8 O'Clock Buzz

Today on the too Turnt Up Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Tara Wilhelmi and Antoine McNeail, a show jam-packed with information and events that you need to know about with Hedi Rudd, Co-Executive Director of Rooted, photographer, and community organizer as she joins us to tell us about herself, and what Rooted and Badger Rock Neighborhood Center, and more around town have to offer and are up to!

Check the Rooted events calendar for what’s coming up, including the next CommUNITY Market at Badger Rock Neighborhood Center: https://rootedwi.org/get-involved/events-calendar/ and watch the Rooted and EOTO Culturally Rooted Facebook Pages for information on how to sign up to vend.

On the North side, check out Rooted’s Troy Farm and Community Gardens, the return of Pizza Night on Thursdays starting the end of July, and monthly community dinners resuming in the school year.

Check in with Urban League at https://ulgm.org/ for their gatherings and information on the Black Men’s Resource Luncheon, Home Ownership Clinics, and Job Seekers Toolkit and Assistance, and more!

To check out Hedi’s photography, find her on Facebook at Hedi Lamarr Photography

Catch Antoine at La Fête de Marquette  in McPike Park hosting the Masquerade Ball on Friday night!

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If you’re a doctor working on your bedside manner or diagnostic skills, you need practice working with patients.  Yet, most people with serious illnesses or injuries aren’t all that willing to let students use them as educational guinea pigs.  Enter the “Standardized Patient,” actors who portray ill or injured people specifically for the purpose of training medical professionals.  Lori Felker’s new film “Patient” takes a look at the practice of Standardized or Simulated Patients and the people who portray them.  “Patient” screens at Madison’s Arts and Literature Laboratory on July 15th. Lori Felker joined Monday Buzz host Brian Standing on July 7, 2025.

Featured image: Patient “Gayle” played by Ronna Trapanese (photo by Lori Felker)

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Most modern clothing requires a fair amount of manual dexterity to fasten. Buttons, zippers and laces aren’t easy to use for many people with disabilities, such as arthritis. Equability, a new Madison-based small business, offers inexpensive adaptive solutions to clothing to allow people to wear the clothes they want, without assistance getting dressed. Hillary Pham founded Equability and serves at the CEO. Hillary joined Monday Buzz host Brian Standing on July 7, 2025.

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In the 1960s and 1970s, military spending and research on the University of Wisconsin campus drew the ire and attention of anti-war activists. In 1967, students protesting napalm manufacturer Dow Chemical recruiters on campus clashed with local police.  The anti-Pentagon sentiment culminated in the 1970 New Year’s Gang bombing of Sterling Hall, which housed the Army Math Research Center.  With the abolition of the draft in 1973 and the United States’ withdrawal from Vietnam in 1975, anti-war protests have largely died down.  College university spending from the military, however, has not.  A recent report from Wisconsin Watch revealed that the University of Wisconsin pulls down tens of millions of dollars in federal grants for military research.  Wisconsin Watch reporter Noe Goldhaber joins us now in the studio.

Photo of Bascom Hall on the University of Wisconsin campus by WORT News.

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Tony’s guest on the Thursday Buzz, Alan Lizarraga, a spokesman for the El Paso-based Border Network for Human Rights, discusses the establishment of National Defense Areas around El Paso.

According to Lizarraga, the boundaries of the National Defense Areas have yet to be defined publicly, meaning U.S. citizens and migrants can’t know whether they’re trespassing in the new military zones. The 63 mile buffer zone between El Paso and Hancock, Texas, resulted from a memo issued by President Donald Trump that sought to enlist the military to curb migrants entering the United States. This came despite the fact that the number of border crossings has been dropping since last year.

The military has said it will detain both unauthorized immigrants and U.S. citizens in these zones for trespassing.

The Border Network for Human Rights’ general purpose is to facilitate the education, the organizing and the participation of marginalized border communities to defend and promote human and civil rights.

Photo courtesy of Humberto Chávez on Unsplash.

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Tony Castañeda, host of the Thursday 8 O’Clock Buzz, talks with Jeff Rennicke about recently posted signs in the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore park which urge visitors to report “any signs or other information that are negative about either past or living Americans or that fail to emphasize the beauty, grandeur, and abundance of landscapes and other natural features.”

Rennnicke, Executive Director of the Friends of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore, believes that the Executive Order (Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History) under which the signage was posted implies that the truth has not been accurately told, and asks visitors to report any information at the park considered anti-American.

The signs (posted by the US Department of the Interior) have raised concerns about censorship and could potentially undermine the authority and educational mission of park rangers. Rennicke believes that the stories told in our parks should be guided solely by historical accuracy, including those that don’t alway cast us in the best light.

Friends of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore seeks “to promote an appreciation for and preservation of the natural environment and cultural heritage of the Apostle Islands National Lakeshore”.

Photo courtesy of Jeff Rennicke.

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Lindsay Koshgarian, from the National Priorities Project, Institute for Policy Studies, gives an update on the Senate version of the proposed budget, which expands on Medicaid loss to even more individuals than the House version. The synopsis of the update can be found in the article “The High Moral Stakes of Budget Reconciliation“

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Despite some of the DOGE efforts being delayed in the courts, the State Department continues to eliminate many of the peace, human rights, and conflict resolution programs in the State Department. Independent agencies have estimate that the loss of international aid programs have resulted in the death of 225,00 children in the past 6 months. Ursala Knudsen-Latta details these ripple effects of Trump’s indiscriminate slashing of State Department programs in her co-authored article “Secretary of State Takes Peace and Human Rights Out of State Department“

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Kevin Kamps from Beyond Nuclear gives an update on two issues currently being addressed in the courts and legislatures: a U.S. Supreme Court approval for a consolidated interim nuclear waste storage facility in Texas, and issues surrounding Holtec’s attempt to restart the Palisades power plant in western Michigan. He discusses Beyond Nuclear’s plans, and how you can give your input on these issues.

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Today on the too Turnt Up Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Tara Wilhelmi and Antoine McNeail, Black love as liberation: talking about family, fatherhood, and parenting  … plus Tara’s thoughts on 3’s Company.

More information on and resources for fathers including their weekly support sessions, as well as help expunging your record and more, check in with Urban League of Greater Madison at ulgm.org.

Catch up with our conversation from last fall with Laura Ford-Harris from Black Men’s Coalition about the free eCornell resources: https://www.wortfm.org/put-your-name-on-the-line/ and https://www.bmcdc.org/cornell 

More resources for Black fathers and the Black Father’s Pulse Podcast from regular WORT guest and sometimes Buzz host, Dr Alvin Thomas: https://thomaslab.humanecology.wisc.edu/ 

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