What now?

[FascistFighter]

So, it appears that we have lost the battle. Not all the Facebook like
buttons in the world are going to bring back our beloved radio
station. What now? It is obvious this has nothing to do with budget
constraints or anything they've cited as being the reason for pulling
the plug. They are doing this to silence community radio, period(.)
Enter auto-robot-DJ.

I think that anything you love is worth fighting for and it is time to
fight. No more fucking 'like buttons', no more pamphlets, no more
bitching and moaning. We need a sit in. We need to disrupt all
operations on campus. We need to jam and disrupt the new classical
radio station.

This is the poor vs. the rich, the students vs. the establishment, the
people vs. the tyrants. Are you ready to mobilize and demand change
and make this movement worth something? What can I do to help?

[Mojo]

WRVU HAS NOT BEEN SOLD.

Despite the misleading press releases from the VSC and WPLN/NPR in
Nashville that WRVU 91.1 FM has been sold, this is simply not true.

So tell everyone that WRVU hasn't been sold. Yes, the VSC and NPR they
secretly negotiated this "deal", changed the radio station call
letters a few days before letting anyone know (and thus causing FCC
violations as the WRVU DJs were unknowningly announcing the wrong call
letters), shut the station down and locked the doors before alerting
even the WRVU student executive staff. By midnight of that day,
classical music was being broadcast on the 91.1 FM frequency from
WPLN's new studio.

BUT, WPLN is currently *LEASING* the 91.1 FM frequency from the VSC
because WPLN cannot afford the $3.35 million dollar price tag. They
only have enough to lease the frequency right now and have admitted
that they will need to do a major fundraising campaign before they can
afford to attempt to purchase WRVU. So they're currently in some form
of "Lease To Own" deal.

Also, you can't just sell a radio station like you would a used car.
Radio frequencies are technically "public airwaves", and thus overseen
by the FCC. There is a specific FCC procedure to go through to sell a
radio station, and there will be a period of review, public feedback
and public hearings. "Using the public airwaves is a privilege — a
lucrative one — not a right..." (http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/02/
opinion/02copps.html)

So don't be fooled by the double-headed VSC+WPLN propaganda machine.
Big business, as usual.

And you're right, "Liking" something on FaceBook does nothing except
give people a false sense that they actually did something or
supported something. If people want to save WRVU, they need to take
action. Since October 2010, the ONLY option given to the question
"What can I do to help Save WRVU?" has been from the VSC, saying to
"provide feedback". Then, the feedback was qualified when the VSC said
that Nashville community feedback was meaningless to them, they only
cared about student and Vanderbilt feedback. This was after receiving
>1000 letters of support for NOT SELLING WRVU. More than 1/3 of the
2011 Vanderbilt undergraduate class signed petitions supporting WRVU.
No matter, this sale idea seems to have been worked out very far in
advance, and the whole "announcement of WRVU being up for sale",
"feedback review period", the "two years that the VSC discussed
selling WRVU" (in secret, with no mention to anyone at WRVU, to
"protect them"), seem to be a joke, right from the beginning.

"Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of the last
independent radio station in Music City."