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Participate in the 2009 Media Violence Fast. During the week of October 19, 2009, you can do your part by:

Making a commitment to refrain from watching violence as entertainment during the Media Violence Fast.

Reading the e-mail devotions/meditations that will be sent to you. You may want to use these as a point of discussion with your family, church group or organization.

YES! I will participate in the 2009 Media Violence Fast and commit to 1 week of no violent TV or 1 week of no video games and no TV.


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STATEMENT FROM THE USCCB

While the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops is part of the So We Might See Coalition, it did not sign on to the letter that So We Might See wrote to the FCC and NTIA. The USCCB opted to send its own letter to the FCC, and has issued the following statement about the letter:

USCCB is responding to a petition filed before the Federal Communications Commission ("FCC") by the National Hispanic Media Coalition, which asks the FCC to open a Notice of Inquiry to request public comments the extent and nature of hate speech in the media. USCCB supports the establishment of a broad public forum to debate the difficult constitutional and regulatory issues, including the potential danger to religious speech, raised by the petitioners.

We are asking the FCC to make available a proceeding where the public can attempt to describe speech anyone deems harmful, and where the public (including Catholics and the bishops) can raise important constitutional constraints on government action regarding speech, including religious speech.

We are not participating in any campaign to censor any organization, program or commentator.

Sponsored by So We Might See - A National Interfaith Coalition for Media Justice