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World View covers global issues from a critical, anti-imperialist perspective. World View newscasts include a half-hour round-up of the week’s international news, followed by a 20-30 minute feature, often a speech or in-depth interview.
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Doctor Alhaji Njai is so well-known in Madison and many other corners of the world for his work on WORT’s PanAfrica Show and for Project 1808 in his home town in Sierra Leone. He’s also pretty well known for his scholarship and research in biomedicine and global health projects, for public health advocacy and teaching […] […]
Ahead of the screening of the film Ithaka in Madison, Norm Stockwell and Gil Halsted spoke with the father and brother of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange. Assange’s father, John Shipton and brother and film producer Gabriel Shipton are touring the U.S. – and the world – with Gabriel’s film Ithaka which seeks to raise awareness […] […]
Gil Halsted talks to Bob Queen about Summer 2023 as The Sessions continue to bring artists from around the state, country and the world for our listening and collective community pleasure. To kick off Summer, the Pursuit of Happiness Sessions begin with a mix of local, national and international talent on Friday, June 16th with […] […]
At a 1979 meeting of Israel’s “Ministerial Committee for Settlement Matters in the Judea and Samaria area,” created in 1972 for the purpose of establishing new settlements in the West Bank, chairman of the committee Ariel Sharon said of the “firing zones” he moved to create in 1967, “They were all aimed at a single […] […]
The 42nd Annual Freeze for Food is a 5//10 K Run/Walk around Lake Wingra or the Arboretum on Saturday, March 4th. This year the Returned Peace Corps Volunteers of Madison and Open Doors for Refugees are collaborating to raise funds to help ensure food security for people from other countries making their homes in our […] […]
Gil Halsted talked to Amitabh Pal and Dan Barker from the Freedom from Religion Foundation who toured resolutely non-Hindu areas of India. Their trip took them outside the parts of India where Prime Minister Narendra Modi trying to impose Hinduism as a national religion. Amit and Dan visited rationalists, atheists, feminists, free-thinkers and all sorts […] […]
The Madison Arcatao Sister City Project (MASCP) is organizing the first delegation to Arcatao since the beginning of the pandemic. They invite you to reconnect and perhaps plan to travel with them to El Salvador at the authentically Salvadoran Finca Café, (2500 Rimrock R#105, Madison) on February 11th and March 11th from 10:00 AM to […] […]
On the January 15th World View feature Gil Halsted talked to Dr. Alhaji Njai about the Sixth Project 1808 Science and Leadership Festival planned for the January 20th to 22nd. On the 29th we circled back to Alhaji to see how it went and it sounded pretty magical. And the Festival has so far been […] […]
WORT’s World View host, Gil Halsted, talks with Dr. Alhaji N’jai about the STEAM Science, technology, engineering, arts, math – AND leadership festival in Sierra Leone January 20-22, 2023 The goal of the 6th Science and Leadership festival organized by Project 1808 Inc. is to nurture talents, build technical and leadership capability among young people […] […]
Madison International Partners (MIP) celebrates the rich diversity of many international students, visitors and residents in Madison, Wisconsin, providing a “home away from home” for these global citizens in Madison and allows Madison community members to “travel the world without leaving Madison.” The MIP mission is to help global citizens living in or connected to the […] […]
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