Politics
NORTH CENTRAL ORGANIZING COOPERATIVE
We would like to invite you to learn more about what our early adopters are calling the "North Central Organizing Cooperative". Late last week about 60 progressives came together to launch a member-owned organization that will fight for you, but ONLY if we identify over 250 people in roughly 60 days!
Two weeks ago supporters joined together in Wausau and shared big ideas about how we can make our region a better place to live and work! Check out this 2-minute video on Middle Wisconsin’s page.
These Organizing Cooperatives already exist in Milwaukee, Western ...
(Video) Citizen Action Event in Wausau on December 15
https://vimeo.com/196224439
Citizen Action of Wisconsin event at the UU Church in Wausau, WI on December 15, 2016. Citizen Action highlighted its cooperative model, in which members' contributions afford them the opportunity to select the civic, governmental, or political issues on which the regional chapter focuses. The event was well attended by Central Wisconsin residents with a variety of motivations and goals. Middle Wisconsin was on the scene, including MW writer Dave Svetlik, seen in the video.
More information about the Citizen Action North Central Organizing ...
THE COMMON FOE – THE COMMON ENDEAVOR
We are done being divided by the elites. We are done being distracted into hating one another. - - Nation of Change
My family, my wife and I, our children, their spouses, and our grandchildren over the age of 18, essentially canceled one another’s presidential votes this past election. Some voted for Clinton, some for Trump, and at least one voted for Jill Stein of the Green Party. These are all intelligent people, they all have formal education beyond high school, and they all have the same concerns. They want a better life and a brighter future for themselves and ...
WEALTH AND MONEY PART XXIV: WEALTH AND ANTIWEALTH
“Humanity has the option to become successful on our planet if we reorient world production away from weaponry - - - - from killingry to livingry.” - - Buckminster Fuller
Fuller used the terms “livingry” and “killingry” to describe alternate paths in utilizing Earth’s physical resources and human intellect. “Livingry” supported life and planetary health while “killingry” was harmful to both. In keeping with the concepts of this “Wealth and Money” series, the terms “livingry” and “killingry” could also be called “wealth” ...
ALT-RIGHT….THE WHITE SUPREMACY GROUP BUILDING NEW CONSERVATISM
Alt-Right sounds like “all right.” But it is NOT all right. Not at all.
This movement, found in the USA as well as Europe, accuses older conservatives of selling out their countries to foreigners.
In 2008 Richard Bertrand Spencer coined the term Alternative Right, based on “white identity and the preservation of “Western Civilization.” Spencer leads the white nationalist think tank National policy Institute. Alt-Right rejects egalitarianism and universalism.
From the National Policy institute column, February 2014, “Immigration is a kind a proxy ...
QUOTATIONS….
“The only thing stronger than fear is hope.”…UN Refugee Agency
“In the big scheme of things, is the purpose of having a Christian faith primarily for gaining political power, or creating and enforcing laws, or hoarding wealth, Or living as comfortable a life as possible? Or is it ultimately about bettering and saving humanity?” Stephen Mattson
“Grit is not just having resilience in the face of failure, but also having deep commitments that you remain loyal to over many years.”—Angela Duckworth
“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that ...
THE RIFLE
By Dave Svetlik
(reprinted from January 27, 2015 MW issue)
Born in the late 40’s, I grew up in a family of hunters. Fair shots most of them, I remember standing next to my father when a spooked buck crossed our path at a dead run. Dad shot twice, hit twice, and the buck went down. It was near Hatfield, in central Wisconsin.
Dad’s rifle was an old, iron sight, pump action, 30 Remington. It has killed (we kill deer – corn and oats are harvested) a few deer since my father died in ‘94. My sons have used the rifle. It was never a popular caliber and bullets ...
GET BIG MONEY OUT OF POLITICS
By Wisconsin United to Amend
Eighteen Wisconsin communities voted with overwhelming majorities on Tuesday, November 8th, Wisconsin to amend the U.S. Constitution to clarify that only human beings should have inalienable human rights and money is not the same thing as free speech.
All referenda passed with overwhelming majorities: Rock County (86%), Reedsburg (86%), Manitowoc (81%), Delafield (79%), Neshkoro (88%), New Glarus (88%), Spring Valley (91%), Osceola (86%), Mt. Horeb (84%), Monticello (86%), Clayton (86%) and the towns of New Glarus (83%), Harris (65%), ...
WEALTH AND MONEY PART XXIII: PIE IN THE SKY??
“Powerful enemies must be out-fought and out-produced. It is not enough to turn out just a few more planes, a few more tanks, a few more guns, a few more ships than can be turned out by our enemies. We must out-produce them overwhelmingly, so that there can be no question of our ability to provide a crushing superiority of equipment in any theatre of the world war.”
- - President Franklin D. Roosevelt speaking to Congress and the nation after Pearl Harbor.
The United States Army ranked thirty-ninth in the world in 1939. It had a cavalry of fifty thousand ...
QUOTATIONS
“Beneath the shouting, there is suffering.
Beneath the anger, there is fear.
Beneath the threats, there are broken hearts.
Start there and we may get somewhere.”
By Parker Palmer
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“Ring the bells that still can ring. Forget your perfect offering.
There is a crack in everything. That is how the light gets in.”
By Leonard Cohen
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Gwen Ifill was a journalist who worked “to bring light rather than heat to the issues.”
The Week, November 18, 2016
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