Save Grassroots Radio

from Action Planning Worksheet:

• What is our GOAL?
  • Alternative Radio to air weekly on KRFC between 7am and 9pm.
  • Of course many actions serve multiple goals. And we always need to remember that the processes of developing our organizations and skills are as important as urgent external goals.
• Who can give us what we want?
  • GM is final programming decider (Board could override)
  • Programming Committee aka Community Advisory Board makes programming recommendations
  • Volunteer(s) to actually do the work to air AR
• Is there another audience who we also want to address?
• Who is most affected by this issue?
  • potential listeners of Alternative Radio
  • CSU Ethnic Studies folks for example
  • people interested in environmental, economic, foreign policy, ethnic, social, and other justices
• Who is against us?
  • PC: Joann, Louis, other members neutral or slightly against
  • volunteers: probably several, including Dianne
  • Unsure where General Manager stands
  • Possibly some board members
• Who are our allies?
  • CSU Dept Ethnic Studies
  • Some PV Greens, STPers, CJPEers
  • Some petition signers and other SGRers
  • Probably Eric Fried
  • David Barsamian, producer of AR
  • possibly news team members, esp. Elizabeth Bailey
• Who might become an ally?
  • Neutral PC members
  • Public Affairs and other programmers
• Who can we try to keep neutral?
  • General Manager (maybe, could be polarized)
  • non-partisan PC members
  • non-partisan Board members
  • influential volunteers, perhaps staff
• How do we get people who are with us to be willing to step it up a notch?
  • prepare them very well (talking points, contact info, possible future steps)
  • give them a copy of AR they'd enjoy
  • give them a sense this is a winning team if possible (many people won't join an unknown team)
  • support them before and after, have coffee, elicit and listen to their cherished values
• What resources do we have right now?
  • membershp list
  • Sally, Paul, David Barsamian, probably other SGRers if we ask
  • telephone, email
  • contacts with STP, CJPE, PV Greens, Uproot
  • person-hours (parts of KRFC could really use volunteer effort)
  • Obamamania
  • Willingness of CSU Ethnic Studies dept to write an official letter
  • Possibly favorable press via Eric Fried
• What are our weaknesses in resources?
  • inside information
    • how best to advocate for AR?
    • who are the formal and informal decisionmakers?
    • where do they currently stand?
    • what are their underlying concerns (which we could proactively address)?
    • what is our leverage on them?
  • campaigner organization and cohesion
• What efforts have we already made to achieve our goal?
  • Sally chat with General Manager
  • Paul, Carla, Sally attend Program Committee meeting
  • Paul strong contact with David Barsamian, obtained AR disks to share
  • changes to mission statement
• Taking all of the above into account, what is our best Strategy for using our resources to achieve our goal?
  • Make a list of decisionmakers and at least speculate on questions above. For example PC members will have a concern about hurting an existing programmer whose time could be shortened.
  • neutralize GM and Board and perhaps other likely anti-AR-ers like Dianne
  • apply pressure to Programming Committee while simultaneously anticipating and resolving as many of their concerns as possible aka Getting to Yes.

Now it's finally time to pick a Tactic that works strategically toward the goal:

My guess -- first tactics could be aimed at neutralizing anti-AR-ers who typically use partisan taste-based
arguments and sometimes coercive influences on others. One possible method would be to ask questions
to elicit discussions about, and subtle affirmations of, principles-based high-quality procedures by which
programming decisions are ideally made.

• What is our message*?
  • the message needs to fit into a clear story that we can tell about the issue
  • principled adherence to station charter is a "professional" responsibility -- personal taste is almost never appropriate
• What tone* do we want to take? (shaming, supportive, educational, confrontational, mourning, celebratory…
  • nonjudgementally inquisitive -- learning about great parts of KRFC work
  • supportive of people doing this principled work
• When will we act? (Timing)
• Where will we take our stand?

Logistical timeline leading up to and through the event:

Counterplans for various anticipated reactions (rain, small turnout, police block our path)
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