8 O'Clock Buzz

The Middle East Children’s Alliance is a nonprofit organization working for the rights and the well-being of children in the Middle East since 1988. Executive Director, Zeiad Shamrouch, talks about the current dire situation in Palestine, with no clean water, no fuel to power hospitals, clinics, or waste management facilities, and hundred of civilian deaths daily by Israeli bombings.

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Coming up, in its 41st year, is the Madison Herb Fair. This free event, sponsored by the Madison Herb Society, will be at Olbrich Botanical Gardens on Saturday, November 4, 2023, from 10am to 4pm, and will feature speakers, over 18 vendors, a bake sale, and more. Check out the website for more information on the fair.

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You may not know it, but the U. S. has a visa waver program with over 40 countries which allows U. S. passport holders to visit, with full access, those countries without requiring a visa, and the same privileges for citizens of those countries to visit the U. S. Not included in these 40 visa reciprocity agreements is Israel, excluded because of a failure to meet requirements, and, in particular, restrictions and discrimination of U. S. citizens of Palestinian background. Adam Shapiro, Director of Advocacy for Israel/Palestine at Democracy for the Arab World Now (DAWN), talks about the restrictions Israel places on these US/Palestinian residents.

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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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