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		<title>Fifty Five Earth Days Later</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dan Barth]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 04:45:35 +0000</pubDate>
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	2025 marks the fifty fifth Earth Day.  The local chapter of the Citizen&#8217;s Climate Lobby and our NAOMI friends invite you to celebrate another Beloved Community Earth Day in Wausau at Westview Terrace Park (1501 Bissell St) at 10 AM on Saturday, April 26th. &#160; Wisconsin and Earth Day go back a long way together.  [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Earth Day 2025</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dan Barth]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 04:45:25 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Vaccinations: Who Needs Them?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Laurie Anne Harmon]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 31 Mar 2025 04:45:08 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[According to the most recent information available on the CDC.gov website, “As of March 27, 2025, a total of 483 confirmed measles cases were reported by 20 jurisdictions: Alaska, California, Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Kentucky, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York City, New York State, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, and [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>PEOPLE&#8217;S MARCH January 18, 2025</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Tabaka-Stencil]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jan 2025 05:45:07 +0000</pubDate>
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	<a href="https://middlewisconsin.org/peoples-march-january-18-2025/"><img title="Human Rights March Kayley" src="https://middlewisconsin.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/Human-Rights-March-Kayley-212x300.png" alt="PEOPLE&#8217;S MARCH January 18, 2025" width="212" height="300" style="max-width: 100%; height: auto;" /></a>
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	WAUSAU HUMAN RIGHTS MARCH The recent election can have far reaching consequences for our vulnerable communities. For Immediate Release: Saturday, January 18, 11 AM, meeting at the Marathon Dems Office, 218 Sherman Street Wausau Contact: Chair, Nancy Stencil, nstencil7983@gmail.com 715.581.7983 &#160; Come join Central Wisconsin&#8217;s PEACEFUL PEOPLE’S MARCH. A place for us to all come [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Where Have all the Monarchs Gone?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Sue Vande Hei]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Nov 2024 05:45:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[I just enjoy sitting on my patio, surrounded by the beautiful native plants that grow all along the patio.  It is a wonder to me to watch the bees, moths and butterflies along with the birds that visit the plants.  If I am quiet enough and don’t move, it is very common to have a [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>ENVIRONMENT AND SPIRITUALITY SUMMIT</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Muhammad Shahzad Hussain]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Sep 2024 04:45:15 +0000</pubDate>
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	LEARN MORE HERE: https://aes-summit.org/ &#160;]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Project 2025 Explained: The Right-Wing Policy Map</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Aug 2024 04:45:53 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Project 2025 Explained: The Right-Wing Policy Map For Trump – Promotes Mining in Indian Nation Lands, in the Boundary Waters, in Alaska &#38; the Arctic Circle, in Arizona, in Colorado, &#38; in New Mexico; and Eliminates Climate Change and Conservation Initiatives Key Facts about Mining, Oil &#38; Gas Drilling, Climate Change, and Conservation in Project [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>COOPERATION 101</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Svetlik]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jul 2024 04:45:56 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[cooperation [ koh-op-uh&#8211;rey-shuhn ] an act or instance of working or acting together for a common purpose or benefit mutually beneficial interaction among organisms [nations] living in a limited area [planet Earth] &#160; Boarding Spaceship Earth in 1895, Buckminster Fuller arrived with very poor vision. This wasn’t realized and corrected until he was in boyhood. [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>WARHEADS TO WINDMILLS</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Middle Wisconsin Staff]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2024 04:45:42 +0000</pubDate>
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	Tim Wallis, is traveling across the country this spring to educate more people through his newest book: Warheads to Windmills: Preventing Climate Catastrophe and Nuclear War. As the book title says: our two biggest existential threats&#8211;climate breakdown and nuclear weapons&#8211;can and must be addressed, both urgently and simultaneously. Here is a link to more information on Tim [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>EV&#8217;S THE TRUTH</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dan Barth]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Mar 2024 04:45:50 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The groundswell of trash talk around electric cars leaves me, an owner of both a Chevy Volt first, and now a Bolt, mystified, angry,  but hardly speechless.  Mystified, because the complaints about EV&#8217;s bear no similarity to my own experience with them over the past six and a half years.  Angry, because I&#8217;d bet good [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Academic AND Vocational Education</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Denele Campbell]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Dec 2023 05:45:10 +0000</pubDate>
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	Sidetracking traditional education and leaning into vocational training at an early age will only exacerbate cultural division in the U.S. Much of what currently upsets under-educated Americans is that they do not understand much of what they have to deal with on a daily basis. It’s not news that people fear the unknown. The anti-vaxxers [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The Gift of Yellow Leaves</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dan Barth]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Nov 2023 05:45:51 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[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 [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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