Call For Action was the name given to telephone "help lines" maintained by many radio stations in the United States, especially in the 1960s and 1970s. A telephone handset A touch-tone telephone dial Telephone Complex relay used in a telephone switching system. ... This article provides extensive lists of events and significant personalities of the 1960s. ... This article provides extensive lists of events and significant personalities of the 1970s. ...

The lines served a kind of ombudsman or "public service" function; callers would contact the station via a special "hot line" number to complain about some consumer-related issue (e.g., the complainant may have ordered merchandise which was never received) or perhaps a matter relating to local government (e.g., a street light that had remained inoperative for several weeks or months). A reporter employed by the station would then conduct research on the matter at hand and attempt to resolve it. Look up Ombudsman in Wiktionary, the free dictionary An ombudsman is an official, usually but not always appointed by the government, who is charged with representing the interests of the public by investigating and addressing complaints reported by individual citizens. ...

Two celebrated examples of "Call For Action" lines were the ones maintained by WMCA in New York City, with a telephone number of PLaza 9-1717, and by WFIL in Philadelphia, whose Call For Action number was GReenwood 7-5312. The jingles used by the stations to announce these numbers became well-known in both cities, and an interesting "side effect" was that after WMCA discontinued its Call For Action number, the subscriber subsequently assigned that number continued to receive calls asking for it even many years afterward. WMCA, 570 AM in New York city, was the citys top-rated popular music radio station between 1963-1967. ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the United States, and is at the center of international finance, politics, communications, music, fashion, and culture. ... WFIL is the name of a radio station, and also the former name of a television station, serving the American city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. ... Philadelphia is a village located in Jefferson County, New York. ...

In 2005, The global community has reestablished a call for action to promote sustainable development in an effort to save the earth from wastefull consumption of natural resourses and to protect the planet's air, water and inhabitents. However, at this time the number has not been published. 2005 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and is the current year. ... Sustainable development is development that meets the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs, according to Our Common Future, a 1987 report from the UN. One of the factors which sustainable development must overcome is environmental degradation. ... Earth, also known as the Earth or Terra, is the third planet outward from the Sun. ... Consumption is also an archaic name for the disease tuberculosis, presumably because, prior to the age of modern antibiotics, often it would seem that the disease was consuming patients from within as they coughed up blood. ... This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Water (from the Old English word wæter) is a colorless, tasteless, and odorless substance that is essential to all known forms of life and is known also as the most universal solvent. ...