“The world is increasingly on fire, literally and figuratively,” says host Allen Ruff at the beginning of today’s episode. So let’s talk about it! This afternoon, we opened up the phone lines to hear from listeners about their own observations and concerns about our world-on-fire. Callers weighed in on newsworthy topics like the political crisis […]
Open Line: Indigenous Rights and Environmental Justice
For today’s episode, we opened up the phone lines to hear from listeners. Over the course of the hour, Esty and the callers talk about Standing Rock and indigenous rights, water justice, climate change, sustainability, clean energy, and creating the world we want to live in. “I’m so grateful for something like WORT, where I […]
Sexual Assault Awareness Month, Part II
Wednesday host Lilada Gee takes your calls relating to sexual assault awareness. She speaks with callers about getting help for potential perpetrators, speaking out and the triggering effect for some #MeToo survivors, resources for kids to report assault, and getting politicians to address sexual assault by looking at its economic impact.
Open Line: A Check-In With Listeners
Esty Dinur hosts an open line, and receives a slew of calls. Listeners called in about chicken little-ism, marching in the streets, the commons, eminent domain, and the Takings Clause, and concerns about environmental disasters and climate change.
How to Break the Power of Bankers, with Ann Pettifor
What do all of us need to know about how money is produced? Why are balanced government budgets so destructive? What are some of the problems that accompany balanced government budgets? To discuss this and more, our guest for the hour is Ann Pettifor, director of the London-based organization PRIME, or Policy Research in MacroEconomics. […]
Journalist Will Potter exposes secretive CMU prisons
This week host Esty Dinur celebrated her 20th year as a host for A Public Affair! For the first half Esty holds an open line in honor of this anniversary. What are “Little Guantanamo” prisons? Later on the show, Esty Dinur talks with Will Potter, an investigative journalist and the only reporter who has visited […]
