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Today on the Not-Too Turnt Up Tuesday 8:00 Buzz with Tara Wilhelmi, no guests and co-hosts, it’s just Tara talking about doing good for the community, arts as business, and whatever else comes up, what’s going around town, and reminiscing on some music!

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This year marks the 100th anniversary of the presidential run of Robert M. LaFollette — one of the most successful third-party campaigns in U.S. history. Norman Stockwell, Publisher of the Progressive Magazine talks in detail about the history of LaFollette, his progressive ideas of breaking the power of monopolies over politics and economy, denouncing the resurgence of the KKK, and fighting against “any discrimination between races, classes, and creeds.” Stockwell gives some details of the anniversary party events scheduled starting tomorrow, April 25, 2024, and continuing through the weekend.

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Congress requires the Pentagon to submit Unfunded Priorities List (UPL) each year, offering a backdoor of requests of $25.8 billion for 2025 (double from the previous year) to boosting already exorbitant military spending of $895.2 billion in military spending President Biden has already requested. In her recent article “The Pentagon’s Billion-Dollar Wish Lists“, Sofia Guerra from the Friends Committee on National Legislation talks about these unmonitored requests, and new bi-partisan legislation seeking to cut this fat from Defense Department.

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The “Mills Folly Microcinema” at Madison’s Arts and Literature Laboratory, now in its sixth year, seeks to push the envelope of the moving image with a docket of experimental cinema and collaborations.  James Kreul, who is an old friend of the Monday Buzz, curates the program, and joined the Monday Buzz to tell us about the next Mills Folly presentation, Outer-Inner: Live Music, Live Video.

Outer-Inner will pair live music with analog video reacting in real time to the musical performance. Video artists Ryan Lansing and Peter Charles Allen, who are among the performers, came into the WORT studios to describe their work. The performance will also include musicians Def Sonic, Niels Jorgensen and Seth Klekamp.

This live music and video collaboration takes place April 24th at 7:00 p.m. at the Arts and Literature Laboratory.

One week later, on May first, Mills Folly will present Project Projection, a showcase of experimental short films by thirteen local filmmakers. Project Projection, which runs several times each year, provides a venue for Madison area video artists to display their work.

Image courtesy of Mills Folly Microcinema.

Web production by Nicholas Wootton.

 

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Back before desktop publishing and the internet, if you wanted to get your radical counterculture message out, you had to use scissors, paste from a jar, and frequent visits to photocopy shops to produce your own magazine, or “zine.”  Madison’s annual “Print and Resist” Zinefest celebrates the DIY, analog printed word.  This year’s event takes place at Madison’s Central Library on April 27th from 11 to 4.  

Several contributing artists to this year’s Zinefest told us about their work on the Monday Buzz. Julie Sabo, who came in to WORT studios, is an illustrator and zinester. Joining the Buzz by phone were designer, artist and poet Mike Ward, and also comic artist Beth Hetland. 

Carlee Latimer, Bubbler Program Administrator for the Madison Public Library, also joined us in the studio.

The 2024 Madison Print and Resist Zine fest takes place on Saturday, April 27 from 11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. at the Madison Central Library.  For more information, visit the events page of the Madison Public Library website. 

Poster courtesy of the Madison Print and Resist Zinefest website.

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Since 1979, Labor Notes and the Troublemakers Union has brought grassroots labor activists together to exchange organizing notes, tactics, success stories and lessons learned.  The 2024 Labor Notes conference is just wrapping up in Chicago and featured presentations from activists in the United Auto Workers, the Writer’s Guild, Independent Union of Audi Mexico Workers, the Italian Federation of Metalworkers and many others. 

Two Madison-area labor activists who attended the Chicago conference, Joanna Frasch and Barbara Smith, called in to WORT studios to fill us in on the event. 

Joanna Frasch is the at-large Executive Board Member for AFSCME Local 1. Barbara Smith is a member of the American Federation of Teachers Local 4848. 

Photo courtesy of Labor Notes.

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