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This coming Sunday, June 26th, at James Madison Park, from 10AM to 2PM, the Friends of Ukraine – Madison, will be holding a picnic to share the customs, food, and culture of Ukraine to support peaceful and assistance actions for war victims in Ukraine. Organizer Nataliya Akulenko shares the plans for the day.

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With $13 million invested in contributions for attorney general races in battleground states, three times more than the last election, conservative donors are determined not to let non-partisan attorneys general like Brad Raffensberger not “find” the needed votes for their candidates, according to Ian Vandewalker, Democracy Program at the Brennan Center for Justice in his recent article “The Money Behind January 6 is Flowing into the 2022 Election“. Millionaire donors are funding programs in the RNC to recruit poll workers and train them about election fraud, how to challenge voters at the polls, and use the party attorney to confront voters.

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Today on the Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Aaron Perry, Dr. Alvin Thomas, and Dr. Logan Edwards, writer, director, actor and comedian Dannon Green joins from LA to talk about getting the most out of life, what’s new in his career and more of his life journey.

More on Dannon’s career: https://filmfreeway.com/DannonGreen

More on The Executioners: https://www.instagram.com/theexecutionersdoc/

Follow Dannon on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dannongreen66/ 

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Today on the Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Aaron Perry, Dr. Alvin Thomas, and Dr. Logan Edwards, talking about mental health for men and Black men in particular, and the Barbershop Mental Health program.

More on Aaron Perry and Rebalanced Life: https://rebalanced-life.org/our-founder 

More on Dr. Thomas: https://humanecology.wisc.edu/staff/thomas-alvin/ and https://twitter.com/dr_at758 

More on Dr. Edwards: https://uwwsports.com/staff-directory/dr-logan-edwards/464 and ​​https://www.uww.edu/umc/why-i-teach/logan-edwards 

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Today on the Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Aaron Perry, Dr. Alvin Thomas, and Dr. Logan Edwards, joined by Alphonso Pettis from Milwaukee talking about fostering Black Fatherhood, breaking the myth of uninvolved Black fathers, mental health and raising black men.

More on Aaron Perry and Rebalanced Life: https://rebalanced-life.org/our-founder 

More on Dr. Thomas: https://humanecology.wisc.edu/staff/thomas-alvin/ and https://twitter.com/dr_at758 

More on Dr. Edwards: https://uwwsports.com/staff-directory/dr-logan-edwards/464 and ​​https://www.uww.edu/umc/why-i-teach/logan-edwards 

More information on Mentoring through Arts & Sports Enrichment (M.A.S.E.) in  and Mr Pettis at https://www.masemke.com/home and https://twitter.com/nubianpettis 

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Mr. Pettis grew up in the Midwest and was introduced to the Martial Arts in 1975.  He is most accredited studying Chinese Martial Arts Systems.  The year was 1977 when he  diligently began training in Shaolin Kempo Karate.  Mr. Pettis has trained in boxing, shoot wrestling, Tae Kwon do and other disciplines of Martial Arts. A 7th degree Black belt, Mr. Pettis has been training and studying Martial Arts for over 55 years, dedicating his life to furthering the Martial Arts life-style. Sensei Pettis a youth mentor, Fathers Advocate, and Community activist teaches a program that strives to instill Self-discipline and Moral character to inner-city youth.

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Dr. Patrick Iber is a UW-Madison historian who studies 20th Century Latin American history and US-Latin American relations at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Among other things, he’s the author of, Neither Peace nor Freedom: The Cultural Cold War in Latin America, a book that describes how artists, writers, and intellectuals participated in and generated Cold War conflict.

Professor Iber joins to offer his thoughts on the recent Summit of the Americas, which concluded this past Friday, June 10.

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WORT 89.9FM Madison · Passing the Telescope on to a New Generation at the MMSD Planetarium.

Geoff Holt has been the director of the Madison Metropolitan School District Planetarium for over 28 years.

He is now ready to pass the telescope on to a new generation of astronomers.

WORT’s Kai Brito speaks to Holt about the highlights of his career.

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WORT 89.9FM Madison · Title IX at 50 Years Old

2022 is the 50th anniversary of Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, a landmark piece of federal legislation.

Title IX codified gender-neutral admission policies, guaranteed equal academic standards and prohibited sexual harassment at educational institutions.

However, Title IX is under attack once again. In 2020, former U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and President Donald Trump adopted Title IX regulations that severely limit students’ ability to sue educational institutions for sexual harassment or discrimination.

Alexandra Brodsky works as a civil rights attorney for Public Justice, and is counsel for a pending lawsuit seeking to overturn the DeVos regulations. She is the author of Sexual Justice, out now from Metropolitan Books and joins to talk about Title IX and its current state.

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WORT 89.9FM Madison · A Flying Karamazov Brother Juggles on the Radio

For 49 years, the Flying Karamazov Brothers have tossed a curious mix of juggling, street performance, circus, vaudeville, Shakespearean theater, slapstick comedy and Russian existential literature into the air and somehow managed to keep them all from hitting the ground.

Born at a San Francisco Renaissance Fair in 1973, the Karamazovs honed their act by performing on street corners, eventually enjoying long runs in London and performing at such illustrious events as the Los Angeles Olympics.

On Thursday, June 9th, they bring their latest act to Madison’s Overture Center.

A few of the Flying Karamazov Brothers join to discuss their group, notable challenges, and juggling. Paul Magid, also known as Dmitri Karamazov, is a founding member and director of the Flying Karamazov Brothers. Also joining is Stephen O’Bent, or “Zossima”; Andy Sapora, or “Nikita”; and Roderick Kimball, or “Pavel.”

 

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WORT 89.9FM Madison · Urban Triage Announces Co-Conspirator Workshop

For 6 years now, Madison’s Urban Triage has held a co-conspirator workshop, a 13-week positive training session to help white people understand how to use their privilege to help advance black liberation.

The 2022 co-conspirator workshop begins on July 14 and runs through September 23. Sign-ups are available now.

Three alumni of past co-conspirator workshops join to discuss the workshop- Catherine Orr, an Urban Triage Board Member and professor emerita in Critical Identity Studies at Beloit College; Beth Jeanes, a researcher at UW-Madison; and Liz Herman, a social worker in the Madison area.

 

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