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WORT 89.9FM Madison · Lasting Impacts: Workplace Changes Due to the Pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic has changed many things about our lives, including the workplace.

Once reserved for a few professionals in the tech industry, remote work became the norm for millions of office workers, while service sector workers found themselves suddenly catering to a stay-at-home public.  Will these changes fade into the background once the pandemic recedes, or are these changes here to stay?

Madison 365 Editor Robert Chappell spoke with Madisonians about the new world of work, as part of Madison 365’s Lasting Impacts series. Chappell joins to tell us more.

 

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It’s a Wild, Wild West — when it comes to controlling food prices, according to Rebecca Wolf, Food Policy Analyst at Food and Water Watch. A relatively small number of large agribusinesses control the prices farmers get and the prices consumers pay for food, with little control. The government HAD a mechanism to store grains in years of excess — the U. S. Strategic Grain reserve, and release it to the public in lean production years, thus managing the prices farmers get for their product and the prices consumers pay. But no longer.

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Filmmaker Araceli Lemos talks the showing of her premier film, “Holy Emy“, showing today at the Wisconsin Film Festival. A “coming of age” story about two Filipina sisters, daughters of immigrants into Greece, this vibrant story integrates religion, pagan influences, and immigrant issues in their lives.

Showing today, 4/13/22, at 5:15 at the AMC Hilldale theaters.

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In 2021 oil companies reaped their highest earnings in more than a decade, and with the invasion of Ukraine their earnings exploded — according to Chris Kuveke, Financial Data Reporter at Bailout Watch. He co-authored and published a report, “Big Oil’s Wartime Bonus“, which describes the $45 billion in stock buybacks by oil corporation executives and amazing dividends reaped by shareholders in the past year.

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Today on the Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Dr. Damita Brown, Charity Schmidt from University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives and Madison Cooperative Development Coalition joins us to talk about cooperatives and her work helping cooperatives develop!

More on Madison Cooperative Development Coalition: http://www.mcdcmadison.org/

More on UW-Madison Center for Cooperatives: https://uwcc.wisc.edu/ 

Information on the project with Nehemiah and Gener8tor: http://www.mcdcmadison.org/2021/10/12/nehemiah-gener8tor-con-espanol/

Coop 101 Presentation coming up April 20th at 6:30 at the at Pinney Branch Library: https://www.madisonpubliclibrary.org/events/worker-co-ops-101-1247601 

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As a cooperative development specialist at the University of Wisconsin Center for Cooperatives, Charity provides technical assistance to start-up co-ops and facilitates outreach efforts to cooperators and community-based organizations. She coordinates the work of the Madison Cooperative Development Coalition (MCDC), the City of Madison’s funded initiative to form worker cooperatives that address income inequality and racial disparities by creating living-wage and sustainable jobs. She takes pride in creating spaces for co-op education and coordination, building relationships between entrepreneurs and community organizations, and contributing to community-driven economic development in Madison.

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Today on the Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Dr. Damita Brown, ​Erika Petty, Executive Director of LOTUS Legal Clinic joins us from Milwaukee to talk about sex trafficking and sexual violence and the work she and the clinic are doing to empower victims, fight trafficking and prevent violence.

More information, get help, and volunteer with LOTUS Legal Clinic on their website:  https://www.lotuslegal.org/ 

Upcoming event “Rise and Thrive”fundraising concert with Muriel Auschwing May 13th at Cooperage in Milwaukee, information at https://www.lotuslegal.org/.

More information on the Human Trafficking and how to help: https://humantraffickinghotline.org/

If you need help or have questions about Human Trafficking call 1-888-373-7888 or text 233733.

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Erika Petty is Executive Director and Lead Attorney at LOTUS Legal Clinic, where she has worked with survivors of sexual violence and human trafficking since 2016. Erika supervises staff attorneys and handles her own caseload of providing civil and immigration legal services to survivors. Erika is a frequent presenter and speaker on victims’ rights generally, and specifically, on meeting the needs of human trafficking survivors through a rights-based and victim centered lens. Prior to joining LOTUS Legal Clinic, Erika worked as a staff attorney at Legal Action of Wisconsin, providing civil legal services to low-income individuals. Erika graduated from Marquette University Law School in 2006 where she focused on public interest law and was recognized by the State Bar of Wisconsin with the Public Interest Student of the Year Award in May 2006. Erika enjoys running, sailing on the Great Lakes, and spending time with her husband and two sons. 

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WORT 89.9FM Madison · Rewilding Argentina Has Lessons for Global Biodiversity Targets

In July of 2021, the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity met in Montreal to release a new global framework for biodiversity through the year 2030.

The ambitious framework calls for 30% of the earth’s land and sea area to be conserved for wildlife, a 50% reduction in invasions of exotic species, a 50% cut in nutrient loading, reducing pesticide runoff by two thirds, and nature-based carbon reductions of 10 gigatons per year.

Ambitious, certainly. Possible – well, it remains to be seen.

One promising spot is Argentina, where since 1998, Fundación Rewilding Argentina has been working to restore over a million acres of land to fully functioning ecosystems. Their experience may prove illustrative for conservation around the globe.

Emiliano Donadío, the science director at Fundación Rewilding Argentina, joins to discuss his organization’s work.

 

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WORT 89.9FM Madison · Print and Resist! Zine Fest at the Madison Central Library

Saturday, April 16th marks the return of the Print and Resist Zine Fest to the Madison Central Library.

Dozens of artists, writers and printmakers will share their handcrafted booklets, pamphlets and magazines, many with a subversive, transformative edge.

The event is co-sponsored by a variety of communal art organizations, including Communication, UnderBelly Collective, and ArtWorking, as well as the Madison Bubbler and A Room of One’s Own Bookstore.

Artist Jennifer Bastian, Director at Communication, joins to discuss this upcoming event.

 

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WORT 89.9FM Madison · The Divided States of America with Dr. Kettl

In an increasingly polarized nation, Americans’ access to abortion, health care, education and justice depend more and more upon the state in which they live. 

Dr. Don Kettl argues that the wide inequities we see from state to state result from the 235-year old system of federalism created by James Madison as a compromise to keep the young United States together.

Dr. Kettl is a former dean of the University Maryland Department of Public Policy, and is the author of a new book “The Divided States of America: Why Federalism Doesn’t Work.”

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ExPO (Ex-incarcerated Persons Organizing) Director Jerome Dillard talks with EXPO operations director Brittany Lee about the conservative movement to add an amendment to the Wisconsin constitution to make it easier to consider a person’s history, and set mandatory minimum cash bail for individuals arrested (but not convicted) for a crime. They also outline voter suppression of over 45,000 individuals in Wisconsin, after having served their prison time, by excessive long-term parole and supervision.

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