destroying KBOO via the State
Aug 22, 2013 18:05:43 GMT -8
Post by Admin on Aug 22, 2013 18:05:43 GMT -8
Mitchell's attempt to dismiss Hadrian's concerns as a corporate take over, with the help of the gubmint:
portland.indymedia.org/en/2013/06/423799.shtml
Noteworthy is Mitchell's attempt to spin Lisa Loving's call to hack the SKFSK blog as "journalism" in comments:
portland.indymedia.org/en/2013/06/423799.shtml#418270
answering the other accusations 21.Jun.2013 12:22
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The first accusation refers to an attempt to discover an anonymous blogger. If that's illegal activity, then all journalists are criminals.
The second is the latest attempt to get rid of Board President SW Conser. He got some legal counsel some months ago, not regarding the Union by the way, in his capacity as Board CEO. The counsel was vital to KBOO, and the accusation is that only the full Board could have authorized it. However, long-standing nonprofit precedent indicates this is not so.
Third: it isn't just one Board member that wants to toss out the disgusting corporate Board Policy Manual. The money was wasted as soon as it was granted, because KBOO is a people's organization.
Fourth comes a diatribe by the Treasurer that hypocritically ignores the fiscal disaster of the corporate makeover (see above).
portland.indymedia.org/en/2013/06/423799.shtml
21.Jun.2013 12:04
alternative media | corporate dominance
destroying KBOO via the State
author: Theresa Mitchell
anti-KBOO faction shows its teeth
KBOO has been broadcasting since 1968, and has had various Board constituents since that time. The current Board includes what I call the pro-corporate faction, consisting of Hadrian Micciche (appointed), Paula Small (elected if I recall correctly), and Rabia Yeaman (appointed). I call them 'pro-corporate' because they supported the Station Manager Lynn Fitch in her nearly-successful attempt last April to fire every one of the Staff, and because they support the replacement of the KBOO Mission Statement and Policies with a corporate boilerplate 'Board Policy Manual.' They also get that appellation for their usage of sneering language towards the strong Left faction at KBOO, and for supporting Lynn when she hired a union-buster versus the Staff. That's standard fare for corporate America, and of course, it is wrong acting, and it is a big reason why we have KBOO, as an alternative.
Since the firing attempt, I have been convinced that a small faction desired to remake KBOO as a toothless and inoffensive boutique station. If the Staff had been removed in its entirety, this change would already be well underway. So, I have fought ruthlessly, because I know that in this Jim Crow secret police state we call America, we cannot afford to lose a strong island of dissent, no matter how small. I think that despite the occasional comment to the effect that "radio is dead" from the same crowd that would bleach out KBOO, the fact is, really, radio is powerful. For one thing, KBOO's broadcasts direct people to books and websites they would not encounter through random browsing or via corporate-owned news.
This morning, for example, I listened to Fred Branfman, author of "Voices From the Plain of Jars," on Veterans' Voice, the only radio program in the area generated by antiwar vets. He spoke of the unspeakable horror of the bombing of Laos, and of the twenty million slain by US imperialism since 1945. It was powerful and left me shaking. Nothing like that will ever be heard on a station tied to corporations or major corporate-owned political parties. So, my assumption is that some of the people offended by such truth would like nothing better than to end principled dissent at KBOO-by silencing the station altogether, if necessary. Really, once I realized that the Winter Pledge Drive had been cancelled to create a crisis, I knew the fight was on, and that the core of the opposition intended to destroy the station. Ironically, this fiscally destructive faction is the one that continually asserts that KBOO is failing financially.
Here, then, is a communication from the core of the corporatists:
From: Hadrian Micciche [mailto: hmicciche@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2013 5:02 PM
To: newsroom@oregonian.com; bwalth@wweek.com; news@portlandmercury.com; News; pmnews@kboo.org; Cc: editor@theportlandalliance.org; ThePortlandAlliance@gmail.com; njaquiss@wweek.com; amesh@wweek.com; adamewood@wweek.com; stevelaw@portlandtribune.com; jimredden@portlandtribune.com
Subject: The disintegration of the KBOO Board.
I'm a Board member of the KBOO Foundation. I invite you to attend the next KBOO Board meeting, where we will be discussing:
1. A Board member soliciting people to engage in illegal behavior.
2. A Board member who had no authorization to spend Foundations funds, yet did so, and wastefully.
3. A Board member who seeks to toss out all of the work done by consultants to KBOO, paid for by a foundation grant, which, if this is done, will put every granting organization on notice that KBOO will likely make poor use of any additional funding. So much for grants to help pay for items called for in the KBOO Strategic Plan, such as the Media Center. That's $35,000 wasted on consultants and how much wasted on an unrealizable Strategic Plan?
4. A report from the Finance Committee that the Board is neglecting its fiduciary responsibilities.
5. A report that KBOO is on track to lossing its broadcasting license for failure to have a Community Advisory Board, as the FCC and our By-laws require, and that this failure of KBOO to follow its By-laws has been reported to the state's Attorney Generals office.
Plus, you can witness the disruption of the Board's business by a small number of disaffected members, should that happen again, as it did at our last meeting. In addition, you may see people supposedly seeking to protect KBOO values again engage in name-calling, belittling, as well as a general failure by members to carry out their responsibility to let each other know when some are doing harm to another person or a group of people with such behavior, as well as the failure of the Board to ask such people to stop that behavior or leave, all in violation of the "KBOO philosophy.
The meeting is Monday, June 24th at 6pm (arrive early as the meeting may be standing room only). KBOO is located at 20 SE 8th Avenue, Portland, OR 9721
Please contact me if you would like to see the Board agenda and related supporting documents, as well as background information about current events at KBOO, and the long standing disfunction of the KBOO Board.
Hadrian Micciche
... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... .
All of Hadrian's charges are trumped up or exaggerated, as will be seen. Regarding the fifth accusation, it is not true that KBOO does not have community "advisement." Hadrian is attempting to entangle the FCC by digging up an irrelevant and obscure provision relating to licensing. Not only that, he has attempted to bring in State law enforcement, thus guaranteeing the further destruction of the budget, following on the Station Manager's cancellation of the Drive. If he were sincerely concerned with legal compliance, of course, he could have first put any real problem on the Board agenda, so that enforcement could be avoided. But he obviously wishes to destroy KBOO. His diatribe above refers to the May Board meeting, in which he infuriated an already angry crowd of KBOO supporters, by arrogantly stating that they were only there by gracious permission- and then walking out, breaking quorum. If KBOO won't go corporate, then it can go away.
I encourage you to call Lynn Fitch, Station Manager for KBOO, at 503-231-8032, and ask her if she supports Hadrian's multilateral attack on KBOO.
homepage: homepage: savekboo.org
alternative media | corporate dominance
destroying KBOO via the State
author: Theresa Mitchell
anti-KBOO faction shows its teeth
KBOO has been broadcasting since 1968, and has had various Board constituents since that time. The current Board includes what I call the pro-corporate faction, consisting of Hadrian Micciche (appointed), Paula Small (elected if I recall correctly), and Rabia Yeaman (appointed). I call them 'pro-corporate' because they supported the Station Manager Lynn Fitch in her nearly-successful attempt last April to fire every one of the Staff, and because they support the replacement of the KBOO Mission Statement and Policies with a corporate boilerplate 'Board Policy Manual.' They also get that appellation for their usage of sneering language towards the strong Left faction at KBOO, and for supporting Lynn when she hired a union-buster versus the Staff. That's standard fare for corporate America, and of course, it is wrong acting, and it is a big reason why we have KBOO, as an alternative.
Since the firing attempt, I have been convinced that a small faction desired to remake KBOO as a toothless and inoffensive boutique station. If the Staff had been removed in its entirety, this change would already be well underway. So, I have fought ruthlessly, because I know that in this Jim Crow secret police state we call America, we cannot afford to lose a strong island of dissent, no matter how small. I think that despite the occasional comment to the effect that "radio is dead" from the same crowd that would bleach out KBOO, the fact is, really, radio is powerful. For one thing, KBOO's broadcasts direct people to books and websites they would not encounter through random browsing or via corporate-owned news.
This morning, for example, I listened to Fred Branfman, author of "Voices From the Plain of Jars," on Veterans' Voice, the only radio program in the area generated by antiwar vets. He spoke of the unspeakable horror of the bombing of Laos, and of the twenty million slain by US imperialism since 1945. It was powerful and left me shaking. Nothing like that will ever be heard on a station tied to corporations or major corporate-owned political parties. So, my assumption is that some of the people offended by such truth would like nothing better than to end principled dissent at KBOO-by silencing the station altogether, if necessary. Really, once I realized that the Winter Pledge Drive had been cancelled to create a crisis, I knew the fight was on, and that the core of the opposition intended to destroy the station. Ironically, this fiscally destructive faction is the one that continually asserts that KBOO is failing financially.
Here, then, is a communication from the core of the corporatists:
From: Hadrian Micciche [mailto: hmicciche@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, June 20, 2013 5:02 PM
To: newsroom@oregonian.com; bwalth@wweek.com; news@portlandmercury.com; News; pmnews@kboo.org; Cc: editor@theportlandalliance.org; ThePortlandAlliance@gmail.com; njaquiss@wweek.com; amesh@wweek.com; adamewood@wweek.com; stevelaw@portlandtribune.com; jimredden@portlandtribune.com
Subject: The disintegration of the KBOO Board.
I'm a Board member of the KBOO Foundation. I invite you to attend the next KBOO Board meeting, where we will be discussing:
1. A Board member soliciting people to engage in illegal behavior.
2. A Board member who had no authorization to spend Foundations funds, yet did so, and wastefully.
3. A Board member who seeks to toss out all of the work done by consultants to KBOO, paid for by a foundation grant, which, if this is done, will put every granting organization on notice that KBOO will likely make poor use of any additional funding. So much for grants to help pay for items called for in the KBOO Strategic Plan, such as the Media Center. That's $35,000 wasted on consultants and how much wasted on an unrealizable Strategic Plan?
4. A report from the Finance Committee that the Board is neglecting its fiduciary responsibilities.
5. A report that KBOO is on track to lossing its broadcasting license for failure to have a Community Advisory Board, as the FCC and our By-laws require, and that this failure of KBOO to follow its By-laws has been reported to the state's Attorney Generals office.
Plus, you can witness the disruption of the Board's business by a small number of disaffected members, should that happen again, as it did at our last meeting. In addition, you may see people supposedly seeking to protect KBOO values again engage in name-calling, belittling, as well as a general failure by members to carry out their responsibility to let each other know when some are doing harm to another person or a group of people with such behavior, as well as the failure of the Board to ask such people to stop that behavior or leave, all in violation of the "KBOO philosophy.
The meeting is Monday, June 24th at 6pm (arrive early as the meeting may be standing room only). KBOO is located at 20 SE 8th Avenue, Portland, OR 9721
Please contact me if you would like to see the Board agenda and related supporting documents, as well as background information about current events at KBOO, and the long standing disfunction of the KBOO Board.
Hadrian Micciche
... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... .
All of Hadrian's charges are trumped up or exaggerated, as will be seen. Regarding the fifth accusation, it is not true that KBOO does not have community "advisement." Hadrian is attempting to entangle the FCC by digging up an irrelevant and obscure provision relating to licensing. Not only that, he has attempted to bring in State law enforcement, thus guaranteeing the further destruction of the budget, following on the Station Manager's cancellation of the Drive. If he were sincerely concerned with legal compliance, of course, he could have first put any real problem on the Board agenda, so that enforcement could be avoided. But he obviously wishes to destroy KBOO. His diatribe above refers to the May Board meeting, in which he infuriated an already angry crowd of KBOO supporters, by arrogantly stating that they were only there by gracious permission- and then walking out, breaking quorum. If KBOO won't go corporate, then it can go away.
I encourage you to call Lynn Fitch, Station Manager for KBOO, at 503-231-8032, and ask her if she supports Hadrian's multilateral attack on KBOO.
homepage: homepage: savekboo.org
Noteworthy is Mitchell's attempt to spin Lisa Loving's call to hack the SKFSK blog as "journalism" in comments:
portland.indymedia.org/en/2013/06/423799.shtml#418270
answering the other accusations 21.Jun.2013 12:22
tm link
The first accusation refers to an attempt to discover an anonymous blogger. If that's illegal activity, then all journalists are criminals.
The second is the latest attempt to get rid of Board President SW Conser. He got some legal counsel some months ago, not regarding the Union by the way, in his capacity as Board CEO. The counsel was vital to KBOO, and the accusation is that only the full Board could have authorized it. However, long-standing nonprofit precedent indicates this is not so.
Third: it isn't just one Board member that wants to toss out the disgusting corporate Board Policy Manual. The money was wasted as soon as it was granted, because KBOO is a people's organization.
Fourth comes a diatribe by the Treasurer that hypocritically ignores the fiscal disaster of the corporate makeover (see above).