WTUL News & Views: Recent Episodes
WTUL News & Views
WTUL News & Views is an alternative news show dedicated to exposing systemic injustice, inequality, and oppression by lifting those voices and perspectives too often ignored by mainstream media. We do not pretend to provide "unbiased" or "neutral" reporting, but actively work to challenge the status quo and the dominant ideologies imposed by those in positions of power.
WTUL News & Views is hosted by Janet Hays, Maggie Hermann, Theodore Hilton, and Sophie Kunen. Listen live every Monday, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday from 8-10am on WTUL New Orleans 91.5fm.
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Taxcast: Edition 104: ‘Competition’ is killing us AND Counterspin: Laura Flanders on Journalism of Engagement
Democracy Now! From the Archives: “RBG”: New Documentary Celebrates Life of Groundbreaking Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg AND Counterspin: Antonia Juhasz on the End of Oil
Counterspin: Peter Maybarduk on Covid Treatments, Kia Rahnama on the Right to Protest AND Democracy Now Web Exclusive: Extended Interview: Roberto Lovato on His Memoir About Family, Migration, Gangs & Revolution in the Americas
Counterspin: Heidi Beirich on White Supremacist Violence, Howard Bryant on Black Athlete Activism, Sharon Lerner on Plastic Recycling and PR AND Making Contact: Essential: Gig Workers and COVID-19
Democracy Now Web Exclusive: Make America White Again: Stephen Miller’s Assault on Immigration & His Quest to Change the Country AND Counterspin: Phyllis Bennis on Foreign Policy Visions
Tax Justice Network's Taxcast: Racism and tax justice, Part 2 AND Counterspin: Karlin Itchoak on Wildlife Refuge Drilling, Steven Rosenfeld on How to Vote
Democracy Now Web Exclusive: Isabel Wilkerson on the U.S. Caste System & VP Pick Kamala Harris Breaking “Long-Standing Barriers” AND Counterspin: Liz OuYang on Census Sabotage
Democracy Now Web Exclusive: “They Have No Evidence Against Me”: Moroccan Journalist Omar Radi Jailed After He Criticized Gov’t AND Counterspin: Neil deMause on Reopening Coverage, Nicole Porter on Covid and Prisons
WTUL was joined by Denise Frazier, Assistant Director of New Orleans Center for the Gulf South at Tulane Unviersity, to talk about an upcoming virtual discussion between Edward Ball and Dr. Lydia Pelot-Hobbs on Ball's sixth book of non-fiction called Life of a Klansman: A Family History in White Supremacy.
The discussion will take place on August 6, 2020 at 6pm. For more info and the event link, email gulfsouth@tulane.edu.
Other upcoming events/opportunities hosted by New Orelans Center for the Gulf South at Tulane University:
- THURSDAY, AUGUST 6, 6:00PM CT
LIFE OF A KLANSMAN: A FAMILY HISTORY IN WHITE SUPREMACY
DR. LYDIA PELOT-HOBBS in conversation with EDWARD BALL * THURSDAY, AUGUST 27, 6:00PM CT
KATRINA: A HISTORY, 1915-2015
VANN R. NEWKIRK II in conversation with ANDY HOROWITZ * Deadline October 1, 2020
MONROE FELLOWS RESEARCH GRANT * OCTOBER (more info to be announced soon)
WOEMEN AND MOVEMENT
Also in this episdoe: Counterspin with Alex Main on Bolivia Coup, Carol Anderson on Voter Suppression
Counterspin: Marjorie Cohn on Portland Secret Police & Taxcaste Edition 103: Racism and Tax Justice, Pt. 2
Democracy Now From the Archives: Meet the Three Founders of the Black Lives Matter Movement & Counterspin: Diane Yentel on Eviction Crisis, Lisa Graves on USPS Under Attack
Counterspin: ‘Hate Speech and Disinformation Flow on Facebook’ & Taxcast: Edition 102: Systemic racism, reparations and tax justice
Democracy Now Web Exclusive: “Unmitigated Disaster”: Hunger Striker at Otay Mesa Detention Center Speaks Out as COVID-19 Spreads AND Counterspin: Jessica González on Facebook’s Promotion of Hate
- Taxcast: Systemic racism, reparations and tax justice: the Tax Justice Network podcast, June 2020 +
- Counterspin: Jim Naureckas on Covid’s Preventable Nightmare, Clare Garvie on Police Facial Recognition
- Counterspin - Ezra Young on Supreme Court LGBT Ruling
- Democracy Now Web Exclusive - Angela Davis on Abolition, Calls to Defund Police, Toppled Racist Statues & Voting in 2020 Election
- Democracy Now Web Exclusive: Angela Davis on Abolition, Calls to Defund Police, Toppled Racist Statues & Voting in 2020 Election
- Counterspin: Maritza Perez on Overpolicing & Drugs, Remington Gregg on Corporate Immunity
- Counterspin: Alex Vitale, Chase Madar and Shahid Buttar on Racist Policing
- Hard Knock Radio: Minneapolis Uprising - Justice for George Floyd
- TaxCast Edition 101: tax collection, a labour of love
- Counterspin: Diane Ravitch on Pandemic School Privatization
- Democracy Now! Web Exclusive: Adriana Gallardo: From Crossing the Border as an Undocumented Child to Winning the Pulitzer Prize
- Counterspin: Ari Berman on Voter Suppression and Coronavirus
- Louisiana Budget Project's Didja Know?: Unemployment Insurance
- Counterspin: Ricardo Salvador on the Food System & Covid-19
Jim Naureckas on Coronavirus False Choices, Peter Maybarduk on Pharmaceutical Price-Gouging
- Taxcast from Tax Justice Network, Edition 100: Healthy economies
- Counterspin from Fair.org, Diane Archer on Medicare for All, Sriram Madhusoodanan on Fossil Fuel Accountability
- Democracy Now Web Exclusive: Who Delivers Food in the Pandemic? Gig Workers from Instacart to Uber Demand Safety & Hazard Pay
- Counterspin: Naomi Walker on Covid-19 Relief, Johanna Bozuwa on the Last ‘New Normal’
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?
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..
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