LOVE WATER, NOT OIL

This year the 5th annual Love Water Not Oil tour includes stops and events along the Enbridge pipeline route in Wisconsin. There will be three featured musical performers and maybe as many as 40 horseback riders from around the country. The schedule outline is below and more detailed information can be found at http://www.honorearth.org/lwno2017 July 9th - Kick-off event in Madison, WI @Majestic Theater featuring Nahko, Annie Humphrey, Gingger Shankar Purchase Tickets online and RSVP Doors open @6PM - Show starts @7PM $25 Advanced | $30 at the door July 10th ...

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CELEBRATING WISCONSIN’S DAIRYLAND

“Do you still milk?” I asked Jim at a recent gathering. “No,” he told me. “My son tells me the most help I can be is to stay out of the way,” he joked. We both agreed that was hard. Dairying gets in your blood. June is dairy month. A time to celebrate all we love about ‘America’s Dairyland’ – home to 1.28 million dairy cows, which is more than one cow for every five Wisconsinites. Reminiscing with an old dairy farmer, you realize the love of cows and farming never really goes away. The smell of newly mowed hay or the glistening dew on the field ...

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Wausau Fair Maps Town Hall

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On June 21st, the Citizen Action of WI North Central Organizing Co-op hosted Sachin Chheda with the WI Fair Elections Project. He brought Wendy Sue Johnson, a plaintiff in Whitford vs. Gill. They were joined by Hans Breitrnmoser, a Lincoln County Board Supervisor and North Central Organizing Co-op member who recently worked to pass a County resolution asking for non-partisan redistricting. Since that time, 18 other counties have passed similar resolution (Wood County started with the first resolution in 2014...all others came after Lincoln County). Most recently, Katie ...

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ACTION ALERT: June 26, 5pm, Thomas St. Public Information Meeting (Phase II)

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Thomas Street Public Information Meeting, Monday, June 26, 5 to 6pm in City Hall Chambers at 407 Grant Street ______________________ Public Information Packet from City (Plans and Input/Comment Form):  http://www.ci.wausau.wi.us/Portals/0/Departments/Engineering/Documents/Thomas%20St%20-%20PIM%20Handout%20%206-26-17.pdf March 2017 Emails Stating DOT Will Not Expand Bridge - Service Life Possible to 2056:  http://thomasst.org/dot-states-no-thomas-street-bridge-expansion/ ______________________ Stop the unnecessary destruction of a working-class Wausau neighor...

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Constitutional Roulette

The far right efforts to re-write the U.S. Constitution moved closer to happening this week. The Wisconsin Assembly passed several resolutions calling for a national constitutional convention. This highly risky proposal is unnecessary. It is a dangerous gamble with our democracy and current political system. And it is a con job designed to achieve an objective very different than claimed by its supporters. Article V of the U.S. Constitution allows a convention for proposing amendments if two-thirds of the states (34) call for one. Amendments and other changes must be ...

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DRINKING LIBERALLY IS ON JULY 11

DRINKING LIBERALLY IS ON JULY 11. Please note the change of the date for Drinking Liberally. Due to the 4th of July holiday being on our regular meeting time this month, we are going to postpone the July Drinking Liberally get together until the second Tuesday, July 11th. This is a one-time change so that we all can celebrate with family and friends. Join Drinking Liberally instead on Tuesday July 11th from 5:30 to 7 PM at Malarkey's. Hope to see you then and happy 4th! Malarkey’s Pub is 408 Third Street, Wausau. Phone: 715-819—3663 For more ...

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QUOTATIONS

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“May we think of freedom not as the right to do as we please but as the opportunity to do what is right.” By Peter Marshall Reclaiming This Nation Starts With Reclaiming Our Attention "Obsessing over tweets doesn’t count as civic duty. It’s rubbernecking, not awareness building, and it’s making us feel more disconnected than ever before. Reclaiming this nation starts with reclaiming our attention, our daily media practices, our everyday conversations." By Courtney Martin The Spirituality of the Ordinary Is Luminous "Awe is such a quintessentially ...

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WILL WISCONSIN CHILDREN RECEIVE AN EQUAL EDUCATION?

Progress with the state budget is at a standoff in the Capitol. Behind closed doors, leaders are talking details and trying to find votes. Openly, legislative leaders point to a lack of agreement on public education. They say no progress can happen until they round up necessary votes for the education portion of the budget. Privately, some GOP lawmakers are also angling to spend money on a big change to business personal property taxes. However, changes to taxes could take away money promised to schools. Education is the largest part of the general fund budget (the ...

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Wisconsin in the News

The current wrecking crew in Madison offers a potpourri of bad policy, goofiness, and recipes for future problems. The only good news out of Madison is that the Governor and Legislature are no longer always unified. There is division among the faithful. Here is a short list of issues in the news. Clean Water On June 1, Walker signed a bill that weakens regulation of high capacity wells. Senate Bill 76 eliminates DNR review of existing permits for high capacity wells when they are repaired, replaced, or sold in a real estate transaction. High capacity wells pump ...

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WHEN MACHINES REPLACE WORKERS

(Denele Campbell blogs from Arkansas. You can read more at www.denelecampbell.com) On March 11, 1811, hand loom weavers (the Luddites) swarmed the streets of Arnold, Nottingham in the dark of night. They broke into textile factories equipped with the latest technologies, smashed pieces of factory equipment and burned the mills. Over the next five years, the movement spread throughout England. Industrialists invested in safe rooms inside their factories to protect themselves from attack. The movement died in its tracks when the government stepped in with mass trials, ...

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