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As a regular donor to WUWM, I must say the NPR station’s decision to drop Alternative Radio is a sad one, indeed. I’ve been told the hour long program which has been on WUWM at 8 p.m. Sunday nights was dropped as of last Sunday, May 2. Alternative Radio has been one of the few…
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How can I now criticize the U.S. health care system? Just five days before this was written, I found myself in the St. Luke’s Hospital (in Milwaukee) emergency room, having been taken there on a lovely Sunday morning with chest pains. The pains, along with unexpected shortness of breath in the previous two days,…
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(Editor’s Comment: Some of the best political commentary I’ve seen comes from a teacher friend, Tom Sobottke of Pewaukee WI, and we’re pleased to provide him space for his words here. Click here to read Tom Sobottke’s Words. Read his comments and let us know what you think.
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It appears the Republicans are on the rampage. Sadly, they’ve been able to fool many working people (now facing tough times). But make no mistake, the GOP is standing with Wall Street and Big Business, as you can hear in this report on Thursday, Feb. 4, by Rachel Maddow on MSNBC. (The guts of her…
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Just 12 years ago this coming May, Howard Zinn spent two memorable days participating in Wisconsin Labor History Society events: our annual conference held in 1998 in Oshkosh and the Bay View Tragedy event a day later in Milwaukee. This marvelous man, whose life was spent using history to spur ordinary folks to recognize their…
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If the weight of your years on earth begin to burden you, and you want to give up on the eternal fight for peace and justice, just think of Granny D, who turns 100 on Sunday, Jan. 24th. She is still blogging (yes, at 100 she blogs!), and she has some ideas of how to…
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Scott Brown, so full of glee that he joyously peddled his daughters as “available,” (though one apparently wasn’t), proclaimed his Massachusetts seat win was a “people’s victory.” Wrong! The winners were those who would do very little to really help ordinary folks, middle class working families and the struggling poor. The winners were: The health…
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No, I won’t make a New Year’s Resolution this year. Over the last few years, I’ve vowed to cure my addiction to reruns of “Law and Order,” the original and all of its offsprings, but alas, I seem to violate it on the very next “Law and Order” marathon day. I’ve concluded I can’t be…
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Take time this holiday season to enjoy memories of friends, Some old and some new, fondly remembered for moments Of joy and of enlightenment and of caring and of sweetness, And let those memories brighten and freshen your spirit. Oh the sadness that has permeated these years of the 21st, The unnecessary wars, the loss…
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Praise must go to Wisconsin State AFL-CIO President David Newby for braving the “Fair and Balanced” segment of Fox News on Thursday, Dec. 17. Governor Jim Doyle’s signing of the bill to call for the state’s education standards to include labor history and collective bargaining has gathered some national attention; it may indeed be the…
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