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WNMU Update
WNMU Regents meltdown
On 15 May 2008 the WNMU Board of Regents met and in an unfortunate but unsurprising fit of pique & confirmation of their inability to respond to citizens, staff or faculty, lashed out at Faculty Senate President Tom Gruska and other faculty members and members of the public.

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Standing Up Against Hate Speech
Alex Nogales	Mark Potok	Marilyn Mayo	Mark Kappelhoff	John Transvina	Connie Yu
NCMR / National Conference for Media Reform

In an environment of increasing media consolidation controlled by fewer and fewer - and bloodier and bloodier - hands, abusive language is the rule rather than the exception with the most broadly syndicated right wing talk radio programming.  

But this lunatic fringe has penetrated further into mainstream media with the increasingly vituperative language heard among reactionary network pundits and epitomized by CNN's Lou Dobbs' rants on immigration - and the platform that he offers to those with even more virulent racist and violent associations.

This panel brings together several experts to discuss the circumstances and available alternatives to this roiling cauldron of not only hate speech, but calls to action to unleash violence against those who are degraded and maligned for financial gain and political positioning via fear mongering.

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Grant County Peace Coalition has participated in the Grant County 4th of July Parade since 2004 - the year following Shock & Awe and the start of the Bush / Cheney, and thus, tragically, America's criminal War of Aggression against Iraq.

In the 2007 parade, GCPC focused their mesage on a single word - IMPEACH!  Despite the voluminous evidence and outright admissions of law breaking by Bush, the Congress continues to refuse to perform it's sworn duty to defend the constitution and Bush, Cheney, et al continue to violate the law and undermine the institutions of democracy - with one exception...

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On Sunday 18 November 2007 - following quite literally in the footsteps of Fathers Louie Vitale and Steve Kelly - Mary Burton Riseley, Betsy Lamb & Father Jerry Zawada crossed the line at Ft Huachuca to demand an end to torture by the US military and the Bush administration.  Their act of conscience resulted in their arrest and trial on charges of tresspass, failure to yield to orders to halt, and conspiracy - combined convictions having a potential sentence of years in a federal penitentiary.

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The 2008 NCMR / National Conference for Media Reform convened in Minneapolis - site of the upcoming Republican Convention - from June 6-8 to address a broad variety of media deficiencies which are threatening the very fabric of democracy.

In a panel titled Media Reform & Social Change, prominent and emerging activists discussed the media landscape and the methods by which they navigate in the hostile environment known as mainstream media.

Long notorious for accusations of cronyism, secrecy, intimidation and a Climate of Fear - WNMU is now feeling increasing pushback from citizens, faculty, LULAC / League of United Latin American Citizens, candidates and rank and file of the Grant County Democratic Party and in it's last two Board of Regents meetings, from Juan Jose Pena, chairman of Mesa Redonda Hispana de Nuevo Mexico - The NM Hispano Round Table or HRT.

In January 2007, NCMR / The National Conference for Media Reform, convened in Memphis, TN - the hallowed ground upon which The Reverend Dr Martin Luther King was assassinated in 1968.

This panel brings together accomplished media and civil rights scholars and activists and veterans to discuss the relationship of the media to the struggle for civil rights and social justice and the unique role that Dr King played in focusing the eye of American media on "The Negro Problem" and finally forcing the fundamental change that America avoided for centuries.

This Grant County Commission may be capable of even greater incompetence but they'll really have to work hard to exceed this - Ordinance 07-04 - the Grant County Property Maintenance Ordinance, or as so many have come to affectionately refer to it, the PMO.

The Peter Principle states:

An observation: In a hierarchy employees tend to rise to the level of their incompetence.

In the last two Board of Regents meetings, Faculty Senate President Tom Gruszka made very compelling arguments to move the administration and Regents toward serious efforts to address faculty salaries and other issues.

In the meantime, a Vote of No Confidence, long a simmering possibility among WNMU faculty, has finally come to a boil naming Chris Farren - Vice President of Student Affairs - but with obvious overtones of a dissatisfaction with President John Counts as well.

A complete list of previous programs is available on the Programs page.

Our previous website at Grant County Peace Coalition is still up and running during this transition.  It remains in the state it was in when the original RFS! was forced off of KNFT.  Please do visit GCPC's site for current activities in the Peace and Justice community in Grant County.

And feel free to write at the new email address - .

Peace,

Kyle Johnson