<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>Love it Richard. Thanks. </div><div id="AppleMailSignature"><br></div><div id="AppleMailSignature">Doug<br><br>Sent from my iPhone</div><div><br>On Dec 29, 2015, at 3:07 PM, Dr Richard Louis Miller <<a href="mailto:drrichardlmiller@gmail.com">drrichardlmiller@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,255)"><br clear="all"></div><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:center"><div style="text-align:center"><br></div></div><br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><br><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><br><div><div><div><div><div><span class=""><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,153)">Richard Louis Miller, M.A., Ph.D.</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,153)">Clinical Psychology</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,153)">Wikipedia: Dr Richard Louis Miller</span><u></u><u></u></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,153)">Wikipedia: Wilbur Hot Springs</span><u></u><u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,153)"><a href="http://mindbodyhealthpolitics.org">MindBodyHealthPolitics.org</a></span><u></u><u></u></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,153)"><a href="http://psychepedia.org">Psychepedia.org</a></span><u></u><u></u></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><u></u> <u></u></p><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue">Dear Members of the KZYX Board:<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><font color="#0000ff">The purpose of this letter is to respectfully request that you form a Board committee to investigate the terminations</font></p><div class="gmail_default" style="display:inline"><font color="#0000ff">, in recent years.</font></div><font color="#0000ff"> of a very long list of KZYX programmers. It is because the list<div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);display:inline"> of those terminated </div> 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.<u></u><u></u></font><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue">I hope</span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);display:inline"> and trust </div> that in a small community, such as ours, differences between programmers and management <div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);display:inline"> can mostly </div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);display:inline"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);display:inline"></div> be cooperatively handled by sitting<div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);display:inline">, </div> talking<div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);display:inline"> and sometimes mediating.</div> Unfortunately this has not been the case. To the contrary<div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);display:inline">, </div> there have been summary firings which have caused, disgrace, dishonor and negative feelings towards the station<div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);display:inline">,</div> its paid employees<div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);display:inline"> and the volunteer elected Board of Directors.</div><u></u><p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue">O</span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);display:inline">ver the years </div> 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 <div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);display:inline">------------</div>."<u></u><u></u><p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue">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</span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);display:inline">s</div> we <div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);display:inline">may not </div>even know why they were fired. <div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);display:inline">Perhaps </div> many<div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);display:inline"> programmers </div> could have been suspended instead of fired.<u></u><u></u><p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue">Johanna Shultz was told she was</span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);display:inline"> summarily </div> fired because of language used by a hip hop singer during the 12-4AM safe harbor period. Johanna was devastated. <u></u><u></u><p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div></span><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue">Does anyone know why 16 year supervisor </span><span style="color:rgb(39,5,245);background-color:yellow">Norman </span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);display:inline">d</div><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);display:inline">u</div> Vall<span style="color:blue"> was fired? It beggars the imagination to understand why Norm was fired rather than talked with and negotiated with. <div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);display:inline"> How are we to understand the firing of </div> a <div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);display:inline">volunteer</div> in his 70s who, whether you agree with hi<div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);display:inline">s politics </div> or not, has given so much of his life to our community?<div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,255);display:inline"></div><u></u><u></u></span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue"></span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,255);display:inline"></div><br><p></p></div><span class=""><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue">There are many</span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);display:inline"> additional </div> people on the list of those terminated. Els Cooperrider, KC Meadows, Johanna Schultz, Kristina Armistead, Doug Mckenty, John Sakowicz, <div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);display:inline">and more.</div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue"></span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);display:inline">It </div> is simply bad public relations for our station to have so many people in the community who have been fired. <u></u><u></u><p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue">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 </span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);display:inline">they </div> may be. The amount of money <div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);display:inline">managerial failure </div> cost the station is most unfortunate and I believe it could have been avoided via negotiation<div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);display:inline">/mediation </div> instead of <div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);display:inline">firing</div>.<u></u><u></u><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,255)">Many firings in the workplace cause</span></p><div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);display:inline"> some </div> workers to feel unsafe and <div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,255);display:inline">they </div> avoid speaking up for what they believe in<div class="gmail_default" style="color:rgb(0,0,255);display:inline"> when </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,255);display:inline"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-size:large;color:rgb(0,0,255);display:inline"></div> they think speaking out will get them fired.<span style="color:blue"><br></span><p></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue">With the new regime at KZYX we have an opportunity to heal the past and start anew with a fresh slate. <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue">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.<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue">Wishing you each excellent health,<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue"><u></u> <u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue">Richard<u></u><u></u></span></p></div><div><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:blue">Host, Mind Body Health & Politics. <u></u><u></u></span></p></div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12pt"><u></u> <u></u></p></span></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div>
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