WRWK is Now able to broadcast remote events Live!!

Last night WRWK completed our first 2 hour live on site broadcast last night from the Neighborhood Resource Center in Fulton Hill of the Henricopolis Soil and Water Conservation District Board Forum .

It was Moderated by our own Stephanie Clark and Produced by David Melton, with station engineering by Ron Skinner.

it was refreshing to hear the competing candidates, 7 candidates for 5 slots, speak about their concerns and solutions for keeping the Soil and Water healthy with no trace of partisanship, just facts and science steering actions for positive outcomes for Water and Soil.

This is the stuff of democracy! This is how positive change happens, no bickering, just agreed upon concerns. Facts, science, tested ideas and leading to community solutions.

Oh and here is a survey to see how we are doing and what we could do to improve your community or meeting: WRWK Survey.

Yes we could come to your next community meeting and provide access for those who cannot get there.

Thanks for reading.

Ron

Growing a Community

Waxing Existential at WRWK

“Gratitude is when memory is stored in the heart and not in the mind.” – Lionel Hampton


I have no special connection to the creative accident that landed me here but at 73 I’m just learning to appreciate it.

I realized that instead of wondering how I deserve this I need to enjoy it, act grateful and pass it on. Oldsters and youngsters need to hear and be reminded that helping make the world work is life. It’s a journey, not a destination.

WRWK LP FM is the perfect place to practice gratitude. Here we work to bring our listeners, volunteers and supporters the best reflection of the world that we can. We assume only that community is about life. So we support listeners having a workable life in our community and making community work and leave outright entertainment to the rest of the dial. We’re entertaining to those who are interested in community but we will never take the place of a ball-game or your favorite music station.

On the other hand, if you want to know what’s going on or why, or what it has to do with making the place more pleasant we will have something useful to say.

if you are missing something in your media diet help us provide it. if some worthwhile thing deserves notice or if some issue in your community is producing more heat than light Join us to tell the story.

From the first idea that gave birth to this station decades ago, to this moment it has always been about Us; We exist because You exist.

Granted it is an uphill battle but that makes it easier to focus.
Working for a world that works for us-all appeals to you, join us.
You will sleep well knowing the world is better for your efforts.

Ron

divine right of Authority*?

What? Where did that come from?

History is harmonizing again. As power concentrates into fewer and fewer hands Lord Acton’s rule reveals itself:

Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely. Great men are almost always bad men, even when they exercise influence and not authority, still more when you superadd the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority*. There is no worse heresy than that the office sanctifies the holder of it.

Wikipedia › wiki › John_Dalberg-Acton,_1st_Baron_Acton
John Dalberg-Acton, 1st Baron Acton – Wikipedia

If you ever wondered what drove Marx crazy enough to invent that phony religion- communism- it was watching early industrialists chain children to their looms to keep them on their 12 hour shifts. But you don’t need to go to England to find power flexing it’s muscle.

It’s possible to see that all around us. Maybe not as brutal but it is overpowering. Go back a few years and you see the 50 year saga while citizen’s watched tobacco weaken and kill people and enrich tobacco investors and Medical and Political leadership stood by “unable to help” .

Locally corporations have set their sites on schools. Are Corporations going to spend stockholder money to create critical thinking creative citizens? Not likely.

We don’t need corporations deciding what kids need to learn in school or how long to work at their updated looms. Corporations are profit seeking enterprises, they could not possibly create ways to train citizens of tomorrow. It is not their purpose, or their goal.

Corporations can only serve stockholders. If they care about schools let them step out of their loopholes and pay their taxes.

  • * the tendency or the certainty of corruption by authority