The oppresor blinked
The facade has cracked
Veni
Vedi
Reaction? Retract
CRTC calls it vulgarity, CHOI calls it 'Liberté'
Court to hear Quebec radio station's appeal of licence decision tomorrow
By RHÉAL SÉGUIN, INGRID PERITZ
Wednesday, August 25, 2004 - Page A10
QUEBEC, MONTREAL -- Every day, the same radio message can be heard in Quebec City, as it has all summer.
"They may take away our licence," the message tells listeners, "but they will never take away our freedom."
It is part of radio station CHOI-FM's rallying cry to mobilize the city's population to try to persuade the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission to change its decision to close the station next week.
Bumper stickers, baseball caps and T-shirts bearing the word Liberté are visible everywhere in the city. The word has come to symbolize the station's battle for freedom of speech and the fight against what many believe amounts to government censorship in banning the city's top-rated radio station from the airwaves.
The public furor has refused to subside since the CRTC took the unprecedented decision on July 13 to revoke CHOI-FM's licence because of repeated comments by its morning-show hosts that it says are offensive.
We gotta take the power back.
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