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Year In Review 2023: Milwaukee’s efforts to achieve social and economic justice in photos

2023 began with the fading threat of the COVID-19 pandemic. But in Wisconsin, the danger to democracy accelerated because of a gerrymandered monopoly by a corrupt political party in Madison. That authoritarian peril was echoed abroad in Milwaukee’s sister city of Iprin, where Ukraine faced a second year of brutal war crimes perpetrated by the Russian invaders. While taking place almost five thousand miles away from Wisconsin, the war remains deeply felt across America and at home in the neighborhoods of Milwaukee. During 2023, Milwaukee Independent was embedded with three Milwaukee-based humanitarian missions overseas. In Jordan at Syrian refugee...

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Year In Review 2023: Local doctors assist Syrian refugees in medical mission to Jordan

2023 began with the fading threat of the COVID-19 pandemic. But in Wisconsin, the danger to democracy accelerated because of a gerrymandered monopoly by a corrupt political party in Madison. That authoritarian peril was echoed abroad in Milwaukee’s sister city of Iprin, where Ukraine faced a second year of brutal war crimes perpetrated by the Russian invaders. While taking place almost five thousand miles away from Wisconsin, the war remains deeply felt across America and at home in the neighborhoods of Milwaukee. During 2023, Milwaukee Independent was embedded with three Milwaukee-based humanitarian missions overseas. In Jordan at Syrian refugee...

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Year In Review 2023: The impact of aid groups on Syria’s civil war and earthquake recovery

2023 began with the fading threat of the COVID-19 pandemic. But in Wisconsin, the danger to democracy accelerated because of a gerrymandered monopoly by a corrupt political party in Madison. That authoritarian peril was echoed abroad in Milwaukee’s sister city of Iprin, where Ukraine faced a second year of brutal war crimes perpetrated by the Russian invaders. While taking place almost five thousand miles away from Wisconsin, the war remains deeply felt across America and at home in the neighborhoods of Milwaukee. During 2023, Milwaukee Independent was embedded with three Milwaukee-based humanitarian missions overseas. In Jordan at Syrian refugee...

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Year In Review 2023: When Wisconsin’s GOP embodied a dumpster fire inside a clown car

2023 began with the fading threat of the COVID-19 pandemic. But in Wisconsin, the danger to democracy accelerated because of a gerrymandered monopoly by a corrupt political party in Madison. That authoritarian peril was echoed abroad in Milwaukee’s sister city of Iprin, where Ukraine faced a second year of brutal war crimes perpetrated by the Russian invaders. While taking place almost five thousand miles away from Wisconsin, the war remains deeply felt across America and at home in the neighborhoods of Milwaukee. During 2023, Milwaukee Independent was embedded with three Milwaukee-based humanitarian missions overseas. In Jordan at Syrian refugee...

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Year In Review 2023: The ongoing dystopian legacy of Trump’s January 6 insurrection

2023 began with the fading threat of the COVID-19 pandemic. But in Wisconsin, the danger to democracy accelerated because of a gerrymandered monopoly by a corrupt political party in Madison. That authoritarian peril was echoed abroad in Milwaukee’s sister city of Iprin, where Ukraine faced a second year of brutal war crimes perpetrated by the Russian invaders. While taking place almost five thousand miles away from Wisconsin, the war remains deeply felt across America and at home in the neighborhoods of Milwaukee. During 2023, Milwaukee Independent was embedded with three Milwaukee-based humanitarian missions overseas. In Jordan at Syrian refugee...

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Year In Review 2023: Navigating new challenges to faith from soulless AI to weaponized dogma

2023 began with the fading threat of the COVID-19 pandemic. But in Wisconsin, the danger to democracy accelerated because of a gerrymandered monopoly by a corrupt political party in Madison. That authoritarian peril was echoed abroad in Milwaukee’s sister city of Iprin, where Ukraine faced a second year of brutal war crimes perpetrated by the Russian invaders. While taking place almost five thousand miles away from Wisconsin, the war remains deeply felt across America and at home in the neighborhoods of Milwaukee. During 2023, Milwaukee Independent was embedded with three Milwaukee-based humanitarian missions overseas. In Jordan at Syrian refugee...

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