8 O'Clock Buzz

Today on the Pledge Drive Tuesday 8:00 Buzz (in exile) with Megan Berge filling in for Dr Damita Brown (she’ll be back next week!)

Lynn Wunderli, co-owner of Zen Dogs Center Daycare and Training in Waunakee and Wunderdog Training, joins to talk about their upcoming “Wunderdog Montessori School” and the importance of dog training, finding a good trainer, and tips for socializing dogs.

Today on the Pledge Drive Tuesday 8:00 Buzz (in exile) with Megan Berge filling in for Dr Damita Brown (she’ll be back next week!)

Matida Bojang from Project Recovery, Wisconsin’s crisis counseling program, joins to talk about what they are doing to help people in the community in the wake of the COVID crisis.

The top 0.1% of wealthiest people in the U.S. have earned $1.3 Trillion since the start of the pandemic — that’s right, they are making money while millions are struggling. Senator Elizabeth Warren and co-sponsors have proposed an Ultra-millionaire tax on those with excessive of $50 million. Chuck Collins, Director of the Program on Inequality and the Common Good at the Institute for Policy Studies, talks about his recent article “Tax Billionaires to Pay for Pandemic Recovery” where he explains how the wealthy hide their money and what this proposal would do for the economy and the poor.

Hedge fund managers are torpedoing chances for a successful Green New Deal, according to Lynne Parramore, Senior Research Analyst for the Institute for New Economic Thinking. In her recent article “Meet the “New Koch Brothers” – the Hedge Fund Activists Wrecking America’s Green New Deal“, she talks about how corporate raiders are turning the direction of “green” corporate partners of battery development, software, wind turbines, and more away from long term energy conservation projects toward short-term money-making projects to increase the hedge fund shareholder returns.

The current H-2A program in the U.S. is a mechanism where growers are allowed to import laborers from foreign countries to harvest crops. However, according to a new report by David Bacon, Oakland Institute, these workers are often exploited by the growers, who can set high production quotas, fire workers for little cause, and blacklist them for future work consideration.

Michael Li, Senior Counsel, Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice, has recently published a report “The Redistricting Landscape, 2021-22“. His report analyzes four factors that affects voting boundaries: who controls map drawing; changes in the legal rules governing redistricting over the last decade; pressures from population and demographic shifts over the same period; and the potential impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on the 2020 Census.

Mitch Jones, Policy Director at Food & Water Watch, takes a deep dive into the factors effecting the power and water supply failures in Texas during the recent winter storms in his recent article in the Institute for Public Accuracy “Actual Causes of the Texas Disaster“. He summarizes the failures as “the result of climate change, fracking, deregulation, and poorly maintained water and power infrastructure.”

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

Sculptor, activist artist, and Artistic Director of Winter is Alive, Tamsie Ringler joins us to talk about the current exhibition happening city-wide in parks and on the lakes.

Maps and more about Winter is Alive, which closes this coming Sunday.

Photo of “Fish with PFAS” by Jonathan J Miner

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

Madison District 11 Alder and Native American activist Arvina Martin joins to talk about Native issues locally, as well as Madison politics.

Keep up with Arvina on Twitter

WORT 89.9FM Madison · Rushing to Hate

Jonathan Zarov speaks to The New Republic staff writer Alex Shepard, who had a few words about the legacy of late conservative broadcaster Rush Limbaugh. His recent piece is titled “Rush Limbaugh Made America Worse.”

Photo courtesy: Gage Skidmore on Flickr.