Trump stacked the Board of Governors of the U. S. Postal Service with 4 asset managers, the first step in weakening the USPS under millionaire Postmaster General Louis DeJoy. Lisa Graves, Executive Director of policy research group True North, advises that Biden should not renew the appointment of Ron Bloom (current Chairman of the Board, whose equity firm DeJoy has invested in) and John Barger, both with terms ending the end of this year. Graves recommends calling the White House (202)456-1414 to let your voice be heard about his issue.

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Ambar Meneses, Student Support Advisor at Madison College, talks about the High School Equivalency Program (HEP), free educational program targeted to help migrant and seasonal farm workers and their immediate family members earn a GED/HSED. Includes tuition free learning with textbook and computer loans, available for workers and families with 75 days of farm labor in the past two years.

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As Wisconsin’s voice for the nation’s oldest, largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization, with a membership of 18,000, the Sierra Club — Wisconsin Chapter works together with volunteers to protect our communities and the planet. Cassie Steiner-Bouxa, Senior Campaign Coordinator, talks about some of their current activities to protect the environment.

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Trump’s federal court appointees were virtually all white and all male, according to Andrew Cohen, Senior Editor for The Marshall Project and Brennen Center for Justice. And what do the Biden appointees look like? A much more diverse group in terms of race, ethnicity, and gender, as well as background experience. And a competent enough group to garner bipartisan support for their nominations. Cohen details the nominations.

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Today on the Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Dr. Damita Brown…

Barb Sherrod is Restorative Practices Program Director for Restorative Response Baltimore and a Doctoral Student in Urban Educational Leadership at Morgan State University.  She joins Dr. Brown to talk about restorative justice and her work for it, structural racism, reforming criminal justice systems, and more!

Barb is a Baltimore native and proud mother of two. She is a lifelong student of restorative justice and abolition centering the lives and experiences of Black girls, Black women and femmes.  Through experiential and learning circles, Barb educates school communities on the use of restorative justice for building relationships and navigating conflict with an anti-oppressive lens. Her website, MillennialMochaMoms provides space for Black millennial mothers to share their maternal experiences and build community. Her writing is featured in the first restorative justice anthology centering practitioners of color, “Colorizing Restorative Justice: Voicing our Realities” and the Juvenile Justice Information Exchange. Barb is currently a doctoral student at Morgan State University studying Urban Educational Leadership, her research focuses on the circle-keeping practices of Black women RJ practitioners and implementing RJ at home for Black caregivers.

More about Barb and MillenialMochaMoms on the website and Instagram

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WORT 89.9FM Madison · Wisconsin Imprisons Black Residents At A higher Rate Than Any Other State

A recent national report by the Sentencing Project shows that Wisconsin leads the nation in a shameful category: 1 in 36 Black adults in Wisconsin are in prison. Black people make up only 6% of the state’s population, but a shocking 42% of the imprisoned population in the state.

Large disparities like this in the Wisconsin criminal justice system led to the creation of the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council or the CJCC—it was created in 2012 by Scott Walker, and re-created by Governor Tony Evers in 2019. State Public Defender Kelli Thompson serves on the CJCC. Thompson received her law degree from Marquette University. She has been elected or appointed to serve on a number of legal-profession organizations, including the National Legal Aid and Defender Association, which she chaired. She joins Friday Buzz host, Jonathan Zarov, to talk about racial disparities in the criminal justice system and the work of the Race Equity, Inclusion, and Access Subcommittee of the Criminal Justice Coordinating Council on which she serves.

 

 

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The United Nations Association-Dane County Chapter celebrations the 76th Anniversary of the United Nations through our upcoming event United Women, United Nations: Shaping the Future of Our World.

They are celebrating the work of our speaker, Bandana Rana, the Vice Chair of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW). Also being honored as the recipient of the 2021 Global Citizen Award is Dr. Floyd Rose, head of The 100 Black Men of Madison.

You can join this virtual event on Sunday, November 14, 2021 from 11:30 to 1 pm by registering in advance on their website.

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Aaron Williams, past Director of the Peace Corps under Obama and first African American American to lead USAID as Executive Secretary, will be in town next week as a featured speaker of the “International Education Week” at U. W. Madison. He will speak on his life from growing up in Chicago to international community service and recent book “A Life Unimagined: The Rewards of Mission-Driven Service in the Peace Corps and Beyond. Learn more about the event or register here. The event is at 6 PM, November 15th, and can be viewed virtually or at an on-campus watch party.

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Next week, November 15-21, 2021, is “National Apprenticeship Week” and Lisa Goodman, Business Agent from IBEW Local 159, talks about the week’s activities and what a career in the trades can offer, well, basically anyone. And you can get paid while you learn!

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“A foot in the door” — that’s how Karen Dolan, Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, calls the Biden “Build Back Better Bill” making its way through Congress. Though considerably pared down by just a couple of Democrat hold-outs, Dolan says these wildly popular programs, favoring some lower drug pricing, paid medical leave, and more, could prepare the Senate for a Democratic advantage which could lead to even more benefits to workers, children, seniors, and the underprivileged.

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