8 O'Clock Buzz

WORT 89.9FM Madison · Steve Starkey of OutReach On Upcoming City-Wide Pride Event

Steve Starkey has been the Executive Director for OutReach LGBTQ+ Community Center coming up on 15 yrs, located here in Madison. Every year in August, Outreach sponsors a city wide Pride event and also has an awards ceremony in the fall. OutReach has direct aid programs like Wilma’s Fund and informative video series like The Road Forward. Steve joins Friday Buzz host, Dana Pellebon, to talk more about the upcoming pride event and OutReach.

 

 

(Image courtesy of Steve Starkey)

WORT 89.9FM Madison · Founder Of The Progress Center for Black Women, Sabrina Madison, On Her Vision For The Center

Sabrina Madison is an award winning entrepreneur in the Madison community and the Founder of The Progress Center for Black Women. Sabrina is an inspirational leader and connector who brings people together and makes big things happen. Her vision for the Progress Center for Black Women is to create a Madison community where Black women proliferate as powerful CEO’s, owners of local shops, and leaders in their own right. Sabrina joins Friday Buzz host, Dana Pellebon, to talk more about the center.

(Image courtesy of Sabrina Madison)

Think you have the best burger recipe? Well, you can test it and your favorite beer pairing against other local entrants in the Burgers & Brew Recipe Showdown, sponsored by REAP Food Group. Going on now through August 8th, your entry could win you the $1000 grand prize. Mel Dickenson, judge and owner of Unconventional Acres farm in Arena tells about the contest and the benefits of local foods.

An individual convicted of a felony, no matter when in that person’s life the crime occurs, can expect to make $500,000, or 50%, less over their lifetime than a person with a clean record. Why? Because the persistent and public nature of criminal records — available to almost everyone on the internet — follows a person in seeking employment, housing, and many other facets of their lives and gives them an “eternal criminal record” whether rehabilitated or not. Ames Grawert, Senior Counsel Justice Program at the Brennen Center for Justice talks about this modern scarlet letter in his recent article “Collateral Consequences and the Enduring Nature of Punishment“

The Biden infrastructure plan falls $2.5 billion short of what the country needs for the next 10 years to rebuild an infrastructure that has been ignored for the past 60 years: this according to a report of the American Society of Civil Engineers. Alphecca Muttardy from the Coalition for a National Infrastructure Bank talks about how such a bank could finance our infrastructure demands, plus possibly have money remaining to provide grants for low income loans. The proposed bill HR3339 will address these shortcomings in funding infrastructure without deficit spending.

Today on the Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Aaron Perry sitting in for Damita Brown…

Milwaukee’s Community Health Engagement Director and Director of the Milwaukee Fatherhood Initiative, Darryl Davidson joins us to talk about the impact of COVID-19 on Milwaukee’s African American community, mental heath and his work to improve families and health through fatherhood engagement.  

Darryl Davidson is the Community Engagement Director of the City of Milwaukee and also Director of the Milwaukee Fatherhood Initiative, launched and promoted by Mayor Tom Barrett to improve the life outcomes of families though responsible fatherhood and father focused interventions. He oversees city wide collaborative outreach activities focused on promoting racial equity and inclusion in education, business, and economics and guides the work of the Milwaukee Men’ Health Referral Network.

With over 20 years of public health experience, he leads best practice based social service delivery and research projects related to adult and teen male well-being, physical, behavioral and mental health; serves as a program developer and evaluator for a variety of men’s health programs; founded a one stop shop men’s health center and represents his organization in a local, state, and federal initiatives.

More on Milwaukee Fatherhood Innitiative: https://city.milwaukee.gov/mayorbarrett/Initiatives/Fatherhood-Initiative

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Today on the Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Aaron Perry sitting in for Damita Brown…

Actor, Writer, Comedian and now Director Dannon Green joins us from Los Angeles to talk about his latest project, “The Executioners,” a documentary about a boxing gym out of Philadelphia, PA, and serving the community, even in the hardest times.  

The Executioners is availiable now on TubiTV, and coming in August to Amazon Prime and Xumo.

More on Dannon’s career: https://filmfreeway.com/DannonGreen

More on The Executioners: https://www.instagram.com/theexecutionersdoc/

Follow Dannon on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dannongreen66/

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The inability to find a living wage job is the #1 cause of recidivism in Wisconsin, where 93% of formerly incarcerated people between the ages of 25 and 44 actively seek work, while being five times more likely to be unemployed than the average American, according to Melissa Ludin, Smart Justice Regional Organizer of the ACLU of Wisconsin. Two bills in the state legislature are aimed at expunging the records of some individuals with a felony on their record, AB69 (passed by the Assembly) and SB78 (in consideration by the Senate), which would significantly increase their ability to make a living.

Madison Shakespeare Company will present two special pop-up performances this July in anticipation of the summer premiere of the full-length comedy All’s Well That Ends Well. The events are scheduled for 7 PM Thursday July 8 on the Stone Horse Green in downtown Middleton, and 5 PM Saturday July 10 at Everyday Kitchen on Madison’s Near West side.

 

Last year, honey bees experienced the second-highest colony loss, 45% of colonies died, for the second year in a row. Amanda Starbuck from Food & Water Watch and Jason Davidson from Friends of the Earth talk about increasing year-round stress on pollinators, not just bees, — without which we would not have food — from food and habitat loss, insecticides, global warming, draught, and the hope that the “Saving America’s Pollinators Act” might bring.