[grc] Resources 4 Ukraine

[Sharon Scott]

A nation under attack reaches its hand out to us . . . there are those 
who will chose to help and those who will create elaborate excuses that 
justify turning away.

Since our inception, ARTxFM has used our radio waves to help those 
people oppressed by global politics, natural disasters, and 
authoritarian regimes -- both here in Louisville and abroad.  From Iraq 
to Haiti to Syria to Afghanistan to Ukraine -- we have informed our 
listeners about unfolding international disasters and provided them with 
ways they can help alleviate the human suffering. We have been glad to 
share our programming and PSAs on all of these topics with our 
colleagues in the community radio world.

Among the ARTxFM staff we presently have a DJ who is from Ukraine and 
lived in the Western most parts of Russia. He has family trapped within 
the conflict zone -- and others in Poland helping the refugees.  No 
matter what the global politics, this war is very personal for him and 
thousands of others bearing its brutal consequences.

Andriy Sherehiy's weekly radio program DOBRI DEN includes music of 
Ukraine interwoven with the voices of his friends and family who are 
watching this tragedy unfold in the form of bombs and gunfire all around 
them.  They send us stories each week of shuffling their families back 
and forth to safety while navigating the terrors of war.

Megan Sherehiy, who co-hosts Dobryi Den with her husband, composed the 
PSAs that I circulated within the previous Resources for Ukraine e-mail. 
  In so doing, she doubled checked all of the organizations with 
Guidestar and with family members in Ukraine -- to be sure we were 
getting the word out about those groups that were truly doing the 
hardest work.

Megan & Andriy have been a great asset to our community for 
understanding truly what is happening on the ground in present-day 
Ukraine. They bring primary source voices to the airwaves and we feel it 
is our responsibility to share those voices and these resources with the 
Grassroots Radio Community that has the power to amplify their message 
even further.

I hope that any of the stations involved on this listserve would the 
same thing when a member of their staff has personal insight on any 
global crisis -- and perhaps this can inspire them to do so! Thank you 
to the many individuals who have reached out over the past few days with 
your support, input, and advice.  This is the type of community I love 
about the GRC!  I hope you will stay in touch and continue to help us 
develop this network for sharing international resources.  & to the 
haters, you can take your Russian Warships someplace else.


RESOURCES FOR UKRAINE
https://www.artxfm.com/ukraine/


DOBRYI DEN is available for community radio stations on Pacifica's 
Audioport or by request

Episode 1: Premier Episode
https://audioport.org/index.php?op=program-info&program_id=223692&nav=&
2 hours (2 x 59 minute segments)

Episode 2
https://audioport.org/index.php?op=program-info&program_id=224108&nav=&
59 minutes