8 O'Clock Buzz

Brynne McBride, COO/Public Interest Attorney for the non-profit ABC for Health, which provides advocacy and health benefits counseling, talks with Jan about the upcoming ACA open enrollment deadlines (December 15 for January 1 coverage, and January 15 for February 1 coverage). Their group works with individuals directly to wade through the plethora of options and help find the best coverage, including Medicaid and Badgercare Plus, for their personal needs.

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Today on the Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Dr. Damita Brown, Tynnetta Jackson and Pastor Charles Watkins, co-founders of Solomons Outreach and Urban Learning Sessions (SOULS) join us to talk about the work they are doing in Milwaukee, reaching out to the community through their cafes and working to reduce violence and change the climate of the city.

Keep up with SOULS on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/soulssessions/ or through Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice at http://www.wnpj.org/ 

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Tynnetta Jackson co-founder and Director of Solomons Outreach and Urban Learning Sessions (SOULS) which host monthly community and virtual informational Cafes, and currently works with the Medical College of Wisconsin to host monthly science cafes. She has been a long time community leader, activist, organizer and motivational speaker. 

Pastor Charles Watkins is a graduate of Arkansas Baptist College, the Morris Booker Seminary, and a United States Air Force veteran, he is the pastor of King Solomon M.B.C. and co-founder of SOULS.

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Today on the Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Dr. Damita Brown, Dr. Crystal Ellis, Community Power Building Manager from Freedom, Inc joins us to talk about Freedom, Inc’s plans for the future, her research, and the impact on community organizing caused by the rulings in the trial for the murder of Amuad Arbery and of Kyle Rittenhouse for the murder of Joseph Rosenbaum and Anthony Huber and wounding of Gaige Grosskreutz.

More on Freedom, Inc: https://www.freedom-inc.org/ or https://www.facebook.com/AboutFreedomInc 

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Community Power Building Manager, Dr. Crystal Ellis  (she/her/hers) is an organizer manager  within Freedom Inc. In addition to her work here, she is a writer and published author. Before coming to Freedom Inc. Dr. Ellis conducted research in Milwaukee, Nova Scotia, North Carolina and Washington D.C. Her research has focused on Black communities, Black liberation and community development. 

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WORT 89.9FM Madison · Eastside Winter Market

Just about a month ago, the beloved local publication Tone Madison announced that it would begin the process of converting to a worker-owned cooperative model. Now they are doing all they can to financially support that goal and turn the dream into reality.

Joining Friday Buzz host, Kai Brito, to talk about the Eastside Winter Market and subsequent fundraising concert is Scott Gordon and Jennifer Bastian. Scott is the Editor-in-chief of Tone Madison and Jennifer is the director of Communication Madison.

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WORT 89.9FM Madison · The Winter Festival of Poetry Returns

Local author and poet, James P. Roberts, joins Friday Buzz host, Kai Brito, to talk about the 2022 Winter Festival of Poetry. Festival is sponsored by the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poetry, where Jame serves as the regional Vice-President.

 

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WORT 89.9FM Madison · Struggling Rural Communities Could Become Safe Haven For Climate Migrants

In response to the latest Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report published earlier this year, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said it was a “Code Red for Humanity” and urged us to look at the immediate risk for the future of our planet. For the US, our rural communities are suffering from the economic losses as people move away, but these rural regions could also very well be a climate haven from the built environment of the city. Professor Emerita of Architecture for the Spitzer School of Architecture at City College of New York, Hillary Brown, says that rural centers just might be one of the many solutions we’ll need to solve the climate crisis. Hillary joins Friday Buzz host, Kai Brito, to talk more about this.

The Conversation | How ‘managed retreat’ from climate change could revitalize rural America: Revisiting the Homestead Act

 

(Images courtesy of Li-An Lim on Unsplash and Hillary Brown)

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What is Male? What is Female? Did you know that Tinder lists 32 different genders that a person can post to their profile? How does a baby’s gender defined at birth affect their life in society?

Dean of the School for Cultural and Social Transformation at the University of Utah, Kathryn Bond Stockton, has recently published a book “Gender(s)” that wades through the complexity of this once simple question: What is your gender?

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Recent election reforms are aimed at giving greater partisan control over election administration, according to Derek Tisler, counsel in the Brennan Center for Justice’s Democracy Program.

In his most recent co-authored article entitled “The Election Sabotage Scheme and How Congress Can Stop It“, Tisler talks about states’ legislatures efforts to focus on what happens after the vote gets cast (like what information third party election “recounts” can access), establishing state authority to dismiss election results, and more.

He points out how the pending Congressional “Freedom to Vote Act” can provide guidance for free and fair elections.

Photo courtesy Chali Pittman / WORT News on Flickr.

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Today on the Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Dr. Damita Brown, we’re checking-in with The Progressive on what’s in the new issue.  Editor in Chief Bill Leuders joins us to discuss the content in the December / January issue from its major story, how law enforcement and big tech are creating a less safe and more distrusting surveillance state in our communities to voter suppression to family farms and more.

More on The Progressive and subscribe at their website: https://progressive.org/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theprogressivemagazine

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theprogressivemag/ 

Bill Lueders is editor of The Progressive. He is author of An Enemy of the State, the biography of the late editor of The Progressive, Erwin Knoll. Lueders was news editor at Isthmus, Madison’s alternative weekly, for twenty-five years, and won dozens of state and national awards. In 2011 he moved to the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism, where he became one of Wisconsin’s leading investigative reporters. He joined the staff of The Progressive in 2015 and was named editor in September 2018.  In September 2021 he was inducted into the National Freedom of Information Coalition’s State Open Government Hall of Fame.

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Madison’s first Medallion Hunt ended in only three days, when Peter Kirschmann found the acrylic Ho-Chunk Nation medallion hidden on the lifeguard chair at James Madison beach.  The hunt was the brainchild of Madison’s Native American Storyteller-in-Residence, Andi Cloud. Andi Cloud joined Monday Buzz host Brian Standing on December 6, 2021.

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