Public Broadcasting is important, especially to Cajun Culture. Without it, we wouldn’t have Over 174 Articles on NPR which mention “Cajun” (more accurate Google search) including

• Acadian Congress
• Cajun Culture Slow to Fade
• Cajuns Hope for Revival of Battered Marshes
• The Cajuns: Americanization of a People book review
• Touring Louisiana’s Cameron Parish
• Evangeline Made
• The Pine Leaf Boys CD Review
• Surveying Rita’s Damage in Southwest Louisiana
• Hurricane Rita Victims Lost in the Shadow of Katrina
• Cajun Country Thick with Mosquitoes

And that’s just on NPR.org.. PBS.org has a few articles on Cajun Culture as well.

• Do You Speak American
• Make ‘em Dance: The Hackberry Ramblers Story
• A Taste of Louisiana

And of course, LPB’s (Louisiana Public Broadcasting)

• Lost Louisiana
• Healing Secrets of the Cajuns, Creoles and Bayou Indians

The list goes on.. well, for the second time, public broadcasting is in trouble. Please tell your Congressperson that Public Broadcasting is important to you. You can find out more by visiting Tell Them Public Matters.org.

On June 13, 2006 the full House Appropriations Committee voted to restore $20 million of the previously-planned $115 million cuts to funding for public broadcasting, but left the remainder of the cuts in place in the FY 2007 budget bill making its way through the House.

Although the restoration of $20 million in FY 2007 funds is a welcome development, the committee left intact nearly $100 million in cuts to all of the other public broadcasting programs funded in this bill: CPB digital, interconnection, and Ready To Learn and Ready To Teach, No funds were provided for Ready to Learn and Ready to Teach, two critical early learning educational programs. Moreover, no advance appropriation for FY 2009 was included in the bill—which, if left unchallenged either on the House floor or in the Senate, would represent the first time two-year advance funding will not have been approved since the practice was begun 30 years ago.

Your immediate help is needed to reverse these draconian funding cuts. Please scroll down to send a message to your U.S. Representative to urge that funds for public broadcasting be fully restored.

There is an easy to fill out form that allows you to either email or print a letter to your US House Representative.