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  • 2416 - Connect, Collaborate, and Thrive

    Today on the Too Turnt Up Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Tara Wilhelmi, featuring RR Moore and Lolo Lature, WiDEN entrepreneurship consultant Abra Fortson joins us to tell her story  to talk about supporting Black entrepreneurs in Wisconsin.
    More information on WiDEN and their free services for Wisconsin businesses: https://widen.biz/
    In Madison, check out Ujamaa Business Network: https://www.facebook.com/UjamaaBusinessNetwork
    Upcoming Events

    November 23rd at Hayes Place, Tara’s Birthday Party
    December 6th at the Black Business Hub, 2024 Dane County Business and Entrepreneur Expo Noon-3, panel talk featuring Tara at 1PM.
    Lots of events for entrepreneurs in Milwaukee at the Ambition Center, check their website: https://www.ambitioncentermke.org/ 

    Listen in Madison at 89.9FM or online anywhere at wortfm.org.  Support your community radio with a donation online at wortfm.org!
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    Wed, 20 Nov 2024 - 45min
  • 2415 - New Exhibit Asks Us to Slow Down and Think About the Materials We Use ...

    Material Intelligence” is a new exhibit at the Ruth Davis Design Gallery on the University of Wisconsin Madison campus, which explores humanity’s interaction with physical space. Artists and craftspeople at the UW Center for Design and Material Culture have produced this new collection which focuses on natural fibers and glass, two materials with a long history in both industry and art.
    The glass exhibit, Spheres of Influence: Glass Across UW “celebrates the embodied skills of glassmakers who make possible the imaginations of researchers across the arts and sciences.” The natural fibers exhibit, Threads: Natural Fiber and Living Lines, explores broader creative possibilities of these materials “not bound by a loom or a specific interpretative category.”
    A third section of Material Intelligence is the Work in Progress (WIP) Lab, where visitors can play, experiment and have a personal experience with materials. Featured makers will also lead events on select Thursday afternoons, which include crocheting, knitting and basketry, among others.
    Helen Lee and Sarah Anne Carter described to Monday Buzz host Brian Standing the pivotal role the UW has played in the history of glassmaking. They explained how the exhibit is intended to allow viewers to slow down and pay attention to the material world and to think about who creates and makes material objects we use every day.
    Helen Lee is an Associate Professor of Glassworking and the Studio Faculty Director. Sarah Anne Carter is an Associate Professor of Design Studies and Executive Director of the Center for Design and Material Culture, in the UW School of Human Ecology.
    The Material Intelligence exhibit runs through March 9th at the Ruth Davis Design Gallery, 1300 Linden Drive on the UW-Madison campus.  This Thursday, November 21, at noon, you can join curator Sarah Anne Carter for an in-person guided tour of the exhibit.  You can register for the tour at the CDMC website.
    All photos courtesy Laura Sims Peck, University of Wisconsin.
    Web posting by WORT producer Nicholas Wootton.
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    Mon, 18 Nov 2024 - 12min
  • 2414 - DNR Says Oil Pipeline Reroute is Safe, But Clean Wisconsin Sees Danger...

    On November 14, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources approved permits to allow Canadian energy company Enbridge to reroute the 70-year old Line 5 oil pipeline.  The line transports Alberta tar sands oil and natural gas from Superior, Wisconsin to refineries in Ontario.
    After winning a 2023 trespass lawsuit in federal court, the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa succeeded in forcing the line off reservation lands. The new Line 5 route avoids tribal lands, but crosses the headwaters of the Bad River and other streams that feed Lake Superior.
    The environmental group Clean Wisconsin, which filed an amicus brief arguing for decommissioning of Line 5, is now contemplating additional legal action in response to the DNR’s decision.  Clean Wisconsin attorney Evan Feinauer spoke to Monday Buzz host Brian Standing to about what comes next in the decades long battle over Line 5.
    Last month Monday Buzz producer Nicholas Wootton interviewed documentary film director Mary Mazzio about her film Bad River, which chronicles the history of the Bad River band of the Ojibwe tribe’s years long efforts to resist Line 5’s encroachment on their reservation.
    Web posting by WORT producer Nicholas Wootton.
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    Mon, 18 Nov 2024 - 12min
  • 2413 - Death of Gerrymander Reshapes Wisconsin Legislature … Almost

    The recent November general election brought a lot of bad news for Democrats at the national level, however there were some signs of hope in Wisconsin. The state legislature, with a notorious reputation as the worst-gerrymandered electoral body in the nation, looks quite different than it did earlier this year.
    Democrats in the state Senate picked up four seats, and in the state assembly they added another ten. Republicans maintained a majority in both the state senate and the assembly, but their margins are slimmer than at any time in over a decade.
    New legislative district maps agreed to by Democratic Governor Tony Evers and Republican Legislative leaders after the Wisconsin Supreme Court tossed out the previous maps appears to have made the difference in an election year when Democrats were fighting strong Republican headwinds.
    Three reporters who cover the statehouse for the online publication Wisconsin Watch teamed up on a news story about the demise of the state’s gerrymandered political maps and the recent legislative elections. Those reporters, Jack Kelly, Hallie Claflin, and Matt DeFour, came in to WORT studios to tell Monday Buzz host Brian Standing more about their analysis.
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    Mon, 18 Nov 2024 - 13min
  • 2412 - New Report: Immigrants Play a Key Role in Economic Prosperity of Great...

    Swing states near the Great Lakes, such as Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin helped ensure an electoral college victory for Republican President-elect Donald Trump in last Tuesday’s elections.  In exit polls, Rust Belt voters frequently cited “the economy” and “immigration” as the two most important issues motivating them to cast ballots.
    Those issues are inextricably linked, but perhaps not in the way Trump and his followers have claimed.  As it turns out, immigrants don’t steal American jobs, they create them.
    A new report from the American Immigration Council and immigrant and refugee professional services organization Upwardly Global spotlights the impact immigrants have had in the urban and regional revival of the Great Lakes states. The new report is called Building Community and Fueling Growth: The Role of Immigrants in Reviving the Great Lakes Region.
    Jina Krause-Vilmar is the CEO of Upwardly Global, and has decades of experience with refugee resettlement with the United Nations Development Program and the Near East Foundation.  Jina Krause-Vilmar joined the Eight o’Clock Buzz by phone.
    Featured image courtesy of the Upwardly Global website.
    Web posting by WORT producer Nicholas Wootton.
     
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    Mon, 11 Nov 2024 - 16min
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