Saving Our Democracy: June 13-19, 2019

Jun. 11, 2019

2:30 p.m.

The Shepherd Express serves as a clearinghouse for all activities in the Greater Milwaukee area that peacefully push back against discriminatory, reactionary or authoritarian actions and policies of the Donald Trump regime, as well as other activities that seek to thwart social justice.

To submit to this column, please send a brief description of your action, including date and time, to savingourdemocracy@shepex.com.

Thursday, June 13

Cuban Caravan @ Central United Methodist Church (633 N. 25th St.), 6 p.m.

Welcome Father Luis Barrios of Pastors for Peace (PFP) with a potluck dinner. Barrios, a native of Puerto Rico, is a pastor in New York City and a former prisoner of conscience for challenging the U.S. Army’s School of the Americas, which has trained military torturers throughout Latin America.

President Donald Trump and National Security Advisor John Bolton recently announced an attempt to further tighten U.S. restrictions on the right of our people to travel to Cuba. Trump also authorized lawsuits in U.S. courts (that no American president had ever allowed) against American and other companies doing business in Cuba.

The event is sponsored by the Wisconsin Coalition to Normalize Relations with Cuba, Peace Action Wisconsin and End the Wars Coalition MKE. The program includes a potluck dinner. Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes is among the speakers.

Friday, June 14

President Donald Trump Impeachment Birthday Party @ Pere Marquette Park (900 N. Plankinton Ave.), 6 p.m.

Friday, June 14, (ironically Flag Day) is Donald Trump’s 73rd birthday. Impeachment would be the perfect gift to our country. Join Indivisible Tosa and Indivisible Madison to celebrate. No gifts required.

Saturday, June 15

Peace Action of Wisconsin: Stand for Peace @ the corner of Highway 100 and Bluemound Road, noon-1 p.m.

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

Laughing Liberally Milwaukee @ ComedySportz Milwaukee (420 S. First St.), 8 p.m.

With Donald Trump and Republican attacks on health care, immigrants, the environment and more, we need progressive laughs now more than ever. Laughing Liberally Milwaukee is hosted by comedian, cartoonist and progressive talk radio host Matthew Filipowicz. Filipowicz’s work has been featured on CNN, NPR, PBS, HBO, BBC, Ain’t It Cool News, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, The Nation and countless sites in the progressive blogosphere including Salon, Daily Kos and HuffPost. Comedians on the June 15 bill include Ton Johnson, Dana Ehrmann, Josh Fred, Ryan Mason, Kristin Lytie and sketch comedy group The Accountants of Homeland Security.

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Sunday, June 16

Social Hour w/ Victor Grossman @ Peace Action Wisconsin (1001 E. Keefe Ave.), 5 p.m.

Joining this Democratic Socialists of America MKE event is a very special guest from Berlin, Germany, Victor Grossman. Join Milwaukee DSA as we meet Grossman and discuss his latest book, A Socialist Defector: From Harvard to Karl-Marx-Allee. Grossman will share his unique experiences and insights from the U.S. and East Germany during the Cold War.

Monday, June 17

Medicaid Expansion—Phone and Postcard @ Grassroots Northshore (5600 W. Brown Deer Road), 10:30 a.m.

Support the Medicaid expansion and the Fair Maps proposal by phoning and writing your legislators. Stop by Grassroots’ office to make calls to your state senators and Assembly representatives to support the Medicaid expansion in Wisconsin. Fill out postcards to each of your representatives to ask them to support non-partisan redistricting.

Wednesday, June 19

Juneteenth Day Festival 2019 @ Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive between Center and Burleigh Streets, 10 a.m.–5:30 p.m.

Juneteenth is the oldest known celebration commemorating the ending of slavery in the United States. The event, dating back to 1865, began when Union soldiers landed at Galveston, Texas, with news that the war had ended and the enslaved were now free. Milwaukee’s Juneteenth Day event is organized by the Northcott Neighborhood House. The festival features musical performances and food vendors, along with community organizations sharing helpful resources for residents of all ages.

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Kellyanne, the Hatch Act, "No Collusion", "It's your turn Congress"

Enforce the laws to the fullest when it is applied to "them", but kind of look the other way when it is being applied to "people like me." I call it "selective enforcement", like back in the Vietnam war era among people in Madison. Crack down on that beer party by the long-hairs in a Madison public park, but let the beer party by the crew-cut boys continue.

Don't you hear a double standard here? But that is the way it was in the Conservative "Happy Days" of the 1950s, a time before Civil Rights, School Integration, and Fair Housing Act.

Mueller basically said "we can't indict a sitting president"... so it is up to Congress to make Trump "not president" before charges can be pressed and prosecution begun. That is what Nancy Pelosi wants, but she is realistic enough to know that there is not enough time to complete an impeachment before the 2020 election, plus the Senate is still Republican and will not vote to oust Trump. The Senate is the "impeachment jury" while the House is the "impeachment prosecutor", sort of... best to defeat him in November, then bring the judge's gavel down on Trump.

Trump will take any "oppo-research" he can get, foreign or domestic, from places like Pew Research or from the KKK. No calling the FBI about what the price of the deal is going to be. -- In professional sports, we Americans don't take kindly to cheap-shots and unsportsmanlike conduct (because of the intention to make money on ticket sales NEXT year?), but in politics, the intention is to put the opposition party down... permanently! For that reason alone, we have a Double Standard regarding Opposition Research, both the left and the right actually prefer a "win-lose" outcome, none of this stupid "win-win" stuff.

So Kellyanne is a repeat offender of the Hatch Act... but she will get a free pass from Trump because of her "loyalty" to the dictator/CEO... meanwhile Democrats will be brought up on charges for using their public offices or public-funded infrastructure to campaign...

Did that make Scott Walker's secret wireless network okay because it was not County or State IT services being used? So what if his staffers each had an extra laptop in their government offices. It is completely okay for a private corporation to use their staff to support their leadership, why not public office politicians?

SE Wisc. Citizen more than 5 years ago

I have a "capital" idea...

Look at what "anti-discrimination" laws REALLY did to the American workplace.

When there were no rights for any worker, and everyone was free to be "fired at will" for whatever reason, anywhere from true incompetence to "other workers will not work with him/her", it was easy to hire anyone because it was easy to fire them when they did not work out.

But now that you have protected classes such as women, people of color, LGBTQ people, people over age 45, the disabled, you find that companies do not want to hire ANY of these people because they have a really difficult time trying to fire them. It can even be said that once a "protected" person is hired, they quit working because they know you cannot fire them.

Why not give anti-discrimination status to the "white supremacist" or "white racist", but only kicks in on people who are hired after the date the act of Congress is passed. It will be easy to fire these people at will because they already are white and male. But in their next job, they will not be hired by anyone because they will not be able to be fired easily.

Also, if they want to be hired with "quotas", then they at least will be forced to get some kind of degree or credentials proving they have the skill needed for the job, no more being hired because of being a white good old boy. -- I often heard that comment from blacks regarding the schooling they needed to get, yet whites who had no credentials were still getting the jobs. Same was said for women entering the workforce when the men were coming in with no education.

This way, only small businesses with poor or no benefits will hire the white supremacist, no large corporation that can afford to "socialize" their risk over a large employee base will even bother hiring these people if they cannot fire them the easy way anymore.

SE Wisc. Citizen more than 5 years ago