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Announcement :: Media |
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WEFT election deadline tomorrow July 12! |
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by Durl Kruse
Email: jandurl (nospam) insightbb.com (verified) |
10 Jul 2006
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WEFT Election details:
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Every year near the beginning of summer, WEFT conducts an election for two
Member-elected seats on the Board of Directors. The term "Member-elected" refers
to the fact that all WEFT Members may vote in the election. A WEFT Member is
anyone who has contributed at least $40 to WEFT in the past year. Hundreds of
ballots are sent out by postal mail (one for each Member), voters fill out their
ballot and send it back to WEFT.
If you received a ballot, it must be postmarked by TOMORROW, July 12th, to be
tallied in the election. If you believe you are a WEFT Member (that is, you
contributed at least $40 in the last year to the station during pledge drive or
at any other time) and you did NOT receive a ballot via postal mail, you may
request one by *immediately* sending e-mail to the WEFT Board of Directors at
weftb (at) weft.org (by tomorrow at the latest).
For more details on what's happening with the effort to reform WEFT, go to
CROW's website at:
www.reformweft.org |
Even if you are a frequent listener of WEFT 90.1 FM community radio, you may not
be aware of developments over the past year that are hurting the organization.
Read on to learn what's happening and how your participation in the current
election can help.
This year's WEFT election is particularly important in light of the problems
WEFT is facing (including reduced financial support in the community) due to
recent trends toward secretive, exclusionary autocracy by a relatively small
number of long-time volunteers. One exceptionally troubling example of this
trend was the banishment without cause of active volunteer and Board member
Randall Cotton in August 2005.
Randall Cotton is an oustpoken advocate for progressive change at WEFT -
including more transparency, less favoritism, more democracy, increased
participation in that democracy and increased efforts to attract new volunteers
to the organization. But his efforts were unwelcome by some key personalities at
the station and as a result, on August 23, 2005, the WEFT station manager
authored a letter banishing Randall Cotton from the premises and barring him
from WEFT's airwaves. For more information, see:
http://reformweft.org/banishment.html
Randall Cotton is once again running for the WEFT Board of Directors (he is on
the ballot in the current WEFT election) and is being endorsed by a new advocacy
group called the Committee for the Reform of WEFT (CROW), composed of about two
dozen WEFT Board members, volunteers, airshifters and members. CROW was formed
to oppose the current trends that are adversely affecting the overall health and
long-term viability of the organization and also to advocate for long-term
progressive change in WEFT's governance.
For more details on what's happening with the effort to reform WEFT, go to
CROW's website at:
www.reformweft.org |
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