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Local Elections Matter
I am sending you a little last-minute reminder if you have not already voted early or voted by mail, Tuesday, April 5, is your day to get out there and vote. Local elections are so important. Often our local elections are won by a small margin. Local elections can affect us more so than a larger race, such as a presidential election.
Something equally important I want to share with you is trusting in our elections. Anyone who has worked the polls before knows that people of all political persuasions participate as election workers. Each of Wisconsin’s 1,850 municipa...
“Investigating January 6 Insurrectionists” Battleground Wisconsin Podcast Matt Brusky
Our panel discusses Speaker Robin Vos’ meeting with conservative conspiracy theorists who are urging illegal decertification of the 2020 presidential election. Will Trump be returned to power via midterm coup? The Wisconsin Election Commission does not pursue charges against Wisconsin’s fake electors. What does it mean? We review the implications of Gannett closing its West Milwaukee printing plant where it prints the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel and numerous other Wisconsin newspapers. Is there any future for corporate-owned newspapers? Finally, the progress...
GET OUT AND VOTE
Spring elections are just around the corner and generally have a low turnout. It seems so many people vote in a presidential election but not in their local races. Are you aware that local and state governments have a more direct power over our everyday lives than state and federal elections? Take a look at municipal races, the people you elect for these positions are deciding zoning policies, transportation, and roads in your area, as well as parks, policing, and libraries! School board races are another important race. Elected people here are looking at how to recruit, ...
Ukraine: An Opportunity for Peace
“War is always a choice and it is always a bad choice.” World Beyond War in their publication “A Global Security System: An Alternative to War.”
The war in Ukraine is both a wake up call about the folly of war and rare opportunity to move toward a more peaceful world.
War is not the answer whether Russia is invading Ukraine or the United States is invading Afghanistan and Iraq. It is not the answer when any other nation uses military violence to pursue some political, territorial, economic or ethnic cleansing goal. Neither is war the answer when the ...
Fear Mongering and Hate Will Divide Communities
If you are truly for equality, let's disband all the County Board Committees that include non -elected citizens, or keep them all.
If you truly think we don’t need to deliberately nurture relationships between races, faiths, ethnicities, and gender identities because we’re “all good” in Marathon County, then you should be really surprised and angered that a rabid segregationist has come out publicly spewing his fear mongering and hate that brutally divides our community.
If you honestly believe someone should have the right tool for the right job to accompl...
The Cost of Gerrymandering By Phil Anderson
The Cost of Gerrymandering
Phil Anderson
Democracy does not exist in Northwest Wisconsin when it comes to congressional representation. Because of the extreme gerrymandering of the district people essentially have no choice. Republicans are virtually assured of winning any election for the House of Representatives in the 7th Congressional District.
This is not just a problem for Democrats. It is not that Democrats are sore losers who don't have the support of the people in the district. Gerrymandering produces “safe” districts that allow ...
March Forth to Earth Day By Building Unity
For immediate release: March 1, 2022
STATEWIDE MEDIA ADVISORY *
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March Forth to Earth Day - Starts on March 4, 2022 (World Day of Prayer*)
Statewide Organizers:
Tim Cordon - Building Unity - 608-630-3633 - BuildingUnityWi@gmail.com
Grace Quinn - Sunrise Fox Valley - 920-460-5808 - gracequinn3602@gmail.com
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March Forth to Earth Day - In cities and towns all across Wisconsin
Starting March 4th and continuing EACH FRIDAY through Earth Day, April 22, communities across Wisconsin will hold simultaneous climate justice assemblies ...
Folly in Ukraine by Phil Anderson
Folly in Ukraine
Phil Anderson
“Today we face an avoidable crisis between the United States and Russia that was predictable, willfully precipitated, but can easily be resolved by the application of common sense.” Jack F. Matlock, Jr., U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1987-1991
Once again, our government is meddling in another conflict on the other side of the world. Given we just got out of a disaster in Afghanistan, one would think we might be a little cautious about jumping into another no-win situation in Ukraine. But we are actively “precipitat...
Who Is the Aggressor? By Dave Svetlik
WHO IS THE AGGRESSOR?
By Dave Svetlik
Older Americans remember well the Cuban missile crisis in 1962 when the
US and the Soviet Union (USSR) nearly launched a civilization ending war
because the Soviets had placed nuclear missiles in Cuba. But what was
kept from US media at the time was that a year earlier the US had
installed nuclear missiles in Turkey [1], bordering the Soviet Union.
Moscow and other Russian cities were easy targets. Americans also never
heard that in agreeing to remove the missiles from Cuba, the USSR forced
America to remove its missiles ...
Some Facts About the Ukraine “Crisis” by Phil Anderson
Some Facts About the Ukraine “Crisis”
Phil Anderson
There is much Americans need to know about the conflict in Ukraine but are not being told. The public gets the biased propaganda intended to justify the desired Washington establishment agenda. There is certainly no “fair and balanced” information coming from the corporate media.
To begin with the United States has no “vital national interests” in Ukraine. If Ukraine disappeared tomorrow, it would have zero impact on the vast majority of Americans. A couple of facts make this ...