Join the Green Party Outreach Committee for a workshop that explores and explains why and how Greens can and should use radio call-in shows to make the Green Party presence felt, help spread the word about how Green policies and positions speak more to America’s real needs and ideals than other parties, talk about our candidates and emphasize how helping to grow the Green Party’s voice helps ALL progressives.

On this call we will concentrate on Green pre-Election Day messages and topics to as many radio outlets as possible, including those online, to meet specific objectives we will discuss on the call. We will be giving an assignment for those willing to take it on.

We will go over different kinds of programs, clarifying the objectives of your call, techniques to get your call through, and remembering what to say on each call.

Beyond this general introduction, we will discuss organizing focused Green phone-in campaigns, on an on-going basis, that stick to certain topics and speaking points, and recruit people to become part of that.

We will focus on one or two shows in particular. The skills and messages, however, that we share can be used wherever it best makes sense.

Participation
At times throughout the call and especially at the end we will welcome input of new broadcast venues and ideas of how to make the call in campaigns better and to improve these workshops.

This site was set up by the Green Party Outreach Committee to support its Training Workshops with notes and materials.

Pre-Election Radio Call-in Workshop

Recently the GPUS Outreach Committee held a Pre-Election Radio Call-in Workshop.

This was the first of a series of Skill-Building Workshops by Outreach to further enable Greens to further the Green Message.

These Skills Workshops are the brainchildren of Outreach Committee member Morgen D’Arc of Maine who wanted the OC to work on a way to help Greens practice and learn to better participate in the use of traditional and new media.

Let’s take a look at messages and topics that can spread information over the airwaves to energized call-in show listeners eager for REAL changes that are not being offered by mainstream (corporate) media or mainstream (corporate) candidates. While many call-in shows have been used recently to spread stereotypes, innuendo and division, some of them purporting to be “progressive”can be a useful venue, for they are some of the few public places where ideas are still being aired and opinions being sought.

Date of next workshop: Tuesday Oct. 28, time: TBA; invitations with call-in number will be sent out. For further info, write: outreach@gp.org

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WORKSHOP NOTIONS & OUTLINE

INTRODUCTION to Call-in [Click for Outline Details ]

WHY Call-ins?

TYPES of Programs

OBJECTIVES of Call

PREPARATION & TECHNIQUE on Call-ins:

MAKE Notes & KEEP Notes

KEEP IN MIND: What do you want listeners to do (or to think)? Get them there.

SOME ARGUMENTS & TOPICS

SUGGESTIONS / COMMENTS

ASSIGNMENT