WTUL News and Views

05/18/2020

from today's press conference in front of city hall

(from announcement) STRIKING SANITATION WORKERS, CITY WASTE UNION, I AM A MAN PRESS CONFERENCE MONDAY, MAY 18TH, 11:00 A.M. STEPS OF CITY HALL, NEW ORLEANS NOTE: Wear masks and social distance

04/13/2020

Tune into WTUL 91.5 fm at 10 AM to hear excerpts from The Blue House's Fika (weekly coffee & conversation hour) on climate change, the Anthropocene, and COVID-19.

The discussion was guided by Shana Griffin (feminist activist, sociologist, artist), Denise Frazier (scholar and educator), Dorothy Jelagat Cheruiyot (evolutionary biologist), and Aron Chang (urban designer).

03/18/2020

Interview with Denise Frazier and Maura Sullivan about the third annual Tulane Indigenous symposium--NOW POSTPONED TO MARCH 2021. https://www.tunicabiloxi.org/third-annual-new-orleans-center-for-the-

03/11/2020

https://www.efno.org/ https://350neworleans.org/

02/14/2020

Building yet another massive oil export terminal here in Louisiana is already a bad idea. Building it next to the town of Ironton, a low-income community of color who's been fighting against environmental racism for years, AND next to a major sediment diversion project is like pouring salt on a open wound. Listen to the latest Healthy Gulf Minute with Scott and Tara from Healthy Gulf - formerly Gulf Restoration Network to learn more about the Tallgrass Oil Export Terminal proposal and how you can join the fight against it!

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Rg-2LHynRQEvCtV3wt0O4BvxUCn53NlF/view?usp=sharing

01/15/2020

I got to interview Cashauna Hill, Executive Director of Louisiana Fair Housing Action Center about their Fit For a King summit taking place tomorrow at New Orleans Jazz Market and featuring keynote speaker Isabel Wilkerson.

Cashauna Hill is the executive director of the Louisiana Fair Housing Action Center. Their Fit For A King summit takes place Thursday, January 16, 2020 from 9AM-3PM at the New Orleans Jazz Market. ht

10/15/2019

October 18, 2019:
Exclusive Film Screening - Bedlam: The Film That Helped Halt Plans for a Los Angeles Mental Health Jail
6pm-8:30pm
Historic Carver Theater
2101 Orleans Ave.,
New Orleans, LA 70116
NO ADMISSION FEE.

Bedlam - Inside America's Mental Health Crisis will air on PBS in 2020 but New Orleanians will have a rare opportunity to catch an exclusive screening on October 18th.

Set in downtown Los Angeles, Bedlam exposes the over-representation of people who struggle with serious mental illnesses who live homeless and incarcerated. After it's debut at the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors reversed their decision to build a mens mental health jail in favor of building a mental health center instead. Join the movement that is shattering silence about serious mental illness!
For more information, contact:

Janet Hays
President - Healing Minds NOLA
(504) 274 6091

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October 19, 2019: Conference - Implementing a Full Continuum of Psychiatric Care: Focus on Serious Mental Illness
8:00am - 5:00pm
Hutchinson Memorial Building (School of. Medicine)
1430 Tulane Ave. New Orleans, LA 70112

Healing Minds NOLA, the Louisiana Supreme Court and the Louisiana District Judges Association will host a full day conference showcasing an exciting lineup of speakers who will discuss programs, services and policies that have been implemented across the country as alternatives to incarceration, homeless and death for people in the grips of untreated/under-treated serious mental illnesses. For more information, contact:

Janet Hays
President - Healing Minds NOLA
(504) 274 6091
http://healingmindsnola.org

WTUL News and Views Dj Maggie interviews Janet Hays, (Healing Minds NOLA), Judge Kern Reese (Civil District Court ) and Kenn Barnes, (The Louisiana Supreme Court) to discuss upcoming events addressing alternatives to incarceration, homelessness and death for people with serious mental illnesses. Aud...

09/11/2019

apologies for super awkward soundcloud photo crop!

Interview with Wiggy, Toni, and Alaina from the Real Name Campaign. The Real Name Campaign is a grassroots effort to make legal name and gender marker changes more accessible in Orleans Parish. They

08/19/2019

Tune in at 8:30am today to hear Scott and Laurie from Healthy Gulf - formerly Gulf Restoration Network talk about a lawsuits save whales lives.

Listen to WTUL streaming live!

07/22/2019

Tune in at 8:30am today to hear all about Louisiana Budget Project's Invest in Louisiana Policy Conference and Campaign with Public Affairs and Outreach Coordinator, Davante Lewis.

-- Listen live at 91.5 on the dial and wtulneworleans.com on the web --

06/12/2019

Learned a lot from Logan Burke about renewable energy possibilities for New Orleans this morning! Check out this interview concerning their upcoming symposium with organized All4Energy, Deep South Center for Environmental Justice, 350 New Orleans and more!

Interview with Alliance for Affordable Energy director Logan Burke about their upcoming Renewable Portfolio Symposium https://www.facebook.com/events/2133373293620782/ From A4E Website: "Want a Rene

05/05/2019

The Sunrise Movement is on the Road for a Green New Deal! They're coming to New Orleans this Tuesday, May 7, to catalyze Gulf South for a Green New Deal -- "an organized formation of local people and groups coming together to support existing work across our region, uplift Gulf South community leaders, and connect the Gulf South to a national movement towards racial, economic, and climate justice."

In this episode, WTUL News & Views host Sophie Kunen speaks with local and national Sunrise organizers who have helped plan Tuesday's event: Kendall Dix (Healthy Gulf), Jeremy Ornstein (Sunrise National), and Elianna Rachel (Housing Nola).

All are invited to attend the National Green New Deal Tour's Flagship Stop in New Orleans! This is a free event, open to the public, and will be held at the Mahalia Jackson Theater from 6-9pm on Tuesday, May 7th.

For more information, check out the Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/2126361894137780/

In 2018, the world’s top scientists warned we have only 12 years to transform our economy to “avoid catastrophic environmental breakdown” within our lifetimes. Together with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the Sunrise Movement brought a plan to Congress that matches the urgency and scale of the cris...

04/08/2019

Every second Monday of the month, WTUL is joined on air by Louisiana Budget Project (LBP). This morning, Executive Director Jan Moller gave us a roundup of what LBP is monitoring and advocating for as the regular fiscal legislative session kicks off today Mon. April 8th.

Today we talked about minimum wage policy, paid family leave policy, Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act and pre-existing conditions, tax bills, teacher pay raises, and predatory payday lending regulations.

To stay updated on LBP's priorities this legislative session, visit labudget.org and sign up for the Daily Dime newsletter.

Tune in next month, May 13th, for another LBP Roundup on WTUL News & Views.

03/22/2019

Interview with Zac Manuel from PATOIS New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival which opened Thursday and runs through Sunday.

From website: "Founded in 2004 by New Orleans artists and activists, PATOIS has premiered hundreds of powerful social justice-oriented films from around the world while highlighting brilliant local fi

03/08/2019

No original content from me today, but we listened to some powerful stories from women seeking asylum in the US and speeches from others actively fighting our country's barbaric family separation policy. Thank you to WINGS: Women's International News Gathering Service for the content. I only had time to play a clip of this song, but said I would post the whole thing here later. Can you get through the whole song without tearing up? Lol I can't

Happy International Women's Day!
Sophie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oyok_k_n1AE

DREAMERS Words and Music by Judy Collins The Wildflower Company, LLC (ASCAP)

02/15/2019

"If you own the bank $100,000, the bank owns you. But if you owe the $100 million, you own the bank." TOGETHER, WE OWN THE BANK.

In this episode, I speak with Thomas Gokey and Dawn Lueck -- two organizers with the Debt Collective -- about how, through collective financial civil disobedience, we have the power to renegotiate and resist unjust debts.

"If you owe the bank $100,000, the bank owns you. If you owe the bank $100 million, you own the bank." Together, we own the bank. Thomas Gokey and Dawn Lueck of The Debt Collective talk to Sophie abo

02/13/2019

In this Valentines Day edition of Your Token POC, our hosts discuss dating as a person of color and the exotification that can come with it.

01/22/2019

From Sophie Kunan, coproducer of WTUL News and Views!

Local environmental activists and residents have been fighting against Entergy and the company's plan to build a natural gas-powered power plant in New Orleans East for the past three years. Shortly a

01/21/2019

*** New link to interview ***
https://soundcloud.com/sophie-kunen-489837922/the-fight-against-entergy-astroturfing-environmental-racism-in-no-east-energy-future-coalition

Local environmental activists and residents have been fighting against Entergy and the company's plan to build a natural gas-powered power plant in New Orleans East for the past three years. Shortly after the City Council approved the plant in March 2017, just weeks before the current Council was inaugurated, investigators revealed that Entergy had been paying actors to fill seats at public meetings and voice fake support for the plant -- an illegal practice known as astroturfing.

On Wednesday, January 23, the new City Council will consider a resolution to rescind and repeal the previous Council's approval of the plant. But activists say we don't just need a revote; we need the entire process to be reopened and it needs to be fair and informed from the start.

Renate Heurich (350 New Orleans), Happy Johnson (resident and activist), and Mark van Nguyen (VAYLA) joined me in the studio to discuss the plant, the various scandals surrounding it, and how our new Council has a chance to do the right thing.

For more information, go to nongasplant.com.

Local environmental activists and residents have been fighting against Entergy and the company's plan to build a natural gas-powered power plant in New Orleans East for the past three years. Shortly a

01/15/2019

Theo got to interview Maxwell Ciardullo from Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center about their Fit For A King Summit this Thursday (featuring keynote speaker DIANE NASH!!) and some housing policy updates www.fitforaking.org

Fit For A King summit featuring Diane Nash, This Thursday, January 17th, 2019

01/04/2019

Tomorrow, January 5th, the New Orleans Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is holding a FREE brake light repair clinic -- a small but significant act of mutual aid and protection against state-sanctioned police violence.

In this interview, recorded on November 30, I speak with two DSA New Orleans members who help organize the clinic each month through the organization's Direct Service Committee: Cate Root and Andrew Zachary White.

Tomorrow's clinic will be held at Kruttschnitt Place in the 7th Ward (the small triangular park at the corner of N. Dorgenois and Bayou Rd) from 11AM - 4PM.

For more information, see their Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/784587888548840/

To learn more about the clinic and how you can get involved, check out their website (dsaneworleans.org) or shoot them an email (directservice [at] dsaneworleans.org).

Once a month, DSA New Orleans holds a free brake light repair clinic to prevent unnecessary traffic stops and speak out against police violence. [43:20]

11/22/2018

https://soundcloud.com/theodore-hilton/in-the-movement-alaina-comeaux

Interview recorded 11/20/2018. Today we’re speaking with Alaina Comeaux, who is Ishak and who organizes Bulbancha, Decolonized Walk of New Orleans. Alaina is an educator and began hosting the walk th

09/13/2018

Hey there News & Views fans! As the newest member of the N&V team, I'm excited to share my very first community-based interview with you here.

Last Friday, Angela Kinlaw from The New Orleans Peoples' Assembly and Renate Heurich from 350 New Orleans joined me in the studio to talk about the then-upcoming Rise for Cancer Alley event -- one of more than 900 demonstrations held around the world in solidarity with the massive Rise for Climate, Jobs, & Justice march in San Francisco last weekend.

Rise for Cancer Alley has been elevated by organizers and independent media as one of the most important actions held that day. From Gordon Plaza and the Agriculture Street Landfill in New Orleans to the Bayou Bridge Pipeline in St. James Parish, activists traveled more than 60 miles to highlight the enduring legacy of environmental racism and injustice throughout Louisiana's Petrochemical Corridor -- aka "Cancer Alley".

https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/09/07/18817357.php

In solidarity with thousands of RISE events around the world, on September 8, Louisianans will RISE for Cancer Alley to demand local leaders commit to taking meaningful climate action now. Angela Kinlaw (New Orleans Peoples' Assembly) and Renate Heurich (350 NOLA) join us in the studio to discuss th...

07/19/2018

I'm really excited to share this interview--Dianne Jones, Fox Rich, and Sade Dumas discuss the incarceration of women and describe prison abolitionist visions. Their event, Ending the Incarceration of Women and Girls, takes place this Saturday afternoon at First Grace (link in comments).

Interview with Dianne Jones, Fox Rich, and Sade Dumas about prison abolition, the incarceration of women, and how to bring change to the system. Their community town hall event, titled Ending the In

07/12/2018

"Mental illness is called a behavioral problem, but jails and prisons can no more correct the mental illness out of an individual than can correct the tumor out of a cancer patient. Like cancer, the prognosis for seriously mentally ill patients diminishes the longer they are left untreated.

Mental illness is a brain disease. Brain damage occurs with each psychotic break or major episode of clinical depression. The brain simply can't regenerate as fast as it deteriorates. Four percent of the most seriously mentally ill people in America have mental diseases so severe that their illnesses appear in brain-scan imaging. Approximately 15 to 20 percent of those are incarcerated."

https://www.theadvocate.com/baton_rouge/opinion/letters/article_5c94c8d4-8525-11e8-a513-07a031b72f9d.html

A common refrain at the 2018 National Sheriffs Association annual conference in New Orleans was: “Jails should not be community mental health centers.” Yet perversely, conversations continue on how to

06/26/2018

Stop by for the Treatment Advocacy Center's Meet & Greet. Our Executive Director along with members of our Advocacy Team will be on hand to say hello, tell you more about our work and help you learn how you can get involved in our fight to eliminate barriers to treatment for people with severe menta...

06/22/2018

For my penultimate show I decided to bring it home and interview Jordan Bantuelle of All You Need-formerly Southbound Gardens, get the skinny on the new operation and why DIY food systems and permaculture design principles are so needed in New Orleans today! Check it out...

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04/19/2018

Interview with Rontherin Ratliff, John Isiah Walton, and Carl Joe Wiliams from the Level Arts Collective, whose show, Inside Out: Reflections on incarceration in Louisiana, runs through May 6 at the D

04/13/2018

We had a lot of fun speaking with Ellenie Cruz of the NOLA Herb Gathering coming up this Sunday! Check out our interview here: http://wtulnews.tumblr.com/post/172894035421/kezia-speaks-with-ellenie-cruz-of-the-nola-herb

Kezia speaks with Ellenie Cruz of the NOLA Herb Gathering, coming up on April 15th. A full day of information sharing, classes, and education about local plant medicine practices and how they connect...

04/06/2018

Interview with Nicky Gillies and Julie Connelly from NOLA to Angola about the organizations Bike Ride and Cookout for Prison Justice coming up Saturday, April 7th, starting and ending at City Park. M

04/06/2018

We're proud of our very own Scott Eustis and the many other speakers at the Tulane Summit on Environmental Law & Policy giving us some awesome information about the efforts to improve the Louisiana coast. Check out the videos here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCSV8_gE93REGG0vX7Km-3kw

This channel features the panels from the Tulane Environmental Law Summit. The 20th Annual Summit was on February 27-28, 2015.

04/02/2018

WTUL News and Views was joined in conversation by Robin Cilluffa, mental health advocate, and Janet Hays, President of Healing Minds NOLA, to discuss the upcoming film screening + panel discussion of Su***de The Ripple Effect Nola, which tells the story of survivor Kevin Hinds.

The film + panel discussion will take place on Thursday, April 19th at 7:30 pm at the AMC Palace 20 in Elmwood, Louisiana.

To reserve tickets, visit https://gathr.us/screening/22847.
For more information on the event, you can email rippleeffectneworleans [at] gmail.com.
For more information about Healing Minds NOLA, you can go to healingmindsnola.org

The film chronicles the story of Kevin Hines, who at age 19 attempted to take his life by jumping from the Golden Gate Bridge. Since then Kevin has been on a mission to use his story to help others...

03/30/2018

We had an awesome time this morning speaking with Wendi Moore-O'Neal about her Community Sing: Revival event coming up next week. We got in there talking about what community singing can do, what is going on in the greater community of New Orleans, and what gives Wendi Moore-O'Neal hope! Tune in, it's awesome.
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WTUL News and Views speaks with Wendi Moore O'Neal of Jaliyah Consulting, her bi-monthly community sing project, why she does it, what gives her hope, and an outline of some of the most incredible...

03/29/2018

Fossil Free Fest is coming up!
WTUL News & Views sat down with organizers and artists Imani Jacqueline Brown, Jayeesha Dutta, Monique Verdin, and Katie Mathews to talk about the series of films, art, food, music, and roundtable discussions that will provide an intentional public forum to explore the ethics and complexities of funding art and education with fossil fuel money.

April 2nd- April 8th, free and open to the public, register at fossilfreefest.org/schedule/

:: LISTEN HERE ::“This is the transition, and we need to ask ourselves if we are going to move with it or if we are going to stay behind in a past that is really oppressing and repressing all of us.”...

03/23/2018

We were in the studio this morning with Nata Lita talking about the upcoming performance of her visual album 6, going on this weekend! Check it out: http://wtulnews.tumblr.com/post/172172400811/kezia-of-speaks-to-natalita-riley-teahan-about

Kezia of speaks to Natalita & Riley Teahan about their project 6 : an unbirth, a multidimensional show going on this weekend, info below. We talk about healing, collaboration, and what it means to...

03/14/2018

A Different Kind of Wall - Across the Gulf of Mexico
by WTUL News and Views

Scott Eustis, Gulf Restoration Network stopped in to WTUL News and Views to give an update on environmental concerns and issues of injustice in Louisiana and our neighbors to the West. The effects of Hurricane Harvey continue to plague residents in the flood plains. 22:14
Listen now: https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2018/03/13/18807370.php

There's much discussion about building a wall across Mexico but, have you heard about the "Coastal Spine" - aka the "Ike D**e"? Houston decision makers propose to control the power of water by building a wall across the Gulf of Mexico.

How about oil pipelines in Louisiana's Atchafalaya Basin? The last of the the nation's largest river swamps is on the radar of oil profiteers.

Other topics discussed include the need for floodplain ordinances and more.

03/02/2018

Had a lot of fun this morning talking with True Love Movement about their upcoming event tomorrow, Womanifest:9! Check it out and share :)

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Kezia Vida of WTUL News and Views spoke with Brotha Shack and Mama Fiyah about the True Love Movement and their upcoming festival, Womanifest 9, coming up on March 3rd in New Orleans. Speaking about...

03/01/2018

This is the first part of four videos from the statewide seminar titled: "Implementing Assisted Outpatient Treatment in Louisiana" that was held on Friday, February 23, 2018 at the Bishop Robert E. Tracy Center Ballroom in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. Watch the video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lXWXAG3Uypc [1:02:57]

"AOT is a practice of delivering outpatient treatment under court order to adults with severe mental illness who meet specific criteria, such as a prior history of repeated hospitalizations or arrest. By mid-2016, 46 states and the District of Columbia had AOT laws on the books.

But, within those states, AOT is still not the routine and universally available practice it ought to be." http://www.treatmentadvocacycenter.org/fixing-the-system/implementing-treatment-laws

Part 1 includes introductory remarks by Janet Hays, President, Healing Minds NOLA and Dr. Jan Kasofsky PhD, Executive Director of Capital Area Human Services as well as a word from Lisa Gardner of CommCare - a platinum sponsor. Topic: "Identifying Concerns"

Treatment Advocacy Center Policy Director, Brian Stettin, then spoke on AOT: What is it and why do we need it?

This is the first part of four videos from the statewide seminar titled: "Implementing Assisted Outpatient Treatment in Louisiana" that was held on Friday, F...

02/23/2018

check out our interview with Donna Costello and Maritza Mercado-Narcisse about the upcoming Definitive Figures Festival!

http://wtulnews.tumblr.com/post/171208005806/kezia-vida-speaks-with-donna-costello-and-maritza #171208005806

Kezia Vida speaks with Donna Costello and Maritza Mercado-Narcisse about the upcoming Definitive Figures Festival in New Orleans which focuses on individual and partner performances based on the...