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WORT 89.9FM Madison

WORT 89.9FM Madison

Listener-sponsored, volunteer-powered, noncommercial community radio broadcasting to south-central Wisconsin at 89.9 FM and online at wortfm.org via our studios in Madison. We provide an outlet for communication, education, free expression, entertainment, training and access for the purpose of sharing music, information, news, and cultural experiences, and strive to give people underrepresented elsewhere in traditional media a voice. NOTE: Most of the content posted at this time are news stories

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00:19:50

M Gessen on autocracy, keeping record, and speaking...

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/05/29

With host Matvei Mozhaev, M Gessen explores the rapid rise of autocracy in US- and how keeping record and speaking clearly to power hold blueprints for resisting a new yet familiar age of oppression.Full transcript on https://www.wortfm.org/m-gessen-on-autocracy-keeping-record-and-speaking-to-power/

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00:04:37

City staff explain impacts of federal grant freezes,...

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/05/28

The Trump Administration’s push to freeze federal grants has dominated headlines for months, with a slew of local nonprofits losing critical portions of their budgets overnight. But how has this federal action impacted the city of Madison? And what are the potential impacts of the Republican budget bill making its way through Congress? City staff members shared some updates with the city finance committee last night. Their take-away: wait and see. Image courtesy: Brian Standing / WORT News.

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00:07:21

Get to Know Matt Tucker, Madison’s Building...

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/05/28

It takes a lot of staff to keep the city running, but many of them work behind the scenes. Kicking off our new series “Get To Know Your Local Government,” WORT reporter Sutton Johnson visited City Hall last week. He sat down with Matt Tucker, who has served as the director of Madison’s Building Inspection Division for the last four years. Tucker described what he does on the average day – and how his work at the city of Madison might impact your life.

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00:53:57

Housing Focus with Briarpatch Youth Services and...

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/05/28

A few weeks ago, host Ali Muldrow spoke with State Senator Kelda Roys about the housing crisis in Madison and Dane County. As the average price of a home has soared to nearly half a million dollars, the number of kids experiencing homelessness in the city is also growing. Today we’re picking up that theme with two guests from local homeless services agencies: Karla Thennes of Porchlight and Jen Ripp of Briarpatch Youth Services. Featured image: a technical drawing of a social housing project via

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00:26:15

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WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/05/28

In 1970, the Point Beach Nuclear Power Plant was awarded a 60-year license to operate; ten years ago the plant was determined to be to embrittled to function past 2017, and the owners, NextEra Energy, is pushing to extend the licensing and additional twenty years, to 2050. Wisconsin members of Physicians for Social Responsibility, Alfred Meyer, Amy Schulz, and Ann Behrman talk with Jan Miyasaki about PSR's concerns over heath risks, climate change concerns, and potential disaster scenarios at this

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00:23:19

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WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/05/28

Seth Connolly, Co-founder of the grass-roots movement "Taxpayers Against Genocide" talks about their ongoing legal efforts to halt the U.S. from supporting Israel's continued attacks on Palestinians, attacks which have gone from retribution to genocide with the contribution of over 90,000 tons of U.S. weapons sent to Israel.

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00:05:49

Bill Hogseth mix mp3

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/05/28

Short interview with Bill Hogseth of Grassroots Organizing Western Wisconsin on the link between building democracy and real power.

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00:02:20

Meriter Nurses Strike Begins

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/05/27

Nurses from Meriter Hospital began a strike today that they announced earlier this month. Crowds of nurses gathered to picket outside the hospital early Tuesday morning and plan on staying through the week.

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00:52:36

How health became a luxury product

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/05/27

In 2023, wellness was a $6.3 trillion dollar industry, it’s also notoriously riddled with grifts and scams. As online wellness influencers drive the anti vax movement, white Christian nationalists and the Make America Healthy Again movement are transforming body purity into body fascism. On today’s show, host Richelle Wilson is joined by journalist Amy Larocca to talk about the world of wellness and her new book, How to Be Well: Navigating Our Self-Care Epidemic, One Dubious Cure at a

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00:13:25

Artist Christina A West Mixes Sculpture and the Nude...

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/05/27

Christina West's exhibition at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art uses live nude male models to explore the gaze and what it reveals about how we understand our relationship to others.

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00:11:47

Ladies of SCI Lobby for Humane Treatment in...

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/05/27

The Ladies of SCI have a mission of monthly lobbying of Wisconsin State Legislators to advocate for legal changes to promote genuine prison reform.

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00:31:23

Andy Bassford interview Tropical Riddims 5-17-25

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/05/27

FRP talks to Andy Bassford on WORT-FM 5-17-25

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00:15:59

Madison Veterans for Peace Honor Memorial Day With...

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/05/27

Larry Orr of Madison Veterans for Peace tells host Nicholas Wootton about his group's plans for a Memorial Day anti war rally and his experiences in the military.

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00:06:30

Madison’s police oversight body summarizes first...

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/05/26

Madison’s police oversight body summarized their first annual report at a public presentation this weekend. Image courtesy: Community Response Team via Facebook.

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00:04:26

06-03-2025 The European Union’s refusal to import US...

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/05/26

For decades, Europe has not been willing to import US beef and chicken. Pete and Bert talk about Europe’s refusal to import meat with synthetic growth hormones and the fact that Europe has more family farms than the United States. Discover the meaning of OFFAL in this week’s episode of The Milkweed.

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00:12:53

Veterans For Peace Host Annual Memorial Day Rally

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/05/26

The Madison chapter of Veterans for Peace hosted their annual Memorial Day Peace Rally this afternoon in the grand ballroom inside the Masonic Center. WORT Reporter, Eliot Hughes was there.

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00:04:26

06-03-2025 The European Union’s refusal to import US...

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/05/26

For decades, Europe has not been willing to import US beef and chicken. Pete and Bert talk about Europe’s refusal to import meat with synthetic growth hormones and the fact that Europe has more family farms than the United States. Discover the meaning of OFFAL in this week’s episode of The Milkweed.

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00:52:56

The Crises of Regional Colleges and Universities

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/05/26

On today’s show, host Douglas Haynes is joined by journalist Molly Parker to talk about the erosion of educational access in rural areas, the value of regional universities, and Parker’s recent article for ProPublica, “A University, a Rural Town and Their Fight to Survive Trump’s War on Higher Education.” Featured image: a postcard of SIU, Carbondale from 1910 via Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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00:06:41

A short and sweet Memorial Day week

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/05/26

Dane County and the City of Madison are still having meetings this Memorial Day week—a grand total of 11 of them. Host Brenda Konkel and Producer Christina Lieffring will give you the run down in this week's edition of Forward Lookout.

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00:07:31

05-27-2025 Kraft singles vs Sargento Natural American...

WORT 89.9FM Madison ·

2025/05/25

This week onThe Milkweed, Pete urges consumers to “look at the ingredients!”Pete and Bert compare ingredients in a Kraft Singles cheese ‘product’ with Sargento’s Natural American cheese slices and talk about the history of the FDA approving milk protein as an ingredient in cheese.

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