Singer-songwriter Creates Peace Forum Message Board

Songwriter Woody Woodham hopes to inspire peace dialog.

San Diego, California (PRWEB) November 20, 2003 --Singer-songwriter Woody Woodham has launched a new message board accessible at http://peaceforum.us or http://peaceboard.com. Woodham, known as the composer of the song entitled Doing Business with a Gun", is hoping that his forum will promote discussions about peace.

Says Woodham, Im hoping to get some discussions going about peace related topics, everything from war to gun control."

In October 2003, a major San Diego radio station refused to accept a promotional advertisement for Woodham's song and web site. The station director said the reason for declining the ad was because 'it sounded a little like payola. (Payola is the illegal practice of paying money in exchange for a radio station to play a song.) Woodham was able to place his promo on a competing station.

Woodham was inspired to write the song after a 3 year old boy was shot and killed in the crossfire of a gang related shooting across from where he used to live. Im really getting tired of seeing people killing each other every time I turn on the news. Its getting hard to even find cartoons for my boy to watch that dont have a lot of violence as part of the theme," says Woodham, Its everywhere you go and it seems worse these days than when I was a kid. I mean, we didnt have cable TV when I was a kid and there were different standards as to what was appropriate to air. A program like MTVs 'Jackass would never even have been considered just because of the title alone."

The forum is a section of Woodys web site. Woodys goal is not fame and fortune. Theres a lot of people out there with more talent then me and many are unknown. All I want is to bring up the issue and get some people talking about peace again."

Woodys peace forum can be entered through: http://peaceforum.us or http:peaceboard.com.
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