San Francisco Mime Troupe Returns to Santa Cruz with "Treasure Island" (audio/mpeg 40.2MB) Interview with Ellen Callas of The San Francisco Mime Troupe about their 60th anniversary and the current 2019 show "Treasure Island," being performed in Santa Cruz on Saturday, September 7 and September, August 8 in San Lorenzo Park at 3pm (2:30 music). Details at sfmt.org. Originally broadcast on KZSC 88.1 FM by John Malkin....
Posted: Sat Aug 31, 2019 9:52AM
Full audio of vigil (audio/mpeg 157.7MB) (audio 3:49:30)
Times for individual speakers and performers indicated below their photographs....
Posted: Wed Jan 9, 2019 6:42PM
49th Anniversary of People's Park - rally and concert (audio/mpeg 347.4MB) Hear 2.5 hours of uncut audio from the rally and concert. Activists speak on the history and current issues in the struggle, organizing against the UC Berkeley administrations latest attempt to pave the park over for student and homeless housing. Several good local bands play sets. Distribute widely. (2hrs. 30min.)...
Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2018 1:04PM
Save People's Park rally and concert (audio/mpeg 271.7MB) Hear 2 hours of uncut audio from People’s park from a rally and concert which took place at People’s Park, on the U.C. Berkeley campus, on September 23, 2018. The purpose of the event is to organize support against the University’s stated plans to turn the free public park into a lot for student housing and subsidized low-income housing for up to 100 homeless people. (2hrs 20min)...
Posted: Sat Oct 27, 2018 12:46PM
If You’re Going to Santa Cruz (audio/mpeg 5.7MB) Last night I was kicked out of a building for the first time in my 51 years. It happened in Santa Cruz, California. Here's my latest podcast....
Posted: Fri Sep 28, 2018 10:52PM
Canadian Journalist Turns Rwandan Genocide Story Inside Out (audio/mpeg 3.6MB) A Google Search for “Syria” and “Rwanda” turns up millions of hyperlinks, most of them likening the Syrian and Rwandan conflicts and calling for intervention in Syria to "stop the next Rwanda." Judi Rever's new book, "In Praise of Blood: Crimes of the Rwandan Patriotic Front," turns the story of what actually happened in Rwanda inside out....
Posted: Tue Apr 17, 2018 5:24PM
Suicide: The Ripple Effect, film screening & discussion (audio/x-wav 263.4MB) WTUL was joined in conversation by Robin Cilluffa, mental health advocate, and Janet Hayes, president of Healing Minds NOLA, to discuss the upcoming film screening and panel discussion of Suicide: The Ripple Effect, which tells the story of survivor Kevin Hinds....
Posted: Mon Apr 2, 2018 7:32AM
Wendi Moore O'Neal & The Community Sing in New Orleans (audio/mpeg 31.2MB) WTUL News and Views speaks with Wendi Moore O'Neal of Jaliyah Consulting, her bi-monthly community sing project, why she does it, what gives her hope, and an outline of some of the most incredible organizing going on in New Orleans today! Great conversation!...
Posted: Fri Mar 30, 2018 9:32AM
6 : An Unbirth with Natalita (audio/mpeg 15.0MB) Kezia speaks with Natalita and Riley Teahan about their upcoming collaboration on a visual album and performance of Natalita's album six coming up in New Orleans this weekend....
Posted: Fri Mar 23, 2018 7:46AM
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Audio postcard from Louisiana Books 2 Prisoners (audio/x-wav 57.4MB) Books 2 Prisoners sends books of all kinds to people incarcerated across the Deep South, and for almost every package delivered, they receive letters asking for more....
Posted: Wed Aug 9, 2017 6:20AM
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 Dj Jaffe - Focusing on Reforms for Untreated Serious Mentally Ill People (audio/mpeg 26.5MB) Dj Jaffe - Author of Insane Consequences: How the Mental Health Industry Fails the Mentally Ill - is a mental health advocate unafraid to speak the truth about the realities of untreated serious mental illness. He has been called radical by some and a gadfly by others but there is no doubt that his words resonate with many families unable to help their sick loved ones because the mental health system is completely dysfunctional....
Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2017 7:24PM
Interview with Zero from El Vuh about Mexica New Year on March 11-12 in San José, California (audio/x-wav 103.0MB) Calpulli Tonalehqueh's Aztec New Year is a multi-cultural, family event in celebration of the Aztec New Year beginning with a sunrise ceremony and features live entertainment, arts, crafts, information, food and beverage booths....
Posted: Sun Mar 12, 2017 7:57AM