[Rfu-barnraising] Re: [Salon] WRFU Barnraising housing

Fri Oct 14 16:01:50 CDT 2005

excellent.  shall we take time monday to start the spreadsheet madness?

> 
> 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
> >>>>>
> >>>>> _______________________________________________
> >>>>> Salon mailing list
> >>>>> Salon at lists.chambana.net
> >>>>> http://lists.chambana.net/cgi-bin/listinfo/salon
> >>>> ________________
> >>>>
> >>>> 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
> >>>>
> >>>> "No one can make you feel inferior without your consent"  Eleanor
> >>>> Roosevelt
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