<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:16px"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489192610802_11302"> Hi , <br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489192610802_11303" dir="ltr"> I'd like to add my name to the list of the KZYX "14". I was a News volunteer for eight years when after I wrote a piece in the AVA called, Inside Out-- Thunder Rumblings and Lightning Strikes-- about inside info on the termination of Christina Aanestadt and offering the perspective that the change in programming, especially that of the progressive news programs was not due to finances as Coate often maintained but due to forces yet to be determined. As the years progressed it was easy to see that censorship was the real motivation. I was told by News Director, Paul Hanson "that I could not write about the station in the AVA and continue as a volunteer." This is the same man who avoided a felony fraud conviction by pleading to a lesser charge in regard to lottery fraud. All True. So much for the Board's responsibility to properly vet all prospective employees.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489192610802_11888" dir="ltr"> Meg Courtney falsely told me that the Board had voted to ban me as a volunteer and that I was no longer welcome at the station. When, at a Board meeting , I confronted the Board to tell me when they had met and voted on my banishment without hearing my side of the story, it turned out that Meg and some unknown person(s) (most likely Coate & Aigner) had made the decision.<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489192610802_11234" class="qtdSeparateBR"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489192610802_12330"> I have, through dedicated persistence, been unbanned but needless to say, there is still a great deal of tension between Courtney and myself.</div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489192610802_12307"> I have proposed, in an article on Transparency for the AVA, July 2016, that the Board set up a Truth & Reconciliation Committee consisting of some community members who have been mistreated to devise a fair grievance process that would bring those considered to be outsiders or reformers back into the KZYX fold. No response yet from any Board member as is their habit. In fact, I have had to send multiple certified letters to the station to insure any response for information I have requested.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489192610802_12433" dir="ltr"> Another election is coming up. The only contested seat is the AT- Large seat which is more desirable because it is open to station programmers. The Board already has Stuart Campbell as the de facto representative of the programmers. Despite my request that he give a report on his interaction with programmers about issues with which they are concerned, he has to date not said a single word about the programmers in his cumulative 4 years as their representative. If patterns hold true, he will be the next Board President and hold the station firmly in his powerful grip.<br> </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489192610802_12764" dir="ltr"> There have been many injustices at our often touted "community radio station". The main one is the minimalizing of community input through the near non existent Community Advisory Board who didn't hold a quorumed public meeting all year. I have caught Stuart Campbell in a big fat lie about the private meeting of the CAB in his home by getting the notes about KZYX business at that meeting that he maintains never happened. Get Involved!</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489192610802_12847" dir="ltr"> Sheila Dawn Tracy<br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489192610802_12834" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489192610802_12848" dir="ltr"><br></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489192610802_12849" dir="ltr"><br></div></div><div style="display: block;" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489192610802_11385" class="yahoo_quoted"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489192610802_11384" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489192610802_11383" style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489192610802_11382" dir="ltr"> <font id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489192610802_11442" face="Arial" size="2"> <hr id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489192610802_11530" size="1"> <b id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489192610802_12631"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489192610802_12630" style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> John Sakowicz <sako4@comcast.net><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> kzyxtalk <kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, March 10, 2017 3:43 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> Re: [Kzyxtalk] The Public Trial of John Sakowicz<br> </font> </div> <div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489192610802_11389" class="y_msg_container"><br><div id="yiv0489631893"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489192610802_11388"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489192610802_11387" style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000;"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489192610802_11386">Thank you, Dr. Miller, for this ""history lesson". I had no idea how you had to grovel. </div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489192610802_11390"><br clear="none"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489192610802_11518">It is never enough for a host/producer to do superior programming at KZYX, with great guests, on important topics. No. Never enough. One must "kiss the ring", so to speak...or in the case of Aigner and Coate, kiss their ass.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489192610802_11391"><br clear="none"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489192610802_11392">I couldn't do it. Now I have a show at KMEC on a powerful digital platform with an audience now approaching 50,000 Youtube subscribers and distribution through several media channels.</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489192610802_11393"><br clear="none"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489192610802_11394">No one at KZYX could ever put together that technology I now havve. Not Aigner nor Coate norr Culbertson. "Lazy" and "stupid" come to mind, and as Dean Vernon Wormer told John Belushi in the movie, Animal House, "lazy and stupid is no way to go through life."</div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489192610802_11395"><br clear="none"></div><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489192610802_11776">-- John</div><hr id="yiv0489631893zwchr"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489192610802_11396" style="color:#000;font-weight:normal;font-style:normal;text-decoration:none;font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Dr Richard Louis Miller" <drrichardlmiller@gmail.com><br clear="none"><b>To: </b>"kzyxtalk" <kzyxtalk@lists.mcn.org>, "KZYX Board" <bod1989@pacific.net>, "MCN Announce Lists" <announce@lists.mcn.org>, discussion@lists.mcn.org<br clear="none"><b>Sent: </b>Friday, March 10, 2017 11:30:02 AM<br clear="none"><b>Subject: </b>Re: [Kzyxtalk] The Public Trial of John Sakowicz<br clear="none"><div id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1489192610802_11397"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv0489631893yqt4918882536" id="yiv0489631893yqt13382"><div dir="ltr"><div class="yiv0489631893gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77);">Dear KZYX Friends and Neighbors:</div><div class="yiv0489631893gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77);"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv0489631893gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77);">Some of you have been asking me for an explanation of my effusive expression of gratitude to KZYX Board President Meg Courtney during the recent Board meeting at the Senior Center, on March 6, 2017.</div><div class="yiv0489631893gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77);"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv0489631893gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77);">Some year ago I was one of the 15 people* terminated from KZYX. This number of persons terminated, at KZYX, is greater than the total number of people I have witnessed terminated during my entire 66 year working career. </div><div class="yiv0489631893gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77);"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv0489631893gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77);"> To put this in perspective: I have scrapped dishes, washed toilets, cleaned rat cages, cleaned sewers, waited on tables, taught at the University of Michigan and Stanford University, made testimony to the California State Assembly and the President's Commission on Mental Health, served as Senior Vice President, and President of my division, of a chemical dependance treatment program employing 2000 people, and much more. Again, the total number of people terminated, in my entire 66 career, for all reasons, was not close to the 15 terminated at KZYX.</div><div class="yiv0489631893gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77);"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv0489631893gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77);">KZYX General Manager, John Coate, and KZYX Program Director, Mary Aigner, refused to meet with me to discuss any of their actions. Instead, Coate sent me a letter saying that I would not be allowed to return to my job until I sent a letter to all 100 KZYX programmers admitting "my mistake". My lawyer said Coate's demand of a public mea culpa was illegal. When I called Coate he refused to take my calls. This was the most egregious example, amongst many, during a 10 year work period, which were, by far, the the most painful in my entire work history.</div><div class="yiv0489631893gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77);"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv0489631893gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77);"> During their tenure, I was regularly met, by GM Coate and PD Aigner, with derision, contempt, sarcasm and a level of disrespect which was palpable. It was painful to call the station for any reason, whatsoever, for at bare minimum I was met with a sarcastic "why are you calling and bothering us?"</div><div class="yiv0489631893gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77);"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv0489631893gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77);"> Coate/Aigner made me grovel for 2 solid years in order to provide me with a key to the Mendo studio. Finally after they terminated Norm du Vall, he gave me his key. </div><div class="yiv0489631893gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77);">Another time they refused to give me an answer, for 6 months, to my request that I be allowed, at my own expense, to buy a head set with mic built in. </div><div class="yiv0489631893gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77);"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv0489631893gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77);">My dedicated studio engineer, Mike Dell'Ara, was witness to both of these incidents as well as to the tones with which I was chronically treated for many years.</div><div class="yiv0489631893gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77);"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv0489631893gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77);">In addition, during my entire 10 years, there was no building of spirit du corp or ever a real working Program Advisory Committee (which, to this day, despite the promises of Board member, Stuart Campbell, 8 months ago, still does not exist.) Thus, in a community radio station there is no channel for community input to programming.</div><div class="yiv0489631893gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77);"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv0489631893gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77);">It was only because of my love of our community and my program, and my belief that my program adds to our community, which I cherish, that I continued to work under such unusually painful adverse circumstances. Instead of quitting I chose to out wait them. Staying the course, and staying alive, are winning tactics.</div><div class="yiv0489631893gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77);"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv0489631893gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77);">From the moment Coate and Aigner departed, the atmosphere at KZYX changed and my work life improved markedly...in fact, it became normal. Now I both enjoy my job and the people I work with.</div><div class="yiv0489631893gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77);"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv0489631893gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77);"> Acting PD Angela de Witt was a pleasure to work with and so is PD Alice Woefle-Erskine. We work cooperatively, as a team, for the station and for the community. We treat one another with respect and good cheer. </div><div class="yiv0489631893gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77);"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv0489631893gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77);">So why did I express so much gratitude to Meg Courtney? Because 8 months after my "suspension" she persuaded John Coate to meet with me at her home for dinner.</div><div class="yiv0489631893gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77);">If was only because of Meg's intervention that Coate actually deigned to speak with me. It's almost impossible to dine with someone without talking to them.</div><div class="yiv0489631893gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77);">Subsequent to the dinner Coate invited me to resume my program which I did after a full year off the air. Because Meg did caused Coate to do his job I am eternally grateful.</div><div class="yiv0489631893gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77);"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv0489631893gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77);">Presently the list of those KZYX programmers terminated is at least 14*. Perhaps some of these programmers deserved to be terminated. Perhaps some of these programmers deserve to be reinstated. Perhaps apologies to some are proper. For certain, until there is a review of these 14 terminations they will fester in our community. We heard expressions of the festering at the Board meeting on March 6.</div><div class="yiv0489631893gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77);"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv0489631893gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77);">With our new, and very experienced, GM, Jeff Parker, it is a new day at KZYX and I hopefully KZYX will finally take its place as a model station. Unfortunately Jeff has inherited some old baggage which needs attending to. Such is life. Most of us have old baggage that benefits from healing. </div><div class="yiv0489631893gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77);"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv0489631893gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77);">Lets get with Jeff and support his leading us to the greater community contribution hundreds of us have been working for, voluntarily, without pay, these past many years. If the Trump government takes away our federal funding (about $140,000/year) let us raise it here in our community. We can do it!</div><div class="yiv0489631893gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77);"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv0489631893gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77);">If ever there was a time for us all to put our disagreements aside and pull together, in the same direction, this is it!</div><div class="yiv0489631893gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77);"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv0489631893gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77);">Wishing you all excellent health,</div><div class="yiv0489631893gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77);"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv0489631893gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77);">Richard</div><div class="yiv0489631893gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77);">Host, Mind Body Health & Politics.</div><div class="yiv0489631893gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77);"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv0489631893gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77);"><span style="font-size:x-small;">Richard Louis Miller, M.A., Ph.D.</span><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv0489631893gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77);"><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;text-align:center;"><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="font-size:x-small;"><span style="color:#20124d;font-family:georgia, serif;">Clinical Psychology</span></span></div></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color:#20124d;font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:xx-small;">Wikipedia: Dr Richard Louis Miller</span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;"><span style="color:#20124d;font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:xx-small;">Wikipedia: Wilbur Hot Springs</span></div><div style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;text-align:center;"><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:#20124d;font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:xx-small;">MindBodyHealthPolitics.org</span></div><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:#20124d;font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:xx-small;">MendocinoTV.com</span></div><div style="text-align:left;"><span style="color:#20124d;font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:xx-small;">Psychepedia.org </span></div></div></div><div class="yiv0489631893gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77);"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv0489631893gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77);"><div style="margin:0px;font-size:24px;line-height:normal;font-family:times;"><span style=""><br clear="none"></span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:24px;line-height:normal;font-family:times;"><span style="">*KZYX Programmers Terminated (not in chronological order of termination)</span></div><div style="margin:0px;font-size:24px;line-height:normal;font-family:times;"><span style="">1-Phaedra Savage</span></div>
<div style="margin:0px;font-size:24px;line-height:normal;font-family:times;"><span style="">2-Toni Orans</span></div>
<div style="margin:0px;font-size:24px;line-height:normal;font-family:times;"><span style="">3-Beth Bosk </span></div>
<div style="margin:0px;font-size:24px;line-height:normal;font-family:times;"><span style="">4-Sister Yasmin<span class="yiv0489631893gmail-Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre;"> </span></span></div>
<div style="margin:0px;font-size:24px;line-height:normal;font-family:times;"><span style="">5-Mary Walsh</span></div>
<div style="margin:0px;font-size:24px;line-height:normal;font-family:times;"><span style="">6-Johanna Schultz</span></div>
<div style="margin:0px;font-size:24px;line-height:normal;font-family:times;"><span style="">7-Els Cooperider</span></div>
<div style="margin:0px;font-size:24px;line-height:normal;font-family:times;"><span style="">8-Christina Arnestad</span></div>
<div style="margin:0px;font-size:24px;line-height:normal;font-family:times;"><span style="">9-Doug McKenty</span></div>
<div style="margin:0px;font-size:24px;line-height:normal;font-family:times;"><span style="">10-John Sakowicz</span></div>
<div style="margin:0px;font-size:24px;line-height:normal;font-family:times;"><span style="">11-Norm du Vall</span></div>
<div style="margin:0px;font-size:24px;line-height:normal;font-family:times;"><span style="">12-Mitch Clogg</span></div>
<div style="margin:0px;font-size:24px;line-height:normal;font-family:times;"><span style="">13-Marco McClean</span></div>
<div style="margin:0px;font-size:24px;line-height:normal;font-family:times;"><span style="">14-KC Meadows</span></div></div><div class="yiv0489631893gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77);"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv0489631893gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia, serif;font-size:large;color:rgb(32,18,77);"><br clear="none"></div><div class="yiv0489631893gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="yiv0489631893gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div style="text-align:center;"><div style="text-align:left;"><br clear="none"></div><div style="text-align:left;"><br clear="none"></div><div style="text-align:left;"><br clear="none"></div><div style="text-align:left;"><br clear="none"></div><div style="text-align:left;"><br clear="none"></div></div><br clear="none"></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div><div class="yiv0489631893gmail_quote"><blockquote class="yiv0489631893gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;"><blockquote><div><div><br clear="none"></div></div><div><br clear="none"></div></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><br clear="none"></div></div></div>
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