Milwaukee awarded $20M from HUD grant to increase affordable housing and address homelessness
Marcia L. Fudge, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), announced the allocation of nearly $5 billion in American Rescue Plan funds to help communities across the country create affordable housing and services for people experiencing...
Creeping Militarisation: Why police policies are more about controlling the poor than fighting crime
“Lower-class culture is pathological.” So claimed American political scientist Edward Banfield in his 1970 book The Unheavenly City. For Banfield, unlike the middle class, “the lower-class person lives from moment to moment… unable or unwilling to take...
Rally in Milwaukee calls for an end to violence against Palestinians in Gaza as full-scale war looms
Hundreds of protesters gathered in downtown Milwaukee on May 12 in response to the latest escalation of violence in Gaza and Israel, which has reached its highest point in years with police raids and airstrikes that have killed at least 14 Palestinian children since...
Milwaukee in May: Annual community march highlights immigrant rights and representation
Members of Voces de la Frontera Action, Souls to the Polls, Youth Empowered in the Struggle (YES), The Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) and many Milwaukee residents marched on Saturday, May 1 showing support for essential and immigrant workers. This year’s...
State Interference: Mayor Tom Barrett blasts Senate Bill 117 as a “vicious attack on local government”
By Edgar Mendez • Milwaukee Neighborhood News Service Mayor Tom Barrett called a bill passed on May 12 by the state Senate that requires the Fire and Police Commission to add members selected by the police and fire unions “a vicious attack on local government.” “It’s...
Milwaukee holds march in solidarity with activists in Colombia who are being massacred by police
Milwaukee held a rally and march May 10 in solidarity with activists in Colombia who are being massacred by the police and paramilitary forces after days of labor protests. A national strike took place in Columbia on April 28, organized by trade unions against a...
Leaving Afghanistan: How twenty years and $2 Trillion did not bring peace, democracy, or freedom
As the mother of an Army infantry officer who served for 13 months during former President Barack Obama’s Afghanistan surge, in the Zhari District of the Kandahar Province, I feel tremendous relief that President Joe Biden is calling the troops home from...
Finding an end to the “never-ending war” and dismantling an empire of military infrastructure
Here is the strange thing in an ever-stranger world: I was born in July 1944 in the midst of a devastating world war. That war ended in August 1945 with the atomic obliteration of two Japanese cities, Hiroshima and Nagasaki, by the most devastating bombs in history up...
Immigration advocates travel from Milwaukee to DC to Madison demanding action on promised reforms
Voces de La Frontera sent a national delegation of 41 immigrant essential workers and their families to Washington DC to be part of a national May Day march, and to mark the end of a cross-country caravan that covered more than 40 states to promote immigration reform....
An obstruction of progress: The word “filibuster” was derived from the term for “pirate”
By Joshua Holzer, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Westminster College “The word filibuster derives from the Spanish filibustero, itself deriving originally from the Dutch vrijbuiter, ‘privateer, pirate, robber.’ The Spanish form entered the...
Pardeep Kaleka: On being a proud Pioneer and following the spirit of leadership at Carroll University
The 8th of May was a beautiful sunny Saturday morning on the main lawn of Carroll University, when President Dr. Cindy Gnadinger welcomed the newest class of graduates to the spring 2021 ceremony. Dr. Gnadinger is the first women President at Wisconsin’s oldest four-year collegiate institution.
Carroll University develops new education program to address the pandemic-accelerated health care crisis
As the United States and the State of Wisconsin face the incredible challenges of the global COVID-19 pandemic, another health crisis has quietly been accelerating in the background – the growing need for mental health services. Prior to the onset of the COVID-19...
