Social Justice
Moving Forward: a Conversation with Dr. Luvelle Brown and Mayor Svante Myrick
Community members, students, and faculty gathered in Emerson Suites at Ithaca College On Tuesday, September 5th for an event called Moving Forward: a conversation with Dr. Luvelle Brown and Mayor Svante Myrick. The hour long event focused on the effects of last month’s tragedy in Charlottesville, Virginia, and how hate can be prevented in the…
Read MoreTompkins County Workers Center Annual Labor Day Picnic
The Tompkins County Workers Center has been celebrating Labor Day with their Annual Labor Day Picnic for more than 30 years. This year’s event happened under sunny skies at Cass Park, and brought out community members from different labor sectors and activist organizations and parts of the county to celebrate a year of labor rights…
Read MoreShowcasing Labor Union Industry and the Fashion Industry in the 1900s
WRFI’s Lori Sonken speaks with Denise Nicole Green, curator of a new exhibit at Cornell, Union-Made: Fashioning America in the 20th Century, about labor union strikes, clothing manufacturing practices, and the designer fashion industry the past century. Photo: Kheel Center, Cornell University, Flickr [mixcloud https://www.mixcloud.com/wrficommunityradionews/showcasing-labor-union-industry-and-the-fashion-industry-in-the-1900s/ width=100% height=120 hide_cover=1 light=1]
Read MoreReport about Dairy Farm workers’ rights event -Celia Clarke [AUDIO]
Farm workers’ rights and safety are receiving new attention. A recent study and lawsuit were the topic of a forum in downtown Ithaca earlier this week. Celia Clarke spoke with some of the participants. [mixcloud https://www.mixcloud.com/wrficommunityradionews/report-about-dairy-farmworkers-rights-event-august-2-2017/ width=100% height=120 hide_cover=1 light=1]
Read MoreGimme! Coffee Employees in Favor of Unionizing [AUDIO]
06/05/17: Employees at Gimme! Coffee voted in a National Labor Relations Board election to be in favor of organizing a union to negotiate contracts in their workplaces. This exclusive interview featured two Gimme! Coffee employees and a representative from the Tompkins County Workers’ Center. Feature produced by Elena Piëch. [mixcloud https://www.mixcloud.com/wrficommunityradionews/6517-gimme-coffee-interview-elena-pi%C3%ABch/ width=100% height=60 hide_cover=1 mini=1 light=1]
Read MoreIthaca College Harm Reduction Panel [AUDIO]
05/17/17: Ithaca College seniors organized a panel about the Ithaca Plan to reduce heroin use. They focused on how the plan’s harm reduction approach could save lives, including one of its recommendations to open a supervised injection site. Key leaders in Ithaca talked at the panel, such as Former Tompkins County DA and Interim Drug…
Read MoreHerebeorht Howland-Bolton & Aron Thiim Discuss Ithaca Plan to Curb Heroin Use [AUDIO]
04/19/17: WRFI’s Laura Rosbrow-Telem spoke with Herebeorht Howland-Bolton, a recovering heroin addict, and Aron Thiim, a Harm Reduction Technician at the Southern Tier Aids Program, about an Ithaca College panel on the state of the Ithaca Plan to curb heroin use. In the interview, she asked them about why they supported harm reduction. Herebeorht also…
Read MoreGeorgia Lesh and Robert Ross on the Paris Climate Agreement [AUDIO]
06/09/27: Elena Piëch interviewed Georgia Lesh and Robert Ross from the Paleontological Research Institution and its Museum of the Earth. They spoke about the United States’ withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement and what citizens can do to address climate change. [mixcloud https://www.mixcloud.com/wrficommunityradionews/060917-paleontological-research-institution-elena-pi%C3%ABch/ width=100% height=60 hide_cover=1 mini=1 light=1]
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