Over the course of her twenty-five years on air, Friday host Esty Dinur has regularly offered coverage on the Zapatistas, a group of revolutionary Indigenous activists in the state of Chiapas in southern Mexico. For today’s show, we get updates on the Zapatista movement from journalist Kurt Hackbarth and writer and organizer Hilary Klein, who […]
WORT Turns 45!
On Monday, December 1st, 1975 WORT went on-air for the first time ever! This is a huge milestone for our amazing community radio station, built with the love and passion of countless volunteers and the enthusiastic support and involvement of our community. With the pandemic rendering us unable to have a huge in-person celebration this […]
Lorenzo Milam, Community Radio’s “Johnny Appleseed,”...
Radio activist Lorenzo W. Milam died in Puerto Escondido, Oaxaca, Mexico on July 21, 2020 at the age of 86. He is survived by over 300 community radio stations, including WORT 89.9 FM Madison. Milam was fascinated with radio since his childhood in Jacksonville, Florida where he listened for hours to broadcasts from Nashville, New […]
Taking a Look at WORT’s Financials
Want to learn how your pledge dollars are being used here at the station? How much it costs to keep our transmitter running? What we’ve got planned to develop the station, and how much it’ll cost? Or how we’re avoiding a crisis that’s happening at other community radio stations? In this show, Esty Dinur takes […]
Nuclear Threat of Enewetak Atoll, and Threat to Net Neutrality
Friday host Esty Dinur speaks by phone with Michael Gerrard, Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia Law School and Director of the Sabin Center for Climate Change Law, about the Enewetak Atoll — a nuclear waste site that, with rising seas, risks being submerged in the Pacific Ocean. In the second half, Esty speaks with […]
State Senator Kathleen Vinehout
Guest host and WORT Board President Dave Devereaux-Weber is joined by state Senator Kathleen Vinehout at noon to discuss the issues in her district and her vision for Wisconsin. Carla Williams, a volunteer of WORT’s Her Turn Collective, co-hosts. Vinehout recently filed papers to register a committee for a gubernatorial run in 2018. She is currently the […]
