<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>Hi All,</div><div><br></div>Although the CBC could be doing a much better job -- relative to their original mandate at least -- they are not as market-controlled as the private networks. As a result their environmental reporting and programming is of a higher<div>order, e.g. The Nature of Things. So if the Harper gang of ideological bullies -- extreme ideology can make smart people stupid -- decide to sell off all or part of the CBC, then our local community (including NGOs like GREN) should apply pressure to our Conservative MPs as creatively as possible, A symbolic tar & feathering of Harper -- then burning "him" in effigy -- in front of local MP offices comes to mind as a series of possibilities IF ... .</div><div><br></div><div>Robert M.</div><div><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>From: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Ian Morrison - FRIENDS <<a href="mailto:ian.morrison@friends.ca">ian.morrison@friends.ca</a>></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Date: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">November 29, 2011 11:01:56 AM GMT-05:00</font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>To: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><a href="mailto:mill@continuum.org">mill@continuum.org</a></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Helvetica" size="3" color="#000000" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica; color: #000000"><b>Subject: </b></font><font face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica"><b>CBC Sold!</b></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><br></div> </div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; font-size: medium; "><div style="margin-left: 0px; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%"><tbody><tr><td bgcolor="#dae8f1"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="10" width="690" align="center" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); "><tbody><tr><td><div style="text-align: right; "><a href="http://www.friends.ca/files/html/11nov29-smackdown.html" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">view email in browser</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> |<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="https://www.friends.ca/detailupdate/updateinfo" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">update contact info</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span> | <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.e-activist.com:80/ea-campaign/action.handleOptOut.do?ea.question.id.key=37&ea.campaigner.email=afO4KyPQ%2BhU2Az1vbq646IwFR%2FbeHspi&ea.broadcast.id=13670&ea.optout.landing.page.id=1104" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">unsubscribe</a></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="690" align="center" style="font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', Times, serif; font-size: 14px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); "><tbody><tr><td><img src="http://www.friends.ca/files/Images/email-logo-11nov29.gif" border="0" alt="CBC Sold to a U.S. Wrestling Promoter!" width="690" height="97"></td></tr><tr><td><a href="http://www.friends.ca/smackdown/" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); "><img src="http://www.friends.ca/files/Images/email-feature-11nov29.gif" border="0" alt="Perhaps our greatest fear – one that seems to grow with each passing day – is that the Harper government will privatize some or all of our public broadcaster, selling it to the highest bidder. " width="690" height="228"></a></td></tr><tr><td style="padding-left: 40px; padding-right: 40px; padding-bottom: 20px; "><p>Every day in the House of Commons, the level of outright disdain and animosity toward the CBC is on prominent display among Harper government Ministers and backbenchers.</p><p>But balancing this fear is hope that a new and<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>powerful campaign</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>we are launching today will marshal public support and demonstrate to the government that the political price of attacking the CBC is just too high.</p><p>Friends’ new campaign –<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>STOP THE CBC SMACKDOWN</strong><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>– is built around a satirical dramatization of the worst-case scenario: that our CBC is sold.</p><p><a href="http://www.friends.ca/smackdown/" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); "><strong>Robert, please go to the new campaign site right now. It is urgent that you do.</strong></a></p><p><a href="http://www.friends.ca/smackdown/" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); "><img src="http://www.friends.ca/files/Images/lance-action.gif" border="0" alt="“Let’s be honest. Canadians are very unique... in that they’re just like Americans. Except for the Quebekians...who are more like Puerto Ricans.” " width="327" height="332" align="right"></a>When you visit the campaign, you will meet<strong>Lance Fury, the CBC’s new owner-operator</strong>. Lance is a former professional wrestling promoter from the U.S. who knows what Canadians want – and he’s going to give it to us!</p><p>Lance’s message to Canadians about his plans for the CBC comes in two short videos posted on the campaign site.</p><p>After you view the videos,<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>please sign the petition</strong>, and share the campaign with your friends and colleagues.</p><p>Almost every day in the House of Commons,<a href="http://www.friends.ca/blog-post/10442" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); ">Conservative MPs stand in their places</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>and call for the<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><strong>de-funding or privatization of our national public broadcaster</strong>. Heritage Minister James Moore, who promised to increase or maintain CBC funding just a few months ago now speaks about the CBC in the same breath as the Canadian Wheat Board, which the government intends to kill.</p><p><strong>Please join me in standing up for our public broadcaster. The future survival of the CBC could well depend on it.</strong></p><p><a href="http://www.friends.ca/smackdown/" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); "><img src="http://www.friends.ca/files/Images/action-button-smackdown.gif" border="0" alt="Let's Stop the CBC Smackdown" width="279" height="44" style="display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; "></a></p><p>Yours sincerely,</p><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="400"><tbody><tr><td valign="top"><img src="http://www.friends.ca/files/html/IanMorrisonSig.gif" border="0" alt="Ian Morrison" width="135" height="47"></td></tr><tr><td valign="top">Ian Morrison<br>Spokesperson<br>FRIENDS of Canadian Broadcasting</td></tr></tbody></table><p><br>P.S. To stop Harper & Co. there are three things you can do right now:</p><ol><li><a href="http://www.friends.ca/smackdown/" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); ">Watch the videos</a></li><li><a href="http://www.friends.ca/smackdown/" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); ">Sign the petition</a></li><li><a href="http://www.friends.ca/smackdown/" style="color: rgb(153, 0, 0); ">Share the campaign with your networks</a></li></ol></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr><tr><td bgcolor="#dae8f1"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="20" width="690" align="center" style="font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; color: rgb(102, 102, 102); "><tbody><tr><td><div style="text-align: center; "><em>FRIENDS of Canadian Broadcasting is an independent watchdog for Canadian programming<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br>and is not affiliated with any broadcaster or political party.</em><br><span style="text-align: center; "><br>View FRIENDS'<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="http://www.friends.ca/About_Us/privacy" style="color: rgb(102, 102, 102); ">privacy policy</a>.</span></div></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><img src="http://www.e-activist.com:80/ea-campaign/broadcast.record.message.open.do?ea.broadcast.id=13670&ea.campaigner.email=afO4KyPQ%2BhU2Az1vbq646IwFR%2FbeHspi&ea.client.id=33&ea_broadcast_target_id=0"></div></span></blockquote></div><br></div></body></html>