates that worship with people who oppose us on equality, in their Churches, are accessing the most viable path to successfully opening hearts and may soon share an incredible spiritual link with even our most intense opponent.

Christs love knows no boundaries.

LGBT Faith advocates are absolutely essential for our civil rights movements success.

In Christianity, historically the most successful and victorious opponents of GLBT rights worships along side of us every Sunday. We might be sharing the same interior walls or be miles apart but we are together none the less at the base of Christ's cross.

Some Christian ministers have become lost and have divided their congregations by encouraging distrust, fear and anger. Yes fear and anger. This is what motivated the originators of the exclusion of people of color in the past, and presently is targeting LGBT people by seeking to deny us from full participation in worship and serving our god.

There is one fatal flaw to that strategy. In the long run anger becomes a barren rock, swept clean of all pretentious facades, exposing to believers of Christ the underlying ugliness of bigotry.

Christians soon recognize hate as contrary to everything we share and love and the process of doubting these unfortunate and misleading ministries begins. A new fertile soil is joined with the rock and our tears nurture the seeds of love and hope.

The when and where this realization begins is up to each and everyone of us.

If we only worship in our LGBT churches the word of Christ will remain muted. If we choose to be a part of this wind and worship on Sundays when we are strong enough to bare our souls at Churches we know reject us, we bring this conversation undeniably to full view.

Choose a Sunday!

Choose a Sunday when you feel strong, put on apparel, {or in my case I'm a transgender woman and I just have to go:} that makes you visible and sit down in a pew. Breath in the moment. You will feel every possiable emotion being emitted from your neighbours. Fear and loathing will be first. These are learned reactions so when people see that you are there to truly worship distrust and fear are discarded. Some may still loath you and object to your very presence and You might be denied communion. Its not easy, but our saviour suffered for us so we us could do this. On that very day you will have accomplished a miracle. You will have touched people deeply by your bravery and faith. You will have introduced and communicated on a personal level our community to people who otherwise would have never known us.

Whether I am going to burn in hell as one Baptist Minister told me or that I am a true disciple of Jesus, as I am convinced we share our faith together. I will go to his church on Sunday and love Jesus Christ as much as if I was in a MCC Church. This is the bridge. Solid as a rock and available for us to cross to victory.

Institute for Welcoming Resources Two groundbreaking studies find religious voices critical to the advancement of LGBT equality

Soulforce Sundays of Solidarity

peace,

Kelli Anne Busey
June 5, 2009
planetransgender

6/4/09

Bash Back Chicago Convergence Collides with Chicago PD

Bash Back the Radical Queer Agenda.

That headline garnered 1000's of views when it last as posted on planetransgender. In an effort to write fairly about our whole community without excluding anyone and without seeming to be self promoting attention hungry radical queer I'll write about Bash Back again.

Why?

Bash Back represents the hunger, sex and anger of our youth. Bash Back does not prescribe to the current tenants most of us do in our effort to fit in.

Bash Back rejects HRC. Bash Back seems to integrate social disobedience with public sexual acts.

All pretty Radical. All stretch your mind and invigorate thought. Without we become vegetables. Bad news for us fruits.

Windy City News "Arrests on Halsted: Radicals Clash with Police"

Bash Back Wikipedia

Bash Back News