Join hosts Keone Kealoha and Andrea Brower on the Malama Kaua`i Sustainability Show, 12-1 on KKCR. We will b interviewing mayoral candidates following the Eco-Rountable Candidates Forum.

KATY AND JIMMY’S PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS FOR THURSDAY JULY 31

 Maui Student Peace Activist Speaks Out on Campus Recruiting and Alternatives to Militarism

 STOP DAT!, a new community organization, forms to contest “Disrespectful Air Tourism,” plans a demonstration for Monday, August 4 in Lihue

 Open forum for your calls and comments!

Join us this Thursday, July 31 from 4 – 5:30 on KKCR at 90.9, 91.9 or92.7 FM, and on the web at kkcr.org. Our phone lines will be open for calls at 808-826-7771 or 1-866-275-1112.

This week, we will be joined by Ali Powell, a student activist and musician who started a peace club at King Kekaulike High School on Maui. While she was giving a presentation on conscientious objector rights, the vice-principal confiscated her material and shut down the class.

Ali started the campus peace organization last year in response to several violent outbreaks at her school .She included anti-war programs, offering a presentation on conscientious objector rights and sponsoring war resistor Aimee Allison's visit to her school last February. Ali has also tabled at her school’s career fair on non-military alternatives, military facts, and student rights.

In the second part of the program, we will speak to representatives of STOP DAT!, the newly-formed coalition to Stop Disrespectful Air Tourism. STOP DAT! will be kicking off its campaign for a boycott of the air tourism industry at 3:00 pm next Monday, August 4, with a protest by the entrance to the Lihue airport at the intersection of Kapule

Hello allies in the media justice world:

I write to inform you of an opening for the position of general manager of our small
community radio station on Kaua'i, Hawai'i.

I am a volunteer public-affairs programmer at KKCR. Over the last several months
I have been involved in an effort to challenge the closed and homogeneous atmosphere
at the station. Many community members and several volunteers have been frustrated
by the lack of representation at the station of our working-class, Native Hawaiian
and other communities of color, queer, disabled and politically dissident populations.
Some of our efforts to contest the status quo have begun to bear fruit, including
an acknowledgement by the Board of Directors that the search for a new station manager
must cast a wide net in order to find a manager with the skills needed to open up
our airwaves to our diverse island population.

KKCR is the only community radio station in Hawai'i. As such, it may be difficult
to find a qualified manager with cutting-edge community media experience locally.
That is why I hope that this announcement can be passed on through your networks
of people passionate about vibrant, relevant community media which is accountable
to underserved communities.

Thank you very much for considering my request!

In Solidarity,
Katy Rose

The following is the announcement from the KKCR website (http://kkcr.org/):

"The Kekahu Foundation, license holder for KKCR-Kauai Community Radio, seeks
applicants for Station Manager

ALOHA KKCR AND KEKAHU FOUNDATION OHANA,

As some of you may know, KKCR and the KEKAHU FOUNDATION have been meeting since May, working on a Strategic Plan for the next five years. We have been meeting as a closed group to concentrate on all the possible specific visions, strategies and goals that will need to be incorporated into the final plan. At this point, our team is moving out into the Kauai community, conducting open meetings to get input from residents, listeners, members, programmers and volunteers. Our team has condensed our work into six definite categories/topics that are all open for community input. They are: Financial, Conflict Resolution, Governance /Policies, Community Outreach, Facilities/Equipment and Volunteer Program.

Team members Marj Dente and Paul Moody, will be conducting and facilitating the Volunteer Program Community Meeting on Saturday, August 2, 2008, 9 AM to 1 PM at the Kapa'a Library Conference Room. The task of our group meeting is to brainstorm how we can best accomplish the following goals, and this is where we need your help:

To establish a comprehensive, effective volunteer program with clear policies and defined responsibilities, resulting in broad community support and active participation of a diverse, enthusiastic, reliable, well-trained and committed volunteer team.

Some likely goals to be more specific about, but not limited to are: community outreach and education, volunteer job descriptions and policies, recruitment process, volunteer training, etc.

Aloha friends,

Please pass this on.

Are you interested in hosting a public affairs (talk show) program on KKCR someday? Do you know anyone, young or old or in-between, who might be?

A workshop is being held on Wednesday, July 30 for all current and potential KKCR public affairs programming hosts to share ideas about what makes good community radio talk show programming. This is free and open to all who are interested.

This may turn out to be a good opportunity for interested people to get their feet in the door at KKCR.

I hope to see some new faces there!

Best wishes,
Katy

WHEN: Wednesday July 30, 7:00 - 9:00 PM
WHERE: Lihue Library
FREE AND OPEN TO ALL INTERESTED

TODAY ON KKCR

Today, Thursday, July 17, 2008, from 4 – 5:30, Katy will be discussing grassroots social change organizations in Hawai’i and the funding opportunities available to them with Richard Rodrigues of the Hawai’i People’s Fund.

Also joining us will be Kat Brady of Community Alliance on Prisons and Life of the Land, and Darlene Rodrigues (no relation to Richard) of CHOICES, an O’ahu-based organization which provides public high school students with an alternative point of view on military recruitment and war. The organizations these women represent are grantees of Hawai’i People’s Fund. We will discuss the valuable work they are doing.

Richard Rodrigues is a long-time community organizer and fundraiser for social change.

About Hawai’i People’s Fund:

“Hawai‘i People's Fund is a publicly supported community fund established in
1972 to provide grants to progressive grassroots social change organizations
working in Hawai‘i. We are a unique partnership of donors, activist
grantmakers and grantees committed to positive social change and a more
equitable distribution of wealth, resources and power. Hawai‘i People's
Fund assists groups considered too small, too new, or too controversial by
traditional funding agencies. Hawaii‘ People's Fund brings together those
who want to invest in justice with those who are actively pursuing justice
in a united vision for social change. Our philosophy of community-based
strategic philanthropy offers a unique alternative to traditional charitable

Tune into KKCR from 12-1 to hear an interview and discussion with Michael Shuman, author of "The Small-Mart Revolution: How Local Businesses Are Beating the Global Competition," and "Going Local: Creating Self-Reliant Communities in a Global Age."

Themes explored by Shuman include:
Among the themes explored here:

* The key to community prosperity is a vigorous network of locally owned businesses serving primarily local markets—the exact opposite of what most economic developers push.
* Despite all the popular discussion of globalization, worldwide trends (like rising oil prices) are making small, local businesses increasingly competitive.
* Jaw-dropping innovations in small business, whether for-profit or nonprofit, can be found everywhere, and provide compelling blueprints for localization.
* The principal obstacles standing in the way of localization are public policies (like business-attraction “incentives”) that are uniformly tilted against small business.
* Localization can and should appeal to right and left alike, by combining conservatives’ passion for free markets, small business, and small government with progressives’ passion for community empowerment, sustainability, and real democracy.

For more, visit: http://www.small-mart.org/

This Thursday, July 3, Katy will speak with Tom Keefer, an editor of the Canadian journal “Upping the Anti,” a radical journal of theory and action. (Jimmy Trujillo is on vacation.)

Keefer will discuss his experiences and his writings concerning the role of settlers as allies to Native peoples’ land struggles, specifically in the context of the current land reclamation actions being engaged by Six Nations people in Ontario.

Keefer is a PhD candidate in Political Science at York University in Toronto, Ontario. He is an active member of the grassroots group Community Friends for Peace and Understanding with Six Nations.

Please tune in from 4 to 5:30 PM HST at 90.9, 91.9, 92.7 and kkcr.org. Comments and questions during the program are welcome. Please dial 808-826-7771 or 1-866-275-1112.

For more information about “Upping the Anti,” and the Six Nations struggle, please visit:
http://uppingtheanti.org/