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The Valley War Bulletin (August 2006) has a couple of articles of note: “Finding Freedom at 103.3″ are brief interviews with five volunteers and programmers; there is a re-print of the tribute Tim Scott wrote for Ed Charla on this site; and there is a reflection on the one year anniversary of VFR written by Tim Scott.

Also in the news, Bill and Ella Childs (of “Spare the Rock, Spoil the Child”) were profiled this past week in a Hampshire Life article (in the Daily Hampshire Gazette).

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Ed Charla was a founder and current board member of Valley Free Radio. He was also a co-host of the VFR program Bread & Roses. To know Ed, is to understand that celebrating his life and the impact he had on all who knew him is a more fitting way of remembering Ed compared with mourning his passing. Ed was a lover of justice and equality, a lover of debate, a lover of humor, a lover of music, a lover of a good martini and if you knew him well, you know that he was a good old fashion lover to many.

Ed is loved and will be missed by many of us at Valley Free Radio for his strength of character, wisdom, fair mindedness and his unconditional friendship.

Ed had broad and varied interests in the arts, politics, music, history, and, of course, radio, and his connections to people and organizations ranged through and beyond these interests.

Ed was born in Bronx, NY to a large traditional Italian family. Growing up in a multi-racial neighborhood, Ed liked to recall his youth as a time of growing up as a street-smart kid who learned about life in the so-called school of hard knocks. At an early age he gravitated towards clubbing and music DJ’ing, while at the same time his strident convictions around social and economic justice were being solidified based on his early exposure to racial and economic inequities.

Ed found his way to various parts of New England and eventually landed in western Massachusetts. While working as a waiter at various local establishments during the late 80’s and early 90’s, Ed established a reputation as an organizer and host of regularly occurring party’s that were considered to be creative, over the top and at times respectfully decadent. But his fun loving reputation paled in comparison to his proven commitment as an astute white ally who confronted racism at every level and as a staunch advocate for the rights of the working-class. Over the years Ed has worked as a union and community organizer, co-founded a number of grass-roots community groups, and served as a board member for several well-respected social justice organizations.

The world is a better place because Ed Charla shared it with us. Ed would want his passing to only inspire us all to uphold his tireless convictions.

(written by Tim Scott)

Additional notices Ed’s passing also appeared in the local press and can be found here.

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• The McCain amendment to expand LPFM radio passed! You can read the amendment here.
• The Snowe-Dorgan amendment that would protect net neutrality tied, falling one vote short of passing. Now the debate will move to the full Senate floor. The fight’s not over yet, so if you haven’t contacted your Senators do it now!

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The 11th annual Grassroots Radio Conference will be held at WORT in Madison WI on July 27 – 30. We encourage anyone who can attend and lend their skills to the LPFM community to do so.

If you are interested in attending and require assistance, please email vfrboard@gmail.com and answer the following questions:

• What can you bring to the GRC (skills, knowledge, etc)?
• What can you bring back to VFR (report back, set up workshops here, etc)?

Requests will be accepted up until the July Board meeting which is on Wednesday, July 5th.

The next barnraising will be held in Woodburn, Oregon on the weekend of August 18-20. The Prometheus Radio Project will be collaborating with PCUN- Pineros y Campesinos Unidos del Noroeste (Treeplanters and Farmworkers United of the Northwest) to build a radio station that has been a dream of PCUN since they formed in 1985.

If you are interested in attending the barnraising and require financial assistance please email vfrboard@gmail.com and answer the following:

• What can you bring to the GRC (skills, knowledge, etc)?
• What can you bring back to VFR (report back, set up workshops here, etc)?

Requests will be accepted up until the August Board meeting which is on Wednesday, August 2nd.

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