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NEW ONLINE VIDEO LIBRARY
Be sure to look at the New Video Library starting up on the Grassroots North Shore website:
https://www.grassrootsnorthshore.com/vids
Currently we have five informational videos in our library- 1:30 to 4 minutes in length.
1) Women have a lot to lose.
2) The myth of the rich job creators
3) Why we have to regulate high capacity wells
4) How foreclosures affect Milwaukee
5) Fair treatment for rehabilitated felons.
We need your comments to help us decide how to grow this library. What topics are of interest to you? Would you pass videos on to friends ...
Somewhere to Begin
There is nothing like some good music to bring in the new year. Sitting by the fire, with a good hot toddy, I am reminded of a number of songs that provide encouragement in these dark and troubled times. These songs remind me that if changes are to come, there are things that must be done to make things better. This is a process – not an event - and has been going on for many years. We don't always win the battles but we have to keep trying. And we CAN do it if everyone would lend a hand. I'd like to share with you a few songs for the new year.
Let’s begin with ...
HUMBUG FANCY FOOD
Personal secret: I’m a purist when it comes to food. Simple basic food, unlike the horror I saw recently where someone wanted to dress up avocado with a coating. For god's sake, people, avocado needs nothing but salt!
Take green beans. People go to a lot of trouble to serve green beans—green bean casserole, stir-fry green beans, battered and fried green beans. Well, what’s wrong with just plain green beans? A little salt, cook them tender, voila! Yum.
Then there’s the simple chicken breast. Recipes abound for chicken breast stuffed with cheese, or sausage, or ...
JANUARY EVENTS
JANUARY 2018 EVENTS
Thursday, January 4….Women 4 Women
Hidden Figures……
Marathon County Democratic Office
833 South Third Ave, Wausau
6 – 7:30 p.m.
Free and open to the public.
Hidden Figures tells the incredible untold story of Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson—brilliant African-American women working at NASA who served as the brains behind the launch into orbit of astronaut John Glenn, a stunning achievement that turned around the Space Race. The visionary trio crossed all gender and racial lines and inspired generations...
ENOUGH
In this busy season, when do we have enough? Do we have enough decorations on the tree? Have we sent out enough cards? Have we included enough people in our holiday parties? Have we bought enough gifts? When have we done enough?
For a good perspective on this question, I would like to share Robin Wall Kimmerer’s experience as a teacher. Dr. Kimmerer was telling the Native American story about The Corn Spirit. The people always had enough corn to eat through the year. Then they got complacent and took it easy, neglecting care of the seeds and soil. That resulted in ...
Banning Assault Rifles WORKS!
Horrific mass shootings do not have to happen. They are not inevitable. We know how to reduce the number of mass shootings and the number of people killed in these attacks. We know this because it has been successfully done in other countries.
Australia is a good example because of their success and their similarity to our country. Like us Australians have a wild west, rugged individual mentality, and a tradition of gun ownership. Guns and hunting are popular. They have similar macho attitudes about manliness. They drink a lot of beer. The Aussies love rugby which, like ...
MOLLY IVINS QUOTES
Molly Ivins (1946-2007) was a political commentator with a sharp wit—a take-no-prisoners critic of what she considered silly, outrageous, or unfair. Molly Ivins was based in Texas, and both loved and made fun of her state and its culture and politicians.
Here are some of her quotations:
“The first rule of holes: when you’re in one, stop digging.”
“What you need is sustained outrage….there’s far too much unthinking respect given to authority.”
“The best thing about democracy is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain ...
THE GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation, or any nation so conceived and so dedicated, can long endure. We are met on a great battle-field of that war.
We have come to dedicate a portion of that field, as a final resting place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this.
But, in a ...
HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS
A special part of the holidays is being home, being in a safe place with loved ones. We have the choice as to where we will spend our holidays.
But what about the 22.5 million refugees across the globe? They have no choice. Millions of people are leaving their homes because of war, armed conflict, violence and other factors that force them to leave. They cannot safely return to their homes and they are not safe on their journey to find safety.
Ninety percent of the world’s refugees are being hosted by only 10 countries, and many of these countries do not have ...
EVENTS FOR DECEMBER
SATURDAY DEC. 2
5th Annual Hunger and Homeless Summit sponsored by Rep. Duffy. Open to the public 9-12:30 at the Expo Center in Cedar Creek.
Register at Duffy.house.gov for a seat.
MONDAY, DEC. 4
History Speaks. Professor Jeff Leigh of UWMC will speak on “Putin and Russia”
7 p.m.
Edgar High School, 203 E. Birch, Edgar
Free and open to the public.
TUESDAY, DEC. 5
Drinking Liberally It is our third anniversary.
5:30 – 7:00 p.m. Malarkey’s Pub 408 Third Street, Wausau
Phone 715-819-3663
THURSDAY, DEC. 7
Women for Women
6:...