League of Women Voters Washtenaw County
13 episodes - English - Latest episode: about 2 years ago -The League of Women Voters is a non-partisan, voter education organization encouraging informed, active participation in government. We believe that voting is a fundamental citizen right that must be guaranteed. While the League does not support candidates or parties, we do take positions on issues we have studied. Our programs will not necessarily represent these positions but provide forums to increase understanding of public policy issues.
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Protecting our watershed
February 05, 2022 23:16 - 1 hour - 75.1 MBKris Olsson joined the Huron River Watershed Council in 1992. She specializes in GIS analysis, landscape ecology, and local land use planning and ordinance development. Kris works with local governments and land protection organizations on promoting land use planning and policies that protect the watershed. She also trains local residents to become involved in their local government planning efforts. Kris earned two Masters of Science (resource ecology, natural resource policy) degrees at th...
Zero Waste - the future of recycling
January 30, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 79.9 MBA few of the problems with recycling as we’ve been practicing it include: Consumer products are packaged in half a dozen different types of confusingly-labeled “plastic,” most of which is not recyclable at all, or is made unrecyclable by hard-to-remove labels. Directions for consumers wishing to recycle are chaotic, with each community (or school, business, apartment, etc.) forced to devise its own messaging. As a result, a large majority of potentially recyclable material is contaminated ...
Detroit's most polluted zip code
January 22, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 74.8 MBDr. Edwards was born in South Wales, UK, and received his PhD in Atmospheric Chemistry from the University of Leicester, UK. He did postdoctoral research work at the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) in Boulder, CO and Purdue University in Indiana. Now an Associate Professor in the Department of Chemistry, Eastern Michigan University, he is part of a research group that measures both air quality, and the factors that influence it. His group is passionate about analyzing the qua...
Environmental Justice and Federal Policy
January 15, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 66.4 MBLeague of Women Voters of Washtenaw County & Theresa Reid host Kyle Whyte, PhD What can we learn from indigenous leaders as we try to find morally responsible and effective solutions to this man-made crisis? How do we ensure that proposed solutions do not further hurt the black, brown, indigenous, and poor communities that already suffer from severely unequal distribution of pollution and toxic waste? How do we ensure that indigenous voices are heard and respected in the search for equitabl...
solar installations on agricultural land
January 08, 2022 05:00 - 1 hour - 62.3 MBCan agriculture and solar power exist in a mutually beneficial relationship? Yes, but for that to happen communities need to be deliberate in defining what agriculture looks like. Professor Gould introduces a new publication titled Planning & Zoning for Solar Energy Systems: A Guide for Michigan Local Governments (find the full pub here: http://extension.msu.edu/solarzoning) that can help communities develop a zoning ordinance that supports and encourages the type of ag solar projects they w...
National Carbon Pricing
January 04, 2022 18:39 - 1 hour - 79.2 MBMary Garton is a nurse and educator, now retired. She is involved in climate action at the local, state, and national level, but focuses on at the national level. Mary has participated in 28 lobby meetings with 15 different members of Congress or their legislative aides, both on Capitol Hill and here in district. She has been active with Citizens Climate Lobby for 4 ½ years, and believes, like they do, that the best way to fight one’s own climate anxiety is to actively work towards a viable ...
She Took Justice
October 29, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 87.6 MBGloria J. Browne-Marshall teaches classes in Constitutional Law; Race and the Law; Evidence; and Gender and Justice. She taught in the Africana Studies Program at Vassar College prior to joining the faculty of John Jay. She is a civil rights attorney who has litigated cases for the Southern Poverty Law Center in Alabama, Community Legal Services in Philadelphia, and the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Inc. Professor Browne-Marshall has spoken on issues of law and justice in Ghana, Rwanda, England,...
Justice Reform in Washtenaw County
October 22, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 81.1 MBThe U.S. incarcerates a higher percentage of its citizens than any other country in the world: with 5% of the world’s population, we have nearly 25% of the world’s prisoners. The U.S. spends tens of billions of tax dollars annually to keep more than 2 million men and women in prison – a vast increase over the last 40 years. Prisoners of the United States are primarily poor and people of color, with policing practices like arbitrary traffic stops, “broken window” patrolling, and cash bail imp...
Criminal Justice Collaborative
October 15, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 75.8 MBWashtenaw County’s Criminal Justice Collaborative Council (CJCC) works to develop collaborative plans, programs, and positions to reduce systemic stumbling blocks to the efficacy and fairness of our criminal legal system. The members of the CJCC include 20 elected and appointed leaders in criminal justice as well as four appointed members from the community. The main focus of the CJCC has been to develop interdisciplinary strategies to alleviate jail overcrowding, and to make recommendations...
Citizens for Racial Equity in Washtenaw
October 08, 2021 04:00 - 1 hour - 72.5 MBThis podcast appeared originally as a video event. To see the graphic displays , please visit https://www.citizensforracialequitywashtenaw.org/crew-s-report To view the animation created by UM Penny Stamps students, please see https://www.citizensforracialequitywashtenaw.org/community-toolkit In August of 2020, Citizens for Racial Equity in Washtenaw County (CREW) published its first formal report on racial disparities in the county's criminal legal system. CREW found glaring disparities ...
Stopping the Prison Pipeline
September 30, 2021 17:32 - 1 hour - 65 MBhttps://www.miyouthjustice.org/ The phrase school-to-prison pipeline describes the way strict discipline, in the form of suspensions and expulsions for simple infractions, falls disproportionately on Black and Brown students and pushes them out of school and into the growing system of mass incarceration. The University of Texas School of Social Work says there are 4 things we need to know about the pipeline: 1) Children of color are more likely to live in poverty than their peers; 2) Chi...
Policing, Justice, and Community with Anthropologist Kevin Karpiak, PhD
September 14, 2021 20:02 - 1 hour - 87.7 MBHuman societies go back thousands of years; policing as an institution for maintaining societal order is only 150 years old. Previous cultures had many ways of controlling behavior for the common good without the police. How did the institution as we know it arise? How might we move toward a system that holds police accountable and leads to more equitable and just application of the law? Dr. Karpiak (he/him/his) is a Professor in the Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Criminology at...
Policing the Police with ICPOC Chair, Lisa Jackson, PhD
August 26, 2021 22:49 - 1 hour - 79.8 MBSpecial guest, Lisa Jackson, PhD on the topic: How do we police the police? Dr. Lisa Jackson, current Chair of the Ann Arbor Police Oversight Commission, noted behavioral neuroscientist and professor of Psychology at Schoolcraft College, speaks on the commission's work. Resources cited in this podcast include: “Police oversight boards are proliferating, but do they work?” https://abcn.ws/3isoD6S Coursera Police oversight “Teach-Out” with Dr. Lisa Jackson: https://bit.ly/3eEWuZb Ann Arbor...