Thread by @juddgreenstein

PETITION TO KEEP GARRETT MCQUEEN ON THE AIR:

docs.google.com/document/d/e/2…

To: @JonMcTaggart (President, APM) & @DPDREW (President, MPR)

*Please RT/❤️ if you agree*

To SIGN YOUR NAME on the published doc, enter your info here:

forms.gle/3jhs8A4QhcwPE1…

Signatures updated in the AM

UPDATE: upon sending this petition to the two Presidents, @JonMcTaggart replied to me with a letter that I would feel obliged to reprint, were it not nearly word-for-word identical to the statement just released by Classical MPR:

https://twitter.com/ClassicalMPR/status/1304476909636595715

The statement is notable for a few reasons. Chief among them, though, is their own self-stated standard for how equity, diversity, and representation is measured by the station, as they themselves proudly highlight in this paragraph:

This statement appears to imply that @ClassicalMPR equates — at minimum, in their statistics on representation — broadcasting a Mozart aria sung by Dawn Upshaw or a Chopin Ballade performed by Lang Lang with broadcasting a composition by Tania León or Alvin Singleton.

If this is how the station — and likewise, American Public Media — is self-evaluating itself, it is clear that they and McQueen have been on vastly different pages throughout his tenure there. Meanwhile, the station is claiming that this was essentially a *procedural* issue.

I don't want to center myself any further in this, so I'm stopping for now.

But from my angle, their response raises more questions than it answers, and I will be saying so to the Presidents. If you agree, their handles are ⬆️ and their emails are here:

mpr.org/about/officers

Sorry, last thing — if their response satisfies you, you can write me at judd (at) juddgreenstein (dot) com and I will remove you from the petition, no questions asked :)

450 names as of this morning.
docs.google.com/document/d/e/2…