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Rise and Thrive: A “Lives in Landscape” Series – The Wake of Dreams

Posted by Brianna Joy Seipel | Jul 8, 2020 |

This multi-part editorial series was based on the “Rise and Thrive: A Lives in Landscape Exhibition” created by Milwaukee artist Brianna Joy Seipel. The project was produced in partnership with LOTUS Legal Clinic and the Untold Stories program. https://mkeind.com/riseandthrive The word wake is polysemous: it means both a ritual act of mourning (to ceaselessly watch over the dead) and also to become awake (both from sleep and figuratively, for example, to become aware of some new truth or beauty, that is, to become enlightened). Thus, the phrase the wake of dreams has two distinct senses: it means both to...

Dear America: Your Heroes are Not Necessarily My Heroes

Posted by Reggie Jackson | Jul 5, 2020 |

“Most of my heroes don’t appear on no stamps.” – Public Enemy, Fight the Power, 1989 Over the past several weeks many venerated American heroes have had their status challenged by the current movement for social justice and reckoning with the history of systemic racism. Statues and other monuments have been removed, or torn down; names have been removed from buildings and college campuses. It is a moment that America has avoided for far too long. As a result, it is making some Americans very nervous about what hero of theirs is next in line. For others it has...

Life of a Slave Girl: The tarnished Southern pride of a history based on sexual violence

Posted by YES! | Jul 3, 2020 |

Trigger Warning: this essay contains the mention of Rape and Sexual Abuse As a Black woman born in Louisiana, I was elated by NASCAR’s and the U.S. Navy and Marine’s decision to ban the Confederate flag because those are three fewer places where a flag that represents systematic torture is flown. Supporters of the stars and bars love to argue that the flag stands for rebellion, and that flying the flag is not “about slavery,” but about the pride of being from the South. However, the flag makes me think of something else: violence—sexual violence, in particular. It reminds...

COVID-19 crisis dims Milwaukee’s DNC spotlight as plans confirmed for nearly all-virtual convention

Posted by Staff | Jun 27, 2020 |

Democrats will hold an almost entirely virtual presidential nominating convention August 17 to 20 in Milwaukee using live broadcasts and online streaming, party officials said on June 24. Joe Biden plans to accept the presidential nomination in person, but it remains unknown whether there will be a significant in-person audience there to see it. The Democratic National Committee said in a statement that official business, including the votes to nominate Biden and his yet-to-be-named running mate, will take place virtually, with delegates being asked not to travel to Milwaukee. The DNCC reiterated the Democratic Party’s commitment to holding a...

Trump suggests that Wisconsin was awarded $5.5B Naval Frigate contract to influence his reelection

Posted by Common Dreams | Jun 27, 2020 |

Several shipbuilding companies may have grounds to file formal complaints with the U.S. Navy and the Government Accountability Office after President Donald Trump on June 25 suggested a multi-billion dollar weapons contract was awarded to a Wisconsin company because of its status location in a key 2020 battleground state. Speaking to workers at Fincantieri Marinette Marine on June 25, Trump said the company was selected for the $5.5 billion contract to build 10 guided-missile frigates because of the speed and maneuverability of its existing ships—and because of the company’s location in a swing state. “I hear the maneuverability is...

Milwaukee’s Harbor District awarded first-ever “Trash Free Waters” grant for Kinnickinnic River clean up

Posted by Staff | Jun 24, 2020 |

At a press conference at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Freshwater Sciences, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler announced the selection of the first-ever Great Lakes Restoration Initiative (GLRI) Trash Free Waters grant. Harbor District, Inc. was selected to receive a $492,300 grant to construct and install a trash collector on the Kinnickinnic River just south of W. Becher St., about a mile south of the conjunction of the Kinnickinnic and Milwaukee Rivers. “After years of neglect and decline, the Kinnickinnic River is experiencing a rebirth as local and federal partners remove concrete channel, restore its...