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		<title>Vigil to be held for Wausau’s homeless</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Bruce Grau]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 20 Dec 2021 06:15:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<category><![CDATA[400 block]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Northcentral Chapter of Wisconsin Poor People’s Campaign (WI PPC) is holding Wausau’s first Vigil for the Unhoused on the day that has the longest night of the year, December 21st, starting at 2:30 p.m.on the 400 block. This is in conjunction with a national Winter Offensive organized by the National Union of the Homeless [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Ep. 25: Shop Local Serve Local</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kirk Bangstad]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Dec 2021 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Masks over ribbons</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Jennifer J. Dolan]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2021 05:30:51 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[awareness]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[masks]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know that a pink ribbon is for breast cancer awareness. In the 1990s, the red ribbon was almost as well known as a symbol for AIDS awareness. Every type of cancer has a designated ribbon, as does most chronic illness. People wear ribbons to show moral support [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>I want to get involved, but&#8230;</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[William Hascall]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Nov 2021 05:05:09 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[advocacy]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[It was sometime in 1988 when I became involved in my first organization outside of school. I was then a Junior in high school and was not all that involved in student activities. I was looking beyond the school, beyond graduation at the world I knew I was going into. This was before I knew [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Our working class heroes deserve financial stability</title>
		<link>https://middlewisconsin.org/our-working-class-heroes-deserve-financial-stability/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Nancy Tabaka-Stencil]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Sep 2021 05:25:37 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Family & Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Labor]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[benefits]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[build]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[employment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[income]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jobs]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[stability]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[I grew up a “paper mill kid” in Rothschild. My Mom and Dad both worked in the mill. We lived in the community built by Mr. D.C. Everest. I saw first hand how great jobs with good health and retirement benefits can raise families out of poverty. But life wasn’t always so easy. Before my [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Building rural prosperity</title>
		<link>https://middlewisconsin.org/building-rural-prosperity/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Phil Anderson]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 16 Aug 2021 05:20:15 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[people]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Agriculture is the foundation of all civilization. Without the rural farms, and the small rural communities that support agriculture, there would be no cities. But agricultural areas have seldom enjoyed rewards commensurate with their importance. They are usually among the poorest areas of any state. Wisconsin is no different. This economic divide doesn&#8217;t have to [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Wausau Policing Community Survey seeks feedback on Wausau Police Dept.</title>
		<link>https://middlewisconsin.org/wausau-policing-community-survey-seeks-feedback-on-wausau-police-dept/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Luke Rudolph, WIPPS]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2021 05:10:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The Wausau Policing Task Force (WPTF) has released a community survey to gather input and feedback from Wausau residents and visitors concerning attitudes towards and experiences with the Wausau Police Department. The Wausau Policing Community Survey is available in an online format and will also be mailed to 5,000 randomly selected residences in Wausau. The results [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>Contaminated brownfields: how did it come to this in America?</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Kent D. Shifferd]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2021 06:40:59 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Climate Change & Environment]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Economics]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[The business is long gone, the buildings removed but the aftermath is not.  Left behind is a “brownfield,” a nice word for a site contaminated with deadly poisons, and no one left to pay for clean-up if that’s even possible. And what to do with it once it is cleaned up? Another industrial site, another [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>A call for equity and sustainable systems</title>
		<link>https://middlewisconsin.org/a-call-for-equity-and-sustainable-systems/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dan Barth]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Mar 2021 06:25:48 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Community]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Disability]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Government]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[equality]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[equity]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[fairness]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Farming]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[human rights]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[Equity, the fairness with with which we treat one another, has finally become a hot topic. Sustainability, the pursuit of an environment healthy enough to ensure a livable planet for ourselves and for our children has, thankfully, become another. Together they pack a pretty explosive punch! Ignore them and we may find ourselves flat on [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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		<title>The common foe; the common solution</title>
		<link>https://middlewisconsin.org/the-common-foe-the-common-solution/</link>
		
		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Dave Svetlik]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2021 06:40:14 +0000</pubDate>
				<category><![CDATA[Culture]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[change]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Community]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[diversity]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[family]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[friends]]></category>
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					<description><![CDATA[We are done being divided by the elites. We are done being distracted into hating one another. This is both a challenge and a hope. My family, my wife and I, our children, their spouses, and our grandchildren over the age of 18, probably canceled one another’s presidential votes this past election. Some voted for [&#8230;]]]></description>
		
		
		
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