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

Sun Mar 10 14:55:20 PDT 2024

Great! Are you in a spot where you can reach out to Sharon to initiate, Betty? Does someone else wanna lean in?

It seems reasonable that as stations gain more capacity to organize themselves, there’s some friction with the committed folks who have been leaning in for a long time to help build infrastructure.

Maybe you all can speak directly to what you’d likealign on some shared values? 

It seems like if you and Sharon can find alignment and park some secondary issues until everyone can discuss at GRC there may be a more peaceful way forward. Where folks can focus on building stations, networking resources, and celebrating all that’s been accomplished. Especially in this filing window.

Kenya 

> On Mar 10, 2024, at 1:50 PM, mbbm at brownbroadcast.com wrote:
> 
> Thank you Kenya.  I would welcome such a conversation.
> 
> Betty McArdle
> CMAP
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: grc <grc-bounces at maillist.peak.org> On Behalf Of kenya lewis via grc
> Sent: Friday, March 8, 2024 7:41 AM
> To: Michael Brown <mike at brownbroadcast.com>; Nathan.Moore at virginia.edu; GRC list <grc at maillist.peak.org>
> Subject: Re: [grc] ATTN: Previous GRC Host Stations: Nominate your GRC Steering Committee Reps TODAY!
> 
> 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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