PETITION

TO: BOARD OF DIRECTORS

VALLEY FREE RADIO – WXOJ-LP

RESTORE FREE SPEECH FOR RADICAL FEMINIST'S AT VFR

END THE 'NO-PLATFORMING' OF DISSENTING VIEWS ON GENDER THEORY AT VFR

END CENSORSHIP OF RADICAL FEMINIST CALLS FOR “WOMEN ONLY” SPACE

Whereas: The 'No-platforming' of leading Radical Feminist academics and activists who offer critiques of Gender Theory and the Transgender political movement nationally and internationally is a strategic tactic used by transgender activists to silence dissenting opinions; AND

Whereas: Said tactics have effectively silenced Radical Feminist opposition on campus, in the media and in the political arena; AND

Whereas: The suspension of a co-host of the Bread and Roses Show - for airing an evidentiary report by Jane Williams in support of fears, expressed by women, of predatory attacks due to this State's elimination of 'woman only' changing rooms and bathroom facilities - mirrors this national pattern; AND

Whereas: The airing of the Jane Williams report was part of a platform initiative for Radical Feminist's voices offered by said co-host of The Bread and Roses Show on Valley Free Radio, who has in the past months included interviews and lectures by Radical Feminists and who had planned additional programming in the future.

We, the undersigned, call upon the Board of Directors at Valley Free Radio to recognize the radical feminist women in your community as a legitimate minority voice with rights to freedom of speech and lack of discrimination on WXOJ-LP. To this end we call upon the Board to reverse the suspension action by the Programming Committee of the co-host of the Bread and Roses Show and allow the free flow of idea's, information and evidenced based opinion – the promise of this platform - to continue:

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