
{"id":24560,"date":"2012-03-22T10:08:55","date_gmt":"2012-03-22T14:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.carrborocitizen.com\/main\/?p=24560"},"modified":"2012-03-21T16:23:06","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T20:23:06","slug":"a-resolution-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/2012\/03\/22\/a-resolution-2\/","title":{"rendered":"A RESOLUTION"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Editor\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s note: The following is a resolution approved by the Carrboro Board of Aldermen on Tuesday asking UNC to sever its ties with WRDU, Rush Radio.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>RESOLUTION CONSIDERING WRDU RUSH RADIO<\/p>\n<p>WHEREAS, radio personality Rush Limbaugh attacked, insulted, and denigrated Sandra Flue by calling her a slut and prostitute; and <\/p>\n<p>WHEREAS, radio personality Rush Limbaugh said Fluke has &#8220;so much sex it&#8217;s amazing she can even walk&#8221; and suggested that she post sex videos online in payment for having the government subsidize her birth control. &#8220;If we are going to pay for your contraceptives \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and thus pay for you to have sex \u00e2\u20ac\u201c we want something for it. We want you to post the videos online so we can all watch,&#8221; in response to Sandra Fluke\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s testimony in support of Obama\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s contraceptive health care plan; and <\/p>\n<p>WHEREAS, WRDU, Rush Radio, is the home of Tar Heel sports network and broadcasts The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill basketball and football; and<\/p>\n<p>WHEREAS, statements such as this encourage and support the objectification of women and support a climate that threatens the rights of women to control their reproductive rights and exercise their sexual self-determination; and <\/p>\n<p>WHEREAS, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has a long history of being an advocate for women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s rights to self determination; and<\/p>\n<p>WHEREAS, statements such as these promulgate misinformation about human reproduction, sexuality, and health and thereby undermine the University&#8217;s mission to increase understanding in the areas of public health and medicine; <\/p>\n<p>NOW, THEREFORE the Carrboro Board of Aldermen requests that the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Board of Trustees and Chancellor Thorp sever ties with WRDU, Rush Radio, until and unless WRDU, Rush Radio severs ties with Rush Limbaugh.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CONSIDERING WRDU RUSH RADIO<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24560","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24560","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24560"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24560\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24573,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24560\/revisions\/24573"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24560"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24560"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/carrborocitizen\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24560"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}