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Representative Gwen Moore joins clean energy advocates in urging support for infrastructure plan

Representative Gwen Moore joins clean energy advocates in urging support for infrastructure plan

Posted by | Jun 7, 2021 |

United States Representative Gwen Moore joined clean energy advocates, elected officials, labor organizations, and community members on June 2 to speak about her support of initiatives to increase energy efficiency in schools, clean energy buses, investments in Milwaukee’s BRT bus program, and the American Jobs Plan. Outside of the Milwaukee School of Engineering’s Walter Schroeder Library, Representative Moore spoke about opportunities for committing to a clean energy future. She said that Milwaukee’s children deserved to be in environments that provided a proper ventilation to prevent the spread of diseases. “Especially children in our low income inner city communities –...

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Ending the 1033 Program: How local communities can take military weaponry out of the hands of police

Ending the 1033 Program: How local communities can take military weaponry out of the hands of police

Posted by | Jun 6, 2021

In an effort to curtail police militarism, anti-war group Win Without War on April 29 released an activist guide titled Stop Militarizing Our Communities: 5 Things You Need to Know About the 1033 Program. The activist guide was authored by Tanaya Sardesai, a student at Pomona College and a former intern at Win Without War, and centers on the Department of Defense’s 1033 program, which is responsible for supplying military weaponry to domestic law enforcement. “Foreign policy and domestic policy are intertwined,” said Sardesai. “Violence committed against communities of color abroad fuels violence against communities of color at home....

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Wuhan lab-leak Speculation: China under scrutiny again as efforts seek to determine origin of COVID-19

Wuhan lab-leak Speculation: China under scrutiny again as efforts seek to determine origin of COVID-19

Posted by | Jun 5, 2021 |

President Joe Biden asked the intelligence community on May 26 to increase its efforts to figure out where the coronavirus started. At stake is not only isolating the origins of a deadly pandemic to make sure the same mistakes are not made again, but also a new U.S. approach to China by the Biden administration. First, what this is not: a continuation of the Trump administration’s attempt to blame China for a bioweapon launched against the world as a way to deflect attention from the former president’s botched handling of the pandemic that has, at this point, left at...

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Wausau’s refusal to deal with racism is just the latest example that hate does have a place in America

Wausau’s refusal to deal with racism is just the latest example that hate does have a place in America

Posted by | Jun 4, 2021 |

“Hate has no place in America.” So tweeted President Joe Biden, when he announced that he would sign new legislation to address the rising tide of racist hate crimes against people of Asian descent in the United States. Biden’s claim is, of course, a fantasy – or, perhaps more charitably, an aspiration. Whatever it is, it is certainly not a statement of fact. Hate has plenty of places in America; it has had a comfortable home in the marrow of the nation’s bones for longer than “America” has even existed. Indeed, the United States would not exist as we...

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Today’s Americans are called to repay the sacrifices of fallen heroes by living up to the ideas of democracy

Today’s Americans are called to repay the sacrifices of fallen heroes by living up to the ideas of democracy

Posted by | Jun 3, 2021 |

President Joe Biden spoke at Arlington National Cemetery on May 31 to remember those who gave the “last full measure of devotion” to the United States, dying in our service. His speech was a full-throated defense of the cause for which those soldiers gave their lives: democracy. “Democracy is more than a form of government,” Biden said. “It’s a way of being; it’s a way of seeing the world. Democracy means the rule of the people — the rule of the people. Not the rule of monarchs, not the rule of the moneyed, not the rule of the mighty...

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Defined by its delusions: How the Republican Party became the greatest danger to American Democracy

Defined by its delusions: How the Republican Party became the greatest danger to American Democracy

Posted by | Jun 3, 2021 |

The greatest danger to American democracy right now is not coming from Russia, China, or North Korea. It is coming from the Republican Party. Only 25 percent of voters self-identify as Republican, the GOP’s worst showing against Democrats since 2012 and sharply down since last November. But those who remain in the Party are far angrier, more ideological, more truth-denying, and more racist than Republicans who preceded them. And so are the lawmakers who represent them. Today’s Republican Party increasingly is defined not by its shared beliefs but by its shared delusions. On May 28, 54 U.S. senators voted...

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