[Rfu-barnraising] Re: [Salon] WRFU Barnraising housing
volunteers needed! (fwd)
faith swords
faith at chambana.net
Fri Oct 14 15:58:14 CDT 2005
I'm the housing point person. Pete and I talked last night. Hannah and I
talked yesterday afternoon. We're all on the same page.
I have 5 people already signed up for housing, as well as verbal
commitments from several other people. Someone is also going to the local
anti-war group's meeting this sunday to solicit housing there.
Faith
On Fri, 14 Oct 2005 katharan at prometheusradio.org wrote:
>
>
> We are, like molly pointed out, going to need tons of volunteers to help
> during the weekend of the barnraising--in particular with meals, but also
> with transportation and registration--plugging volunteers into various
> tasks during the weekend. We'll need everything from people to manage
> tools and equipment for the studio building to help preparing food and
> cleaning up and taking out trash to a driver or two on call at all times
> to make last minute home depot and bus station runs.
>
> Perhaps the students could help during the barnraising as well as attend
> workshops for extra credit. This will be a huge help. Sign them up!
>
> among millions of other things! Start gathering a crew of people who are
> willing to be core volunteers during the weekend!
>
> Do we have a Transportation, Volunteer, or Registration point person yet?
>
> Housing was most pressing, but there should be points for these areas as
> well! Rides will need to be coordinated, and Anthony will need help
> manning the registration table over the weekend, which usually serves as
> our information base and where we plug volunteers in. A volunteer
> coordinator will help us manage our volunteer power, and ensure that we
> have enough local volunteers to make the event run smoothly--the more
> volunteers, the easier it is on everyone.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Kate
>
>> I'm not sure, but my guess is that since it's a media literacy class,
>> they'd probably need to be doing something that's directly media related.
>>
>> You should ask Ivy though, Molly. YOu never know.
>>
>> Faith
>>
>> On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Molly Stentz wrote:
>>
>>> That is so freaking awesome. Do you know if they will be available to
>>> work
>>> prior to the event (to help with planning) or the weekend of, or both?
>>>
>>> I need folks right now to help continue to solicit food donations.
>>> Lynsee has
>>> done an amazing job contacting lots of stores around town. We need to
>>> follow
>>> up with some; others we still need to contact. Some have pledged
>>> donations
>>> that we need to pick up and/or finalize arrangements for picking up the
>>> weekend of. I have a list.
>>>
>>> On the weekend of, I will need a TON of help preparing food,
>>> transporting it
>>> to the IMC, serving and cleaning up afterward.
>>>
>>> -Molly
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, faith swords wrote:
>>>
>>>>> From one of the College of Communications professors.
>>>>
>>>> What can we come up with for the students to do?
>>>>
>>>> F.
>>>>
>>>> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
>>>> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 17:46:40 -0500
>>>> From: Ivy Glennon <iglennon at uiuc.edu>
>>>> To: faith swords <faith at chambana.net>
>>>> Subject: Re: [Salon] WRFU Barnraising housing volunteers needed!
>>>>
>>>> Hi Faith,
>>>>
>>>> Do you need more volunteers for errands, etc. I'm allowing
>>>> credit for a class exercise for my media literacy students
>>>> if they help with this. I sent them to the webpage for
>>>> registration and gave them a sheet a coordinator of this has
>>>> to sign for their credit.
>>>>
>>>> If they do ALOT of work, it is okay with me if the
>>>> coordinator says they went above and beyond what was asked
>>>> (I might increase the credit) but I'm not advertising that.
>>>>
>>>> Ivy
>>>>
>>>> ---- Original message ----
>>>>> Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2005 15:25:24 -0500 (CDT)
>>>>> From: faith swords <faith at chambana.net>
>>>>> Subject: [Salon] WRFU Barnraising housing volunteers
>>>> needed!
>>>>> To: salon at chambana.net
>>>>>
>>>>> Dear friends,
>>>>>
>>>>> Can you help us host the wonderful volunteers who will help
>>>> build your new
>>>>> community radio station in Mid November?
>>>>>
>>>>>> From November 10-14, hundreds of people will converge on
>>>> Urbana to help us
>>>>> "raise the roof" on our community's new low power FM
>>>> station -- WRFU Radio
>>>>> Free Urbana, 104.5FM. The Urbana-Champaign Independent
>>>> Media Center
>>>>> (IMC), in collaboration with Prometheus Radio Project, a
>>>> national
>>>>> grassroots radio organization, will host a Radio Station
>>>> Barnraising
>>>>> during the weekend of November 11-13, 2005 -- the first
>>>> ever in the
>>>>> Midwest! And we need your help to house Barnraising
>>>> participants who are
>>>>> driving, flying, hitching, training and busing to the
>>>> area. If you have
>>>>> an extra couch, a guest bedroom, an unused futon, or even a
>>>> spare bit of
>>>>> floor space you're willing to share, please respond. We're
>>>> especially
>>>>> interested in people who live within a mile of downtown
>>>> Urbana.
>>>>>
>>>>> The Barnraising will feature the construction of the entire
>>>> station with
>>>>> the help of hundreds of volunteers from around the globe;
>>>> and on November
>>>>> 13th we'll have a new community radio station on the air.
>>>> Radio Free
>>>>> Urbana will be broadcasting out of the new IMC Community
>>>> Media and Arts
>>>>> Center and will reach most residents in Champaign and
>>>> Urbana. The program
>>>>> schedule will feature an eclectic mix of talk, music, and
>>>> radio drama
>>>>> including shows on food commentary, Chicano issues, "drum n
>>>> bass", and
>>>>> sound art (to name just a few). Members of the community
>>>> will run these
>>>>> programs, and everyone is invited to put in a show request,
>>>> as well as
>>>>> attend the Barnraising in November. For more information,
>>>> check out the
>>>>> Prometheus Radio Project site at
>>>> http://prometheusradio.org/urbana/.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you are willing to house some of our out of town guests
>>>> during the
>>>>> Barnraising, please fill out the housing volunteer form
>>>> located at:
>>>>>
>>>>> http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=614281417440
>>>>>
>>>>> or contact me directly at faith at ucimc.org with any
>>>> questions you might
>>>>> have about housing or anything else related to the
>>>> Barnraising!
>>>>>
>>>>> Let me know & thanks for your help,
>>>>>
>>>>> Faith Swords
>>>>> Housing Coordinator
>>>>> WRFU Barnraising
>>>>>
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>>>> ________________
>>>>
>>>> Dr. Ivy Glennon, Associate Professor
>>>> Institute of Communications Research &
>>>> Department of Advertising
>>>> Director of Advising, Advertising and Media Studies
>>>> 228 Gregory Hall, UIUC
>>>> 810 S. Wright St.
>>>> Urbana, IL 61801
>>>>
>>>> (217) 333-0967
>>>> iglennon at uiuc.edu
>>>>
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>>>> Roosevelt
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