Join us, Wednesday, January 20th at 7pm, for WORT’s inaugural spring Madison Common Council debate. Up first: the race for District 8. Two candidates are vying for this district, which represents students on the UW-Madison campus and surrounding downtown community on the Madison Common Council. The candidates are Juliana Bennett and Ayomi Obuseh. Incumbent alder […]
Candidate Guide: Spring 2021 Election
Voting information The spring nonpartisan election will be held on Tuesday, April 6. Voting information can be obtained from your local clerk’s office. Madison voters may find local voting information here. This election guide is a working document — please send announcements, comments, or additional information to chali@wortfm.org and jade@wortfm.org. Chrome users may experience video playback […]
Long-awaited community control board limited in authority
Since May, Madison’s streets have rumbled with calls for reforms — reforms of the carceral system, of long-standing racist social mores and, most prominently, of the nation’s police forces. Now, a main protest demand — for community control over police — has been enacted in Madison. The city’s new 13-member Police Civilian Oversight Board, formally […]
Protesters rally to support passage of Hands Up Act
It was a dreary, overcast autumn day as Travis Washington stood on a makeshift wooden platform to address a crowd of protesters. Behind him, the capitol building loomed and, below, a group of around one hundred people assembled to hear his story. “It doesn’t matter who has the power; if it’s evil, if it’s wrong, […]
Demanding Change
Impact Demand (Facebook, Instagram) is a youth-led group that has been the organizing force behind several of Madison’s ongoing protests for racial justice. The group formed in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and subsequent demonstrations against police brutality, and has quickly established itself as one of the driving forces behind Madison’s Black […]
Impact Demand organizer Ayomi Obuseh on the future of Madison’s ...
Impact Demand is a youth-led group that has been the organizing force behind several of Madison’s ongoing protests for racial justice. The group formed in the wake of the murder of George Floyd and subsequent demonstrations against police brutality, and has quickly established itself as one of the driving forces behind Madison’s Black Lives Matter […]
