WISCONSIN AND NICARAGUA ARE PARTNERS
Wisconsin and Nicaragua are partners. For fifty years, programs have provided assistance to people in Nicaragua of all ages. Programs help with natural resources and cultural diversity, with health and education.
For fifty years, the Wisconsin/ Nicaragua partnership has shown that working together brings good results.
Wisconsin and Nicaragua have commonalities:
++Each approximately 57,000 square miles
++Extensive stretches of coastline
++Large inland lake
++Valuable forest areas
++Agricultural production
The headquarters are in Nelson Hall of UWSP ...
THE UNIVERSAL ECONOMY UNIT XVII: MAKING THE WORLD WORK FOR EVERYONE
THE UNIVERSAL ECONOMY
UNIT XVII: MAKING THE WORLD WORK FOR EVERYONE
By Dave Svetlik
Humanity continues to operate under the false assumption that there “isn’t enough to go around,” hence someone must go without and lead a life of poverty and deprivation. It is this false assumption that leads to “you or me,” “every man for himself” reptilian-reflexive thinking that in the end becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy.
When the prevailing socioeconomic framing is that some must go without so that others may be rich, the synergetic opportunities for ...
A CHILD SHALL LEAD THEM
A fifteen-year-old girl from Sweden is showing leadership to the rest of the world.
When school began in the fall, Greta Thunberg did not go. She sat down on the steps of the Swedish parliament in Stockholm every morning. She stayed there the entire day.
Her reason? If her country’s politicians couldn’t be bothered to fix the climate change, there was no good reason for her to study, because the world would not be livable.
Her father is a well-known actor and her mother a famous opera singer. Greta spoke to the Climate Rally in Helsinki, Finland and then to ...
Prominent Toxicologist Interviewed on 1230 WXCO Regarding Riverside Park & Thomas Street (Audio)
http://cleanwausau.com/full-interview-of-stephen-lester-toxicologist-on-wxco-audio/
Quotations
QUOTATIONS
“According to the United Nations, 65.8 million people were displaced at the end of 2017. Will those who have lost everything find, in American Christians, an open hand or a closed fist?”
—Daniel Darling, vice president of communication for the Ethics and Religious Liberty Commission of the Southern Baptist Convention (Washington Post, November 2)
“Rising income inequality has…changed the attitudes and behavior of American voters, sowing resentment, fanning prejudice and eroding the sense of shared values, shared purpose and shared destiny that ...
What About the Caravan?
U.S. troops shot rubber bullets and tear gas at caravan members reaching the U.S. border. Why would people travel for one month to reach our border only to be fired upon?
Let’s look at the beginning. In mid-October about 160 people began their long dangerous journey from San Pedro Sula, Honduras. This is is the center for gangs and drug trafficking. The 160 people decided to travel together for safety, as is often done in their land.
By the time they reached the Guatemala border, more than 1000 people were in the caravan. By the time they reached Mexico, the ...
Leadership to Move Forward
The struggle is not over. The blue wave was successful in many places across the country. But it was not a tsunami. It did not wash away all the obstacles to building a better, more just America.
The good news is we no longer have complete Republican control in Wisconsin and nationally. The downside is that we have a divided government, and legislative gridlock will be the likely result. But this does not mean we can't move forward with a progressive agenda. There is a positive path forward that can build on the success of this election. We can continue the process of ...
Mini-Documentary: Letter from Prominent Toxicologist to Wausau Environmentalist Group (Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RoZ4AEc77QY
Implicit Bias
Implicit Bias is a term we hear a lot of these days. What is it? Why does it matter? What can we do about it?
Andrea Huggenvik, executive director of YWCA, Wausau, spoke at a recent AAUW (American Association of University Women) meeting.
She told us that a bias is an unconscious attribution of qualities belonging to a group. Without thinking, we react a certain way that has been pre-set in our brain. It would come under the category “we’ve always done it this way.”
Implicit bias happens when our learned associations don’t match our values or knowledge. We ...
Darwin Drove Electric
Let me say that an electric car is a powerful evolutionary force. For years I have been convinced, as have 97% of the world's scientists, that climate change is real, that it is the most serious threat we face and that we are its primary cause. As bad as that sounds it is, in fact, the well from which I draw my optimism and my activism. If we are the source of the problem then we can solve it. That was why I found myself in a Chevy dealership over in Crivitz about to buy my first electric car, to help shrink my carbon footprint.
Truth be told, though, I was frightened. ...