8 O'Clock Buzz

WORT’s intrepid news team is on assignment this week in Chicago, covering the Democratic National Convention.

WORT news producer Faye Parks and reporter Carlos Davalos have been covering the Progressive Democrats of America caucus, and they both joined the Monday Buzz by phone from Chicago.

Web posting by Monday Buzz producer Nicholas Wootton

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Join Thursday 8 O’Clock Buzz hosts Tony Castañeda and Eli Wilz for their conversation with somewhat regular guest Charley Preusser, the longtime editor of the Crawford County Independent and Kickapoo Scout.  Charley covers stories that range from local political races and farm bill votes to corn prices and flood control.

Photo courtesy of Kelsey Todd on Unsplash.

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UW-Madison graduate student and Students for Justice in Palestine spokesperson Dahlia Saba joined Thursday 8 O’Clock Buzz hosts Tony Castañeda and Eli Wilz to talk about the necessity of a total arms embargo and ceasefire prior to the November presidential election.

In Wisconsin’s April Democratic Presidential Primary, over 48,000 voters checked the “Uninstructed” box to indicate their opposition to the US policy in the Gaza-Israel war. VP Kamala Harris, the party’s likely candidate in the general election, has expressed her support for a ceasefire but with the announcement this week of a $20 billion weapons sale to Israel, that goal seems out of reach.

With the election just under three months away, Listen to Wisconsin urges voters to sign their “Not Another Bomb” petition, and “Ceasefire First” pledge, which reads: “I pledge that I cannot in good conscience vote for Vice President Harris until at least one of the following conditions are met: a permanent ceasefire is achieved, OR Vice President Harris publicly commits to halting all weapons to Israel to enable a ceasefire if she is elected.”

Photo courtesy of Amr Taha on Unsplash.

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Jerome Dillard, Executive Director of EXPO (EX-incarcerated People Organizing) and Nick Ramos, Executive Director of the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, team up to talk to Jan Miyasaki about the “Unlock the Vote Campaign“, efforts to give the vote to 59,000 individuals in Wisconsin who are walking (and working) in the community while on extended probation but who CANNOT vote!

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Nick Wurst, General Secretary of Railroad Workers United, talks about the rail industry in general, issues with the control held by six mega-corporations of all rail industry in the U. S., and his attempts to get thirteen rail workers unions working together in solidarity for a stronger bargaining position for workers.

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Today on the Too Turnt Up Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Tara Wilhelmi featuring RR Moore and Lolo Lature, Laura Ford-Harris, Education and Learning Officer from Black Men’s Coalition of Dane County joins us to tell us her story and about what’s going on with their organization.

More information Black Men’s Coalition on the free eCornell training available to our community: https://www.bmcdc.org/cornell

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Madison Public Library’s popular We Read Bubbler Artist in Residence program has recently expanded into neighborhood libraries around the city.  Featuring hands-on workshops and community projects, the program provides opportunities for kids, families and adults to engage with local teaching artists.  We have two of this summer’s artists in residence with us now.  Renee Gavigan, Artist in Residence at Pinney Library and Carlee Latimer, Bubbler Program Administrator joined the Monday Buzz on August 12, 2024.

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In July, the science journal Nature Geoscience published a groundbreaking paper describing evidence that large amounts of free oxygen is produced chemically on the deep floor of the Pacific Ocean.  Led by Scottish Association for Marine Science researcher Andrew K. Sweetman, the discovery of so-called “dark oxygen” has the potential to completely upend much of what we think we know about how oxygen gets into the atmosphere.  But a funny thing happened shortly after the study came out, when one of the research funders – an undersea mining company – got cold feet.  Canadian Broadcasting Corporation environmental reporter Inayat Singh broke the story, and he spoke to Monday Buzz host Brian Standing.

Photo of undersea manganese nodule: User Koelle on de.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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For over seventy years, The Nature Conservancy has cultivated a reputation as a nonpartisan, science-based conservation agency more interested in buying and protecting land than engaging in electoral politics.  That nonpartisan stance has generally served the organization well.  As of 2021, The Nature Conservancy had over a million members and had permanently protected 119 million acres of critical habitat worldwide.  Here in Wisconsin, two ballot measures to amend the state constitution have inspired local chapter of the Nature Conservancy to break with that apolitical tradition.  Elizabeth Koehler, Wisconsin State Director for The Nature Conservancy joined the Monday Buzz on August 12, 2024.

Photo of Elizabeth Koehler by Jim Schumaker

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Research Assistant at the Center for Media and Democracy, Colleen Scerpella’s June 3rd article titled “The Right-Wing Network Manufacturing the War Against Higher Education” follows the work of the American Association of University Professors study of right-wing and libertarian think tanks responsible for manufacturing the cultural backlash against both K–12 and higher education. Of particular note is the State Policy Network (SPN), web of 167 far-right nonprofit organizations in 48 states, Washington, D.C., Puerto Rico, and the United Kingdom.

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