This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, April 1st, 2024. In today’s feature report, local journalist Dave Askins of the B Square Bulletin reads an item from his weekly newsletter for the WFHB Local News. More in the bottom half of tonight’s newscast. Local high school students Sophia Craiutu and Iris Jones are on a mission to change the …
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This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, January 29th, 2024. Later in the program, dozens came out to protest IU’s cancellation of Palestinian Artist Samia Halaby outside the Eskenazi Art Museum on Friday. More in today’s feature report. That’s Raquel Anderson from El Centro Comunal with some examples of the work their volunteers do to support Bloomington’s Latino community. …
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This week, we speak with Dan from Michigan Abolition and Prisoner Solidarity. MAPS is an exemplary grassroots abolitionist group, which arose out of the 2016 National Prison Strike and, specifically, the Kinross uprising in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Dan lays out this history, and gives us an inventory of COVID-19 in Michigan prisons, based on a zine of prisoner …
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In this week’s episode, we air the first part of a conversation between Jok Huerta from Focus Initiatives and Rodney Jones, known as Big R. Both men share stories of their own incarceration, and describe life in a Maximum Restraint Unit. As Big R puts it, when you leave general population for the MRU, “you’re in a whole different place …
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This is the WFHB Local News for Tuesday, May 25th, 2021. Later in the program, WFHB Correspondent Benedict Jones spoke with Pat East, Executive Director for the Dimension Mill, a coworking space and business incubator here in Bloomington. Part I aired last week, and today you will hear Part II in the bottom half of our program. Also coming up …
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More than 200 members of the Bloomington community gathered at the Monroe County Courthouse this past Saturday evening in response to the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Palestine. Organized by “Jews Against Israeli Apartheid,” the “Free Palestine” rally featured passionate statements from local community members, live music and a diverse audience. Members of the crowd brought with them Palestinian flags, as …
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This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, May 17th, 2021. Later in the program, we have the latest edition of A Few Minutes with the Mayor – a weekly segment where Bloomington Mayor John Hamilton answers listener-posed questions on community issues. That’s coming up in today’s feature reports. Also coming up in the next half hour, WFHB Correspondent Robert …
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Today’s show is about the life and work of Edward Said, author, literary critic, teacher, musician, public intellectual, and Palestinian American. And all our music today comes from Canadian pianist Glenn Gould, a favorite of Edward Said’s and the subject of several of Said’s essays. Notably, “Glenn Gould, the Virtuoso as Intellectual” and “The Music Itself: Glenn Gould’s Contrapuntal Vision.” …
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Representative (D-MN) Ilhan Omar’s statements about the American Israeli Public Affairs Committee have garnered controversy about the United States’ relationship with Israel. In today’s Voices in the Street, Producer Isaak Gonzalez asks area residents how they feel about the U.S. relationship with Israel.
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