Today on the Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Tara Wilhelmi, RR Moore, and Antoine McNeail, joined by Jackie “Brodean” Morris and Lolo Lature, talking Jackie’s journey, showing up dressed your best, re-entry, mental health, raising kids and more!

Stay tuned for more news about Jackie’s Mac of the Century party coming up December 30th at Hayes Place! 

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Helen Shiller, author of the book “Daring to Struggle, Daring to Win”, who will be appearing at the Wisconsin Book Festival, joins the Thursday edition of the 8 O’Clock Buzz to talk about her decades of struggle to bring progressive politics to Chicago, following her activism on the UW-Madison campus in the late 1960’s.

Helen was a Chicago alder for twenty-five years and helped implement the progressive programs proposed by the late Chicago mayor Harold Washington despite organized opposition from a bloc of entrenched alders used to the politics of patronage.  Helen will be at the Madison Public Central Library on Friday, October 20, at 4:30 pm.

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With the UAW strike entering its 5th week, Professor Emeritus of Economics at the University of Massachusetts, William Lazonick co-authored a paper detailing the actual pay of CEOs, especially focusing on GM CEO Mary Barra, with relation to the average worker. The calculation numbers of the unions were corrected with stock options and other compensations, now calculated at 479 times the average auto worker. Lazonick argues for a ban on “stock buy-backs”, calling them “toxic” to the company, only benefitting the CEOs and shareholders.

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In an application to DOE, originally for decommissioning the Palisades Nuclear reactor, Holtec is applying for unprecedented reactor restart of the shut down reactor, but reveals the ulterior motive is to build small modular reactors at all decommissioning sites; details $10.7 Billion+ in bailouts, as detailed in the report by Kevin Kamps, watchdog for Beyond Nuclear.

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Today on the Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Tara Wilhelmi, RR Moore, and Antoine McNeail, Lolo Lature joins to talk about the business of event production, and the state of Black arts and venues.

Antoine’s 1Motion Outreach: https://www.facebook.com/1MotionOutReachEnterprise/ 

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Playlist of the music: https://spinitron.com/WORT/pl/18022205/Tuesday-8-O-Clock-Buzz

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The seemingly immutable conflict between Israel and Palestine is difficult to understand if one relies solely on mainstream or in some cases, even alternative, media. For perspective and historical context on the humanitarian tragedy that’s unfolding in that region today, Thursday 8 O’Clock Buzz host Tony Castańeda talks with Jennifer Loewenstein, a long-time peace activist and Middle East Studies scholar, to help listeners better understand the current crisis.

Photo courtesy of ChristianIS on Pixabay.

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The UNA-USA (United Nations Association of the United States of America) strives to support environmental stability and human rights through the model of the United Nations. President of the Dane County chapter, Mary Muse, talks about their UN Day Celebration on October 22, 2023 at the Monona Terrace, (register on their website) and monthly lecture events (via Zoom, but starting in-person in 2024)

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With $8 million per day of U. S. military aid to Israel, Israelis have regularly bulldozed homes and gardens, and stolen livestock and homes of Palestinians in Gaza at gunpoint for over 50 years. The Madison/Rafah Sister City Project was founded in 2003 to increase public awareness of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and to influence U.S. public policy to benefit both peoples. One of the projects has been to support planting olive trees by Palestinian settlers to support farmers. Cassandra Dixon says the celebration continues this year, despite the conflict, on Sunday, October 15, 2023, from 2-4pm in the Tenney Park Shelter.

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In his latest blog, scientist and activist Professor Mazim Qumsiyeh, founder and Director at the Palestine Museum of Natural History and author of numerous books including Popular resistance in Palestine : a history of hope and empowerment explains the current Israeli/Palestinian conflict thusly: “It is really very simple: we have 15 million native Palestinians, 8 million of us are refugees or displaced people (2/3rd of Gaza’s 2.2 million are refugees). Israel cannot be allowed to get away with stealing lands and resources and setting up a racist apartheid regime. Even besieged, starving, blockaded people in Gaza manage to break through their prison walls.”

He talks with Jan Miyasaki about the current situation in Gaza.

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The Writers Guild of America (WGA) strike directed against major Hollywood studios has ended successfully for the union membership.  The agreement has meaningful gains and protections for the writers including length of employment, size of writing teams, better streaming residuals, and establishing the terms for artificial intelligence.  Bri LeRose, an LA-based comedy writer/director, and the main go-to for WORTfm information on WGA activities joins the Thursday edition of the 8 O’Clock Buzz to discuss the agreement and to share hope on a successful conclusion of the Screen Actors Guild (SAG) on-going negotiations.

Image by Fathromi Ramdlon from Pixabay

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