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WTUL News & Views Interviews John O'Neal, SNCC Organizer, Theater Innovator WTUL News & Views; Matt Olson 2011-01-19 8:56 PM
On this MLK Day 2011, WTUL interviews John O'Neal, a veteran of the Civil Rights Movement in the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee and then a co-founder of the Free Southern Theater in 1964. [34min:20sec; 19.8MB] (audio/mpeg)

WTUL News & Views Interviews OPP Reform Coalition Members WTUL News & Views; Matt Olson 2011-01-19 7:43 PM
Two members of the Orleans Parish Prison Reform Coalition (OPPRC)--Rosana Cruz of Voice of the Ex-Offender and Kaii Barrow of Critical Resistance-- came on WTUL News & Views to talk about keeping the proposed new jail facility to a number of beds that makes sense for our population. [23min:38sec; 10.8MB] (audio/mpeg)

Malcolm Suber on 200th Anniversary of the 1811 La. Slave Revolt WTUL News and Views; Matt Olson 2011-01-12 11:39 PM
Malcolm Suber, New Orleans community activist and revolutionary organizer, came into the WTUL News & Views show on January 5, 2011 to talk about the 1811 Slave Revolt organized between New Orleans and plantations up river. [38min: 40sec; 17.7mb] (audio/mpeg + 4 comments)

WTUL News and Views Interviews Derek of 30 days for Laboratory Animals Matt Olsen for WTUL News and Views 2011-01-10 7:07 PM
WTUL News and Views Interviews Derek of 30 days for animals [28:30min; 13.1MB] http://30daysforanimals.wordpress.com/ (audio/mpeg)

Three Strikes and We're In: Lecture on New Orleans Teacher Unions and Strikes Lecturer James Conrad 2010-12-17 8:33 AM
Last Thursday December 9, Matt Olson of WTUL News and Views recorded a lecture by James Conrad, a masters candidate in the History Department at the University of New Orleans. His lecture, held at the Louisiana State Museum on Jackson Square, is titled “Three Strikes and We’re In: Labor Union Integration and the New Orleans Public School Strike of 1978.” After Conrad’s presentation, he took questions from the audience, which included two veterans of the 1978 strike, Jim DiRose and Karen Walk. 45min:55sec, 21MB (audio/mpeg)

WTUL News & Views Interviews the Independent Police Monitor WTUL News and Views; Matt Olson 2010-12-13 7:12 PM
Susan Hutson, New Orleans' Indepedent Police Monitor, and Ursula Price, the Executive Director of Community Relations in the IPM office, talk to Matt Olson of WTUL News & Views about their role in changing the culture of the New Orleans Police Department and how the community in essential in making that goal a success. 20min:20sec, 9.3MB (audio/mpeg)

WTUL News & Views Interviews Members of Save UNO WTUL News & Views; Matt Olson 2010-12-13 7:06 PM
Members of Save UNO, Graduate Student Renee Corrigan and Senior Max Gaudin, talk about organizing students against the budget cuts at the University of New Orleans. They talk about building connections to other universities across Louisiana and the November 10, 2010 Rally at the State Capitol in Baton Rouge. 14min:57sec, 13.6MB (audio/mpeg)

WTUL News and Views Interviews James Perry of Greater N.O. Fair Housing Action Center WTUL News and Views; Matt Olson 2010-12-08 4:10 PM
WTUL News and Views Interviews James Perry of Greater New Orleans Fair Housing Action Center. On the table are a lawsuit against Road Home assessments, demolition of lower mid-city, supportive housing on esplanade avenue and the first children's book published by GNOFHAC called "Fair Housing FIve." (audio/mpeg)

WTUL News & Views with Pam Broom of Women & Agriculture Network WTUL News & Views; Matt Olson 2010-12-06 1:14 AM
The Women and Agriculture Network is part of a group of New Orleans organizations who are strategically thinking about food justice in urban areas. WTUL News & Views talks with Pam Broom, Executive Director, about turning green lots into gardens through community engagement, putting local food into farmers markets and involving people in this process from communities of ours that are often overlooked. mp3, 20min:56sec (audio/mpeg)

WTUL News & Views with Filmmakers Luisa Dantes & Evan Casper-Futterman WTUL News & Views; Matt Olson 2010-11-17 7:47 AM
WTUL News & Views host Matt Olson spoke with Luisa Dantes, documentary filmmaker, and Evan Casper-Futterman, co-producer, about their film "Land of Opportunity." The film reveals the story of rebuilding in post-Katrina New Orleans from a range of perspectives--public housing resident, urban planner, low-wage workers, student, community activist and others. mp3 - 24min:30 sec; 22.4 MB (audio/mpeg + 1 comment)

WTUL News and Views Interviews Mike Murphy and Daniel "Wink" Winkert on Energy wtulnews; Naomi Martin 2010-10-27 4:29 PM
WTUL News and Views Interviews Mike Murphy and Daniel "Wink" Winkert on Energy Efficient home construction for the city of New Orleans. On the table are lessons from the Holy Cross Project and barriers to consumer adoption of energy efficient practices and technologies. (audio/mpeg)

wednesday news updates scott eustis 2010-10-20 5:26 PM
Updates of news; test for format (audio/mpeg)

the Rent is Too Damn High Party omnibus wtulnews 2010-10-20 5:12 PM
all clips of the Rent is Too Damn High Party. LoFi. (audio/mpeg)

WTUL News and Views Interviews Anna Hrybyk of the LA Bucket Brigade scott eustis / casey roberts 2010-10-20 4:31 PM
WTUL News and Views Interviews Anna Hrybyk of the LA Bucket Brigade on the upcoming Rally at Hale Boggs, 6 months of oil disaster and what the next 6 months hold in store. (audio/mpeg)

WTUL News & Views Interviews Karran Harper Royal on Returning Schools to Local Control WTUL News & Views; Matt Olson 2010-10-13 11:39 PM
Karran Harper Royal, an education advocate with the Pyramid Community Parent Resource Network, talks about returning public schools from the state-run Recovery School District back to the locally-controlled Orleans Parish School Board and the negligible effect charter schools have had on improving academic performance. [5.57MB; 24min:20sec] (audio/mpeg)

WTUL News and Views Interviews performance artist Jose Torres Tama Matt Olsen for WTUL News and Views 2010-10-13 6:47 PM
WTUL News and Views Interviews performance artist Jose Torres Tama about his show "Aliens, Immigrants, and other Evildoers" (audio/mpeg)

WTUL News and Views Interviews Dan Favre of the Gulf Restoration Network Casey Roberts for WTUL News and Views 2010-10-13 6:45 PM
WTUL News and Views Interviews Dan Favre of the Gulf Restoration Network (audio/mpeg)

WTUL News & Views Interviews Shelley Midura, former Councilwoman, on Clean Elections WTUL News & Views; Matt Toups 2010-10-05 2:45 AM
Shelly Midura, former New Orleans Councilwoman from District C (aka Mid-City plus), talks about clean elections and how this country can prevent political corruption, including a campaign reform bill currently in the U.S. House of Representatives. [15.7MB; 17min:09sec] (audio/mpeg)

WTUL News & Views Interviews Abigail Feldman on Growing Home & Blight WTUL News & Views; Matt Olson 2010-10-05 2:32 AM
Abigail Feldman is the Director of Growing Home, a program under New Orleans' Recovery Authority for property owners to turn adjacent blighted Road Home properties into landscaped green lots, potentially gardens or fruit orchards. (audio/mpeg)

WTUL News and Views Interviews Leanne and Frazer from the Hermit Crab Survival Project WTUL News and Views; Scott Eustis 2010-10-01 7:21 PM
On the table are the political hurdles that led to cleaning hermit crabs, the ecological importance of hermit crabs and how they are affected by the oil disaster; future documentary work of the Hermit Crab Survival Project [13.7MB; 14:56min] (audio/mpeg)

Proposed NORD changes criticized by Safe Streets WTUL News & Views 2010-09-22 10:14 PM
(audio: 22:38) WTUL News & Views talked to Yvette Theirry, Director of Community Organizing for Safe Streets Strong Communities, about the proposal to restructure NORD as a public-private pa (audio/mpeg)

No Place for "Raging Pelican" at Tulane New Orleans Indymedia 2010-09-11 2:09 AM
The Raging Pelican, a newsprint anti-authoritarian publication critical of the Gulf Oil Spill, was not allowed on Tulane University's campus last month at a public meeting called by the Federal Government. Listen to the confrontation with and reasoning of Tulane's campus security. 6min:29, 1.48MB, mp3 (audio/mpeg)

WTUL News and Views Interviews the UNO Walkout Scott Eustis 2010-09-01 3:08 PM
in an interview with WTUL News, a student participating in the UNO walkout explains the reason for civil disobedience: unjust service cuts that weigh heavily on financially strapped students while leaving administrators untouched. [3.1MB at 6:49min] (audio/mpeg + 2 comments)

John Clark and Kindra Arnesen Speak WTUL News and Views ; gulf emergency summit 2010-07-28 5:34 PM
On June 19th, 2010, the Gulf Emergency Summit was held at the Unitarian Universalist church on Claiborne Avenue. Among the Speakers were John Clark, anarchist and academic, who offers a historical perspective on the coming collapse of the oil-based economy; and Kindra Arnesen, fisherwoman privy to several federal -level planning meetings on responses to the oil disaster. She discusses those talks, and the need to evacuate the coast. [26:25min, 24.8MB] (audio/mpeg)

WTUL News & Views interviews Wesley Ware of JJPL WTUL News & Views: Matt Olson 2010-07-12 10:24 PM
WTUL News & Views interviews Wesley Ware of the Juvenile Justice Project of Louisiana. (30 minutes, audio) (audio/mpeg)

WTUL News and Views Interviews Malcolm Suber of Communities United for Change by WTUL News: Kyle B. 2010-06-22 8:06 PM
WTUL News and Views Interviews Malcolm Suber of Communities United for Change about recent organizing in support of Federal Investigations into NOPD, as well as the ongoing struggle with NOPD in poor communities of New Orleans. (audio/mpeg + 1 comment)

WTUL News and Views Interviews Anna Hrybyk of LA Bucket Brigade; of GNO Org. Roundtable WTUL News+Views: Eustis + Toups 2010-06-19 7:14 PM
WTUL News and Views Interviews Anna Hrybyk of LA Bucket Brigade; Freedom is Born and Matt Olson of GNO Organizer's Roundtable [36:06 min; 33.8MB] (audio/mpeg)

WTUL News and Views Interviews Dan Jatres of MetroBikeCoalition WTUL News+Views: Casey Roberts 2010-06-19 6:50 PM
WTUL News and Views Interviews Dan Jatres of MetroBikeCoalition. On the table are Recent Policy Victories, MBC's work with RTA, information on helmets, and insider information about bike advocacy on the city council. the interview is followed by a FSRN report on the Krewe of Dead Pelicans Demonstration against the Oil Disaster [39:35 min;37.2 MB] (audio/mpeg)

WTUL News and Views Interviews Jen Roberts of Bayou Land RC+D,Matt Olson of GNO Roundtable WTUL News: Scott Eustis / Matt Toups 2010-06-19 6:22 PM
WTUL News and Views Interviews Jen Roberts of Bayou Land RC+D On the table are techniques for Coastal Restoration, Restored Ecosystems vulnerable to the Oil Disaster, and Economic Development via Green Markets for the Bayou Parishes. Matt Olson reps the GNO Roundtable to wrap it up. [28:29min; 26.7MB] (audio/mpeg)

WTUL News and Views Interviews Colleen Morgan of Bayou Rebirth WTUL News: Kyle B 2010-06-19 6:11 PM
WTUL News and Views Interviews Colleen Morgan of Bayou Rebirth. On the table are Coastal Replanting, Coastal Restoration, and the Politics of the Oil Disaster and Oil Booms made of hair. [26:17min, 24.6MB] (audio/mpeg)

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