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Alexis Tardy is a lead activist for EmpowerED Families and founder and Chair of Call x Response.  She joins us from Indianapolis to talk about what she’s up to from healthcare to education and building community partnerships.

More about EmpowerED Families: https://empoweredfamiliesindy.org/ 

More about Call x Response: https://www.facebook.com/CallxResponse/ 

Alexis Tardy is a Minister who chairs the clergy activism group Call and Response. She also works as the Lead Organizer at EmpowerED Families. Before returning to Indianapolis in 2020, Alexis led as the Program Director at Faith and For the Sake of All, where she organized trainings and workshops to end racial disparities in Saint Louis. As a consultant for Urban Strategies, she mentored youth and worked with families and community leaders in Ferguson, Missouri. Alexis earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Public Affairs at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis and a Master of Divinity Degree from Eden Theological Seminary in Saint Louis, Missouri. She is currently pursuing a Doctor of Ministry in Womanist Preaching at Memphis Theological Seminary. Alexis is deeply committed to justice and Black and Latinx families while working toward equitable communities. She resides in Indianapolis, Indiana with her dog KoKo.

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WORT 89.9FM Madison · Cassette Nights At The Parched Eagle

Jim Goronson, owner and brewmaster at The Parched Eagle joins Friday Buzz host, Jonathan Zarov, to tell us about Cassette Thursdays, every week at 7 pm at The Parched Eagle–starting this coming Thursday.

 

 

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WORT 89.9FM Madison · Madison Metropolitan Sewage District’s Artist In Residency Program

Madison’s other MMSD, The Madison Metropolitan Sewerage District, is seeking a qualified artist/educator to engage and empower water stewards through a one-year residency at the Nine Springs Wastewater Treatment Plant. The residency is open to artists/educators of any discipline or medium, and the focus is on connecting people to the District and strengthening their relationships to water – especially as it relates to conserving, protecting, and reflecting the value of it in their own individual daily choices and actions.

Joining Friday Buzz host, Jonathan Zarov, to talk about why they want to put an artist in a sewage treatment plant–how you might enlist to sing the praises of clean water is the pollution prevention specialist with MMSD who leads the residency program, Catherine Harris.

 

 

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WORT 89.9FM Madison · Senator Joe Manchin’s Role With The Conservative American Legislative Exchange Council

Dan Kaufman’s latest article in The New Yorker is “Joe Manchin’s Deep Corporate Ties, ​​An underexamined aspect of Manchin’s pro-business positions in the Senate is his early membership in the American Legislative Exchange Council.” U.S. Senator Joe Manchin’s role with the American Legislative Exchange Counsel, or ALEC, might shed some light on how Manchin came to be one of two powerful democrats blocking progress negotiating the Build Back Better budget reconciliation bill. Dan joins Friday Buzz host, Jonathan Zarov, to talk more about his article.

 

 

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Earlier this month the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) released a new report, “Illustrative Options for National Defense Under a Smaller Defense Budget,” that outlines three different options for cutting funding for the Department of Defense by $1 trillion, or 14 percent of the proposed $7.5 trillion budget, over the next ten years. This provides a template and opens the door to “reducing spending on the Pentagon – without sacrificing security” according to Lindsay Koshgarian, National Priorities Project at the Institute for Policy Studies. She expands on the possibilities.

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Despite promises to support clean energy programs, the Biden administration leaves out any mention of the U. S. Export-Import Bank, which provides public finance to international fossil fuel programs to the tune of $5.5 billion in 2019. Supporting oil drilling and coal mining programs in Africa, Argentina, Switzerland, Brazil, and elsewhere, this little-known U. S. government sponsored bank props up and promotes fossil fuel production and use worldwide. Kate DeAngelis, International Finance Program Manager for Friends of the Earth, fills in the details.

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John Kiriakou knows something about the U. S. persecution of whistleblowers — he was imprisoned for 23 months on espionage charges when he exposed the Bush administration’s torture program. But today he’s talking (and writing) about Daniel Hale, who broke the news of civilian deaths by the U. S. drone assassination program and subsequently charged with treason — in fact, an estimated 40% of drone deaths are civilians. Hale was sentenced to a minimum security facility where he could get treatment for PTSD, but the Bureau of Prisons sent him to USP Marion supermax prison, which holds terrorists and the worst prisoners.

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It happens each Halloween. 

Walk store aisles for Halloween costumes, and you will most likely find Indian “costumes.” Or walk downtown on Halloween and find college students appropriating Native culture. You will even find it in elementary schools. Learn why Native identity and cultural appropriation should never, ever take place–at halloween, Thanksgiving or even in daily life as there are many, many non-Native folks out there claiming to be Inidigenous, which is also a historical trend in America. 

Philip J. Deloria, a member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe, and a professor of history at Harvard University, where his research and teaching focus on the social, cultural, and political histories of the relations among Native American Peoples and the United States. His first book, Playing Indian, traced the tradition of white “Indian play” from the Boston Tea Party to the New Age movement.

Lori Brave Rock, also known as, Misamaakii (miss-um-akii) (Long Time Woman). Lori is a member of the Blackfeet and Kainai Tribes in Canada. For years, she has led campaigns to stop the sale of Halloween “costumes” that depict harmful and shallow stereotypes of Indigenous people — costumes with names like Native American Princess, Toddler Little Chief, and Sexy Cherokee Warrior. In 2018, she created a petition and protest movement demanding that pop-up costume shop Spirit Halloween remove these costumes from their shelves.  More information on reparations for First Nations in Canada from their National Center for Truth and Reconciliation.

Last week, a viral video depicting a white math teacher in Riverside, CA dressed in a construction paper headdress, chanting the math mnemonic “soh-cah-toa”, hit the internet. The wildly racist video spread like wildfire, and at the forefront of the movement to uncover that behavior are Indigenous activists like Ivette Xochiyotl. Ivette is a mom and a student as well as a patient, mental health, civil & human rights advocate. She is a Nahua/Yokuts Indigenous activist and a community organizer and an adherent of Zapatismo.

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WORT 89.9FM Madison · Kids Creating Wisconsin Aims To Get Kids Interested In The Arts and Entertainment Field

Kids Creating Wisconsin is a fun, free event by Createability Wisconsin, focused on getting kids interested in the exciting careers available in the arts and entertainment industry. This outdoors event will feature fun, interactive exhibits run by Camp Createability, local artists, and other event participants. It takes place at their Camp Createability Studio at 4510 Femrite Drive Saturday, Oct. 23 from 10 am – 2 pm

Createability Wisconsin is a training facility and full service studio for artists, filmmakers, graphic designers, animators, and digital media designers with autism or other disabilities. Their studios and training facility provide opportunities for children, teens, and adults of all abilities to gain individualized instruction and job placement in the arts or film and entertainment industry. Debbie Armstrong is the founder and director of Creatability Wisconsin, a former educator of 15 years, and has been working with children with disabilities over the past 34 years. Debbie joins Friday Buzz host, Jonathan Zarov, to talk more about the event and Camp Createability.

 

 

(Images courtesy of Debbie Armstrong and Createability Wisconsin)

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WORT 89.9FM Madison · “I let the music speak for itself no matter what”

Local singer songwriter Lo Marie is a four-time Madison Area Music Association Award winner.

Her aesthetic encompasses jazz harmonic constructs, urban grooves, soulful guitar, and the expressivity of the jazz neo-soul vocal traditions. She joins Friday Buzz host, Jonathan Zarov, to talk about her 10 song single series that will be bundled together as the upcoming album, The Bar.

 

 

(Image courtesy of Anais Shiba) 

 

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