Election Coverage 2024

It's political convention season. What are the thoughts from residents outside the arena of big speeches and big lights? Pacifica Network reports from Wisconsin, Minnesota, and New Hampshire.

The Republican National Convention concluded in July in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Pacifica Networks team included Bob Henelly from WBAI in New York, joined with River West Radio WXRW and Madison's WORT for We Decide: America at the Crossroads streaming a total of eight hours of live coverage and commentary at the four day conservative political convention.

Bob Hennelly and Chali Pittman of WORT in Madison, Wisconsin talking to residents who were affected by the Republican National Convention, including those who held a vigil for Samuel Sharp Jr who was killed on July 16th by out of town police officers.

Briana Oakley reports on electoral politics and its impact on the Americans with Disabilities Act, with WOJB located on the Lac Core Doray Ojibwe Reservation in Troy, New York. She attended the Celebration of the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 in Superior, Wisconsin.

And the last word goes to Brian Beal, host and producer of the American Democracy Minute Radio Report out of WNHN Concord, New Hampshire.

Photo by Joshua Wankowski