8 O'Clock Buzz

Today on the Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Sikowis (in exile), talking about the Rights of Nature movement…

Nature Has The Right to Flourish – Legal Rights of Nature with Alexis Bunten

Alexis Bunten, co-director of Bioneers Indigeneity Program and member of the Unangan and Yup’ik Nations in Alaska joins us to talk about using Rights of Nature to fight for protection of our ecosystems.

Putting Nature at the Center of Decision Making – Inside the Rights of Nature with Joshua Pribanic

Director, editor, investigative reporter and founder of Public Herald, Joshua Pribanic joins us to discuss his award-winning 2020 documentary, “Invisible Hand” showcasing and going inside the Rights of Nature movement.

Youth International Screening 3/13: http://www.invisiblehandfilm.com/yis/

Believing in the Seventh Generation – Youth Organizing with Alexandrea Flanders

Great Plains Action Society Youth Organizer Alexandrea Flanders joins us from the sovereign land of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska to talk about her work as a youth organizer, and how they are organizing the youth of the world to fight for the Rights of Nature.

Living through the pandemic with Alexandrea: https://www.greatplainsaction.org/single-post/alexandrea-flanders-living-through-the-pandemic

Today on the Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Sikowis (in exile), talking about the Rights of Nature movement…

Great Plains Action Society Youth Organizer Alexandrea Flanders joins us from the sovereign land of the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska to talk about her work as a youth organizer, and how they are organizing the youth of the world to fight for the Rights of Nature.

Living through the pandemic with Alexandrea: https://www.greatplainsaction.org/single-post/alexandrea-flanders-living-through-the-pandemic

Today on the Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Sikowis (in exile), talking about the Rights of Nature movement…

Director, editor, investigative reporter and founder of Public Herald, Joshua Pribanic joins us to discuss his award-winning 2020 documentary, “Invisible Hand” showcasing and going inside the Rights of Nature movement.

Youth International Screening 3/13: http://www.invisiblehandfilm.com/yis/

Today on the Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Sikowis (in exile), talking about the Rights of Nature movement…

Alexis Bunten, co-director of Bioneers Indigeneity Program and member of the Unangan and Yup’ik Nations in Alaska joins us to talk about using Rights of Nature to fight for protection of our ecosystems.

“Each time a woman stands up for herself, without knowing it possibly, without claiming it, she stands up for all women.” — Maya Angelou. Today’s edition of the 8 o’clock Buzz – ExPO Hour features the movers behind the women’s division of ExPO, the FREE Campaign, with state Program Director Tamra Oman, Milwaukee Organizer Christal Arroyo Roman, and Madison Organizer LaToya Greer. Listen as they describe their stories of incarceration, share statistics on the reasons why so many women of color are in “The System” and how the FREE Campaign is working for change.

Since 2005, the Beloit International Film Festival has brought some of the worlds’ most innovative feature, short, narrative and documentary films to Wisconsin’s door.  The 2021 edition introduces a new online, video on-demand format to cope with the global coronavirus pandemic, but otherwise still includes an aggressive schedule of programming.  Greg Gerard is the Executive Director of the Beloit International Film Festival, and he joined Monday Buzz host Brian Standing.

As a growing percentage of Wisconsin hits retirement age, fewer and fewer seem prepared to leave the workforce.  In the United States, the average retiree has only 12,000 dollars saved by the time they hit 65 years of age.  Here in Wisconsin, almost one million workers between 18 and 64 do not have access to a retirement plan through their work.  With Social Security never intended to pay for all of a worker’s retirement and most workers with little or nothing in other sources of retirement income, a recent University of Wisconsin study projected as many as 400,000 seniors in Wisconsin living in poverty by 2030.  These grim statistics prompted Governor Tony Evers in 2019 to create a Retirement Security Task Force, headed by State Treasurer Sarah Godlewski.  The task force just released their report.  Here to discuss the report’s findings and recommendations is task force member J. Michael Collins a consumer expert with the University of Wisconsin.

 

Wisconsin conservationist Aldo Leopold once wrote about what he called “the green fire” in the eyes of a dying wolf.  In his essay, “Thinking Like a Mountain,” Leopold wrote, “I was young then and full of trigger-itch; I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer, that no wolves would mean hunters’ paradise. But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view.”  After the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service delisted the Gray Wolf as an endangered species in January and a Jefferson County judge ordered the Wisconsin DNR to begin a hastily organized wolf hunt, Wisconsin hunters will have a chance to scratch that trigger-itch once again.  The DNR is offering 4,000 permits to legally take no more than 200 wolves in the state between February 22 and February 28.  Is hunting nature’s top predator essential to the health of the deer population, or is it just another trophy to hang on the wall?  Ecologist Adrian Treves founded the University of Wisconsin Carnivore Coexistence Laboratory in 2007.

 

Photo of Gray Wolf by Christian Mehlführer, User:Chmehl, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons.

The current owners of the Point Beach Nuclear Power Plant in Manitowoc are working for approval to extend the license of that facility another 30 years, which would make it 80 years old. Hannah Mortensen from Physicians for Social Responsibility — WI and Kevin Kamps from Beyond Nuclear discuss the issues surrounding this aging facility and what you can do during the public comment stage of the approval process.

Speculative trading has taken over Wall Street, with 85% of trades in investments with no basis in a company’s worth or potential — case in point with the recent rise and crash of GameStop. James Henry, Global Justice Fellow at Yale University and founder of the Sag Harbor Group IT consultants, talks about his latest article: “Beyond the GameStop Drama: Tax and the Wall Street Casino — The Need for a Financial Transaction Tax” which would help address wealth inequity and moderate speculation as a progressive sales tax.