Saving Our Democracy: May 25-31, 2017

May 23, 2017

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Feminism on Tap, 5/25 from 5-7:30 p.m. @ TGâ€™s (4120 Seventh Ave., Kenosha)

Every week, the Shepherd Express will serve as a clearinghouse for any and all activities in the greater Milwaukee area that peacefully push back against discriminatory, reactionary or authoritarian actions and policies of the Trump administration and other activities that seek to thwart social justice. We will publicize and promote actions, demonstrations, planning meetings, teach-ins, party-building meetings, drinking/discussion get-togethers or any other actions that are directed toward fighting back to preserve our liberal democratic system.

Thursday, May 25

Feminism on Tap, 5-7:30 p.m. @ TG’s (4120 Seventh Ave., Kenosha)

Kenosha’s Drinking Liberally chapter is hosting Feminism on Tap, a happy hour with rotating hosts that provides a fun collaborative space for women’s rights advocates and community members to develop ideas.

Saturday, May 27

Peace Action Wisconsin: Stand for Peace, noon-1 p.m. @ Corner of LaFayette Hill and Lincoln Memorial Drive

Every Saturday, from noon-1 p.m., concerned citizens join with Peace Action Wisconsin to protest war. Signs will be provided for those who need them. Protesters are encouraged to stick around for conversation and coffee afterwards.

These Doors Stay Open (Part 2), 5 p.m.-2 a.m., @ The Local Club Anything (807 S. Fifth St.)

MKE Punk Fest is presenting a benefit show for Planned Parenthood with the goal of raising $5,000 for the women’s health organization. Urban Descent, TIGT, BxUxDx, Four 5 Dive and many more will perform. Doors open at 5 p.m., with the show starting at 6. There is a $5 or more suggested donation. The event is 21+.

Wednesday, May 31

Refuel the Resistance, 5-8 p.m. @ Bounce Milwaukee (2801 S. Fifth Court)

Every Wednesday, Bounce Milwaukee offers a space to organize, as well as a free drink to anyone who brings evidence of resistance in the past week, including protest signs, an email to an elected official or a selfie at the capital.

To submit to this column, please send a brief description of your action, including date and time, to savingourdemocracy@shepex.com. Together, we can fight to minimize the damage that this administration has planned for our great country.

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I would like to see more articles showing what els...

I would like to see more articles showing what else is going on when we are all busy talking about Russian investigations, what Trump tweeted now, etc. I think he is a shrewd enough business promoter that he knows how to keep the press's attention on the elephant in the room while some other twisted change is going on. I am sure the same happened while "Slick Willy" was being investigated about Monica Lewinsky and such. Things like bank de-regulation, NAFTA, etc.Many of your readers and supporters, as well as the affluent suburbs are fully on-board with electronic devices, smart-phones, internet TV, avoiding Spectrum, AT&T U-Verse, DirectTV and Dish Network. Let me read more about cyber security, how the advertising on our favorite websites are intensely trying to break down our attempts at privacy and not sharing our browsing choices.I have run into many cases where if I do not let ads show, then I cannot view the main content of the site. This is happening on websites you would not expect, both Liberal and Conservative, Financial included. I work in a field that works with information technology in the workplace, but I do not mean I work an IT job or a job that protects financial and HIPAA data. Even in the manufacturing sector, the spying and snooping is becoming a concern... from inside the company as well as foreign actors and competing corporations. Expose the truth about how those who put up ads DEMAND to know who is seeing the ads, may even demand to know if we responded and bought something as a result of that ad. If it gets bad enough, they may even demand to know how we voted, violating trust in a secret ballot. They need to know if their "issue ad" money was well spent on the choice of channels they released it.Expose how there is no anonymity in telephone or on-line survey data. Teach us about protecting our privacy. Show us how every facebook post, twitter tweet, snapchat transmission, or even "Disqus" comment is not really secret. Educate us on why we should not "root" our smart phones, surf the web in administrator mode, accept updates while online, etc.Many more that even our gun-toting hard right are concerned about as much as our blue-voting millennial people are.

WaukeshaGuy more than 1 year ago

There is a term... "preaching to the choir".Someti...

There is a term... "preaching to the choir".Sometimes I think the Shepard would be smart to keep themselves limited to the blue-voting parts of Milwaukee. Only stock the printed edition in those areas, and use IP locator technology to make sure that political articles only show up online from those areas. Outside of that, keep it only advertising eateries and entertainment events.The reason I say this is most of your Democrat articles take the far left-wing approach, it fails to include the center and the left of center. You already know that the extreme right and right of center cannot be reached with a far left message. Out here in the red-voting parts of the Milwaukee TV viewership area, "Democracy" is a dirty word, because it reminds them of all that Democrat actions have done to "ruin" the lives of Conservatives, that is how the people out here see it.What we need to hear out here is how the GOP policies will hurt our common red-voting people even after Milwaukee is thoroughly purged of any non-whites, non-Christians, immigrants and other blue-voters. It is a falsehood to think that the red-voters are lock-step in favor of all GOP policies, simply because they go against the left-most of the left.We need more facts of how saving Milwaukee keeps their GOP suburbs in the black, how the subtleties of law changes will hurt us in the long run. Do not say how it hurts non-whites, immigrants, or non-Christians, the Conservatives out here want that and will support it. Do not EVER say it helps non-whites, immigrants, and non-Christians, that is when the shields go up and all reasonable thinking stops. Promote how it helps the working man and the taxpaying Middle Class, let us think it is referring to people who are white, Christian, and born to 4 grandparents who lived an American life.

WaukeshaGuy more than 1 year ago