4th Street Forum
FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, THURSDAYS, NOON
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Sundays, Channel 10.1 at 9am or Stream Past Episodes Now on MPTV.org.
WISCONSIN: TOO MANY PRISONERS? Wisconsin has 23,000 people in prison. Minnesota has 9,000. Are we safer for it? We are surely poorer. Now, there is a movement to cut our prison population in half. Would that be better for families and communities? Or is the idea an open invitation to crime?
Forum Date: April 5,Thursday, NOON MPTV Channel 36.1 Friday, April 6, 9PM & MPTV Channel 10.1 Sunday, April 8, 9AM
With Host ENRIQUE FIGUEROA, PhD
Director
Roberto Hernández Center
UW-Milwaukee www.uwm.edu
With Guests MANDELA BARNES
Director and Lead Organizer
11 x 15 Campaign for Justice
Milwaukee Inner-City Congregations Allied for Hope (MICAH)
JOHN CHISHOLM, JD
Milwaukee County District Attorney
JEANNE GERACI
Executive Director
Benedict Center
JEFFREY KREMERS, JD
Chief Circuit Court Judge
Milwaukee County
CLASS AND DESTINY:
ARE YOU YOUR INCOME? Inequality grows in America and more people slide downward.
Is the problem a lack of good jobs and the world economy?
Or simply a failure of people to do for themselves?
Forum Date: April 12,Thursday, NOON MPTV Channel 36.1 Friday, April 13, 9PM & MPTV Channel 10.1 Sunday, April 15, 9AM
With Guests JIM CARPENTER
Economics Instructor
Milwaukee Area Technical College
ABDUR CHOWDHURY, PhD
Professor and Chair, Department of Economics
Marquette University
Appointed Member
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago’s Academic Advisory Council
GLENN GROTHMAN
State Senator
District 20
Republican
Wisconsin State Legislature
SARAH HALPERN-MEEKIN, PhD
Assistant Professor of Sociology
Research Focus: Class and Inequality
DYING WISELY AND WELL As Americans near death, we tend to go for aggressive medical care.
It may slow the inevitable but in costly and sometimes undignified ways.
Yet we want miracles. And we’re terrified of rationing.
Are there compassionate alternatives?
Can we embrace policies that help us die wisely and well?
Forum Date: April 19,Thursday, NOON MPTV Channel 36.1 Friday, April 20, 9PM & MPTV Channel 10.1 Sunday, April 22, 9AM
With Host DENISE CALLAWAY
Business and Community Partnerships Coordinator
Milwaukee Public Schools www.milwaukee.k12.wi.us
With Guests JUNG KWAK, PhD
Assistant Professor of Social Work
Helen Bader School of Social Welfare
UW-Milwaukee
MICHAEL MALONE, MD
Medical Director, Aurora Senior Services
Aurora Sinai Medical Center
Professor of Internal Medicine
University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health
SUSAN McCARTHY, MA
Director of Clinical Ethics
Ministry Health Care
GLENN RAGALIE, MD
Medical Director of Hospice and Palliative Care
Aurora Health Care
No Forums April 26, May 3, May 10
May 2012 Schedule
ENEMIES EVERYWHERE: POLITICS AS WARFARE Politics in Wisconsin seem to have degraded into a toxic mix of money, ideology and ego. Now two senators, a Republican and a Democrat, have set out to find common ground.
Can they overcome Madison’s battlefield mentality?
Forum Date: No forum - rebroadcast MPTV Channel 36.1 Friday, May 11, 9PM & MPTV Channel 10.1 Sunday, May 13, 9AM
MPTV Show Number 1010: Click or copy and paste - http://www.mptv.org/video/watch/?id=1003
With Host Raul Vasquez
4th Street Forum Host
With Guests TIMOTHY CULLEN
Wisconsin State Senator
15th District
Democrat
JOSEPH RODRIGUEZ, PhD
Associate Professor of U.S. History
UW-Milwaukee
DALE SCHULTZ
Wisconsin State Senator
17th District
Republican
ANDREA SCHNEIDER, JD
Professor of Law
Marquette University Law School
Co-author BEYOND MACHIAVELLI: TOOLS FOR COPING WITH CONFLICT
GREENING OUR FOOD DESERTS Poor people and poor nutrition are entwined.
Too often, the poor live in food deserts, where healthy food has disappeared.
Can food oases be created? And will residents partake of healthy, fresh food?
Forum Date: May 17, Thusday, NOON MPTV Channel 36.1 Friday, May 18, 9PM & MPTV Channel 10.1 Sunday, May 20, 9AM
With Host DENISE CALLAWAY
Business and Community Partnerships Coordinator
Milwaukee Public Schools www.milwaukee.k12.wi.us
With Guests BEN GRAMLING
Sustainable Development Program Manager
Sixteenth Street Clinic
YOUNG KIM
Executive Director
Fondy Food Center
VENICE WILLIAMS
Program Director, Alice’s Garden
Center for Resilient Cities
Executive Director
SeedFolks Youth Ministry
STACI YOUNG, PhD
Assistant Professor
Department of Family and Community Medicine
Institute for Health and Society
Medical College of Wisconsin
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