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EARTH DAY SHOULD BE EVERY DAY
It’s been eight years since anyone in our executive branch of government uttered the words “climate change.” Thankfully, Governor Tony Evers brought science, common sense and the term climate change back to Wisconsin.
Since the 1970’s, Wisconsin Governors have shaped our nation’s conservation legacy. In my office, over my desk, hangs a poster from Governor Gaylord Nelson’s campaign. The man from Clear Lake was ahead of his time. He did all he could to raise awareness that the earth is worth protecting.
We recently celebrated Earth Day. From recycling to ...
A CALL TO ACTION FOR OUR EARTH
I find myself deeply concerned about the planet this year.
I have been thinking a lot lately about how distant so-called “civilized” society has become from the natural world around us. We have created a world within a world that is filled with useless plastic objects, traveling machines, endless entertainment, and a never-silent call to consume ever more useless plastic objects.
I have often thought, with all the prepared soft food we eat that we will be toothless. In short, we are becoming abstractions to ourselves as though we are simply mobile collections of ...
Women 4 Women
You are invited to Women 4 Women. Special guest is Matt Rothschild who will speak on the issues of Voting,
Gerrymandering and
Money in our Elections.
Thursday, April 4, 2019
6:00-7:30 PM
Marathon County Democratic Office
833 South 3rd Avenue (enter on the Sherman St. side)
Matt Rothschild is the executive director of the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign.
Prior to joining the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign at the start of 2015, Matt worked at The Progressive magazine for 32 years. For most of those, he was the editor and publisher of The Progres...
Pilgrimage To Peace
“Pilgrimage to Peace” Panel on Israel and Palestine
Greater Wausau Area
Monday, April 1 - Immanuel Lutheran Church, 6:30 p.m.
630 Adams St.
Obada Shtayeh
Suzann Mollner
Wausau
Tuesday, April 2 - YWCA, 6:30 p.m.
613 5th St.
Wausau
Wednesday, April 3 – Holy Cross Clare Center, 6:30 p.m.
1600 O’Day Street
Merrill
As part of a national tour by Churches for Middle East Peace (www.cmep.org), please join us for their panel presentation! Join Churches for Middle East Peace (CMEP) staff Sara Burback, Director of Outreach and ...
Getting Women Elected
You are invited to a Forum for Getting Women Elected.
Monday, April. 8, 2019
6:30 p.m. – 8:30 p.m.
YWCA
613 N. 5th Street
Wausau, WI 54403
Sponsors are AAUW (American Association of University Women) Wausau Chapter and YWCA.
(More information at YWCAWAUSAU.org
Featured speakers will be Marathon County Democratic chair Nancy Stencil and Marathon County Republican chair Kevin Hermening.
Stencil and Hermening will speak about women in politics. They will answer questions previously given to them. Lucy Harvey will monitor the questions/answers.
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Latin American Deja Vu
Deja vu is French for the feeling that something is strangely familiar. You feel like you are experiencing something that you have already experienced. For anyone even vaguely familiar with the history of U.S. interventions in Latin America, the news about Venezuela should spawn Deja vu. In the words of a song by Vietnam veteran Pat Scanlon,
“I've got a feeling I've been here before
In a jungle in a dirty little war
Young men can die so fast
My God let's not repeat the past
I've got a feeling I've been here before.” *
The U.S. has frequently interv...
ACTION ALERT
I believe Trump’s declaration is a serious threat to democratic rule of law. It must be defeated and citizens must immediately take action.
We cannot wait for the law suits or the Democrats in the House to dither and compromise. The declaration is the real emergency and requires a no-compromise, all-hands-on-deck, public response.
“IF YOU ARE NOT OUTRAGED YOU ARE NOT PAYING ATTENTION” Action Alert.
Trump's declaration of emergency is a blatant attempt to bypass congressional control over federal spending. Having failed to get the money he wanted to build ...
More Questions on “Markets”
“Wall Street is a world of pure finance in the business of using money to make money—by whatever means—for people who have money. Any contribution to the production of real goods and services is purely an incidental by-product.” David Korten in YES! Magazine, May 5, 2010.
In the article “Questions on the Markets”, I talked about how the speculative trading in stocks can be harmful to the real goods and services producing economy. This is not just my opinion. There are economists and business people saying the same thing. Forbes magazine (a conservative ...
MAKING THE WORLD WORK FOR EVERYONE – A PALE BLUE DOT – PART II
Planet Earth from a distance of 4 billion miles. Photo by Voyager I. Source: NASA/JPL Feb. 1990 (Just below middle of page in orange/brown color band on right)
“Whether you will or not, you are a king, Tristram, for you are one of the time-sifted few that leave the world, when they are gone, not the same place it was. Mark what you leave.” - - Edwin Arlington Robinson writing of the legendary knight Sir Tristram
One could easily imagine Robinson was speaking to all of us when he wrote the lines above. Because, whether we will or not, each and every one ...
A BRIEF HISTORY OF OUR WISCONSIN RETIREMENT SYSTEM
I have just checked WREA.net (Wisconsin Retired Educators Association) website and learned some interesting things about the history of our Wisconsin Retirement System.
Did you know?
In 1950 there were more than 85 public pension funds in Wisconsin and most of them were poorly funded?
In the early 1950s, the average monthly annuity for a retired teacher was $35?
In 1966, Wisconsin and Tennessee had the two worst public pension funds in the nation?
Wisconsin now has one of the best retirement systems in the country?
The Wisconsin Retirement System is ...