George Banda: Honoring lost friends in vigil to Vietnam veterans at The Wall
Milwaukee’s George Banda joined veterans and volunteers from around the country who participated in the Reading of the Names of the 58,318 service members on The Wall. Part of a week of events to commemorate the 35th anniversary of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, names...
The irony of visiting heroes at Arlington, the former home of a national traitor
George Banda traveled from Milwaukee to Washington DC for Veterans Day 2017 events. Along his journey, he visited many of his fallen friends by paying tribute to their names on The Wall, the Vietnam Veterans Memorial, and their graves at Arlington National Cemetery....
Lynn Novick: A discussion about her Vietnam War film on Veterans Day
Emmy and Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker, Lynn Novick, held an informal Q&A with veterans about the 18-hour documentary series she co-directed with Ken Burns at The Hamilton on Veterans Day 2017. “The Vietnam War” tells the story of one of the most...
Statue honoring immigrant motherhood rededicated at Cathedral Square Park
The Archdiocese of Milwaukee held the public rededication at Cathedral Square Park for the restored Immigrant Mother statue created by Croatian artist Ivan Meštrović on November 13. The bronze sculpture depicts a mother with her children, and was originally installed...
Simon Sinek: Milwaukee fails at playing an infinite game with finite rules
In game theory, there are two types of games: finite and infinite. A finite game is defined as having known players, fixed rules and agree upon objective, according to Simon Sinek during his summer Talks at Google session. During his presentation, he said baseball is...
Infographic: The People Behind the Way We Live
© Graphic The People Behind The Way We Live Do you know how the inventions you use everyday really came to be? Inventions are thing we use everyday and we tend to over look how they came to be. For instance indoor plumbing, in 1775 Alexander Cumming invents an...
Facebook Psychology: 10 infographics that illustrate the impact of social media
Information graphics are graphic visual representations of information, data or knowledge intended to present information quickly and clearly. They can improve cognition by utilizing graphics to enhance the human visual system’s ability to see patterns and trends....
Patrick Jones: Milwaukee’s struggle for racial justice as the Selma of the North
The Milwaukee County Historical Society (MCHS) hosted a “200 Nights of Freedom” event on November 3 with author Patrick Jones, who discussed his book about Milwaukee’s Open Housing Marches of 1967-1968. Stories about the Civil Rights era of the 1960s...
Unknown vandals deface social justice mural at Black Cat Alley
“My piece deals with the history of mass incarceration in Wisconsin, which has the highest rate of black male incarceration in the nation. One out of eight African American men in the State of Wisconsin, or 12.8%, is currently incarcerated. It’s an issue that we have...
Paul Ryan parody video explains myth of Trickle-Down Economics
Civic Action launches parody campaign #downwithtrickledown slamming Paul Ryan, his tax plan, and trickle-down economics. A campaign satirizing Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) and trickle-down economics launched in Ryan’s district in Wisconsin and online. Created by...
Online patriots too lazy to honor troops by actually attending Veterans Day Parade
Anyone in Southeastern Wisconsin who complains on social media about how Veterans are dishonored should have actually made the effort to honor them on November 4. The ongoing protest by NFL players during the National Anthem has generated a great deal of online...
America’s Herrenvolk Democracy is a social democracy for the white majority
“Herrenvolk democracy” basically means social democracy for the favored race as a way not of expanding liberty to all citizens but only to the accepted in-group, people like us as the white majority.” – Rick Perlstein Herrenvolk democracy is a crucial concept...
