Author: Joe Brusky

While Briggs & Stratton executives were working from the safety of their homes during the pandemic, negotiating millions of dollars in bonuses for themselves, and finalizing plans to move hundreds of jobs out of the Milwaukee area, Mike Jackson was being worked to death in the company’s Wauwatosa plant to make products that consumers could not buy for months. Mike Jackson was a Briggs & Stratton worker, union member, and husband who died of coronavirus after fighting for safety on the job. To protest the injustice of his premature death and the corporate system of greed that caused it,...

“We are demanding action. It is our time as youth in the community to make a difference. It is our time to stand up and speak out to our state and local politicians.” – MARVELL REED, Sophomore at Barack Obama School of Career and Technical Education Members from the Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association (MTEA) attended a press conference on February 28 organized by a group of students from around Southeastern Wisconsin, that included Marvell Reed explaining about a March 24 march entitled the “March for Our Lives – Milwaukee.” The students announced that they would be joining the nationwide...

Superintendent Darienne Driver, Summerfest CEO Don Smiley, and Milwaukee Alderman and Chair of the Milwaukee Arts Board Michael Murphy spoke at the Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) kickoff event at Red Arrow Park on September 21. Superintendent Driver acknowledged the painful past of Red Arrow Park, inviting and recognizing Dontre Hamilton’s brothers Nate Hamilton and Dameion Perkins, before she presented her vision for the MPS Year of the Arts. “We have big plans for this year, plans to bring our students to arts and arts to our students,” said Superintendent Driver. “In coming together to support and celebrate the Year...