All Species Kinship in Battle Creek, Michigan
was alerted by a resident of Grand Rapids, MI that radio station WKLQ, Grand
Rapids, was advertising that they would be drowning a shelter
dog (slated for euthanasia) on Friday, Aug. 12 at 8 am at an
undisclosed location to raise awareness about child drownings.
We have contacted the GR police dept. who had contacted the station and was informed that this was done as a "hoax" to ascertain reaction to recent child drownings. This is an unacceptable approach to take-animal abuse is not funny and drowning animals is illegal.
AR group, Uniting For Justice will be requesting on-air and on-line apologies and a statement about how inappropriate this was. If they do not comply, we will be informing them that a multi-organization phone campaign will be started, directed to their station advertisers to advise of this disgustingly inappropriate behavior and the fact that we will be calling for a boycott of their products if they do not pull their station advertising.
We would like the support of as many AR organizations on this as possible. Obviously there is strength and influence in numbers. We will have a much broader impact if many organizations band together to show WKLQ and Clear Channel that we are serious about exposing their support of animal cruelty and abuse by allowing this atrocity to be published on their website and broadcast on air.
We are now asking that you still send letters via email or call (call to add to all of the other messages they are getting tonight..it would be nice to get the voicemail box FULL) the station directly as an offended listener and explain how inappropriate this is and that it leads to an even bigger problem of promoting violence and that violence and abuse toward animals is directly linked to domestic violence and child abuse.
Contact Info:
LINK to the WKLQ Page: http://209.172.2.65/olink.php?url=http://www.justiceandjim.modblog.com
WKLQ Contact Page: http://www.wklq.com/contact/contact.htm
Office Phone: 616. 774. 8461
Clear Channel Contact Page: http://www.clearchannel.com/Corporate/Email.aspx
External Communications: Lisa Dollinger 1-210-822-2828 lisacdollinger@clearchannel.com
Corporate Radio Contact: Omar Thompson 1-210-822-2828 omarvthompson@clearchannel.com
We have contacted the GR police dept. who had contacted the station and was informed that this was done as a "hoax" to ascertain reaction to recent child drownings. This is an unacceptable approach to take-animal abuse is not funny and drowning animals is illegal.
AR group, Uniting For Justice will be requesting on-air and on-line apologies and a statement about how inappropriate this was. If they do not comply, we will be informing them that a multi-organization phone campaign will be started, directed to their station advertisers to advise of this disgustingly inappropriate behavior and the fact that we will be calling for a boycott of their products if they do not pull their station advertising.
We would like the support of as many AR organizations on this as possible. Obviously there is strength and influence in numbers. We will have a much broader impact if many organizations band together to show WKLQ and Clear Channel that we are serious about exposing their support of animal cruelty and abuse by allowing this atrocity to be published on their website and broadcast on air.
We are now asking that you still send letters via email or call (call to add to all of the other messages they are getting tonight..it would be nice to get the voicemail box FULL) the station directly as an offended listener and explain how inappropriate this is and that it leads to an even bigger problem of promoting violence and that violence and abuse toward animals is directly linked to domestic violence and child abuse.
Contact Info:
LINK to the WKLQ Page: http://209.172.2.65/olink.php?url=http://www.justiceandjim.modblog.com
WKLQ Contact Page: http://www.wklq.com/contact/contact.htm
Office Phone: 616. 774. 8461
Clear Channel Contact Page: http://www.clearchannel.com/Corporate/Email.aspx
External Communications: Lisa Dollinger 1-210-822-2828 lisacdollinger@clearchannel.com
Corporate Radio Contact: Omar Thompson 1-210-822-2828 omarvthompson@clearchannel.com
Sophia DiPietro
Executive Director
All Species Kinship (ASK)
P.O. Box 4055
Battle Creek, MI 49016
269-963-1637