8 O'Clock Buzz

Thursday’s 8 O’Clock Buzz host* Eli Wilz learns from Melissa Smith, Founder of Friends of the Wisconsin Wolf and Wildlife, about the DNR’s proposed new Wolf Management Plan, which seeks to the update the current plan which has been in place since 1999. Instead of a statewide population goal, the new plan would create population zones and would address the ineffective recreational hunting used to resolve wolf conflicts. The proposed plan’s public comment period is open until Feb. 28, 2023. To learn more, join the group’s Fireside Chats, held every other Thursday from 6-7pm CST.

*Regular Thursday Buzz host Tony Castañeda will return next week.

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WORT 89.9FM Madison · Mills Folly Microcinema Gears Up For New Season

Since 2018, Mills Folly Microcinema has presented cutting-edge experimental and documentary film to Madison audiences.  They’re wrapping up their fall season and are gearing up for a new set of short films that push the limits.  Program director James Kreul joined Monday Buzz host Brian Standing on December 12, 2022.

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WORT 89.9FM Madison · Building Unity Rallies In Solidarity With Striking Case – Holland Workers

Since May of 2022, over a thousand members of United Auto Workers Local 870, in Burlington, Iowa and Local 180 in Racine, Wisconsin have been on strike against Case-Holland, maker of ubiquitous tractors and other farm equipment.  With the action now entering its ninth month, and little progress at the bargaining table, Building Unity is holding a week of solidarity actions, culminating in a rally in Racine on Saturday, December 17th.  Timothy Cordon, Coordinator of Building Unity Wisconsin and Bryan Pfeifer, co-founder of the Wisconsin Bail Out the People Movement,  joined the Monday Buzz on December 12, 2022.

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WORT 89.9FM Madison · You Are Not Expected To Understand This

While pervading nearly every aspect of our modern lives, software code remains a mysterious, arcane form of magic.  To many of us, the marvels created out of rearranged electrons summoned up by a few lines of text in an obscure language seem more akin to the incantations of wizards than they do the product of science. Part of coding’s mystery is that there have been few histories of the craft written for a general audience.  Slate technology editor Torie Bosch sought to correct that omission with her latest book, “You Are Not Expected to Understand This” out now from Princeton University Press.

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In his second appearance on the Friday 8 O'Clock Buzz, Twitter CEO Elon Musk talks to Andy Moore about his new platform policies, his unique management style and his most recent love affair. You can listen to Musk's first Buzz interview at https://www.wortfm.org/a-morning-chat-with-elon-musk/

Featuring Scott Dikkers as Elon Musk. Dikkers is widely known as the founder and editor-in-chief of The Onion, and now hosts his own weekly show, Scott Dikkers Around.

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In our current global agriculture system, corporations focus on producing massive volumes of food as fast and as cheaply as possible. Sounds good, considering we're always trying to solve world hunger, right? The Family Farm Defenders, a small-farm workers' rights group based in Madison, would disagree. As would the keynote speaker for their upcoming award ceremony, Dr. Jahi Chappell.

On this edition of the Friday 8 O'Clock Buzz, Dr. Chappell joins host Andy Moore and producer Beatrice Lawrence to discuss how our current system of overproduction actually contributes to poverty and hunger, and how large agriculture corporations harm both farm workers and the environment. Most importantly, he agues that these problems can be solved by encouraging food sovereignty: putting control over food systems back into the hands of the real people who actually produce, harvest, and consume it.

Jahi Chappell is the director of the Michigan State University Center for Regional Food Systems and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation Endowed Chair in Food and Society. He has authored two books and dozens of articles on how we might create more just and sustainable food systems. He’ll be the keynote speaker at Saturday's Family Farm Defenders annual award ceremony. There, they will be presenting the John Kinsman Beginning Farmer Food Sovereignty Prize to two exceptional beginner farmers.

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Brenda Konkel of Madison Street Medicine talks with 8 O’Clock Buzz host Tony Castañeda about the city’s first sanctioned campground, Dairy Drive. The tiny shelters, which have accommodated 53 formerly homeless people, serve as transitional housing until permanent residences are secured. Konkel, who serves as Executive Director/Program Coordinator for the Dairy Drive encampment, addressed recent criticism of the shelters, and tells listeners how they can help with donations of both cash and warm items for winter.

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Scott McDonnell, Dane County Clerk, joins the 8 O’clock Buzz to speak with host Tony Castaneda about receiving a U.S. Department of Justice subpoena seeking information on his office’s receiving contact with a list of possible conspirators who attempted to overturn the 2020 presidential election results. The Department of Justice is gathering evidence about the possibility of illegal attempts to influence the results of the election in Milwaukee and Dane Counties in the State of Wisconsin. This subpoena is separate from the January 6th hearings for the attempted insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

 

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Rob DZ from the Greater Madison Music City (GMMC) joins host Tony Castaneda of the Thursday morning 8 O’clock Buzz to talk about the organization’s recommendations to build a more equitable music and arts scene in the Greater Madison Area. GMMC is trying to build community support to create a music ecosystem for the community that provides equity in entertainment and access for all. The report findings will be presented at a gathering at Café Coda, today, December 8, from 4:30 to 6:30 pm. Members of the public are welcome to attend.

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Long gone are the days of cheap political campaigns. According to Ian Vandewalker, Senior Counsel at the Brennan Center for Justice, this past midterm elections saw the most campaign money spent — ever. In his recent article, “4 Takeaways About Money in the Midterms“, he discusses mega-donors, increased money spent across states for state positions, dark money, and more.

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