8 O'Clock Buzz

With a goal of “Fighting for a U.S. federal budget that prioritizes peace, economic security and shared prosperity”, the National Priorities Project analyzes U.S. military spending (currently 49.5% of national discretionary spending) and recommends how these monies can be better used. Lindsay Koshgarian, Program Director, talks about how Biden intends to plow the $10 billion that will not be spent in Afghanistan back into the Pentagon, where it could be better used to end homelessness and bolster jobs and infrastructure projects.

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

Laurel Redmon from Red Sage Health joins to talk about alternatives to western medicine including aromatherapy, acupuncture and herbology.

Laurel Redmon is a Licensed Acupuncturist and a Diplomate in Chinese Herbology and the owner of Red Sage Health, specializing in holistic treatments and alternatives to Western medicine using herbs and vegetables grown organically on our farm in the Baraboo Hills

More information on Red Sage Health: https://redsagehealth.com/

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

Jackie Hunt from FOSTER of Dane County joins us to talk about providing culturally relevant recovery option and providing support for families going through stressful times.

Jackie Hunt a Clinical Substance Abuse Counselor and a Licensed Professional Counselor and the founder of FOSTER, an organization dedicated to supporting families and was recently the recipient of the International Women’s Conference a 2021 Trailblazer Award.  FOSTER’s annual Pre-Mother’s Day Brunch is coming up virtually on Saturday, May 8th.

More about FOSTER: https://fosterdanecounty.org/

Register for their Pre-Mother’s Day Brunch: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/13th-annual-pre-mothers-day-brunch-virtual-event-tickets-146518323249

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The introduction to the agriculture chapter of the Fourth National Climate Assessment states: “Rising temperatures, extreme heat, drought, wildfire on rangelands, and heavy downpours are expected to increasingly disrupt agricultural productivity in the United States. Expected increases in challenges to livestock health, declines in crop yields and quality, and changes in extreme events in the United States and abroad threaten rural livelihoods, sustainable food security, and price stability.”  Vast areas of the U.S., including much of the midwest are expected to face reduced agricultural productivity.  Can farming survive and adapt to such extreme conditions.  Lisa Schulte Moore is a Professor of Natural Resource Ecology and Management at Iowa State University who works with farmers on climate adaptation.

 

 

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President Biden’s first budget proposal includes an enormous investment in education, including more than doubling the federal Title I program, which directs funding to high-poverty schools, from 16 billion dollars to 36 billion dollars. The Biden Administration would also add money targeted to supporting nurses, counselors and mental health professionals in schools, child care, Head Start programs, community schools, and would include a new program aimed at desegregation.  Our next guest argues that all that largesse means more federal control over local education.  Nicholas Tampio teaches political science at Fordham University and is the author of “Common Core:  A Threat to Democracy.”

A 2020 study from the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank found that blacks in Wisconsin, on average, earn 48 cents for every dollar earned by whites.  The same study also found that blacks are 23% more likely to be living in poverty than whites.  The Federal Reserve study is only the latest of a stream of reports that clearly show Wisconsin as the worst state in the nation when it comes to racial disparities.  This month, the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism launches a new series focused on racial income inequality to uncover the ins and outs of how that disparity manifests itself.  Joining us once again is WCIJ Managing Editor Dee Hall.

WORT 89.9FM Madison · The Friday Buzz’s own Ankur Malhotra tells his Story on India’s Covid-19 Crisis

The Friday Buzz’s own Ankur Malhotra grew up in New Delhi and came to Madison to get his MBA at the UW School of Business. Now living in Madison he travels to India and other spots abroad for his work with his music label, Amarrass Records.

He also DJ’s the Friday Buzz, lending it an eclectic and sometimes witty mix of music, as well as on another WORT show, Pan Africa. Ankur talks with Jonathan Zarov to tell a more intimate, personal story about what is going on in India and how it has affected his family in India.

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WORT 89.9FM Madison · Aakar Patel on India’s Governmental Repression

A journalist turned activist and dissident, Aakar Patel has worked in senior editorial positions at leading media organizations in India including the Deccan Chronicle, Mid Day, and Asian Age. In 2015, he joined international human rights organization Amnesty International as executive director for Indian operations.

Due to his writing and activism, Patel has been the frequent target of vitriol and threats from the Indian right wing parties and their allies. Over the years he’s had his home raided by the Central Bureau of Investigation and been arrested for tweeting. He joined Jonathan Zarov and Ankur Malhotra to talk about the current state of governmental censorship and repression in India.

WORT 89.9FM Madison · Buzz – 4-28 – 21 – Schroeder – Liners – Ross

 

In this month’s 8 o’clock Buzz — ExPO hour, Jerome Dillard talks with community organizers Ron Schroeder, ExPO fellow, David Liners, Executive Director of WISDOM, and Shannon Ross, President of “The Community“, about a wide array of prison-reform and return-to-community issues ranging from comments on the proposed WI State budget, expansion to community-based alternatives to parole revocation, treatment alternatives and diversions from incarceration, expansion of the earned release program, and much more.

In Victorian England, “Perambulating Libraries” started delivering books to rural residents.  In 1904, the People’s Free Library in South Carolina started sending a mule-drawn wagon full of books out into the hinterlands.  Called by many names, Bookmobiles or book wagons have tried to expand public libraries’ reach to underserved populations.  The Dane County Library Service, the Madison Public Library and the Madison Public Library Foundation’s version of the bookmobile is called “The Dream Bus.”  Here to tell us more about it is Tracy Herold, Director of the Dane County Library Service.  Welcome, Tracy. Also joining us is Liz Boyd, Marketing Specialist for Madison Public Library.