![[audio]](/images/mediatype_audio.gif) | History of Civil Rights Movement Transforms Young Lives: the Madison to Selma Connection - John L. Quinlan
For almost a decade, Joanne Bland, historian and veteran of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery Civil Rights, has been traveling to the University of Wisconsin, where she educates young people about the grassroots history behind the civil rights movement. At the same time, dozens of these young people have traveled to Selma to witness this history firsthand, with Ms. Bland and other veterans of the Alabama voting rights struggle as their guide...
Keywords: Selma; History; Young People; Voluntarism; Civil Rights; Selma to Montgomery March; Voting Rights
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![[sound]](/images/mediatype_sound.gif) | Selma to Madison: Why Voting Rights Matter - John L. Quinlan
A special broadcast of the Madison, Wisconsin-based Forward Forum radio show, live from the National Voting Rights Museum and Institute (NRVMI) in Selma, Alabama. First broadcast August 19, 2006. Includes a phone interview with Spencer Overton, author of "Stealing Democracy: The New Politics of Voter Suppression" followed by an interview with Joanne Bland, executive director of the NVRMI, and an eyewitness to the Selma to Montgomery Civil Rights March (at the age of 11), which eventually led to ...
Keywords: Selma; Alabama; Selma to Montgomery March; Madison; Voting Rights; Bloody Sunday
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| Samaritan's Dilemma: Should Government Help Your Neighbor? - John L. Quinlan
Interview with Deborah Stone, author, who argues that altruism and generosity are values shared by almost all Americans, and that this value should also be reflected in the priorities we set for our government. Deborah Stone is a Research Professor of Government at Dartmouth College and a founding editor of The American Prospect. (See http://www.samaritansdilemma.com/ ) First aired on August 10, 2008, on Forward Forum (http://www.forwardforum.net), a Madison, WI-based public affairs show...
Keywords: altruism; samaritan; government; charity; aid; assistance; Deborah Stone
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| History of Civil Rights Movement Transforms Young Lives: the Madison to Selma Connection, Hour Two - John L. Quinlan
For almost a decade, Joanne Bland, historian and veteran of the 1965 Selma to Montgomery Civil Rights, has been traveling to the University of Wisconsin, where she educates young people about the grassroots history behind the civil rights movement. At the same time, dozens of these young people have traveled to Selma to witness this history firsthand, with Ms. Bland and other veterans of the Alabama voting rights struggle as their guide...
Keywords: Selma; History; Young People; Voluntarism; Civil Rights; Selma to Montgomery March; Voting Rights
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| Iran Town Meeting in Madison, WI July 2008 - John L. Quinlan
"Town Hall Meeting on Iran," Madison, Wisconsin July 15, 2008. A town hall meeting, attended by an overflow crowd of more than 250 people, was held in Madison, Wisconsin on July 15, 2008 to address the threat of military action against Iran by the U.S. and/or Israel. The purpose of the gathering and subsequent action is to educate and to mobilize. Five local experts spoke for ten minutes each, then there was an opportunity to ask questions, followed by a focus by the group on action steps to hel...
Keywords: Iran War Town Meeting Peace Activism Madison Wisconsin
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| Selma to Madison Broadcast from National Voting Rights Museum - John L. Quinlan
Recording of a live broadcast of the Madison, WI public affairs program, "Forward Forum," from the National Voting Rights Museum and Institute (NRVMI) in Selma, AL. An effort to share the importance of the fight for voters' rights, both in present day and in the context of the Black Civil Rights Movement. Guests include George Washington University professor Spencer Overton, author of "Stealing Democracy: The New Politics of Voter Suppression" in the first hour...
Keywords: Selma; Selma to Montgomery March; Madison; Spencer Overton; Joanne Bland; National Voting Rights Museum and Institute; Voting Rights; Civil Rights; Alabama
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| Shortbus Author Jonathan Mooney Interview Part Two - John L. Quinlan
Second part of an interview with Jonathan Mooney, author of The Shortbus: A Journal Beyond Normal. (For part one, go to http://www.archive.org/details/ShortbusAuthorJonathanMooneyInterviewPartOne .) See http://www.jonathanmooney.com Interview conducted by John Quinlan on the occasion of the publishing of the paperback version of the book, nine months following the initial interviewer. Co-interviewer this time is Selwyn Swe (http://www.selwyn.org ), the father of an autistic child, and an advocat...
Keywords: Shortbus Jonathan Mooney disability dyslexia resilience cognitive diversity autism
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| Stonewall Anniversary and Wisconsin's Ongoing LGBT Rights Struggle - John L. Quinlan
A special LGBT rights edition of the Madison, WI-based public affairs program, Forward Forum. Hosts John Quinlan and Laura Gutknecht. discuss the 38th anniversary of the historic Stonewall Rebellion, during which LGBT people stood up for their rights in the face of historic police harassment. Guests include author (and former Madison gay community leaders from 1975-85) David Carter, on the phone from his Greenwich Village home just a few blocks from the Stonewall Bar, whose groundbreaking book i...
Keywords: Stonewall LGBT Rights Madison Wisconsin DP domestic partner benefits David Carter Fred Risser
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| "China Ink" Author Judy Polumbaum - John L. Quinlan
Chinese Journalism Today described in an anthology of essays by young Chinese journalists, "China Ink," edited and translated by Judy Polumbaum with Xiong Lei. This book describes an amazingly vibrant emerging tradition of investigative journalism and personal storytelling today that is likely to be divergent from Western expectations of a highly government-controlled and sterile Chinese media culture...
Keywords: China; Journalism; Investigative Reporting; Press Freedom; Environmental Reporting; Broadcasting
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| "Alice in Bushland" author Peggy Wireman - John L. Quinlan
Peggy Wireman is a Madison, Wisconsin-based author and consultant, who has released a new 2006 edition of her book, "Alice in Bushland," which was originally published in 2004. She describes the Alice in Wonderland-like fantasy world that the Bush administration has created in justifying the War in Iraq, the excesses of the Patriot Act, and economic priorities that disproportionately favor the richest of Americans at the expense of the remainder of the population...
Keywords: George W. Bush; Alice in Bushland; Alice in Wonderland spoof; political satire; Peggy Wireman; Bush administration critique; Iraq War; The Patriot Act; Bush economic policy; John Nichols
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| Cry Rape: One Woman's Harrowing Quest for Justice, by Bill Lueders - John L. Quinlan
This interview chronicles the story of, Patty, a legally blind woman who was sexually assaulted in 1997, and then was disbelieved by investigating police officers, who repeatedly lied to her and bullied her while getting her to "confess" that she made the whole thing up. Meanwhile, her assailant remained at-large. It's almost ten years later, and justice is only now being done. And it all took place in Madison, Wisconsin--a bastion of progressive values and open-mindedness where such things are ...
Keywords: rape; sexual assault; stigma; prejudice; Cry Rape; Patty's story; Bill Lueders; Isthmus; investigative reporting; injustice; Madison; Dane County; police; district attorney; criminal justice system; victim's rights
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| George "Sulu" Takei: A Voyage from Shame to Pride - John L. Quinlan
In this 4/25/06 Forward Forum interview, George Takei--aka Hikaru Sulu from the original Star Trek series--discusses the journey he took from guilt and shame to pride and self-acceptance in his Japanese-American and gay identities. During WW II, from ages 5 to 8, Takei and his family were forced to live in internment camps. In October 2005, Takei began publicly discussing his 19 year relationship with partner Brad Altman, as a means of advancing understandings about the need for full legal recog...
Keywords: gay rights; gay marriage; Star Trek; Takei, George; Sulu; coming out; discrimination; racism; homophobia; Japanese-American; internment camps
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| George Takei: Transforming Shame to Pride - John L. Quinlan
"Star Trek" actor George Takei (Sulu) tells of his two life journeys toward self-acceptance of his identities as a Japanese-American and as a gay man. Takei and his family spent his early years in a WW II-era California internment camp, "not because of anything we'd done, but because we looked like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor." As a pre-teen in grammar school, he came into an awareness of his gay identitity...
Keywords: gay; gay rights; gay marriage; actors; Star Trek; coming out; Japanese-Americans; Asian-Americans; Internment camps; science fiction fans
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| George Takei: Transforming Shame to Pride - John L. Quinlan
"Star Trek" actor George Takei (Sulu) tells of his two life journeys toward self-acceptance of his identities as a Japanese-American and as a gay man. Takei and his family spent his early years in a WW II-era California internment camp, "not because of anything we'd done, but because we looked like the people who bombed Pearl Harbor." As a pre-teen in grammar school, he came into an awareness of his gay identitity...
Keywords: gay; gay rights; gay marriage; actors; Star Trek; coming out; Japanese-Americans; Asian-Americans; Internment camps; science fiction fans
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| Nomi Prins: author of "Jacked: How 'Conservatives' Are Picking Your Pocket" - John L. Quinlan
Author, journalist, activist, and Wall Street expert Nomi Prins is interviewed by John Quinlan and Laura Gutknecht on the September 30, 2006 edition of Forward Forum. (Forward Forum is a Saturday morning public affairs program, that airs from 9am to Noon Central Time on the local Air Aemrica affiliate, WXXM, The Mic, 92.1 FM in Madison, Wisconsin, and streams live online at www.themic921.com; email: ForwardForum@aol.com .) The interview is approx...
Keywords: economics; Republican policies; Republican scandals; wallet; personal finance; health care; social security; employment; gas prices; Social Security; Medicaid; Medicare; middle class; lower class; political reform; credit card debt; bankruptcy; health care costs; Jacked: How Conservatives are Picking Your Pocket; Other People's Money; Demos
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| Tom Atwood, photographer/author of "Kings in Their Castles" - John L. Quinlan
A February 2006 interview with photographer/author Tom Atwood, with interviewers John Quinlan and Laura Gutknecht of the Madison, Wisconsin-based public affairs program, Forward Forum, airing Saturday mornings on WXXM, The Mic 92.1 FM, an affiliate of the Air America network. (www.themic921.com) Raphael Kadushin of the University of Wisconsin Press (http://www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/) also joins the discussion...
Keywords: photography; books; photography books; gay; gay America; Kings in Their Castles; Tom Atwood; architecture; celebrities; gay celebrities; Todd Oldham; John Waters; Ross Bleckner; Tommy Tune; Joel Schumacher; Simon Doonan; John Ashbery; As Four; Ned Rorem; Junior Vasquez; Michael Cunningham; Edward Albee; Andrew Solomon; James Dale; David Del Tredici; Edmund White; John Bartlett
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| WI State Senator Mark Miller on Civil Rights and Marriage - John L. Quinlan
Wisconsin State Senator Mark Miller reflects on the parallels between laws that had historically prohibited interracial marriage and current prohibitions against marriage for same sex couples. He draws on his own experiences in the late 1960s, early in his marriage to Jo Oyama-Miller, his Japanese-American wife, when the young couple lived lived in Alabama--a state where it was still technically illegal for them to be married...
Keywords: Mark Miller; Wisconsin; Marriage; Civil Unions; Gay Rights; LGBT Rights; Marriage Equality; Constitutional Amendments; Interracial Marriage; Loving v. Virginia; Selma; Alabama; miscegenation laws; Wisconsin legislature; civil rights; November election
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| Shortbus Author Jonathan Mooney Interview Part One - John L. Quinlan
A young man once labeled severely learning disabled journeys across America to find others who have used humor, imagination, and resiliency to create satisfying lives beyond normal. When his teachers decided Jonathan Mooney needed special ed because he could not follow directions, sit still, or read well, he feared he had lost his chance to be a regular kid. Suddenly he was not normal. Suddenly he was a short-bus rider destined to travel a harder road, a distinction that screamed out his differe...
Keywords: Shortbus Jonathan Mooney disability dyslexia resilience cognitive diversity
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