[imc-st.louis] Community Radio in the Missouri Ozarks, support letters by 2/16

[ben]

 From Grassroots Ozark website:
http://grassrootsozark.net/story/community-radio-ozarks

Dear Folks,

  Take a minute to write a support letter to Myron Jackson, Gene 
Colliflower and Kazie Perkins at KZGM-FM in Cabool, Missouri. This will 
be a community-sponsored radio station connected to the Pacifica Network 
(WBAI in New York and KPFA in Los Angeles etc). St Louis has KDHX and 
Columbia has KOPN; KZGM-FM will fill in a large blank in South-Central 
Missouri !!! Such programs as Democracy Now! will be on the air and the 
difference is we can have our own local programming that will not only 
be relevant here but on a national basis, might be carried across the 
nation. Please help this fledgling station out so they can get letters 
of support and grants to procure equipment and running money.  Please 
send letters of support to: KZGM, 1211 Ozark, Cabool, MO 65689. Dollars 
would be nice as well. KZGM-FM is well positioned in the heart of the 
Ozarks to not only reach a diverse crowd but to bring meaningful change 
here and elsewhere. How positively wowzers would it be to have Amy 
Goodman connect with us here and welcome us to Pacifica?! How cool will 
it be to be a beacon in a sea of Clear Channel homogenized radio.

  -tomaso

Please read what Kazie Perkins, an old friend, sent me:

  Subject: GREAT RADIO NEWS-We are now KZGM! - Letters needed now! GREAT 
NEWS! SUPPORT LETTERS NEEDED BY February 16!

The last few weeks have been very busy and we have some exciting news. 
The Federal Communications Commission has granted Real Community Radio 
Network our construction permit for KZGM, a new full power 
non-commercial FM radio station! What we need from you now is a letter 
to us, expressing your enthusiastic support for real community radio ( 
KZGM FM )in the Ozarks! SEND TO: KZGM , 1211 Ozark, Cabool, MO 65689 
Your letters expressing your support for the station are needed as a 
very important part of our next application in the process: we will be 
applying for a Public Telecommunications Funding Program equipment 
grant. This equipment reimbursement is very important for our getting 
community based radio off to a sound start here in south central 
Missouri. And TIME IS VERY SHORT! We need letters of support arriving at 
our Cabool studio by Feb 16. We MUST send our application packet on Feb. 
18, 2008! We need regular letters, sent by snail mail. But if there is 
no way you will be able to do that, (can't remember how?! ) we will 
include your email to us with the packet, and hope for the best! In a 
real pinch: emails send to: myron at KZ88.org ABOUT US : (Is this exciting 
or what?!...tell us via letter!)

-- 
Ben West
westbywest at riseup.net
http://savetheinternet.org