[grc] ATTN: Previous GRC Host Stations: Nominate your GRC Steering Committee Reps TODAY!

[Michael D. Brown]

What he said!

Michael D. Brown
Brown Broadcast Services, Inc.
3740 SW Comus St. ● Portland OR 97219-7418 USA   
mike at brownbroadcast.com  ●  www.brownbroadcast.com
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From: grc <grc-bounces at maillist.peak.org> On Behalf Of Moore, Nathan Baldwin (nbm9he) via grc
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2024 10:04 PM
To: grc at maillist.peak.org
Subject: Re: [grc] ATTN: Previous GRC Host Stations: Nominate your GRC Steering Committee Reps TODAY!

Hi all,

So I was getting GRC digest emails very infrequently. Just today, I asked to get individual emails instead. Some timing!

At the GRC conference in Charleston, I finally stepped back into the GRC orbit after a decade or so caucusing with other community media organizations. Today's email threads remind me why I stepped away in the first place.

I went to my first GRC conference 20 years ago, and I really do believe in the values of mutual aid, solidarity, and sharing that animate GRC activities. And I also very much believe in being organized. I'm pretty sure Norm Stockwell and I wrote the Madison resolution that established a steering committee. I know I'm the one who added it to GRC's wikipedia page.

Having a Steering Committee met a need: to more smoothly hand off conference planning from year to year, to maintain institutional knowledge, and to deal with shit that comes up. Including one or more members from a station(s) that had recently hosted a conference was to assist with the first of those three purposes.

I don't know all the beefs that have emerged in more recent years and I don't particularly want to. But I wanted to share that historical perspective.

I also want to share something I know to be true: a group needs to have a few things to function as a group:
   - a mission that its members share and understand
   - a way to (at least loosely) recognize who group members are
   - some way to make decisions about operations and priorities

~Nathan


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Nathan Moore (he/his)
WTJU General Manager
434.249.7564
Nathan.Moore at virginia.edu
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From: grc <grc-bounces at maillist.peak.org> on behalf of kenya lewis via grc <grc at maillist.peak.org>
Sent: Monday, February 19, 2024 10:49 PM
To: al davis <ad253 at freeelectron.net>
Cc: grc at maillist.peak.org <grc at maillist.peak.org>
Subject: Re: [grc] ATTN: Previous GRC Host Stations: Nominate your GRC Steering Committee Reps TODAY!

Hi Al,

I’m travelling after tomorrow. Mind helping me understand:

+ Who is some of us?

+ Why Sharon needs to put out back on track?

+ Which track is different from stations leading their own decision-making?

+ What experience in Portland? Betty just said she organized KBOO. I know she reached out to me about Wade and trying to find a Black speaker?

+ Coukd you (“some of us” find an approach to give input to the steering committee?

+ What’s the root of the beef? Change? Doesn’t GRC feel vitalized with new stations using their own voices? Wanting agency? Again, what unique capacity is added solely by eroding the steering committee?


> On Feb 19, 2024, at 7:36 PM, al davis via grc <grc at maillist.peak.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, 19 Feb 2024 20:59:36 -0500
> Sharon Scott via grc <grc at maillist.peak.org> wrote:
>> If anyone wants to talk "exclusionary" should be reminded of the GRC 
>> KBOO Conference when a group of consultants, including Betty and 
>> Michelle and others who have commented on this tread and called me a 
>> "dictator" attempted to take hold of the GRC Conference, placing 
>> themselves at the helm and effectively excluding the true 
>> stakeholders
>> -- the community stations themselves -- from leadership positions.
>
>
> oh dear .....  Don't you see ?????
>
> The objection some of us have to the formal steering committee is 
> based on the fear of repeating that experience at Portland.  and we 
> want to get you back on track?
>
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