Protect Pollinators This Spring in Wausau
Although we have gorgeous weather this weekend, please resist cleaning up your yards and spend time outdoors in other fun ways this weekend!
WHY? Pollinators and other insects (which our very food supply depends on) are still in the leaves and other debris.
Bees and other pollinators touch our lives every day. About 85% of the world’s flowering plants and 35% of the world’s food crops (one in three bites of food we eat) depend on insect and animal pollinators to reproduce. Economically, insect pollinators contribute billions of dollars to U.S. farm income.
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WE’RE THE GUARDRAILS NOW
We're the We're the Guardrails Now
Tune: We Shall Not Be Moved
Lyrics: Sheila Plotkin, Raging Grannies of Madison & Dane County
CHORUS:
Pay attention, we're the guardrails now.
Did we mention, we're the guardrails now?
We have the pow'r to rescue our democracy. We are the guardrails now.
Find a community, in numbers we are strong
Act in your neighborhood, bring your friends along
We have the pow'r to rescue our democracy. We are the guardrails now.
Write to your legislators, let them ...
Tom Tiffany: Take 2
Event: WHERE’S TOM TIFFANY: TAKE II
When: Wednesday, April 23rd, at Noon
Where: In front of Tom Tiffany’s Wausau Office, 26020 Stewart Ave (US Bank building)
Contact: Pat O’Grady 715.807.0147
We’re demanding that Rep Tom Tiffany explain his actions! For some reason Tom Tiffany does not think he needs to be accountable to his constituents. Why is he ignoring his constituents? Why is he afraid to have a Town Hall?
On Wednesday, April 23, at noon. We’ll visit Tom’s office, in Wausau, and make our voices heard! Bring your signs and your favorite ...
A Need for Empathy
What is empathy? It is the capacity to “walk in another’s shoes.” To walk in another’s shoes means to understand, feel, and identify as an other. It is different from compassion, which is when one in a superior position feels sorry for a less fortunate other.
Empathy is a two-way street. The feeling of understanding for the unfortunate must go the other way as well. It involves understanding as well as being understood, and trust and respect that go both ways. I must understand who I am in my shoes, before I can walk in those of another. Empathy is a feeling of ...
A WAR CORESPONDENT
Those of us born in the 1940’s and 50’s well remember the Cuban missile crisis when the Soviet Union placed missiles in Cuba that were minutes from destroying Washington DC and other major US cities. And we all remember President Kennedy’s speech to the American people telling us that the Soviet Union meant no harm and was just defending itself from American aggression and that Cuba was a sovereign nation and had every right to allow Russia to place missiles on its soil. There was nothing to worry about.
Of course, we all know exactly the opposite ...
INDIVISIBLE Hands Off Rally April 5
Northcentral Wisconsin INDIVISIBLE Fights back!
Saturday, April 5 at noon
Rib Mountain Drive (sidewalk between Michael’s Crafts and Hobby Lobby)
Donald Trump and Elon Musk think this country belongs to them. We are fighting back!
They're taking everything they can get their hands on—our health care, our data, our jobs, our services—and daring the world to stop them. This is a crisis, and the time to act is now.
🚨 On Saturday, April 5th, we're taking to the streets to fight back with a clear message: Hands off! 🚨
This mass ...
Fifty Five Earth Days Later
2025 marks the fifty fifth Earth Day. The local chapter of the Citizen'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.
Wisconsin and Earth Day go back a long way together. Truth be told, without Wisconsin Earth Day might not even exist. Horrified by a disastrous oil spill off the coast of California in 1969, our own Senator Gaylord Nelson conceived and set in motion the gears that made Earth Day 1970 a phenomenon to be ...
Where’s Tom Tiffany
Where: Thursday, March 20, noon at 2620 Stewart Avenue, public sidewalk.
LAST SEEN: Ducking in and out and avoiding his constituents. Yet sadly, he is invited as the special guest to an anti-trans event featuring Riley Gaines at the Hilton Garden Inn Rib Mountain, March 18 at noon by Mom’s for Liberty and can back that whole heartedly. Obviously he does not represent everyone in his community.
WHERE HE IS NOT: Not standing up for Veterans, Farmers, or Seniors. (Who needs them when you have billionaire donors).
PROBABLY: Somewhere helping Trump and Musk ...