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
Intersectional Community Organizing for Social Justice Roundtable, March 2017 (audio/mpeg 45.7MB) Panel on intersectional activism in New Orleans...
Posted: Mon Jun 5, 2017 7:11AM
Interview with Arely Westley of BreakOUT! (audio/x-wav 203.1MB) "BreakOUT! is a real good family more than an organization. We are a family where we love and support one another."...
Posted: Fri Apr 14, 2017 3:39PM
Audio To Publicize 4/15/17 CA Emergency Public Education Conference (audio/x-wav 4.1MB) USE: Immediate TFN
Time: 45 Seconds
Organization: Labor Rising Against Trump
Title: BLUEPRINTS FOR A FUTURE: CALIFORNIA EMERGENCY EDUCATION CONFERENCE
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Posted: Tue Mar 28, 2017 1:20PM
Tulane: Uncovering the Racial Legacy (audio/x-wav 237.1MB) Tulane history professors Emily Clark and Laura Adderley discuss Tulane's racial legacy with focus on the role of the slave economy in the university's endowment and the elements of history that illuminate possibilities for change. This talk, presented by the Tulane Historical Society, took place at Rogers Memorial Chapel on Tulane Campus, February 21, 2017 [23:28]....
Posted: Fri Mar 3, 2017 8:30AM
Removing barriers to higher education for formerly incarcerated women and girls (audio/mpeg 23.0MB) Janet Hays interviews Syrita Steib-Martin about how her personal experience in a federal penitentiary led her to creating Operation Restoration in New Orleans to help returning women and girls obtain medical educations post-incarceration. Operation Restoration assists women upon release with the monumental task of restoring themselves through the fundamentals needed to transition back into society. Once the fundamental needs are met Operation Restoration focuses on helping women obtain a high...
Posted: Mon Oct 17, 2016 6:58AM
Block Report Radio (audio/mpeg 11.5MB) (audio 12:32)
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Posted: Sun May 8, 2016 7:02PM
Education Opportunities for Incarcerated Persons - Bridging the Gap (audio/mpeg 20.0MB) Bruce Reilly joined Janet Hays on WTUL News and Views in studio to discuss the documentary First Degree - an intimate portrait of three Sing Sing inmates who discover the transformative power of higher education. Their stories are emblematic of larger challenges regarding the criminal justice system and prison industrial complex.
Bruce is well qualified to speak on the subject. Formerly incarcerated himself, he is now Deputy Director of Voice of the Ex-Offender in New Orleans, LA, a gradua...
Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2016 1:38PM
Governments Disagree Over Global Drug Control: UN's drug meeting in Vienna (audio/mpeg 9.8MB) Drugreporter’s video advocacy team filmed key speeches and interviewed some of the participants at the UN's drug meeting in Vienna....
Posted: Sat Apr 9, 2016 7:10PM
WTUL News & Views Interviews Tom Zolot of The Center for Restorative Approaches (audio/mpeg 32.1MB) Tom Zolot, program coordinator for the Center for Restorative Approaches, discusses restorative justice and its place in New Orleans, what alternative discipline policies in schools can look like, and how humans can build, strengthen, and restore communities and relationships....
Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2016 9:35AM
Black Students Demand Racial Equality at Tulane (audio/mpeg 15.9MB) WTUL News reads Emily Carmichael's article on the Unity demonstrations at Tulane in Nov 2015. Appended is a reading of the Tulane Black Student Union's list of concrete demands to further campus unity and to begin to halt structural racism on Tulane's campus....
Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2015 8:19AM
WTUL News and Views (audio/mpeg 8.2MB) WTUL News sat down with Alberta Wright of Young Creative Agency, about the their program for digital media training education for New Orleanians in high schools. Alberta Wright talks about the ins and outs, the need and what the program has achieved to date....
Posted: Fri Jul 31, 2015 10:04AM
Latter Teens Advisory and WTUL News & Views present “Unmask Your Hometown Heroes!” with (audio/mpeg 7.7MB) 8 minutes Latter Teens Advisory and WTUL News & Views present “Unmask Your Hometown Heroes!” Audio from July 1st – featuring Community Records. Community Records is not a traditional form of a record label, but more as a collective. Band members Kara and John of the band Woozy played some of their work at Latter Library and talked with the teens about their inspirations and visions for their community....
Posted: Sun Jul 19, 2015 10:34AM
“Unmask Your Hometown Heroes!” with herbalist, Christiane, from Rosalie Apothecary (audio/mpeg 10.5MB) Latter Teens Advisory and WTUL News & Views present “Unmask Your Hometown Heroes!” with herbalist, Christiane, from Rosalie Apothecary...
Posted: Mon Jul 13, 2015 5:56AM
Oaxaca teachers visit Bay Area and disscuss reform on Settingthestandard (audio/x-wav 249.0MB) Oaxaca teachers visit Bay Area and discuss reform in Mexico on Settingthestandard, and are in the Bay area doing a speaking tour....
Posted: Fri Jul 3, 2015 4:31PM
The Campaign To Repeal Public Funding Of Charters In CA With Kathleen Carroll (audio/x-wav 29.2MB) Kathleen Carroll, a public education advocate and lawyer who was fired for whistleblowing at the California Commission on Teacher Credentials discusses the campaign to repeal a 1992 law in California that allowed for public funding of privately run charters....
Posted: Fri Jun 19, 2015 4:46PM
Girls Rock New Orleans, June 8th-13th 2015 (audio/mpeg 3.2MB) Girls Rock! New Orleans brings together volunteer instructors and female and female identifying kids to create an explosive showcase of talent and inspiration! From June 8th- 13th, kids learn new instruments, form bands, and attend workshops about music, art, and social justice....
Posted: Thu May 28, 2015 5:12PM
Interview with LOUD Queer Youth Theater participants Latreece Reed, Nicky Cao, and Joriel (audio/mpeg 16.4MB) Gahiji Barrow interviews members of LOUD, the Queer Youth Theater project based in New Orleans today. They discuss their upcoming performance, Pursuit of Justice, which will take place at the Mid City Theater this weekend. Also bring up topics of how queer youth interact with the police and feel about the police in New Orleans and what the group has brought to their lives....
Posted: Wed May 13, 2015 6:49AM
WTUL news and views interviews Divest Tulane on their sit in (audio/mpeg 3.0MB) Michael from Divest Tulane gives an update on the 4th day of a sit in in President Fitts' office by Divest Tulane students, calling upon the president to support the unanimous resolution from Student Government to divest from fossil fuels
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Posted: Fri Apr 17, 2015 8:35AM
Occupy the Farm, the film, opening Tuesday, 03.31.2015, Oakland (audio/mpeg 1.7MB) Occupy the Farm, a film about the 2012 struggle to claim 20 acres of a historic 100 acre farm for community farmers in Albany, will open at the New Parkway theatre in Oakland on Tuesday, March 31st. The University of California owns the land and it has granted one acre to the community farmers working with the University's Department of Natural Resources. Another 5 to 7 acres has been alloted to University research on corn genetics, and the rest has been promised to a big box grocery store ...
Posted: Sat Mar 28, 2015 9:17PM