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…  Rising again, off the Rope ~ a~ Hopes…  we’ll see what these next seasons have in store , as our world sociopolitik rages on …. exacerbated chafes and overt warings, disturbing everything …..connected anxious dissonances .. all the way to our glocal psysocioecospheres ..  what was over there is over here is over there.. A u w e…  Ay! de We !  Polish Your Shield .. Hang Onto Your Halo … its gonna be a trbumpyride ! 

May Peace Prevail In Every Heart  .. WAR NO MORE ..  The Best Way is To Love ~

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Forgive us our trespassesAs we forgive those that trespass against usAlthough them again we will never never never trust
Hoo hoo hoo hoo hoo!
Them not know what them doBig out to yi while I’m stickin’ like glueFling skin grin while them plotting for you, true!

Lauryn Hill  

Fuera! Jealousy… Fuera! Egotrippin ..    La Vida Es Carnaval .. Azzzuuucar ! 

Open Hearts + Open Minds+ Open Possibilities.  Pa’ delante! = : ) ~ 

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Good Bye and May Radio Goddesses Bless ….

Our glocal chanteuse of “This Pretty Planet”…   

88.1 KeCg 97.7 from El Cerrito High School, was a broadcast service of West Contra Costa Unified School District, since 1978. We have had the privilege of educating, sharing + caring  among our community for several decades across generations …  

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Dear Corey Mason, the entire worldOne radio crew, and WCCUSD School Board,

I am writing this letter to you to express my love, thanks, and absolute gratitude for all that you have done. You know you change lives on a daily basis so I want to share with you how yall have changed my life so significantly.

In 2004 and 2005 I cohosted a radio show on KECG titled “the dose”. We played conscious hip-hop music which is starkly different than rap music I learned. Unlike the messages in mainstream rap music that is fed to us by smart marketing and now data utilization, hip-hop artists speak about poverty, racial discrimination, and other messages to bring awareness and elevate consciousness (I’ve learned this is the theme to all music of/I love). Now 15 years later, I still find your station on heavy rotation in my home, car, and ultimately in my operating room when I am a surgeon.  Instead of the Pandora “today’s hits” station that plays in the majority of Operating Rooms, my OR is filled with KECG and worldOne flavor.  I believe this is superior for patient care and all of the world. One Love!

Not only has my musical taste become finely tuned to love and consciousness predominantly because of KECG, I also truly attribute where I am today with my career to your commitment to student education and opportunity. My experience as a radio show host at KECG has always helped make instant  interpersonal connections, start profound conversations, and truly stick out from the others along the competitive and at times cutthroat interview trail of medical school, residency, and fellowship. During every interview along the way, I was able to shine and get to where I am today because having radio hosting experience is intriguing as a physician-surgeon, right?!

Now as a practicing physician serving Ojai CA as the only ObGyn in the valley, I have a lot of responsibilities as you can imagine.  Not only to patients, myself and all things here now, but also to the next generation of students. Therefore, I made a donation to the station.

Now, I ask that however possible, my prayer is that KECG and worldOne stay so that others can fill the world with the only thing it needs more of…love.

Kayvahn Pierce Steck-Bayat MD

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July 2022

Dear Members of the Board of West Costa Costa School District,

 
I am writing to express my admiration for a school district that supports an important resource for West Contra Costa County students: a radio station! What a wonderful way to provide instruction in responsibility, creativity, and hands-on learning. It helps offset the ongoing defunding of arts in the schools.
 
I am sure that you are aware that arts education is especially helpful in reaching students who are not enthusiastic about subjects such as reading and math. But once engaged in a creative enterprise, their learning capacity and interests turn around.
 
I am also sure you are aware of how often students in public schools are under-resourced (a problem exacerbated, in not created, by wide-spread private and charter school businesses). It’s fantastic that WCCUSD has this resource to provide to its students, and to the community at large!
 
I am much more aware of what is going on in my community and school district because I listen to KCEG. Thank you for keeping it going and glowing!
 
And thank you for taking the time to read my message.
 
Sincerely,
 
Melissa Murphy
El Cerrito, CA

May 2020:

As the year is quickly coming to a close we just want to thank you for being such an inspirational teacher/ mentor/ wise person for (T) and all of your students. You have made great efforts  to engage these young people’s head and hearts. You are such a gifted teacher. We have recommended you for Teacher Of The Year! Regardless of where (T) lands at the end of your class your words and ethics are solidly in his heart. May you have a restful and healthy summer. Many blessings to you and your family.

Cheers,
(M ) and  ( K )

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WCCUSD officials,

I’m a graduate of Madera Elementary School, Korematsu (née Portola) Middle School, and El Cerrito High School (Class of 2014) – more specifically, the Media Academy at ECHS. I’m the second generation of El Cerrito schooling and the son of a WCCUSD teacher in my family, and I am writing in to express support for WorldOne Radio and Mr. Corey Mason (as I refer to him, Mas) and advocate to push back the current plan to change format for KEcG Radio on May 7 until more input is given from the community (with three specific action steps listed below).

Corey Mason was absolutely instrumental in my learning process. I was someone who always wanted to work in media from a young age, and Mas helped to develop and encourage my passion. He has taught me and thousands of other students practical skills in radio production and journalism, as well as life skills and values such as communication, civic education, critical thinking, improvisation, a love for the arts, media literacy, equity and justice, and moving through the world with joy. I learned to get out of my comfort zone and became comfortable playing music from all different genres and places from all over the world. As he would put it, people love peace, eco power, and unity. During my time at WorldOne Radio, I interviewed a Disney Channel/Cartoon Network star on his advocacy for ocean life, raised money for the ECHS Bands program by hosting a radio play-a-thon feat. live music and recorded bits, and hosted a roundtable comversation featuring community members discussing the then proposal to rename Portola Middle School. I learned to hone my voice by hosting my first radio shows, and partnering with him on the daily morning announcements and news. I won two awards from the ROP program and Linked Learning pathways for my work at WorldOne Radio.

My time at KEcG and WorldOne Radio led me to work at KALX (the UC Berkeley radio station), get my first paid work after graduating at KQED Radio, and work on the popular live call-in show Forum w/ Michael Krasny. I used Mr. Mason’s educational principles to guide young high schoolers in San Francisco as they created a podcast speaking to the issues of our current moment and produced my own podcast featuring Asian American artists. My current work in the entertainment industry is framed through a lens of equity and justice that was honed in places like Mr. Mason’s classroom in Room B200 and Studio A.

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I can understand the initial idea to form Gaucho Radio, but the current proposal ignores the decades of service that Mr. Mason has shown to the district, this community, and his students. Mr. Mason has put his all into supporting his students’ work and exposing the community to a vast diversity of music, art, and food. I ask you to proceed with the following steps.

  1. Retain Mr. Mason’s wisdom and 27+ years of experience in a paid, advisory capacity to help shape the future of KEcG Radio. From my experience working with young people as they learn how to use media, it’s so vital that they are guided through the process with great vision and purpose. Youth learning journalism and cultural commentary skills doesn’t happen by accident (nor does ECHS students’ pieces being featured on KQED, NPR, and the NY Times), and Mr. Mason’s presence would greatly assist in this transition without stepping on the toes of the new instructor. We are asking for a smooth transition, not a closed door to an educator who has made this station part of his life’s work (and even saved it when WCCUSD considered selling it over a decade ago).
  2. Consider the continued presence of WorldOne on KecG Radio. Mr. Mason has always been warm and generous and is open to conversations on how to use the WorldOne brand moving forward in big or small ways – there’s no need to be afraid in talking things through with him.
  3. Open up the decision-making process to the public. I have struggled to find any kind of district response or rationale for the transition to Gaucho Radio, let alone a vision beyond “being run and curated by students, with teacher support.” Please see Point 1 for my critique of that vision. At the same time, Mr. Mason has sent numerous proposals to the board on what this transition can look like. Please consider them, as well as opening up community feedback to what the future of our radio station could look like – I can imagine ECHS’s designation as a community school and its funding leading to a district-wide media lab and production center for local news and commentary produced by our students and civic leaders/activists, for example! There is much more out there if we are given the chance to ideate in addition to the Board.

Our community has a long memory, and thankfully, that includes the legacy of what we’ve built. We built a museum at El Cerrito High to remember who and what has come before us as students walk through newly constructed buildings. We are remembered for how we treat the greatest and least of these. Mr. Mason has treated our diverse, creative, powerful community with love, respect, dignity, and celebration. Please treat him the same way he has treated all of us. Thank you for your continued support of media, radio, journalism, and the arts!

Sincerely,

J K     ECHS Class of 2014

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Our thanks to KQED Youth Takeover 2018-20 for extending their collegial broadcast wings to further amplify  WCCUSD Broadcast Journalism Youth Voices and their perspectives across themes of  Gender Identity, Ethnic Representation,  Depression/Anxiety,  school start times, Health and Well-Being … on and on til the breakadawn.  Contributing 2019 Seniors in ECHS Media Academy here: 

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Public Radio 88.1 keCg  97.7, West Contra Costa Unified School District … a small and precious Public Radio resource, KeCg, was founded in 1978, now off~air .  It began with a dedicated team of Educators and Community members in the mid-seventies and was founded by Elmer Peterson and John Tietjen (before “video killed the radio star” / The Buggles). KeCg is FCC-licensed to El Cerrito High School (de facto Board is WCCUSD School Board), with two concentric (Venn-like) signals on the East Bay Rim, transmitting from FM perches in El Cerrito ( Stadium) and San Pablo Ridge.

Girls Inc of Contra Costa  Tiffany + Youth Crew Rockin la Casa above … ViBZiNitUP with film maker Joshua Bee Alafia below  ..

All the while, KeCg had educated generations of young aspiring broadcasters at ECHS and Kennedy High Schools, interested and passionate in the palette of skills and career pathways related to Broadcast Journalism and naturally, appreciating and sharing music! We are Grateful for additional guidance and support of Contra Costa County Office of Education/ Regional Occupational Programs (ROP) , and California Partnership Academies/ WCCUSD Career Technical Ed, College and Career Readiness. Here, connecting our dots with The UC Theatre Interns. 

KQED Youth Takeover inaugural adventure in 2018 invited collaboration with 11 Bay Area High Schools. El Cerrito and Richmond High Schools ( Respect ! Maya Kosover-Teacher-Who-Roxit ) were selected among these.  Students produced their  own pieces for Youth Takeover Week, broadcast and blogged by KQED.  We extend our thanks and Appreciation to  KQED YT Team : Ariana, Chanele, Randy, Joanna, Sasha, Randy,  and Rachel, and to the  KQED  studio production staff who welcomed and supported our Youth Journalists on-site at KQED Mariposa St. San Francisco, and all the way to live theatrical presentation at BRAVA Theater  …  a potent demonstration of the imperative to Support ALL  Public Spirited Media and Youth Voice ! RESPECT ! Chanelle + YT Team !   

worldOneradio was invited to join keCg in 1995, celebrating 22 years of broadcast September 2017 ( we made it to 27 years on air before our wick was trimmed, then the station subsequently failed, alas ) . 

worldOneradio was founded in 1995 (via cassette tape submission) and while casting around country-wide and internationally, invited to contribute programming to WCCUSD Public Radio 88.1 keCg 97.7 FM by Mr. Philip Morgan. Inaugural keCg broadcast was on the date September 11, 1995. We express our Appreciation and Respect for the contributions of Mr. Morgan.  Hayward/Oakland-based MORE Public Radio, Prentice + Jeannie Woods were long-time collaborators of keCg, as was KLON Jazz. Since the 70’s keCg has been evolving and surviving the vagaries of economic/political times and tides, benefiting from many blessings, or recuperating from and avoiding disaster, and otherwise thriving musiculturally, and doing what we can do in our tiny canoe to benefit and amplify goodness in our communities of service.  

 

The inaugural worldOne festival followed naturally in 1998 though collaboration with El Cerrito Rotary and then directly with the City of El Cerrito.  worldOne grew organically grown from programming weekday afternoons 4-9 pm, to become the multicultural, eclectic, glocal programming theme of Public Radio keCg. We’re grateful for all the help and guidance of educational agencies, volunteers and like-minded direct listener supporters and sponsors.

You are the Public in Public Radio   …  Public RadiYOU!  

Your direct listener support is a vital part of public radio sustainability. We seem to never miss the water til its gone ..  keCg worldOne musiculutral waters are indeed gone !

Seasonal giving … goodness knows we know how tight , lean or mean econ can be …  please consider, and donate, doin what you can do in your tiny canoe to help Public Radio on its way… calling all po’lanthopists and philanthropists . 

Please feel warmly invited to to contact Corey with any  queries: cmason@wccusd.net

Support KeCg! throughout the rolling year, lister direct support is vital !  

Love’s in need of love today – send yours in right away …