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This week, we finish our conversation with Kelly Grace Price about the campaign to close Rosie’s. Rosie’s refers to the Rose M. Singer Facility, an all-women’s jail on Rikers Island. On average, Rosie’s detains around 630 women, girls, transgender, gender non-conforming, and intersex females while they await trial. Suzanne Singer, the granddaughter of the jail’s namesake, wrote an op-ed for …

This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, November 1st, 2021. Later in the program, WFHB News speaks with Brett Voorhies, who was recently re-elected as the president of the Indiana AFL-CIO – the largest federation of unions in the United States. More coming up in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, WFHB Correspondent Abe …

This week, we hear from Kelly Grace Price, a co-creator of the Close Rosie’s campaign. Rosie’s refers to the Rose M. Singer Facility, an all-women’s jail on Rikers Island. On average, Rosie’s detains around 630 women, girls, transgender, gender non-conforming, and intersex females while they await trial. Price deconstructs the reformist arguments made NYC Board of Corrections and shows how …

This is the WFHB Local News for Thursday, October 28th, 2021. Later in the program, WFHB News speaks with City Councilman Matt Flaherty about the passage of the 2022 City Budget during last night’s Common Council meeting. More in today’s feature report. Also coming up in the next half hour, we provide a rundown of all the latest news on …

This is the WFHB Local News for Wednesday, October 27th, 2021. Later in the program, we hear a selection from a recent Interchange with guest Davarian Baldwin, professor of American Studies at Trinity College in Hartford, Connecticut, and author of In the Shadow of the Ivory Tower: How Universities Are Plundering Our Cities. More in today’s feature report. Also coming …

“The university still has refused to sit down with us and come up with a better plan to improve our working conditions,” says one speaker. “That is not acceptable.” The crowd cheers, volunteers bang on drums, and the applause continues. These were the sounds and voices from the Town Hall held by the Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition on September 23. …

This is the WFHB Local News for Monday, October 25th, 2021. Later in the program, WFHB News speaks with Erin White, Director of Leisure, Marketing and Media Relations for Visit Bloomington, about the second annual Bloomington Restaurant Week, which celebrates local restaurants in light of the Covid-19 pandemic. More in today’s feature reports. But first, Abe Shapiro has your local …

We start off this week’s episode with an update on Marius Mason’s transfer to a men’s facility.  Marius is an imprisoned environmentalist who, in addition to waging an Earth Liberation Front sabotage campaign, was an important aboveground organizer for social movements in Indiana and Michigan for decades.  He came out as transgender while in prison, and has recently spoken out …

This is the WFHB Local News for Thursday, October 21st, 2021. Later in the program, we have our monthly podcast, Prescription for Healthcare – a collaboration between WFHB and Medicare for All Indiana. Hosts Karen Green-Stone and Dr. Rob Stone continue their conversation with Dr. Ed Weisbart, a retired family physician from St. Louis and chair of the Missouri chapter …

Welcome to the October edition of Prescription for Healthcare on WFHB Community Radio in collaboration with Medicare for All Indiana.  Today, hosts Karen Green Stone and Dr. Rob Stone continue their conversation with Dr. Ed Weisbart, a retired family physician from St. Louis and chair of the Missouri chapter of Physicians for a National Health Program.  Dr. Weisbart lectures around …