GRASSROOTS FESTIVALS IN EAU CLAIRE AND WAUSAU
Eau Claire Grassroots Festival will be held at UW Eau Claire-Davies Center-Ojibwe Ball Room,
77 Roosevelt Ave., Eau Claire, Wisconsin, 54701
Saturday September 22, 2018
Registration 8:00 / Event 9:00
For Tickets, Registration and information go to…
https: //www.eventbrite.com/e/eau-claire-grassroots-festival-tickets-47368609787
PLEASE PREREGISTER / FOOD ORDERS WILL END SEP. 16TH
KEY NOTE SPEAKER is John Nichols, journalist, author and orator.
There will be 20 workshops on Environment, Education, Economics and Equality.
This event is hosted by ...
JOIN THE LABOR DAY PARADE ON SEPTEMBER 3….
Last year, the Citizen Action of WI North Central Organizing Co-op was honored to be awarded Citizens of the Year by the Marathon County Central Labor Council AFL-CIO.
The line-up for parade is on Monday, September 3rd @ 3:00 pm from the corner of 3rd Ave and West Wausau Ave.
Parade starts at 4:00 pm and will go down 3rd Ave and end at the Wausau Labor Temple at 318 S 3rd Ave., Wausau, Wisconsin.
We will recognize Grand Marshal, Citizen of the Year and Business of the Year at the end the parade in the Wausau Labor Temple parking lot.
Announcer for Parade: Chad ...
SOLAR CENTRAL WISCONSIN
Grow Solar is a collaborative effort to make solar affordable for private home owners as well as businesses.
Check out their website www.growsolar.org.
You will find plenty of resources for municipalities, industry professionals and homeowners right here in central Wisconsin.
Many installations already have been done on homes and businesses in these counties: Portage, Wood, Waupaca and Marathon.
MREA (Midwest Renewable Energy Association) and Mid-State Technical College are leading this group buy program.
You can attend a free Solar Power Hour and learn the ...
A CLOSER LOOK AT “FAKE NEWS”
In campaign speeches, tweets, and press conferences, Trump counters with, "Don't believe the crap you see from these people, the fake news. Just remember, what you're seeing and what you're reading is not what's happening."
President Trump calls "fake news," a label he pins on nearly all media outlets except Fox News, "the enemy of the American people."
According to the three Washington Post journalists assigned to update a fact-checker database that analyzes, categorizes and tracks every suspect statement made by Trump, as of August 1, 2018, Trump made 4,229 ...
THE UNIVERSAL ECONOMY UNIT XI: RICH CLASS WAR ON AMERICA – AVOIDING “HOW ARE YOU GOING TO PAY FOR IT” TRAP
We tend not to see the obvious. In Unit X of this series we saw how whenever government spending or increasing the Federal deficit benefits the rich, not a question is asked. Congress approves a blank check, the US Treasury creates, out of nowhere, the requested money, and the US Federal Reserve Bank issues the funds into the economy.
When 16 trillion government created fiat dollars are needed to bail out corrupt Wall Street banks, not a single politician questions, “How are you going to pay for it?” When the wealthy CEO’s from arms corporations want a 100-billi...
FIGHTING BOB FEST, SAVE THE DATE SEPTEMBER 15, 2018
The seventeenth annual Fighting Bob Fest will kick off on Friday, September 14 at the Barrymore Theatre, 2090 Atwood Avenue, Madison.
The full day of speeches, workshops and other activities takes place on Saturday, September 15. You will want to be there.
The Progressive magazine sponsors Fighting Bob Fest to honor Wisconsin’s own Robert M. “Fighting Bob” La Follette. Now, more than ever, we need LaFollette’s vision and voice.
Location details and scheduled speakers and events will be available later this month. You can be sure that the best people in the ...
CHRISTIANS IN AN AGE OF OUTRAGE
Nationally recognized evangelist, author and executive director of the Billy Graham Center will headline the eighth Veninga Lecture on Religion and Society on September 13.
7 p.m.
Wausau West high School Auditorium
1200 West Wausau Ave., Wausau
Ed Stetzer, Ph.D., will speak on “Christians in the Age of Outrage: How to Bring our Best When the World is at its Worst.” This is the title of his most recent book, which will be released in October.
Dr. Stetzer holds the Billy Graham Distinguished Chair for Church, Mission and Evangelism at Wheaton College in ...
BUILDING TRUST: CREDIBILITY OF LAW ENFORCEMENT AND THE MEDIA
Can we trust the media? Can we trust law enforcement? Why or why not? And why is that credibility important? Join us in a facilitated community conversation on September 12 that brings together news media, law enforcement and the public to talk about how we can ensure we’re getting the true story. We’ll look at:
Why is credibility important when developing relationships between law enforcement and the media?
To what extent does the public trust the media and/or law enforcement - and why? What about the impact of so-called “fake news?”
What resources do law ...
Climate Change Defines Our Era
Imagine living where all the hard working citizens unnecessarily export almost $15 billion of their hard earned money out of state each and every year. Imagine what those folks could do with it if they kept that money right where they live: a better standard of living for all, better services and more local jobs to be sure. Of course, the folks I'm talking about are us.
According to a Wisconsin State Energy Office report that's what we spend every year on the fossil fuels we heat and light our homes and fill our car's gas tanks with - resources we don't have and must ...
MOM AND APPLE PIE
“...remember the ladies, and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.” Abigail Adams
In 1776, Abigail Adams, the wife of John Adams, wrote a letter to her husband asking that the political and legal status of women be improved under the new government being formed. She was asking that the revolutionary rhetoric about being “created equal” and “life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” include women. The founding fathers did ...