Tag Archives: Texas

DISABULLETIN:THE NATION’S FIRST ACCESSIBLE AMUSEMENT PARK

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:43 — 23.8MB)Subscribe: RSSWith summer beckoning, amusement park attendance is sure to rise, with the latest data collected from the Global Attractions Attendance Report finding a total of 140.5 Million visitors to North American Theme Parks in 2022. One of the primary concerns that has impacted and continues to impact the disability community …

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March 24, 2023: The Origins of Cop City, Part Two

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 39.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we continue sharing Haymarket Press’s panel, “the Abolitionist Struggle against Cop City.”  In this segment, Stuart Schrader and Micah Herskind fill in the past  40 years of historical context for why the Cop City project is being pushed through specifically in Atlanta.  Schrader teaches at …

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June 19, 2020: Nothing Can Be Changed Until it is Faced

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:00 — 41.2MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThe whole country is in upheaval as a vast Movement for Black Lives continues to challenge white supremacy and the institutions of policing and prison. As monuments fall and precincts are seized in Minneapolis to Seattle, the lies and hidden truths of American society are being revealed. …

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BloomingOUT w/ Rob & Tom (Just Married episode) – October 16th, 2019

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 81.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, catch your regular news update including discussion about a judge who previously ruled that Obamacare was unconstitutional has overturned health protections for transgender patients. We also talk a little about Pete Buttigieg. After that, we have a new episode from the Just Married podcast and an interview …

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August 2, 2019: Retaliation 101

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:10 — 39.9MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we hear from two people- Faith, who talks to us about the practice of inmate lending- and Jason Renard Walker, who speaks on the retaliation he is facing inside. We spoke to Faith at the Fight Toxic Prisons convergence recently, and she told us about …

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July 12, 2019: Prison in the Climate Crisis

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 29:01 — 41.3MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week, we share an interview with Julie, a researcher who studies the effects of climate change on prisoners.  The conversation was held at last month’s Fight Toxic Prisons conference, and focused on her work on how intensifying extremes of heat and cold impacts prisoners’ health. As …

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Hola Bloomington – January 11, 2019

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 135.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreLocutores,  Carlos B., Luis H., Luis F.R., hablan sobre las noticias, leyes y politica. Hosts, Carlos B., Luis H., Luis F.R., talk about news, law, and politics.

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Bring It On – December 10, 2018

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 59:00 — 135.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreWith President Donald Trump’s threats of “shutting down the government” due to his defiant stance over the construction of a border wall, we dedicate tonight’s broadcast to the plight and common misunderstandings of undocumented Latinx immigrants. Hosts Jim Sims and Amrita Myers, Ph.D. are joined by Texas …

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Bring It On! – March 19, 2018

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 56:28 — 41.0MB)Subscribe: RSS | MorePART ONE William Hosea and Clarence Boone speak with Gallery Mortgage Group and Griffin Realty about home ownership and Bloomington’s home buying and renter’s markets. PART TWO In today’s news and events calendar, Hosea and Boone speak about series of bombings in Austin, TX; and Black Panther’s …

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October 6, 2017: Prison and the Press, Part One

Podcast: Play in new window | Download (Duration: 21:33 — 14.8MB)Subscribe: RSS | MoreThis week is the first episode of several about the intersection between the media and prison struggles. In January of 2015, journalist Barrett Brown was sentenced to 63 months in prison for his role reporting on Anonymous’ hack of Stratfor, a private security and espionage company. Today, …

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