WHEREAS THE NCRA is committed to providing alternative radio to an audience that is recognized as being diverse in ethnicity, culture, gender, sexual orientation, age, and physical and mental ability;

AND WHEREAS NCRA member stations are committed to the principle of providing community-based programming to this diverse audience;

AND WHEREAS mainstream media fails to recognize or in many instances reinforces social and economic inequities that oppress women and minority groups of our society;

BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE NCRA holds as a fundamental principal that community broadcasting serves the needs of socially, culturally, politically and economically disadvantaged groups in society.

BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED THAT  member stations of the NCRA encourage programming policies that prohibit material that is sexist, racist, ageist, homophobic, anti- Semitic, or that maligns differently-abled or economically disadvantaged peoples.

-NCRC '87, Toronto, Ontario