{"id":9706,"date":"2013-10-05T21:04:25","date_gmt":"2013-10-06T04:04:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/?p=9706"},"modified":"2013-10-09T19:13:02","modified_gmt":"2013-10-10T02:13:02","slug":"want-to-watch-citizen-koch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2013\/10\/05\/want-to-watch-citizen-koch\/","title":{"rendered":"Want To Watch <i>CITIZEN KOCH<\/i>?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_9711\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-9711\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/citizen-koch.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/citizen-koch.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"&quot;KPBS San Diego: Listen to public television viewers like us and air the documentary Citizen Koch!&quot;\"  class=\"size-full wp-image-9711\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/citizen-koch.jpg?w=1120&amp;ssl=1 1120w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/citizen-koch.jpg?resize=300%2C168&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/reviewermag.com\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/citizen-koch.jpg?resize=1024%2C576&amp;ssl=1 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-9711\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;KPBS San Diego: Listen to public television viewers like us and air the documentary <i>Citizen Koch<\/i>!&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>[Email Petition]<\/p>\n<h1>A Personal Message From MoveOn About <i>Citizen Koch<\/i><\/h1>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-share-button\" href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" data-count=\"none\" data-via=\"reviewermag\">Tweet<\/a><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"http:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n<h3>(This was issued to me, Reviewer Rob)<\/h3>\n<p>I&#8217;m Reece Castellano, and I live not far from you. I started a petition on MoveOn.org urging our local public television station, KPBS 15, to ensure that the documentary &#8220;Citizen Koch&#8221;\u2014which exposes the billionare Koch Brothers who helped launch the Tea Party\u2014gets shown to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Now that Tea Party Republicans have shut down the government, it&#8217;s more important than ever that we expose the Tea Party and its funders.&nbsp;<b>&nbsp;<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>We need &#8220;Citizen Koch&#8221; on the air in San Diego. Will you sign the petition I created urging KPBS 15 to take action?<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/petitions.moveon.org\/workingfamilies\/sign\/show-your-independence?source=mo&amp;id=75889-14611215-AnA8GDx&amp;t=1\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Click here to sign the petition I started on MoveOn.org urging KPBS 15 to make sure &#8220;Citizen Koch&#8221; is aired in San Diego, and then pass it along to your friends.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The petition I created as part of a massive joint-organizing campaign launched by the organizations MoveOn.org and Working Families, says:<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Koch money shouldn&#8217;t influence public television programming &#8212; we want to see the film &#8220;Citizen Koch&#8221; aired on PBS!<a href=\"http:\/\/petitions.moveon.org\/workingfamilies\/sign\/show-your-independence?source=mo&amp;id=75889-14611215-AnA8GDx&amp;t=2\" target=\"_blank\"><button>Sign the petition to KPBS 15!<\/button><\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><b>You probably haven&#8217;t seen the film &#8220;Citizen Koch,&#8221; which was created to show on public television.<\/b>&nbsp;That&#8217;s because it was yanked out of fear of upsetting David Koch, one of the extreme-right-wing billionaire Koch brothers, who was instrumental in funding the Tea Party. He&#8217;s also donated millions to public television stations.<\/p>\n<p>Working Families and MoveOn members delivered 350,000 signatures to public television&#8217;s flagship station in New York City, urging a national broadcast of the film &#8220;Citizen Koch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>But they still haven&#8217;t responded.<\/b>&nbsp;To ratchet up the pressure, I, and hundreds of other Working Families activists, have taken the fight to our local stations by starting our own petitions.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/petitions.moveon.org\/workingfamilies\/sign\/show-your-independence?source=mo&amp;id=75889-14611215-AnA8GDx&amp;t=3\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Click here to sign the petition I started on MoveOn.org urging KPBS 15 to make sure &#8220;Citizen Koch&#8221; is aired in San Diego, and then pass it along to your friends.<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Thanks!<\/p>\n<p>\u2013Reece Castellano<\/p>\n<p><em>This petition was created on MoveOn&#8217;s online petition site, where anyone can start their own online petitions. Reece Castellano and the organization Working Families didn&#8217;t pay us to send this email\u2014we never rent or sell the MoveOn.org list.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><b>Want to support our work?<\/b>&nbsp;MoveOn Civic Action is entirely funded by our 8 million members\u2014no corporate contributions, no big checks from CEOs. And our tiny staff ensures that small contributions go a long way.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/civic.moveon.org\/donatec4\/creditcard.html?cpn_id=457&amp;id=75889-14611215-AnA8GDx\" target=\"_blank\">Chip in here.<\/a><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<strong>:::<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/center><br \/>\n<b><em>Editor&#8217;s Note: below is a 30-minute video that came up when I typed &#8220;Citizen Koch&#8221; in Google. It was not included with the petition email reprinted above.<\/em><\/b><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/-kNEUG3lL_4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/center><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Email Petition] A Personal Message From MoveOn About Citizen Koch Tweet (This was issued to me, Reviewer Rob) I&#8217;m Reece Castellano, and I live not far from you. I started a petition on MoveOn.org urging our local public television station, KPBS 15, to ensure that the documentary &#8220;Citizen Koch&#8221;\u2014which exposes the billionare Koch Brothers who helped launch the Tea Party\u2014gets [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":453,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[578,730,740,579],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-commentary","category-opinion","category-politics","category-reflected-news"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6966,"url":"https:\/\/reviewermag.com\/press\/2012\/08\/14\/local-filmmaker-jodi-cilley-named-as-lead-instructor-of-video-production-at-ucsd-extensions\/","url_meta":{"origin":9706,"position":0},"title":"Local filmmaker, Jodi Cilley, named as Lead Instructor of Video Production at UCSD Extensions&#8217; DAC Program","author":"admin","date":"August 14, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"\"a household name to zombie fans\" Tweet Reported by Katherine Sweetman Filmmaker and production company owner, Jodi Cilley will begin her new position as\u00a0Lead Instructor Digital Arts Center Video & Editing Professional Certificate Program UCSD Extension Fall 2012. 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