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Tue Dec 29 18:04:48 PST 2015

Well said, Richard!
Hopefully, the board will heed.

Best wishes,
Erif.

On 12/29/2015 3:07 PM, Dr Richard Louis Miller wrote:
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> Richard Louis Miller, M.A., Ph.D.
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> Clinical Psychology
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> Wikipedia: Dr Richard Louis Miller
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> Wikipedia: Wilbur Hot Springs
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> MindBodyHealthPolitics.org
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> Psychepedia.org
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>  Dear Members of the KZYX Board:
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> I am writing this because I will be preparing for my Tuesday January 5 
> radio broadcast  and thus  will be unable to attend the Monday night 
> Board meeting in Ukiah.
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> The purpose of this letter is to respectfully request that you form a 
> Board committee to investigate the terminations
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>  , in recent years.
> of a very  long list of KZYX programmers.  It is because the list
>  of those terminated 
> is so long that I am making this request. In fact, more people have 
> been fired from KZYX during my almost 10 years with the station, than 
> I have witnessed being fired in my entire  65  year working career.
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> I  hope
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>  and trust 
> that in a small community,  such as ours, differences between 
> programmers and management
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> be cooperatively handled by sitting
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> talking
>  and sometimes mediating.
> Unfortunately this has not been the case.  To the contrary
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> there have been summary firings which have caused, disgrace, dishonor 
> and negative feelings towards the station
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> its paid  employees
>  and the volunteer elected  Board of Directors.
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>  ver the years 
> I have called the station GM and offered to mediate a meeting between 
> management and a fired programmer.  I was told "thanks but no thanks. 
> I won't talk to that
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> As we all know the national journalist Brian Williams was caught 
> falsifying information.  He was demoted but he did not lose his job or 
> his career.  At KZYX  I believe you will find that programmers  have 
> been  fired for  infractions and in some case
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> s 
> we
>  may not 
> even know why they were fired.
>  Perhaps
>  many
>  programmers 
> could have been suspended instead of fired.
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> Johanna Shultz was told she was
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>  summarily 
> fired because of language used by a hip hop singer during the 12-4AM 
> safe harbor period. Johanna was devastated.
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> Does anyone know why 16 year supervisor Norman
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> Vallwas fired? It beggars the imagination to understand why Norm was 
> fired rather  than talked with and negotiated with.
>   How are we to  understand the  firing of  
>   a
>  volunteer
>  in his 70s  who, whether you agree with hi
> s politics 
> or not, has given so much of his life to our community?
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> There are  many
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>  additional 
> people on  the list of those terminated.  Els Cooperrider, KC Meadows, 
> Johanna Schultz, Kristina Armistead, Doug Mckenty, John Sakowicz,
>  and more.
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>  It
>  is simply bad public relations  for our station to have so many 
> people in the community who have been fired.
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> It was to be expected  that in a community of activists some of those 
> many people fired would  band together to take legal action in the 
>  pursuit of some form of satisfaction,  nihilistic though
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>  they 
>  may be.  The amount of money
>  managerial failure 
>  cost the station is most unfortunate and I believe it could have been 
> avoided via negotiation
>  /mediation 
> instead of
>  firing
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> Many firings in the workplace  cause
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>  some 
> workers to feel unsafe and
>  they 
>   avoid speaking up for what they believe in
>  when
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>  they think speaking out will get them fired.
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> With the new regime at KZYX  we have an opportunity to heal the past 
> and start anew with a fresh slate.
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> Creating a Board committee to look into the firings and possibly 
> invite some of the fired programmers to return, would be a proper 
> humanitarian effort and would do a great deal for the public image of 
> the station.
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> Thank you for taking the time to read my letter and consider my 
> request.   I love our station and consider it a privilege to be 
> allowed to broadcast... especially considering some of  my admitted 
>  eccentricities.
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> Wishing you each excellent health,
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> Richard
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> Host, Mind Body Health & Politics.
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