WTUL News & Views

Jim Naureckas on Coronavirus False Choices, Peter Maybarduk on Pharmaceutical Price-Gouging

FIKA on Climate Change, the Anthropocene, and COVID 19

WTUL News & Views shares a conversation hosted by The Blue House as part of their weekly coffee and conversation hour, Fika. Fika is (normally) a coffee and conversation hour that takes place at 10 a.m. every Thursday at the Blue House. With the Blue House closed to help slow the spread of COVID-19, fika will be online. All are welcome.

On Thursday, April 9, 2020,  Shana Griffin (feminist activist, sociologist, artist), Denise Frazier (scholar and educator), Dorothy Jelagat Cheruiyot (evolutionary biologist), and Aron Chang (urban designer) led a discussion on climate change, the Anthropocene, and COVID-19. This recording shares the introductory remarks from each of the speakers. Posing questions that lead us to think about what lessons can we draw for research, policy, planning, activism, design, and art? What questions should we be asking about present-day modes and practices?

To learn more about the Blue House or to join Fika, follow @thebluehousenola on social media or go to thebluehousenola.com.

Counterspin with Mike Elk on Frontline Worker Rights, Joe Emersberger on Pandemic Sanctions

What would it look like to call corporate media’s bluff on their sudden, serious respect for working people who didn’t start being important because there’s a contagious disease going around?

Fika is (normally) a coffee and conversation hour that takes place at 10 a.m. every Thursday at the Blue House. With the Blue House closed to help slow the spread of COVID-19, fika will be online. All are welcome.

On Thursday, April 9, 2020,  Shana Griffin (feminist activist, sociologist, artist), Denise Frazier (scholar and educator), Dorothy Jelagat Cheruiyot (evolutionary biologist), and Aron Chang (urban designer) lead a discussion on climate change, the Anthropocene, and COVID-19.

Today's show kicks off with a conversation hosted by the Blue House as part of their weekly coffee and conversation hours called fika.

Leading the discussion last Thursday was Aaron Zagory, who is a staff attorney at Orleans Public Defenders. He'll share some information about how the courts, the jail, and the police are responding during the COVID-19 crisis. Thanks to the Blue House for hosting, recording, and sharing this conversation.

To learn more about the Blue House or tune into their weekly Fika hours, go to thebluehousenola.com or follow them on social media @thebluehousenola. 

Next, we get into Counterspin, from fair.org. Today's show is with Bama Athreya on Gig Economy & Covid-19..

Taxcast on Climate Crisis & Counterspin on Covid-19

Sade Dumas is the executive director of Orleans Parish Prison Reform Coalition, a diverse, grassroots coalition of individuals and organizations from across New Orleans who have come together to shrink the size of the jail and improve the conditions of confinement for those held in detention in Orleans Parish. Founded in 2004, OPPRC members include community activists, lawyers, service providers, organizers, formerly incarcerated people, and their family members.

Bruce Reilly is Deputy Director of both VOTE, and Voters Organized to Educate. VOTE is a grassroots organization founded and run by formerly incarcerated people (FIP), our families and our allies. We are dedicated to restoring the full human and civil rights of those most impacted by the criminal (in)justice system. Together we have the experiences, expertise and power to improve public safety in Louisiana and beyond without relying on mass incarceration.

Jayeesha Dutta is a tri-coastal, nearly trilingual Bengali-American multi/interdisciplinary artist, activist, and strategist. She is a co-founding core member, space activator, and people convener for Another Gulf Is Possible Collaborative, galvanizing the voices and experiences of brown (indigenous, latinx and desi) women from across the Gulf South to the Global South working towards a just transition for our people and the planet. She is a co-founder emeritus of 826 New Orleans board of directors. Jayeesha is an avid traveler, home chef, live music lover, and adores being near (or in) any body of water. She was born in Mobile, raised in New York, aged in Oakland and is deeply grateful to call New Orleans home.

Theo Hilton is a journalist with WTUL's NEws And Views program.

Another Gulf is Possible's Community Care resources are available at anothergulf.com/covid-19community…fSa690ccju-V8s43o

More info about VOTEs advocacy is at www.instagram.com/vote_nola . Folks can also follow www.instagram.com/powercoalition