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Monthly Archives: July 2013
The Problem with Permits
In the last week close to a hundred citizens have been arrested for singing in the Wisconsin Capitol building. Each one has been charged for gathering without a permit, which comes with a $200.50 fine. The singers are gentle, angry … Continue reading
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Tagged Act 10, Arrests, Article 1 Section 4, Attorney General, Constitution, David Blaska, dissent, Edwin Blashfield, fine, First Amendment, free speech zones, freedom of speech, National Register of Historic Places, permit, police, politcal expression, political speech, Red Cross blood drive, rotunda, Scott Walker, singing, Solidarity Sing Along, Tea Party tax day, The Resources of Wisconsin, union, Wisconsin Capitol, Wisconsin Department of Administration
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Say It Ain’t So, Ryan
Dear Ryan Braun, As you know your suspension from baseball for using performance-enhancing drugs has disappointed many, many people, not only Milwaukee Brewers fans, but all of those who believed you when you insisted that the allegations you were juicing … Continue reading
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Tagged athlete, Baseball, character, Facebook, fans, hero, heroes, human, illegal drugs, Jake, jerseys, juicing, kids, Lance Armstrong, Little League, Major League Baseball, Milwaukee Brewers, mistakes, peformance-enhancing drugs, penance, punishment, redemption, Ryan Braun, Shoeless Joe Jackson, trust, union, Wisconsin
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Living in Peace
Nature has always been where I find my peace. So when I look for peace in a violent world and I look to nature I am greeted with the fact that the rest of nature is as violent as the … Continue reading
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Tagged alive, community, compassion, disease, evolution, fear, goodness, greed, hatred, hope, humanity, hunger, kindness, live, love, mistrust, murder, music, nature, peace, pleasure, possession, property, singing, song, survive, territory, tools, trust, violence, war, weapons, young
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Candlelight
When I arrived at the candlelight vigil for Trayvon Martin there was one other person there, a young African-American male who asked my name and then introduced himself as Ibraham, the Muslim variation of the Judeo-Christian prophet Abraham. Shortly two … Continue reading
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Tagged African-American, bigots, black, blood, Bo Morrison, candlelight vigil, Derek Williams, drugs, Emmeett Till, gang, hatred, Hmong, hope, Ibraham, incarceration, James Byrd, Jim Crow, Jr., Judeo-Christian, Latino, love, lynch, Martin Luther King, masters, Medgar Evers, minorities, Muslim, oppression, prejudice, prison, privilege, queer, racism, Trayvon Martin, Troy Davis, voting, whites
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Letter to Department of Administration on Proposed Rule Changes
This is a copy of the e-mail I just sent to Donna Sorenson of the Wisconsin Department of Administration regarding proposed rules changes that will affect Capitol access. The only change is that I’ve removed my contact information from the … Continue reading
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Tagged administrative code, Badger state, bureaucrats, Capitol, citizens, Constitution, demonstrations, Donna Sorenson, equal rights, fascism, frac sand, free speech, freedom, gay rights, Gogebic Taconite, government, highway numbering, legislators, limit speech, ore, permits, political pendulum, protected classes, protests, public forum, representative, resource, rules, town square, unemployment compensation, Wisconsin Department of Administration
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The 1943 Mulcahy Mine Disaster
Shullsburg, Wisconsin is tucked into the southwestern corner of the state, just eight miles from Illinois and twenty miles from Iowa. It is among the oldest cities in the state, founded in 1827, more than two decades before statehood. Everything … Continue reading
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Tagged Badger, Badger Mine and Museum, Benton, cave-in, Cecil Ingraham, collapse, Darlington, Elk Grove, environmental regulations, John Stephens, Joseph Griffin, Laverne Kittoe, lead, Lead Miners Memorial Park, Leadmine, Maynard Howell, Mineral Point, miners, mining, mining disaster, Mulcahy Mine, National Register of Historic Places, Nelson Jones, New Diggings, Platteville, profit, Romano Luciani, Russell Farrey, Shullsburg, Walter Mauthe, William Rooney, Wisconsin, World War II, zinc
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Conversation
Yesterday my mother was both lucid and unintelligible, moving back and forth between a woman who seemed to perfectly understand the world around her and another person who looked around not even sure of where she was. She was older … Continue reading
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Tagged body, deah, dementia, father, life's end, love, Mom, mother, siblings, son, soul, spina bifada, spirit
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