A Public Affair
Monday through Friday 12:00 Noon

A Public Affair aims to engage listeners in a conversation on issues of international, national, & local importance with some novelty shows thrown in. The guests range from local activists and scholars to notable national & international figures. The hosts alternate throughout the week as do the focuses and topics. It is a call-in show (608-256-2001) that airs Monday through Friday from 12:05 to 12:55 pm. It is encompassed by BBC News and the Insurgent Radio Kiosk.

 

Hosts:

Norman Stockwell serves as WORT's Operations Coordinator. He has been working at the station in music and news programming since 1983. In addition to working as a journalist in the U.S., Cuba, Nicaragua & Mexico, Norm has been involved in the collective management of two Madison institutions - Lakeside Press and Mifflin Street Co-op. He is also former Director of the Old Town School of Folk Music-Madison, and served in the 1970's as Facilities Manager for the Northwestern University Archeological Program.

Norm has been hosting programs of "A Public Affair" since 1989, covering such issues as the murder of the Jesuits in El Salvador, the Gulf War and its aftermath, the pro-democracy movement in Nepal, and the Zapatista uprising in Chiapas, Mexico. His guests have included Noam Chomsky, Holly Near, Johnny Clegg, Sara Diamond, Paco Ignacio Taibo, Le Ly Hayslip, Alexander Cockburn, Fran Peavey, and many more.

He has covered the WTO meetings in Seattle & Cancun, the FTAA meetings in Miami, the Democratic Conventions in 1996 & 2000, and the Republican Convention in 2004, and the Spring 2004 elections in El Salvador, and the World Social Forum in Porto Alegre in 2002, 2003 & 2005, and the Polycentric Forum in Caracas, Venezuela this past January. He also coordinated the IraqJournal website in 2002-2003. He is active in the National Federation of Community Broadcasters, the GrassRoots Radio Coalition, IndyMedia, and AMARC: the World Association of Community Broadcasters.

Willy Becker hosts "A Public Affair" on alternating Tuesdays. A general range of current political topics are covered from a radical perspective.

 

Esty Dinur hosts the Wednesday segment of "A Public Affair." After years of agitating from the outside for democracy and diversity in WORT, Esty is delighted to take part in what has finally become a truly alternative, diverse, open and democratic community radio station. On her show you are most likely to hear discussions of international issues, women’s and children’s issues, media and propaganda, covert actions and government secrecy, and the environment. Expect the spin to be political and alternative, the guest to be the sort of expert mainstream media shun, and the views presented to be those of marginalized people. Listeners’ calls are always welcome.

Esty's recent shows are archived here.

Lea Zeldin Trainer for Patient's Rights. Editor of Health Writers since 1979; WORT-FM Food and Popular Culture Critic since 1989; Community Organizer in Civil Rights and anti-War movements; and co-chair of the Madison Branch of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom, and editor of the Branch newsletter for the last six years.

Phone: 608-238-5740 e-mail: lz14@juno.com

 

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