Community
Wausau Pro Choice March
Join us Sunday, July 10 at 3 PM on Wausau’s 400 Block for a Pro Choice March
We won’t go back! Bans off our Bodies! This is a march for OUR RIGHTS!
We will be collecting personal hygiene items the day of the March!
- Tampons (unopened)
- Pads (unopened)
-Pregnancy Tests (unopened)
- Contraceptives (unopened condoms, dental dams, etc.)
- Unopened Prepaid phones and cards
- Gas cards
- Monetary donations (Please try and refrain from written checks, we will however take them if it’s your only option)
All donations will be collected at ...
Standing With Healthcare Professionals
After three calendar years on the frontlines of the pandemic and over 8 months of bargaining in good faith with Aspirus Health, healthcare workers are joining together with their neighbors to demand a fair contract from Aspirus, who received millions in federal relief money while the frontlines remain in a staffing crisis. Together, we can win better wages and working conditions and create a better environment for our patients!
A fair contract can keep nurses at the bedside where patients need them, but unfortunately, Aspirus refuses to listen. On Monday, June 27 we ...
Happy Freedom Day
Recap from the Juneteenth celebration in Wausau!
Thank you, Mayor Katie, for announcing the proclamation declaring Juneteenth in Wausau
Thank you to William for his inspiring remarks about the grandmother of Juneteenth, Opal Lee.
As always, we appreciate the wisdom and knowledge from Darryl and his reminder that we are all Americans.
I am so incredibly proud of Cara, and Faith and their entire family for sharing the story of Carma and keeping her memory alive.
We passed our hundreds of Black history books for kiddos! Thank you to everyone who donated ...
Wausau is the Kohlrabi Capital of North America
ANNOUNCING: KOHLRABI DAY!
The Wisconsin Farmers Union was at the Wausau Farmers Market on June 18 for Kohlrabi Day! There was a Kohlrabi Cornhole game and recipes galore! Mid-morning there was a special Proclamation by Wausau Mayor Katie Rosenberg proclaiming Wausau as the Kohlrabi capital of North America. June 18 is officially Kohlrabi Day in Wausau.
A Photo Memorial to Our Dear Friend Wayne Olson
October 31, 1938-May 31, 2022
Rest in Power Dear Friend
Retirement Issues and WI Candidates: U.S. Senate and WI Treasurer
For Immediate Release:
June 13, 2022
POWRS Steering Committee, Philip Anderson, powerswi@gmail.com
Retirement Issues and WI Candidates: U.S. Senate and WI Treasurer
To better inform Wisconsin voters, Protect Our Wisconsin Retirement Security (POWRS) surveyed the U.S. Senate candidates on retirement, Social Security and Medicare issues. We sent the survey to all the declared Democratic candidates and to the Republican incumbent.
We only received replies from four Democratic candidates: Mandela Barnes, Sarah Godlewski, Alex Lasry, and Tom Nelson.
POWRS ...
Comparing the U.S. Senate Candidates on Retirement Issues
Wisconsin – and the nation – is facing a retirement security crisis. Many people will have inadequate income for a secure retirement. Many will only have Social Security to live on. Many will not be able to “retire” at all. Over 400,000 seniors in Wisconsin will be living in poverty by 2030. As a result, Wisconsin will need to spend an additional $3.5 billion on public assistance programs.
These problems are not self-correcting and won't be fixed by free market “solutions.” Government must act to address the retirement crisis. This includes consolidating and ...
Poor People’s Campaign rallies to Washington D.C.
We will have a full story in our next edition of Middle Wisconsin.
In 1968, Martin Luther King Jr. organized low-income Americans of different backgrounds in a march on Washington known as the "Poor People's Campaign."
Over fifty-years later, thousands of protesters gathered Saturday to deliver that same message at the Poor People's and Low-Wage Workers' Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls.
The rally urged low-income voters to participate in the upcoming midterm elections and featured religious organizations, pro-democracy groups, labor ...
Building Unity
Building Unity Democracy Tour Stop in Wausau, WI
Wednesday, July 13, 2022 - 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Universalist Unitarian Fellowship of Wausau - 504 Grant St.
Event Description: (outdoor event) This Democracy Tour Stop Event will include a community potluck outside of the UU Fellowship of Door Co. This will be an opportunity to share ideas about ways that we can both help to turn out the vote and also to build a movement for peace, justice, sustainability, and democracy.
About Building Unity and the Democracy Tour:
Humanity is facing challenging ...
Victories for Justice
We have two victories in the struggle for justice and social progress to celebrate. I am referring to the confirmation of Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court and the enactment of the Emmett Till Anti-Lynching Act.
Martin Luther King claimed the “arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.” But too often it has been hard to find much evidence for his optimism. Reading the news is more likely to bend one toward drink, cynicism and misanthropy than hope for the future. As a society, we have a long way to go to achieve liberty and ...