Time to Repaint the Apartment
making WBAI what it COULD BE and SHOULD BE
Johnny is way underperforming in school
as the last radio island of non-Manufactured Consent in NYC
it’s worth fixing / saving / re-energizing ( remember the70’s ? )
one of the paths to that is
- growing membership
- involving membership
- Young People is where it’s at – we’re aging out
- talking about what’s important to the community
- not just lecturing them about what’s important to me
- giving “members” a sense of ownership & participation
- not just “send money and sd & su”
- restarting the conversation between the Community
and the “Community” Radio Station .. - and the other long-forgotten activities the Mission Statement talks about
- and what Lew Hill and Louis Schweitzer had in mind
We’ve sort of dropped the phone call between the station and the Community
( read the History section of the Wikipedia article)
OPERATIONAL - emails, thank you’s, send-a-friend
- managing donor & CC dropoff
- new f’raising ideas (birthday message, Sunday Zooms, BAI tchotchke)
EXPERIENCE - working in large banks & data centers
- running a small B&M retail store
( low budget / no money guerilla marketing ) - underdog political campaigns ( doorknocking / fundraising)
THE REAL QUESTION - is whether we’ll get some cooperation / support
- Polymarket numbers aren’t looking great