[OccupyCU] Fw: this Saturday's Occupy The Air

[Sean Seckler]

Hi Carl,

This is Sean Seckler from Occupy the Air. Thanks for responding and for
your willingness to lend a hand in keeping Occupy the Air on the air and
fresh in content and opinion.

Please allow me to give you some background on the show and the current
situation I'm in with regard to hosting it on Saturdays before I get into
the help I'm looking for:

-in November of last year, Matt Murphy and I started the show in response
to the Occupy movement
-the focus was outreach to the general public to make them aware of WHY
occupy was happening
-the show was 3 hours and live, usually with some community news (when the
occupy meetings and demonstrations were going on) and about 4 or 5 topics
for discussion, including relevant clips from various sources (back when we
had 3 hours, we would often play longer clips of 30 or 45 minutes, but it
was mostly Matt and I talking about the clips)
-at this time there was a lot of discussion between Matt and I, which gave
the show it's own flavor
-we have always drawn heavily on democracy now as a source for current
events in the nation and world
-sometime in the Spring, we switched to 1 hour instead of 3, as the occupy
movement faded into the background
-we switched the focus of the show from Occupy to current events and topics
that would still interest folks from Occupy
-starting late September, Matt was too busy with work and a master's
program to continue the show
-at about the same time, I became involved in a long distance relationship,
which has me out of town about 2 weekends per month
-since then, I've prerecorded the show with an intro and a tailing audio
segment and filled most of the hour with highlights from the preceding week
of Democracy Now (or other sources)
-the show definitely has it's own new flavor, and it's probably not that
palatable

---

At this point, what I'm looking for depends on what kind of help I can
get...

-The simplest option is help on the weekends when I'm out of town. I would
give at least a week's notice to anyone interested in hosting. They would
step into the booth on Saturday from noon to 1pm and stand in as host(s) of
the show.

-The more involved option is help on the weekends when I'm in town. I would
like to do at least some live shows again. In this case, I would like to be
able to have 1 or more guests join me in studio from time to time, or
possibly on a more regular basis, to have live discussion and open call-ins.

Before we try that second option, however, I'd like to do a out-of-studio
session, and record the audio as though it were a show. That way we can
hear how the show would sound in a new format, and we could use the edited
audio for later airings.

Let me know how that strikes you.

Sean

On Sun, Nov 11, 2012 at 11:46 AM, C. G. Estabrook
<carl at newsfromneptune.com>wrote:

> David--
>
> The staff of UPTV's News from Neptune (Carl Estabrook, David Green, & Ron
> Szoke) would be happy to help keep Occupy the Air on the air.
>
> We're willing to host/participate in all the hours for which OTA is
> currently scheduled.
>
> Our guide would be Noam Chomsky's pamphlet "Occupy" (Zuccotti Park Press,
> 2012) - News from Neptune is named in Chomsky's honor - and we would
> welcome participants from other progressive groups around town.
>
> We can begin this coming Saturday, November 17 (the anniversary, as it
> happens, of the 1993 Congressional resolution establishing NAFTA, a
> principal example of the economic regime that the Occupy movement stands
> against).
>
> Regards, Carl
>
>
> On Nov 11, 2012, at 10:30 AM, "David Johnson" <dlj725 at hughes.net> wrote:
>
> > Hello Everyone,
> >
> > At last Monday's Occupy meeting I made an appeal for volunteers to help
> keep " Occupy the Air " radio program on the air.
> > Sean needs help !
> > If three people would commit to doing ONE - HOUR , ONE SATURDAY ONCE A
> MONTH each, This would be a tremendous help for Sean ( The current and now
> ONLY host of " Occupy the Air " ).
> >
> > PLEASE, CALL ME  ( David Johnson ) at ;
> > 217-721-0583 asap.,
> >
> > Please don't allow " Occupy the Air " Radio Program die !
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Sean Seckler
> > To: David Johnson ; Bill Gorrell ; Bob Paleczny ; Pat Simpson ; Mick
> Woolf
> > Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2012 2:28 PM
> > Subject: this Saturday's Occupy The Air
> >
> > Hello Illinois World Labor Hour folks and Mick!
> >
> > I will be out of town again this weekend. Will someone be able to play
> my show Saturday?
> >
> > I will leave a usb drive with the file "Nov10.mp3" in spintron (I'll try
> to put the file on the desktop, but if someone's in the booth, I may have
> to just leave the usb drive plugged in)
> > I will also slide a CD with the same file under Mick's door.
> >
> > Sean
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