Our Third Anniversary fund raiser in August was a success!

A sincere THANK YOU to all who participated: volunteers, listeners, new and old. And we offer a special thanks to the anonymous donor who put up the matching funds and got us off to a fast start.

TheWorkFM really is a community station totally staffed by volunteer hosts, writers, those in the background who keep the station on the air, pay the bills and find and fix the equipment. And let’s not forget the hours that go into finding and developing talent, helping with production, operating the mix board etc. These tireless efforts help us to multiply our voice from it’s original FM signal to Internet Streaming, Facebook Live, YouTube, and soon even more social media.

Our mission is to build community, largely by presenting the parts that work and knitting them together along with the many other community organizations, social networks, churches, clubs an other interest groups that give people a chance to be socially creative and work to amplify the voices and ideas that have been held back or starved for resources, attention, validation, or simply neglected.

Soon you will be hearing more on our next fundraiser and Local Music Showcase to be held at Rick’s Rock Cafe at 1500 Eastridge Road on the 26th of September at 8PM. There will be an affordable $5 cover for a program featuring 5 local bands, hopefully comedians, possibly a jazz singer and some Slam Poetry.

Currently the music lineup is: Serenata, Freddie C. and the Happy Days Band, the Blue River Boys and Lucid.

It will be a lot of fun and will help TheWorkFM expand into offering some entertainment at our fundraisers.

The entire event will be livecast on YouTube and Facebook live and streamed and broadcast as possible (avoiding ASCAP and BMI protected music of course!).

So thanks to all for your help with our Third Anniversary fundraiser, and we hope you’ll join us for the next one! And all toward building community of course, building a bridge from city to county, left to right, across all the divides that are keeping us from being a healthy, functional society.

Sometimes it gets messy trying to blend the blue and the red but we’re still just a baby. During the month of August WRWK 93.9 LPFM TheWorkFM.org will be celebrating our third year of community broadcasting and we’re all set to grow!

In these times of challenge and opportunity it is crucial to support non-commercial, local media. Please help this messy baby grow.
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During WRWK Birthday Month of August, donations will be matched!
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You can donate by check sent to 913 Grove Road Midlothian, Virginia 23114 or by clicking the “Donate” button on the left or donate on Facebook by clicking the “Donate” button on our Facebook page. With our generous matching gift from an anonymous donor, it’s a great time to make your contribution.

Covid-19 got the attention of everyone. It even put commerce on hold, only essential business could operate, only essential transportation, only the elements of our lives that would least increase our risk of catching Covid-19.

That put back in play an idea that had been dismissed in many quarters, that some things are more important than the wall street economy, some things are more important than profit. As a concept, profit itself has no intent but those who make the profits do – and all too often their intent prevails over the majority of folks who do The Work.

As the Covid-19 pandemic has irrefutably demonstrated, this profiteering intent has created vast concentrations of wealth via a failing economic system that is not sustainable. The question for all global citizens in this hour of crisis is “what is our intent, what should it be and how do we make it manifest? How do we make a Worthy Intention real?

Here at TheWorkFM we will be asking that question and discussing the possibilities in a civil and informed exchange. Please join us as we work to make this region a voice in a global conversation about making the world we all want to live in. May this post be followed by lively conversations between you and your neighbors about a future that works, not the one that got us here.

Need motivation? Take a sobering look at the present “enemy”, our challenge and the opportunity it represents see the covid 19 world map, courtesy of Johns-Hopkins University.

Please comment. We are all in this together.
Human Solidarity can save the day.

WRWK-fm: What are we trying to do?

The dilemma of the year is business versus the environment. The invented world versus life. Covid19 has exposed our civilization as lacking in the capacity to support, let alone protect, life. Can business and the environment be in balance? This is the question we have to answer.

For example the media is rewarded with ad revenue by keeping its followers upset but watching. Advertisers rake in money by creating insecurities which they sell to . The economy keeps us on edge with high potential returns and celebration of a stock market that few benefit from.

The common denominator at play is a culture that equates asset value with social worth, hides the social costs of high returns, and exploits rather than helps the vulnerable. All signs of a culture at war with itself.

In life we can chose to care for life and the world that makes it possible, or we can pretend to be little gods and consume our corner of it . I see little future in consuming the world within a few generations. I prefer to help find the fit between the created and the creation. That’s us and what we were born into.

I don’t pretend to be God or even know him/her well. Nor do I claim to have a special relationship with anything godlike. Even if I am merely an accident, an unlikely outcome from the big Bang, I am a happy accident and grateful to be here. At The Work FM we are all about finding how we fit into the world how to make it better.

This statement is my opinion and may not reflect the views of WRWK, the staff, volunteers, or the board of directors.