PEOPLE OVER PIPELINES
A movement is growing across the country as communities are opposing proposed pipelines that offer more risks than benefits.
From North Dakota to Minnesota, tribes are calling for their sovereignty, hunting and gathering rights, and their treaty rights to be upheld. Landowners from Georgia to Virginia to Nebraska are standing up for their property rights and opposing eminent domain for oil pipelines. Faith leaders, concerned community members, environmentalists, climate activists, and more are all standing together.
Here in Wisconsin, Enbridge is moving forward ...
October Events
OCTOBER EVENTS
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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 19
LIFE UNDER CONSTRUCTION: DESIGNING A LIFE YOU LOVE
By Allison Liddle, a Wausau native
6 – 8 p.m.
YWCA Wausau
613 N. Fifth Street
Wausau Wisconsin 54403
715-842-3381
Free and Open to the Public
Free on-site Child Care
To register today: Email info@mcdevco.org
Allison will share her personal transformation journey to grow herself, her business, and empower her life as she talks about her book: Life Under Construction.
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 26
The United ...
Smart Houses, Dumb People
“That man is richest who's pleasures are the cheapest.” Henry David Thoreau
The world of technology is constantly changing. Change can be hard on many folks especially us old duffers. I may be a curmudgeon but I am not a complete Luddite. I know that many of the gadgets that clutter our lives are useful. Some of them even make life better. But sometimes I think many technological “advances” happen only because we can. Because microchips can do lots of stuff we feel a need to do lots of stuff with them. Whether any one wants, needs, uses, (or even has time to ...
First Annual Wausau Grassroots Festival
The first Wausau Grassroots Festival will be held on October 7, 2017 at the Wausau Labor Temple. Click on the image below to download the PDF.
FOXCONN DEAL MUST RESPECT WORKER FREEDOM
(Phil Neuenfeldt is president of the Wisconsin AFL-CIO. You can read more labor news at www.facebook.com/UnionLaborNews.
You find more labor news at www.scfl.org
Kevin Gundlach is president of the South Central Federation of Labor. The SCFL is an umbrella organization, consisting of 100 private and public sector unions representing thousands of workers in south central and south west Wisconsin.)
As Wisconsin shells out $3 billion to subsidize the private corporation of Foxconn, legislators will hand over an incentive package that is both the largest in state ...
WHO ELECTED THIS WHITE MAN?
Who elected this white man to the office of the POTUS?
In her much discussed book The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker, political scientist Katherine Cramer locates voters' discontent in the disconnect between rural and urban worlds.
She says very little about racial resentment, focusing instead on rural citizens' perceived lack of power and resources (those goodies flow to the larger cities of Madison and Milwaukee) and their perceived lack of respect from the elites in power.
No doubt her research has some ...
When The Chickens Come Home
Wisconsin Public Radio recently reported that the Walker administration is not enforcing fire safety codes. The laws requiring fire suppression sprinklers in apartment buildings are in conflict with another anti-regulation law passed by the Walker wrecking crew.
As I have written in the past, there are consequences to the destructive, mean spirited, short sighted, ideologically driven agendas of the radical Republicans now in charge of Wisconsin and the nation. The consequences of their senseless actions frequently hurt people. Refusing to enforce basic fire safety for ...
SOCIAL JUSTICE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS ON IMMIGRATION IN CENTRAL WISCONSIN
Join us on Thursday, October 5th, for our Women for Women Meeting
Time: 6:00 to 7:30 pm
Location: Marathon Co Democratic Office, 833 S 3rd Ave., Wausau
Topic: Social Justice and Its Implications on Immigration in Central Wisconsin
Presenter: Sister Peggy Jackson
Across from the street from the Merrill Post Office is a sign that reads “I was an immigrant and you welcomed me.” This billboard was erected by the Holy Cross Sisters of Merrill. The sisters have always promoted social justice issues and have been a friend to refugees and immigrants in central ...
GET MONEY OUT OF POLITICS
In the last five months, seven Door County communities have shown their support for an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that would get money out of politics and give citizens their voices back in our elections.
The city of Sturgeon Bay, the towns of Baileys Harbor, Egg Harbor, Forestville and Liberty Grove along with the villages of Egg Harbor and Ephraim, all have unanimously approved resolutions backing an amendment to the U.S. Constitution that proclaims that corporations are not persons and money is not speech.
They are part of a tremendous grassroots movement ...
Bottom Up Economic Development
My wife tells me I should be more positive with my articles. I should write more about good things that are happening. Being a cranky curmudgeon this is not easy to do. Plus the current political situation provides a continuous stream of great negative topics.
The Foxconn giveaway in Wisconsin is an example. But economic development doesn't require huge tax expenditures to create jobs. There are other ways to create jobs and build economic security. There are many positive stories about local people across the country finding local solutions. These stories show alterna...
