8 O'Clock Buzz

WORT 89.9FM Madison · The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s Patrick Marley on Arizona’s Audit of the 2020 Presidential Election

In Arizona the 2020 Presidential Election is still not over. Patrick Marley from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel traveled to Arizona with four Wisconsin Republicans to check out the audit. Patrick joins Friday Buzz host Dylan Brogan to talk more about this.

 

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WORT 89.9FM Madison · David Hecht On His Upcoming Performances This Week

David Hecht has been a driving force in the Madison music scene for over 3 decades. He plays with David Hecht & the Who Dat and Primitive Culture, as well as performing many solo shows around the mid-west and beyond. He was a founding member of the international touring and recording band “Java”.

David joins Friday Buzz host Dylan Brogan to talk about his upcoming shows for Global Make Music Day on Monday, June 21 and the Your Lunchtime Live Series on Tuesday, June 22.

 

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The Wisconsin Poor People’s Campaign has been following Martin Luther King’s pivot from Civil Rights to combatting militarism, supporting unions, and building society from the bottom up to raise everybody. Activists Natalia Fajardo and Bruce Grau talk about the group’s opposition to the $750 billion Pentagon budget and $12 billion F-35 fighter jet program as examples of government spending which could be better used to fight poverty and launch a Third Reconstruction to support society.

For 25 years, GSAFE has been working to create just and safe schools for LGBTQ+ youth, empowering students to become leaders, focusing on students of color, interacting with over 250 student clubs, training educators in school districts throughout Wisconsin on how to overcome bias and solve threats to youth in their schools. Co-Executive Director, Brian Juchems, talks to Jan Miyasaki about their mission, vision, and programs in action today.

Today on the Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Dr Damita Brown (in exile) …

Chris Walker is a renowned dancer and the founding Artistic Director of the groundbreaking First Wave hip-hop program at UW-Madison, and was recently appointed director of the Division of Arts.  He joins us to talk about the power of art, and what is happening with art and diversity at UW-Madison.

More on Chris’ appointment as director: https://diversity.wisc.edu/2021/06/new-director-of-division-of-the-arts-named/

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Today on the Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Dr Damita Brown (in exile) …

Annie Weatherby Flowers is a stalwart of the community and founder of Kujichagulia Center for Self-Determination and it’s Juneteenth celebration.  She joins us to talk about Juneteenth and the 32nd Madison celebration events happening this week.

More on Kujichagulia Center and events happening this week: https://kujichaguliamcsd.org/

And the in-person Juneteenth celebrations this Saturday at Penn Park: https://kujichaguliamcsd.org/celebration-park/

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WORT 89.9FM Madison · Emily Mills On Bills Banning Trans Girl Athletes From Competing in K-12 Girl’s Sports

On Wednesday State Republicans unanimously voted to ban transgender girls from participating in K through 12 girls’ sports. The bill would prohibit schools from allowing students to join teams that don’t correspond to their biological sex at birth.

Emily Mills is a freelance writer and former editor of Our Lives magazine. She joins Friday Buzz host, Jonathan Zarov, to sort out the cultural and legal issues around this legislation.

 

 

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WORT 89.9FM Madison · New York Times Best Selling Author, Jordan Ellenberg, Talks About His Most Recent Release

Jordan Ellenberg is the John D MacArthur professor of mathematics at the University of Wisconsin Madison . He is the author of the New York Times Best Seller How Not to Be Wrong, the Power of Mathematical Thinking. His new book, released just a few weeks ago is Shape: The Hidden Geometry of Information, Biology, Strategy, Democracy, and Everything Else. He joins Friday Buzz host, Jonathan Zarov, to talk about more about his most recent book.

 

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Facebook and other social media are working with the Israeli government to silence Palestinian voices in the Middle East, according to Nadim Nashif, co-founder of 7amieh, the Center for the Advancement of Social Media, a group that is advocating for Palestinian digital rights. Since the start of 2020, over the Israeli government has made over 20,000 requests to Facebook to remove postings made by Palestinian citizens. Israel is making a concerted movement worldwide to equate speech and activities against the Israeli government with anti-Semitism, and 7amieh is working to keep Palestinians from being silenced.

Visit their website “Facebook we need to talk“, and their Facebook page.

Do you know the difference between the Willow Western Arctic and the Arctic Wildlife Refuge when it comes to oil drilling leases, environmental impact studies, and preliminary injunctions relating to drilling permits? Jan Miyasaki talks with Layla Hughes, attorney for Earth Justice, about all this, Trump’s deals penned on Biden’s inauguration day, and the status of oil drilling in Alaska.