Sound is our most innate and expressive communication medium. We use it to talk to you over frequency modulated radio waves at 89.9 megahertz and through digital audio over the internet at wortfm.org. We are born making sounds and we can understand spoken language before we can walk. Stuart Fowkes is a sound artist from […]
Breaking Down the AHCA: Protest Against Trumpcare
The Congressional Budget Office announced that 24 million people would lose their health insurance under a new health care plan proposed by President Trump and Republicans. On Tuesday, Mar. 14, protesters marched against the bill in front of, Speaker Paul Ryan’s office in Racine. Executive Director Robert Craig of Citizen Action of Wisconsin was there. […]
“Dying to Live” Hunger Strike
On June 5, inmates at several Wisconsin correctional facilities began refusing food and water as part of “Dying to Live” hunger strike. The inmates demanded an end to the practice of what the Department of Corrections calls “administrative confinement” a euphemism for solitary confinement imposed on inmates for breaking the internal rules of the prison. […]
Does Free Speech Trump All? Janesville Hosts Donald Trump
Donald Trump supporters, protesters, and curious bystanders gathered in Janesville, Wisconsin today in anticipation of the GOP presidential candidate’s first campaign appearance in the state. Darien Lamen reports from the demilitarized zone.
The One Man Protest Against Walker
MADISON (WORT) — As reporter Craig McComb was walking across the Capitol Square Wednesday morning, he spotted a lone protester speaking up the best way he knows how.
Peaceful Protesters Arrested At Tony Robinson Rally
MADISON (WORT) — Hundreds of Madison residents gathered to protest the District Attorney’s decision not to charge the officer who shot and killed 19-year-old Tony Robinson. By the end of the peaceful protest, dozens of police officers were on the scene and arrests were made.