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

Fri Mar 8 09:46:28 PST 2024

Man-O-man, I am feeling way behind. I agree with Nathan on the three
purposes. I would like to
read any official documents. I would like to experience our collective
energy focused on what we
agree is the best for community radio. I need to be able to pick up some
document that states
the agreement. I really enjoyed yesterday's Roundtable presentations and
discussion.
I would like to add my energy to our common values and purposes.

On Fri, Mar 8, 2024 at 7:41 AM kenya lewis via grc <grc at maillist.peak.org>
wrote:

> Mike, Nathan—
>
> Would it be possible to facilitate a convo between you two, Sharon, Betty,
> Al—or similar?
>
> It seems like:
>
> + No one wants Sharon to step away b/c of friction; she’s built so much
> valuable infrastructure and a viable way for stations to advocate for
> themselves
>
> + We could choose to accept the  overflow of funds go to last years host
> station this time and discuss pros and cons for 2024 at the conference?
>
> + The steering committee vet the 2024 apps, be transparent about who
> applied and why they are making the reco they have; perhaps, Like KLEK for
> 2025 there’s already alignment? If not, we could shape a process for
> additional inputs.
>
> + It sounds like Betty and Al want to have a kind of emeritus seat. Could
> that be discussed at the conference as well? Then, we could all put our
> energy into pouring in to the new stations preparing to build.
>
> Are there other key issues?
>
> It could be great to make cooperative compromises rather than arguing
> details w/seven months to get the conference up and running.
>
> Happy to help however I can,
>
> Kenya
>
>
> >> On 2024-03-07 20:16, kenya lewis wrote:
> >> Begin forwarded message:
> >>> From: "Michael D. Brown via grc" <grc at maillist.peak.org>
> >>> Date: February 20, 2024 at 11:42:05 AM PST
> >>> To: "Moore, Nathan Baldwin (nbm9he)" <Nathan.Moore at virginia.edu>,
> >>> grc at maillist.peak.org
> >>> Subject: Re: [grc] ATTN: Previous GRC Host Stations: Nominate your
> >>> GRC Steering Committee Reps TODAY!
> >>> Reply-To: mike at brownbroadcast.com
> >>> 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
> >>> offc 503-245-6065 ● cell 503-703-3202
> >>> -----Original Message-----
> >>> 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
> >>> --
> >>> Nathan Moore (he/his)
> >>> WTJU General Manager
> >>> 434.249.7564
> >>> Nathan.Moore at virginia.edu
> >>> ________________________________
> >>> 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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