Philanthropic grant allows MKE Urban Stables to offer equine therapy programs to local community
MKE Urban Stables announced on July 27 that it was the recipient of a $100,000 grant from Bader Philanthropies to help fund operations in their new facility, which is a unique stable that brings together equine therapy, community engagement, and a permanent home for...
A Pet Friendly City: Downtown Milwaukee’s first dog park gets support with public fundraising campaign
Fundraising efforts for what will be downtown Milwaukee’s first public dog park kicked off in late August with the launch of a new website and fundraising portal, mkedogpark.com. Milwaukee Downtown BID #21, Historic Third Ward BID #2, Downtown Neighbors Association...
Security Kabuki: An entire generation of Americans have no memory of how easy air travel used to be
By Janet Bednarek, Professor of History, University of Dayton During the mid-1990s I traveled between Dayton, Ohio, and Washington DC, twice a month during the school year as half of a commuting couple. I could leave Dayton by 5:15 p.m., drive nearly 80 miles to the...
The “dangerous neighborhood” trope: How wars overseas are linked to police brutality at home
With obvious links between anti-war movements against U.S. militarism and Black Lives Matter activism against police brutality, many are suggesting that it is time for activists to join forces. When U.S. Representative Ilhan Omar decried Israel’s 11-day aerial...
Preparing for Resettlement: Fort McCoy gives medical and humanitarian services to 8,000 Afghan refugees
As more evacuees from Afghanistan arrive at Fort McCoy, government officials say they are focused on meeting medical needs and helping Afghans through the immigration process. A U.S. State Department official and a senior Army official representing Task Force McCoy...
Resettling Refugees: Why White communities object to religious groups for helping people displaced by war
By Stephanie J. Nawyn, Associate Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Center for Gender in Global Context, Michigan State University When the Taliban took control of Afghanistan’s capital, Kabul, on August 15, 2021, the frenetic evacuation of foreigners and...
Making pregnancy a crime: The Texas abortion law is just part of the Republican’s War on Democracy
The American right has been drunk on its freedom from two kinds of inhibition since Donald Trump appeared to guide them into the promised land, and unleashed the impulsive part of their psyche. One that was free of the inhibition to lie, the other from a restraint for...
September 18: Fears mount over a second insurrection by rightwing extremists at upcoming Capitol rally
Amid rising fears of the threat posed by the GOP’s mobilization of out-and-out fascists and its intensifying assault on democracy, lawmakers and intelligence officials are voicing concerns about a September 18 U.S. Capitol rally that far-right extremists...
Governor Tony Evers invests $19.7M in transit services for Milwaukee after state lawmakers deprive funding
Governor Tony Evers announced on August 30 a $25 million investment in transit services for the city of Madison and Milwaukee County, supported by the state’s American Rescue Plan Act dollars. Madison will get more than $5.2 million of the funds, and more than...
Our Right to Clean Water: Why Wisconsin needs to reclaim its tradition of freshwater protection
August is National Water Quality Month, a month dedicated to bringing awareness to the fact that access to clean water is a human right we all share. In Wisconsin — home of 15,000 lakes, two of the largest freshwater bodies in the world, and an amount of groundwater...
Warmer And Wetter: Wisconsin’s economy is already suffering from the impact of Global Warming
Temperatures across the world are expected to rise past a level that scientists had hoped to avoid through drastic cuts in carbon emissions, according to a new report from a United Nations panel on climate change. Scientists say many changes from past and future...
Reggie Jackson: Governmental compensation for slavery and racism is part of America’s national debt
Reggie Jackson, a writer for the Milwaukee Independent and the former head griot, or oral historian, at America’s Black Holocaust Museum in Milwaukee, has a long history of military service in his family stretching back to the Civil War. But when two of his uncles who...
