I promise not to send a bunch of these to this list, but I think what NBC is doing is outrageous. Maybe some of you will wish to sign this petition and forward it. 33,000 have now signed this. ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: RootsAction Team <info@rootsaction.org> Date: Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 11:24 AM Subject: War Reality Show Worse Than Feared To: shirleysbb@gmail.com GRAPHIC: Roots Action logo header <https://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/6503/images/RA_Header.jpg> <http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=GQQEluLGaEpdvsY8WZKmXgO 2nhK1zyn4> Shame! Shame! War is not a game! <http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=40P2IqZ040b5u%2BoPD1fI5 gz4gQ2uIUDO> <http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=8SatyLmrh3yehO9HOxWnmQz 4gQ2uIUDO> GRAPHIC: Sign here button <http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ft82aEJDmVoQIENus7Q9ggz 4gQ2uIUDO> Share this action on Facebook <http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=m1IL1GjnRvshVBKBHAKiXgz 4gQ2uIUDO> Share this action on Twitter NBC's "reality show" war competition "Stars Earn Stripes" debuted Monday as activists protested at NBC headquarters and delivered the petition that already <http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=FiAchNO%2BtKffG40QsWAaH Qz4gQ2uIUDO> 18,000 of us have signed. Can you please <http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=WrgumtIjBxLIuQM4jbxi%2B QO2nhK1zyn4> sign it and forward this to all your friends? And scroll down on the webpage for an amazing new video by Lee Camp called <http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=KN06GSPvqv9Mp03mJEVLSwz 4gQ2uIUDO> "Why Can't War Be Fun for the Whole Family?" Nine Nobel Peace Prize laureates have called for the show's cancelation, writing: "Real war is down in the dirt deadly. People -- military and civilians -- die in ways that are anything but entertaining." Our wars kill huge numbers of people, primarily civilians, and often children and the elderly. NBC is not showing this reality on its war-o-tainment show any more than on its news programs. Other nations' media show the face of war, giving people a very different view of war-making. In the United States, our tax dollars are spent by the billions each year marketing the idea that war is a sport and associating the military with sporting events. Media companies like NBC are complicit in the propaganda. While 57% of federal discretionary spending goes to the military, weapons makers can't seem to get enough of our tax dollars. In the spirit of transferring veterans' care to the realm of private charity, "Stars Earn Stripes" will give prize money each week to "military-based charities" in order to "send a message." <http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=AhFQHv5%2BexgBQAKDJjoCr gz4gQ2uIUDO> We have our own message that we will be delivering to NBC: Dont lie to us. One of NBC's corporate parents, General Electric, takes war very seriously, but not as human tragedy -- rather, as financial profit. (GE is a big weapons manufacturer.) A retired general hosting a war-o-tainment show is another step in the normalization of permanent war. Please sign a short petition to NBC. <http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=ox82R50bAKD%2FDjNyFvmCy Qz4gQ2uIUDO> Please forward this email widely to like-minded friends. --The RootsAction team P.S. RootsAction is an independent online force endorsed by Jim Hightower, Barbara Ehrenreich, Cornel West, Daniel Ellsberg, Glenn Greenwald, Naomi Klein, Bill Fletcher Jr., Laura Flanders, former U.S. Senator James Abourezk, Coleen Rowley, and many others. - Partners: <http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=vcfyLvNHopba3mf5o%2Ficn Qz4gQ2uIUDO> <http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=qfORuqlblh%2BlY75dLL66s Qz4gQ2uIUDO> <https://salsa.wiredforchange.com/o/6503/images/vfplogo.jpg> Background: Nine Nobel Peace Laureates Call on NBC to Cancel <http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=WrgumtIjBxIrGarzGXWXegO 2nhK1zyn4> "Stars Earn Stripes" <http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=13YC9j5d5j32b%2FdHkn%2F igQz4gQ2uIUDO> NBC's <http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=i1MKbDqlyzW8VsdRIr%2B%2 FqAz4gQ2uIUDO> "Stars Earn Stripes" -- produced by the TV "genius" behind Donald Trump's "Apprentice" and "Sarah Palin's Alaska." (Husband Todd Palin is a "Stars Earn Stripes" co-star.) <http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=eG7Bi73%2Bvd2NF2OIffOti Qz4gQ2uIUDO> Democracy Now! Confronts Wesley Clark Over His Bombing Of Civilians -- During the 1999 bombing of Yugoslavia commanded by Gen. Wesley Clark, civilians and a TV station were bombed, while cluster bombs and depleted uranium were used. (Had Clark done these things for another nation, NBC would probably favor his prosecution and certainly not employ him.) <http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=EotwyNBH5EgWW6glXbnvXQz 4gQ2uIUDO> New York Times: Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon's Hidden Hand <http://salsa.wiredforchange.com/dia/track.jsp?v=2&c=bHoNbWobQDa6hPE6fcHHEAz 4gQ2uIUDO> Glenn Greenwald: The Pulizer-Winning Investigation That Dare Not Be Uttered on TV -- NBC news programs have repeatedly used retired generals, pretending independence but getting their pro-war talking points from the Pentagon. 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