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Bill Franks’ Take on Martin Luther King, Jr. – MLK Day
When my now adult son was in Middle School in Waunakee Wisconsin,(where we live) I gave talks at the School on the significance of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Holiday. The Waunakee Community is, like most communities in Wisconsin, an extremely melanin deficient community for Black Kids to receive education. It also is one of the highest rated School Districts in the State when it comes to the quality of its educational instruction, the quality of its Educational Professionals (including Teachers) and the intelligence and Curricular Policies of its School Board. A ...
Ruminations On A Happy New Year
“They say a person needs just three things to be truly happy in this world: someone to love, something to do, and something to hope for.” Tom Bodett, author and NPR personality.
“Christmas is just around the corner and what better way to celebrate a religious holiday than with a month of frenzied consumerism.” Calvin, a cartoon character from Calvin and Hobbs
“Happy New Year” is one of the meaningless Hallmark platitudes of the season. You hear the greeting from friends and strangers. It is in the shopping mall Christmas music tape loop. The cards you ...
2023 Year in Review
Another Year of Historic Citizen-Driven Action and Research. Riverside Park Finally Remediated 17 Years After First Dioxin Soil Samples in 2006.
2023 was a special year. It not only marked the 5-year anniversary of Citizens for a Clean Wausau’s founding in 2018, but also encompassed major community progress on multiple critical local environmental fronts. A list of CCW’s 2023 news and research posts can be found on this page below our highlight commentary.
Citizens for a Clean Wausau dedicates its work this year to Teresa Mills of CHEJ, in order to honor our ...
PROTECT THE PORKIES, STOP THE CHOPPERWOOD MINE!
Protect The Porkies will hold their first Virtual Townhall, to be held on Saturday, December 9th, at 12pm CST. You can find the Zoom information below. There will be a 15-20 minute presentation giving an overview of the current state of affairs of the Copperwood Mine and our resistance campaign, followed by a question/comment/discussion period.
The meeting will be open to the public, so feel free to pass along word to anyone who might be interested.
Here is the petition, please sign:
https://click.e.change.org/f/a/U77twvV8xln0_TloZI9wFg~~/AAN...
Women for Women December
Women for Women
Thursday, December 7 at 6 PM
Women for Women’s goal is to help citizens better understand the issues impacting our communities and to help voters make the best decisions when going to the polls next spring.
Our presenter for the Women for Women event on Thursday, December 7 will be Tara Glodowski, Executive Director of The Community Partners Program.
We all have so much to learn about the offerings of the new Community Partners Campus: the many programs it supports, the people it serves, the needs and the funding issues for all the ...
UU Social Justice
UU Social Justice
UU Wausau
504 Grant Street, Wausau
Wednesday, December 13, 2023 at 6 PM
Israel and Palestine
In this time of great turmoil in the Middle East, do you feel as though you are not getting the whole story, maybe not even the correct story at all? We hope you can join us for this evening of deep conversation with our presenters Carolyn Michalski and Claudette Harring, and others. We believe you will see why our voices in support of Palestine are important. The recent violence and tragic loss of life in southern Israel and Gaza is truly ...
The Gift of Yellow Leaves
If there be wood sprites at play upon this land let them dress up in all the yellows of a late autumn day. Glorious October yellow stands of unruly tamarack, meandering branches that twist and turn like dervishes, sublime with ecstasy, begin our journey across the enchanted north woods. Poplar and birch, both paper and gray, rise up on sturdy, ballet toes, twirl exuberantly yellow beyond compare. Even the few not yet naked maples glint yellow amid a myriad of other colors. You would never call it an explosion of yellow, or accuse the lemon forest of being ablaze. ...
Crandon Mine Purchase Anniversary Celebration Held Last Saturday
By Tina L. Van Zile, Environmental Director
Last Saturday was the 20th Anniversary Celebration for the historic Crandon Mine Purchase. Events were held at the Mole Lake Casino and Lodge Conference Center and the Forest County Potawatomi Community Center. We started the day off with an opening drum song from the Sokaogon Singers, and their second song brought in the Sokaogon Chippewa Veterans Color Guard.
Chairman Robert Van Zile, Jr. and Chairman James A. Crawford each welcomed everyone to the glorious day. Then Chairman Van Zile offered a prayer for ...
Ban Censorship Not Books
“If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. These libraries should be open to all – except the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.” President John F Kennedy
Efforts to ban books and to censor what is taught in public schools have increased dramatically in the last two years. Since 2021, a handful of right-w...
DON’T DEFUND THE MARATHON COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY
On Wednesday, November 8, at 6 PM, the Wausau UU Social Justice will be having Beth Rosenberg Martin speak about the current state of things at the Marathon County Public Library and what we can do to become involved. We need full funding and common-sense people on our County Board to deliver this for starters.
The public is welcome. Please visit the Facebook page Don’t Defund the Marathon County Public Library and sign the petition also.