ZOMBIE YELLOW BLOG RETURNS!!!!!!!!
Jun 27, 2019 12:20:30 GMT -8
Post by lurk3r on Jun 27, 2019 12:20:30 GMT -8
It's baaaaaack! The yellow blog! Except not yellow! The bad design! The horrible art! The badly thought out acronym to Keep Kboo Kboo! Theresa Mitchel! Or maybe Meresa Titchell! The lies! The other Lies! The derangement! And sure as a pig lickin day old grits glued to a skillet, give Mitchel time and she'll find or photo-shop some "enemy" mugshots!
Peeps might remember the old Yellow Blog. It coasted a couple years until it was deleted in 2017/2018. The last page recorded by wayback is delusional as ever:
Welp, Mitchel scraped her pennies together and renewed registration this year:
Domain Name: SAVEKBOO.ORG
Registry Domain ID: D402200000010384208-LROR
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.sawbuck.com
Registrar URL: whois.sawbuck.com/
Updated Date: 2019-05-20T23:35:28Z
Creation Date: 2019-05-20T23:32:20Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2020-05-20T23:32:20Z
Registrar Registration Expiration Date:
Registrar: Automattic Inc.
Registrar IANA ID: 1531
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: domainabuse@automattic.com
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.8772733049
Reseller:
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
Domain Status: clientUpdateProhibited icann.org/epp#clientUpdateProhibited
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Registrant Organization: Knock Knock WHOIS Not There, LLC
Registrant State/Province: OR
Registrant Country: US
Name Server: NS1.WORDPRESS.COM
Name Server: NS2.WORDPRESS.COM
Name Server: NS3.WORDPRESS.COM
DNSSEC: unsigned
Registry Domain ID: D402200000010384208-LROR
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.sawbuck.com
Registrar URL: whois.sawbuck.com/
Updated Date: 2019-05-20T23:35:28Z
Creation Date: 2019-05-20T23:32:20Z
Registry Expiry Date: 2020-05-20T23:32:20Z
Registrar Registration Expiration Date:
Registrar: Automattic Inc.
Registrar IANA ID: 1531
Registrar Abuse Contact Email: domainabuse@automattic.com
Registrar Abuse Contact Phone: +1.8772733049
Reseller:
Domain Status: clientTransferProhibited icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
Domain Status: clientUpdateProhibited icann.org/epp#clientUpdateProhibited
Domain Status: serverTransferProhibited icann.org/epp#serverTransferProhibited
Registrant Organization: Knock Knock WHOIS Not There, LLC
Registrant State/Province: OR
Registrant Country: US
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Name Server: NS2.WORDPRESS.COM
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This gives everyone a handy probably date when Ani Haines, and her board buddies finally decided they'd call out the howling internet mob against a new enemy, like they did with Lyn Fitch, around May 20th:
Creation Date: 2019-05-20T23:32:20Z
Her first post is a doozy:
https: //savekboo.[FUKK THIZ PAGE RANK]org/2019/06/24/big-meeting-tonight-monday-6-24-19/
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Big meeting tonight, Monday 6/24/19
Determined KBOO members will arrive at the station (20 SE 8th) tonight, to confront the improperly constituted “management” over their abrogation of process and misappropriation of funds. They are spending tens of thousands on corporate HR and for lawyers to back up their anti-Union, anti-Staff aggression. Be there.
savekboo Uncategorized Leave a comment June 24, 2019
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Added italics. What could this mean? Ani's house of cards is finally about to come crashing down?
And just because it annoys Mitchel's KBOT zombies, all together:
KBOO IS A NON PROFIT CORPORATION.
Of course KBOO managers will hire "corporate" lawyers....
Oh, and just like in the old days, Mitchel is leaning on 9/11 Truther tinfoil loon "Joe Anybody's" Portland Indymedia as a propaganda outlet:
http:// portland.indymedia. [FUKK UR PAGE RANK TOO] org/en/2019/06/437585.shtml
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23.Jun.2019 01:02
KBOO rogue managers hire corporate HR
author: Theresa Mitchell
At the Board meeting this Monday, 20 SE 8th St., Portland, members will again confront rogue "managers"
...aspects of the current Board/manager configuration must be addressed.
Ruban Lawrence and Danielle Park, President and Vice President (respectively) of the Board, have arrogated the position of Manager for several months now.
As I have said before, it is reasonable to assume their intentions were (initially) benign. They do not have managerial experience with a hands-on democratic nonprofit, so they assumed that a strong top-down approach was needed. Or they arrived at that position after the disastrous gesture of hiring a corporate Human Relations employee to tell them what to do. So of course they received some version of "This is how we do things downtown; get the hippie vibe out, and get to work setting up a corporate hierarchy."
Now, this is where I will fault them. If they understood KBOO properly (if they had asked me or any of dozens of former Board members and Staff), they would have learned that the reason KBOO has survived for half a century is exactly because we have walked our talk with "that hippie shit." In other words, we have been able to develop and maintain a vibrant active community by treating volunteers and Staff with respect.
That is the opposite of what corporations do. They extract profits from a group of underlings by making them work under conditions of intimidation--they keep them "out of the loop" on policy and managerial decisions, they demand as much labor as they can get, and they take the better part of their productivity as profit. In the case of corporate-aligned "nonprofits" like OPB, the same paradigm applies, except that the profits are disguised as salaries for the upper managerial class. So, for example, the CEO at OPB extracts over four hundred thousand dollars per year.
Hiring on a corporate HR flack was, ineluctably, a disaster. From the perspective of that person, everything at KBOO is wrong. From that perspective, the whole culture of participation is wrong, and of course the union must be removed. The cure, then, is to start acting like corporations act: deny information to employees (either by restricting access or by being directly mendacious), intimidate them with "discipline hearings" which also work as a built-up ready excuse for firing them at will, and treat the union as an adversary. And this is what we see.
There are further complications. KBOO bylaws (which are legally constituted and must be followed) do not allow Board members to be Staff. (Ruban has come up with a dodge for that, claiming that the employee designation in the Bylaws defines an employee as a paid person--therefore, unpaid managers aren't managers. If their expensive legal counsel told them that, they are being ill served--it's a ridiculously specious claim.).
This means that Ruban and Danielle's managerial decisions --and expenditures of funds--are not properly constituted under the Bylaws. It means that the tens of thousands that they have spent--and will be billed--for this little project haven't been properly approved. I call that mismanagement at best, and more obviously, malfeasance and misappropriation of funds. The result has been a disastrous collapse of goodwill.
KBOO cannot afford a collapse of goodwill. Our Staff has always volunteered extra hours--in other words, done extra work for free--because they believe in what we are doing, and because they can count on being treated as equal members of a benevolent team of activists. There is no way to pay them for all that they actually do, and there is no way to retain them with their paltry salaries if they feel abused.
And they feel abused--because they are being abused. I don't give two fucks if that's how the big boys do it downtown. KBOO is not a for-profit business, and it's not OPB Junior.
So there's a lot at stake. True to the corporate way of action, Ruban and Danielle are holding on to power for dear life, hoping that their cascading aggressions will result in a new, transformed KBOO. The last two Board meetings, these observations were brought to them, and they have made it clear that they intend to hold the course.
It is not actually legal, however, to subvert the will of the nonprofit by avoiding quorum, using the nonprofit's own funds to hire legal counsel against its democratic structure, and conducting personal vendettas against Staff and the Union. It's more on the lines of malfeasance and fraud.
ORS 65.369 protects Board members from financial liability for whoopsies, but it makes a clear exception for "gross negligence or intentional misconduct." I think Danielle and Ruban are intentionally subverting the KBOO staff, and their refusal to listen to experienced former Board members and Staff borders on gross negligence. We have told them repeatedly that they cannot be "acting managers" for all these months, and experienced interim managers have been directly presented to them.
Their truculence is eating away at our meager financial reserves.
I will be at the Board meeting Monday.
author: Theresa Mitchell
At the Board meeting this Monday, 20 SE 8th St., Portland, members will again confront rogue "managers"
...aspects of the current Board/manager configuration must be addressed.
Ruban Lawrence and Danielle Park, President and Vice President (respectively) of the Board, have arrogated the position of Manager for several months now.
As I have said before, it is reasonable to assume their intentions were (initially) benign. They do not have managerial experience with a hands-on democratic nonprofit, so they assumed that a strong top-down approach was needed. Or they arrived at that position after the disastrous gesture of hiring a corporate Human Relations employee to tell them what to do. So of course they received some version of "This is how we do things downtown; get the hippie vibe out, and get to work setting up a corporate hierarchy."
Now, this is where I will fault them. If they understood KBOO properly (if they had asked me or any of dozens of former Board members and Staff), they would have learned that the reason KBOO has survived for half a century is exactly because we have walked our talk with "that hippie shit." In other words, we have been able to develop and maintain a vibrant active community by treating volunteers and Staff with respect.
That is the opposite of what corporations do. They extract profits from a group of underlings by making them work under conditions of intimidation--they keep them "out of the loop" on policy and managerial decisions, they demand as much labor as they can get, and they take the better part of their productivity as profit. In the case of corporate-aligned "nonprofits" like OPB, the same paradigm applies, except that the profits are disguised as salaries for the upper managerial class. So, for example, the CEO at OPB extracts over four hundred thousand dollars per year.
Hiring on a corporate HR flack was, ineluctably, a disaster. From the perspective of that person, everything at KBOO is wrong. From that perspective, the whole culture of participation is wrong, and of course the union must be removed. The cure, then, is to start acting like corporations act: deny information to employees (either by restricting access or by being directly mendacious), intimidate them with "discipline hearings" which also work as a built-up ready excuse for firing them at will, and treat the union as an adversary. And this is what we see.
There are further complications. KBOO bylaws (which are legally constituted and must be followed) do not allow Board members to be Staff. (Ruban has come up with a dodge for that, claiming that the employee designation in the Bylaws defines an employee as a paid person--therefore, unpaid managers aren't managers. If their expensive legal counsel told them that, they are being ill served--it's a ridiculously specious claim.).
This means that Ruban and Danielle's managerial decisions --and expenditures of funds--are not properly constituted under the Bylaws. It means that the tens of thousands that they have spent--and will be billed--for this little project haven't been properly approved. I call that mismanagement at best, and more obviously, malfeasance and misappropriation of funds. The result has been a disastrous collapse of goodwill.
KBOO cannot afford a collapse of goodwill. Our Staff has always volunteered extra hours--in other words, done extra work for free--because they believe in what we are doing, and because they can count on being treated as equal members of a benevolent team of activists. There is no way to pay them for all that they actually do, and there is no way to retain them with their paltry salaries if they feel abused.
And they feel abused--because they are being abused. I don't give two fucks if that's how the big boys do it downtown. KBOO is not a for-profit business, and it's not OPB Junior.
So there's a lot at stake. True to the corporate way of action, Ruban and Danielle are holding on to power for dear life, hoping that their cascading aggressions will result in a new, transformed KBOO. The last two Board meetings, these observations were brought to them, and they have made it clear that they intend to hold the course.
It is not actually legal, however, to subvert the will of the nonprofit by avoiding quorum, using the nonprofit's own funds to hire legal counsel against its democratic structure, and conducting personal vendettas against Staff and the Union. It's more on the lines of malfeasance and fraud.
ORS 65.369 protects Board members from financial liability for whoopsies, but it makes a clear exception for "gross negligence or intentional misconduct." I think Danielle and Ruban are intentionally subverting the KBOO staff, and their refusal to listen to experienced former Board members and Staff borders on gross negligence. We have told them repeatedly that they cannot be "acting managers" for all these months, and experienced interim managers have been directly presented to them.
Their truculence is eating away at our meager financial reserves.
I will be at the Board meeting Monday.
homepage: savekboo.org
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TM comment full of Unwarranted Self Importance:
meeting is tonight 6 PM, 20 SE 8th 24.Jun.2019 13:32
TM
The Board meeting is tonight at 6PM, at the KBOO station at 20 SE 8th Street in Portland. That's just past the Burnside Bridge on the East side of town.
Every calm, determined witness we can bring to bear on this situation will lead to its rapid solution. Our programming covers the ICE concentration camps, the New Jim Crow murder campaign by our racist police, the climate disaster, the imperialism disaster, and so much more. We need KBOO more than ever.
kboo.fm
Every calm, determined witness we can bring to bear on this situation will lead to its rapid solution. Our programming covers the ICE concentration camps, the New Jim Crow murder campaign by our racist police, the climate disaster, the imperialism disaster, and so much more. We need KBOO more than ever.
kboo.fm
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Let the good times roll.