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It’s easy to look at the current state of affairs on Planet Earth with despair. It’s easy, too, to see no chance for hope of positive change in 2020. Each month the results of global warming become more apparent with forest fires, terrible rains and snows, huge floods in some areas of the earth and…
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It dawned on me that as my 90th birthday approached that I was extremely blessed — not only that I had survived all these years but because of the good fortunes of life that I had no control over. I was blessed at my birth – August 8, 1929 – to be born Caucasian AND…
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It seems these days that no one is a racist, particularly President Trump. Take his word for it: “I don’t have a racist bone in my body.” (Tweet on July 16, 2019) How often have you heard a person proclaim, “I am not a racist”? The phrase comes from people who soon will be talking…
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Kenneth A. Germanson, president emeritus, Wisconsin Labor History Society, prepared this paper for the May 22, 2019, public input session at Kenosha concerning the proposed Wisconsin Historical Museum to be built in Madison. The state of Wisconsin was born and grew into a Great State thanks to the working people who toiled on the…
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(A bit of lame poetry to herald in the New Year, with apologies and a hearty “Happy New Year” to those I have failed to mention.) Join and raise your glasses high To bid chaotic eighteen good-bye. We offer a cheery and Happy New Year for family and friend far and near. A toast…
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From the bountiful blessings of our Thanksgiving table, I give thanks to Terence V. Powderly for founding and leading the Knights of Labor, our earliest and most sustaining national workers union, for proclaiming the principle of solidarity and inclusiveness that has featured the best of our union movement; Samuel Gompers, the immigrant cigar maker who…
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“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.” We, the American public, have already been fooled twice by our leaders about the truth on international incidents. Both times, the resulting actions were disastrous. Now, we need to resist being “fooled” for a third time, this time by a claim that the…
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December 7, 1941 – August 6, 1945 – November 22, 1963 April 4, 1968 – September 11, 2001 What do these dates have in common? For me, they are dates I will never forget. (If you’re not sure what the dates refer to, see end of this comment.) Today, I reflect upon that day 50 years ago today,…
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Exactly sixty years ago this past March, I boarded the ancient No. 10 (Wells Street) streetcar for one of the final runs of a streetcar on Milwaukee streets. It was a nostalgic run for me that day – then a 28-year-old reporter for the former Milwaukee Sentinel – sent to do a feature story on…
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No doubt, President Donald Trump’s comments about “shit hole” countries is racist. Whether he said them or not is beside side the point. There have been too many Trump tweets and comments with racist overtones to overlook them. The president is certainly racist, and the evidence was there long before his vulgar comment last week…
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