A Small Sampling from the national Grass Roots Radio Conference (& City Council Heeds Private Developers Over Citizens)

Podcast: Grass Roots Radio Conference in Kansas City



Sharon M. Scott



 The 2011 national Grass Roots Radio Conference (GRC), organized by Friends of Community Media, was held in Kansas City August 18-21.  The August 23 edition of Tell Somebody featured a few excerpts from the conference and a segment on how a committee of the Kansas City, Missouri City Council tunes out citizens and listens to developers before voting to go against the city charter and works to advance a resolution declining to place before the voters a proposed ordinance prohibiting the production of any components for nuclear weapons at 14500 Botts Road as proposed by a committee of petitioners.

 

 

Mary Lindsay



After that, you'll hear an excerpt of Ann Suellentrop of KC Peace Planters leading a GRC workshop titled  "Fighting Nuclear Bombs in KC with Community Radio," a segment on Brice Phillips, who drove up from Mississippi for the Conference, an interview with Sharon Scott on "College Radio in Crisis: Spotlight WRVU," Nilufar Movahedi, Rhonda LeValdo and Loris Ann Taylor on  "Diversifying Your Programming," and an excerpt from Mary Lindsay's workshop "Why Pro-democracy Groups are Important to the Grassroots Radio Movement" making the case that the Move To Amend the U.S. Constitution and GrassRoots Radio are directly related.

  

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Links to Bill Moyers Journal coverage of Brice Phillips work in Mississippi:



http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/08242007/profile3.html  http://www.pbs.org/moyers/journal/blog/2007/08/_lowpower_fm_radio_share_it_wi.html