GIVE US THE CURE
Our mission statement, at the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign, is quite simple. It goes like this: “We are dedicated to clean and open government and a full democracy, where everyone has an equal voice.”
Today, everyone doesn’t have an equal voice when the campaigns are the playgrounds of the corporations, the superPACs and the super-rich.
Today, everyone doesn’t have an equal voice when their voting districts are rigged by gerrymandering or when they’re smothered by voter suppression.
Today, everyone doesn’t have equal voice ...
COME TO THE CHAUTAUQUA
Wisconsin United to Amend is hosting the first 21st Century Political Reform Chautauqua – and you are invited. The event begins Saturday, September 7 at 8:30 a.m. and ends on Sunday, September 8 at 2 p.m.
It will be held at the Dunn County Historical Society,
1820 Wakanda Street Northeast
Menomonie, Wisconsin 54751
This is a statewide event for folks who understand that our Republic is Lost to the big money that controls our elections and a majority of our politicians. We the People have to Restore our Republic from this corrupt, big-money political ...
ALLOW ALL IMMIGRANTS ACCESS TO DRIVER LICENSES
Can you imagine living in Wisconsin without a driver’s license? There are Wisconsin residents who happen to be undocumented immigrants. They have families and many of them are employed. Yet they cannot operate a vehicle on Wisconsin roads.
An estimated 32,000 Wisconsin residents are undocumented and therefore cannot get a Wisconsin driver’s license. Of the residents who would get licenses, 14,000 live with children and would be able to better care and provide for them.
22,000 residents who would get driver licenses are employed and would be able to get to work ...
GOOD AND BAD FORMS OF POPULISM
You hear of populist leaders all over the world. Some work for the common good. Some work for private agendas. How can they all be populists?
According to Luke Bretherton’s, book Christ and the Common Life: Political Theology and the Case for Democracy, there are good and bad forms of populism. He uses two terms: democratic populist and the antipolitical populist.
The democratic populist works for the common good while the antipolitical populist rules by his own authority. The antipolitical populist throws out checks and balances in the government and ...
Historical Perspective on Iran
In the last several articles I wrote about our aggressive, militarized foreign policy and how it leads to conflicts and disastrous wars. The current saber rattling with Iran is a classic example. Over the last seven decades our belligerence and interference in the internal affairs of Iran are illustrative of the mistakes we have made all over the world. Knowing this history, it is not hard to understand why we are considered the “great Satan” by Iran.
This is all verifiable history – not ideological or political cherry picking. Since World War II the U.S. ...
Choosing a Better Way
“Alternatives to particular wars are almost never seriously sought and the idea that there might be an alternative to war itself almost never occurs to people”
“...in the 21st century it has become patently clear that making war does not create peace, as the case of the two Gulf Wars, the Afghan War, and the Syrian/ISIS war clearly demonstrate.”
“War is always a choice and it is always a bad choice.”
These quotes are from the World Beyond War (WBW) publication “A Global Security System: An Alternative to War.” This article continues our examina...
KEEP AREA TEENS SAFE
KEEP AREA TEENS SAFE (KATS) is a new agency in Wausau. It is a non-profit agency for runaway and homeless youth. KATS recently bought a house and is renovating it, expecting to provide services for youth ages 12-17. Opening date is 2020.
Women’s Community of Wausau and Warming Center offer services to people age eighteen and above. There has been no place for youth 12-17. KATS was formed to meet that need.
Young people in central Wisconsin are homeless for various reasons. They are at risk of being lost to human trafficking and beyond. These youth need a ...
JULY 2019 QUOTATIONS
“People were created to be loved. Things were made to be used. The world is in great chaos today because people are being used and things are being loved.”-- Damascus Road Project
“In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope. For when we have faced down impossible odds, when we’ve been told that we’re not ready, or that we shouldn’t try, or that we can’t, generations of Americans have responded with a simple creed that sums up the spirit of a people. Yes we can!”--President Obama
“To be hopeful in ...
WHERE’S THE COMPASSION FOR DAIRY FARMERS?
You rarely hear complaints from farmers about their job because they love what they do, but you will hear an earful about the weather, milk prices and the occasional tractor breakdown. June is Dairy Month. There is no better time to recognize the work dairy farmers do and the challenges they face.
Farmers need to be expert mechanics, scientists, business owners and creative geniuses to make a farm thrive. Factors beyond their control make even the smartest or the hardest working farmers face bankruptcy.
Farmers have seen glorious and terrible times throughout our ...
LISTEN TO THE YOUNG PEOPLE
Today, we are out on the streets again, in huge numbers, in 128 countries, at over 1700 events, demanding that governments immediately provide a safe pathway to stay below 1.5 degrees of warming. We spent weeks and months preparing this day. We spent uncountable hours organizing and mobilizing when we could have just hung out with our friends or studied for school.
We, children and students, don’t feel like we have a choice: it’s been years of talking, countless negotiations, empty deals on climate change, fossil fuel companies being given free rides to drill ...