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Adolph Reed Jr. on Black Politics in New Orleans and Beyond (audio/mpeg 89.6MB) On February 5th, 2018, writer and scholar Adolph Reed, Jr. gave a public lecture on Black Politics in New Orleans and Beyond to close out Sites of Resistance: An Exhibit Exploring the Geographies + Histories of Social Change in New Orleans....
Posted: Mon, Feb 26, 2018 8:44am PST
Definitive Figures: Upcoming Femme Dance Festival in New Orleans (audio/mpeg 13.7MB) Kezia Vida speaks with Donna Costello and Maritza Mercado-Narcisse about the upcoming Definitive Figures Festival in New Orleans which focuses on individual and partner performances based on the experiences of women are female-identified people....
Posted: Fri, Feb 23, 2018 11:41am PST
Paper Monuments : History Unbound (audio/mpeg 27.5MB) Paper Monuments is a series of opportunities, events, and interventions that combines public pedagogy and participatory design to expand our collective understanding of New Orleans and answer the grounding question: What is an appropriate monument to the city of New Orleans today?...
Posted: Fri, Feb 2, 2018 3:44pm PST
Westley Bayas III on the Unrig the System Summit (audio/mpeg 27.7MB) Civic and Community Consultant Westley Bayas III joined WTUL News & Views in the studio to talk about the upcoming represent.us Unrig the System Summit. Folks from near and far and across ideological and partisan lines will gather from February 2nd-February 4th in Tulane University's Lavin-Bernick Center to work on solutions to unrig the United States' political system....
Posted: Wed, Jan 31, 2018 8:54am PST
Monique Verdin Speaks about Fossil Free Fest in NOLA & Her Current Work in Prospect 4 (audio/mpeg 14.2MB) WTUL News and Views spoke to Monique Verdin about the upcoming Fossil Free Fest in New Orleans the first week of April, which is currently calling for solutions for the environmental crisis facing the Gulf South. She also spoke to us about her current photo exhibition in Prospect 4 that includes photographs from the past 20 years of her family, members of the Houma nation living in the bayous of Southern Louisiana....
Posted: Fri, Jan 26, 2018 7:34am PST
Dead Zone Panel --the Gulf vs Tyson (audio/mpeg 48.0MB) Tyson Panel, Featuring Matt Rota of Gulf Restoration Network...
Posted: Tue, Nov 21, 2017 11:26am PST
Interview with Voice of the Experienced (VOTE) lead organizer Dolfinette Martin (audio/mpeg 42.5MB) Topics: December 16, 2017 March for Currently and Formerly Incarcerated Women and Girls, incarceration in Louisiana, women's experiences of carceral system, grassroots prison activism in Louisiana....
Posted: Wed, Nov 15, 2017 7:21am PST
News and Views: Interview with Tabitha Mustafa about the New Orleans Palestinian Film Festival (audio/mpeg 21.8MB) The 3rd annual New Orleans Palestinian Film Festival will take place Friday-Sunday November 3-5. We sat down with festival co-organizer Tabitha Mustafa to discuss this year's program....
Posted: Wed, Nov 1, 2017 7:06am PDT
Mark Davis on Governance for Survival (audio/mpeg 7.4MB) Mark Davis of Tulane Institute on Water Resources and Policy speaks on what kind of citizenry and what kind of governance is necessary for New Orleans and Louisiana to survive....
Posted: Wed, Oct 25, 2017 9:43am PDT
Brentin Mock on Hope for New Orleans, then and now (audio/mpeg 14.8MB) Brentin Mock on Hope for New Orleans, then and now. Mock recounts the stories and attitudes of local people's ideas about what a sustainable New Orleans entails, in regards to the environmental challenges, but also the challenges of racial justice, action on which seems to be at an ebb....
Posted: Wed, Oct 25, 2017 9:40am PDT
Stories at the Crossroads: Who Built This City? (audio/mpeg 28.8MB) Mr. John Hankins, Director of the Craftsman Guild of New Orleans, offers his answer to the guiding question of the Paper Monuments project: what is an appropriate monument to our city today? His story draws our attention to the often unacknowledged work of craftsmen who do ironwork, ornamental plastering, restoration welding, and blacksmithing, and on the concrete block where the Jefferson Davis monument once stood, Mr. Hankins' words about the craftsmen Philip Reid formulate into a monument ...
Posted: Fri, Oct 20, 2017 2:43pm PDT
The Listening Post - Radio Democracy in Action (audio/mpeg 22.0MB) WTUL News and Views Dj Under The Bus interviews Thomas Walsh, Natalie Yahr and Claudia Lopez about The Listening Post and their most recent segment produced in partnership with The Trace: "What's Recovery Like After Being Shot?" 24:00
Listening Posts around the country "share a common purpose: to revitalize or create conversation between local media, civil society, and citizens; to connect people with each other and with sources of information and action on local issues; and to give people a...
Posted: Mon, Oct 9, 2017 8:07am PDT
Updates From Puerto Rico: in conversation with Jorge Díaz Ortiz (audio/x-wav 313.3MB) Puerto Rican artist and organizer Jorge Díaz Ortiz phoned in from San Juan to update WTUL News & Views on the devastation brought to the island by Hurricane Maria and decades of colonialism. Tina Orlandini, Development Coordinator for the community arts and organizing collective AgitArte (of which Jorge is the Artistic Director), keeps us updated on how to plug into relief efforts and show up for Puerto Rico in New Orleans....
Posted: Wed, Oct 4, 2017 1:37pm PDT
European Dissent Releases Voting Guide for Orleans Parish (audio/mpeg 45.6MB) Kezia Vida speaks with Hannah Pepper Cunningham of the Political Education Committee within European Dissent about their voting guide and platform, which was based upon the Movement for Black Lives Policy Platform and was developed through consultation with VOTE, Stand with Dignity, Congresso, and the Jane Place Neighborhood Sustainability Initiative in New Orleans for the upcoming City Council and Mayoral elections....
Posted: Mon, Oct 2, 2017 7:39pm PDT
Interview with Lauren Turner of No Dream Deferred Production co. (audio/mpeg 22.3MB) WTUL correspondent Theo Hilton interview's No Dram Deferred Theater Production Co's Lauren Turner.
Turner is the director of this weekend's production of two plays by Alice Childress--MOJO: A Black Love Story and String. No Dream Deferred seeks to create a space for people who have been marginalized from mainstream theater to develop and present works. [10:18]...
Posted: Wed, Sep 20, 2017 7:19am PDT
Nuestra Voz: Schools for Education not Criminalization (audio/x-wav 203.9MB) WTUL News & Views was joined in the studio by Nuestra Voz Cultural Organizer Lydia Nichols to discuss two important polices that will be voted on by the Orleans Parish School Board on Thursday, September 14th, 2017 that would regulate the relationship between schools and law enforcement. The suggested policy change will prevent law enforcement officers (including but not limited to ICE) from interviewing students on campus or accessing student/family data without a warrant....
Posted: Wed, Sep 13, 2017 9:14am PDT
Sites of Resistance in New Orleans (audio/x-wav 270.0MB) Sue Mobley, Public Programs Manager at Tulane School of Architecture's Small Center for Collaborative Design, joined WTUL News and Views to talk about the Small Center's upcoming exhibit, Sites of Resistance. The exhibit explores geographies and histories of social change in New Orleans and intends to reframe the narrative of New Orleans as a city with a dominant role in intense organizing, legal strategy, labor struggle, and civil rights activism....
Posted: Mon, Sep 11, 2017 4:49am PDT
16 years on, the controlled demolition of the 9/11 official story (audio/mpeg 51.8MB) 16th anniversary 9/11 news review: with author of '9/11 The New Evidence' Ian Henshall. Anomalies in 9/11 story – e.g. intact passports found at scene, terrorists known to authorities...
Posted: Sat, Sep 9, 2017 1:33pm PDT
Full audio of the "Say No to Hate in the Bay" rally (audio/mpeg 23.0MB) (audio 1:06:57)...
Posted: Mon, Aug 21, 2017 10:38pm PDT
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