Experts Call Federal Budget Argument Against Taking BadgerCare Dollars False

By Citizen Action of Wisconsin

Former Congressman David Obey and top budget experts debunk claim by Walker and Legislative allies that federal funds for filling the holes in BadgerCare are uncertain.

Statewide – On a media call today state and national budget experts, including former chair of the US House Appropriations Committee Congressman Dave Obey, revealed that federal funding for BadgerCare is very secure, and much more certain than much of the $19.6 billion federal dollars in Governor Walker’s budget proposal.

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Action Alert - Ask Legislators to Support Transit in the State Budget

Transit is vital to the independence and quality of life of Wisconsinites with disabilities, older adults, and their families.

The Joint Committee on Finance will be voting on Transit this Thursday! YOUR HELP IS NEEDED – LEGISLATORS ARE NOT GETTING CONTACTS ABOUT TRANSIT. Contact legislators NOW and ask them to restore the 10% cut in Transit Aids and keep Transit in the Transportation Fund

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Action Alert – Ask Your State Legislators to Support Medicaid Expansion

The Joint Finance Committee is currently developing the 2013–2015 State Budget and one of the options they may consider is expanding Medicaid in Wisconsin. This is an important time to contact your state legislators and ask them to accept Federal funding to support Medicaid expansion. Taking advantage of federal funding to expand Medicaid has the potential to guarantee health care coverage to more people with disabling conditions than ever before.

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Creation Hymn of 10th Book of the Rig-Veda

A gift of Mother India from about 3,000 years ago.

The Creation Hymn of Rig Veda

There was neither non-existence nor existence then.
There was neither the realm of space nor the sky which is beyond.
What stirred?
Where?
In whose protection?
Was there water, bottlemlessly deep?

There was neither death nor immortality then.
There was no distinguishing sign of night nor of day.
That One breathed, windless, by its own impulse.
Other than that there was nothing beyond.

Darkness was hidden by darkness in the beginning,
with no distinguishing sign, all this was water.
The life force that was covered with emptiness,
that One arose through the power of heat.

Desire came upon that One in the beginning,
that was the first seed of mind.
Poets seeking in their heart with wisdom
found the bond of existence and non-existence.

Their cord was extended across.
Was there below?
Was there above?
There were seed-placers, there were powers.
There was impulse beneath, there was giving forth above.

Who really knows?
Who will here proclaim it?
Whence was it produced?
Whence is this creation?
The gods came afterwards, with the creation of this universe.
Who then knows whence it has arisen?

Whence this creation has arisen
- perhaps it formed itself, or perhaps it did not -
the One who looks down on it,
in the highest heaven, only He knows
or perhaps He does not know.

Father Thomas Berry: India’s Spirituality—Intimacy With The Divine Through Flowering Plants and All Living Forms

We are moving from a period of industrial plundering of the planet into a more intimate way of relating to the planet. We can no longer violate the integrity of Earth without becoming a destructive force for both the surrounding world and for ourselves.

Too frequently we have based our spiritualities simply on divine-human relations and inter-human relations while neglecting any concern for the role that the natural world plays in this process. What strikes us immediately is the extent to which the experience of the divine is inseparable in India from the experience of the natural forms that surround us throughout the universe. Absolute transcendence requires total immanence. We read in the Upanishads that the divine is the numinous presence within every visible from. Especially in the Epic tale o fRama and Sita narrated in the Ramayana and celebrated throughout the Asian world we find this human intimacy with the flowering plants and with every living form, all of which become a protective and healing presence to the two exiles in their long journey through the fields and woodlands of this vast subcontinent.

From Thomas Berry, “Religions of India: Hinduism, Yoga, Buddhism”
(Anima Press, 1992).

Some Jobs Are Toxic, Much New Work, Ennobling

Many people in our older cities are focusing on developing skills and life ways that support “new work,” i.e. work we really want to do, which creates value outside the world of economic exchange and reduces cash needs. Growing food in home and community gardens; renewing and maintaining old homes; time share and barter exchange of goods and services; food, child and elder care cooperatives; human and community development projects around
quality of life enhancements, e.g. community art and festivals: these are some adaptations underway. Some jobs are toxic to the job holder and environment. Some work, especially that which we really want to do, is ennobling to the spirit of the worker and her community.

BadgerCare Update: It’s not a yes or no vote yet!

By Kevin Kane

Organizations are stepping up, thinking that we can win this issue. AARP has taken on a number of public activities, including radio ads, and now has a public call-in number to hear more about Medicaid and to be connected to your state legislators. Please share this number wide and far: 800–844–2847

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Highlights from 2013 so far: The Good News

Tues. 5/14/13: Another GOP Leader Defects:

http://www.alternet.org/gop-director-hispanic-outreach-quits-and-becomes-democrat?akid=10432.295758.RV7hpH&rd=1&src=newsletter840231&t=7

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Immigration Meeting this Saturday

Wisconsin State AFL-CIO

Do you have questions about immigration legislation working its way through the U.S. Congress? Are you wondering how to join the fight for immigrant rights and all working people? If so, please join a coalition of worker and community groups for a very important meeting on the immigration reform bill this Saturday, May 18.

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Many Forms Of Capital for Communion of Earth’s Beings

Erik Lindberg inspired this note.

The fetish of green dollar capital is something worthy of overcoming if we are to enter into a communion of being with our life partners on our increasingly challenged planet.

Harvesting Many Forms of Capital

• Natural capital

• Cultural capital

• Social capital

• Spiritual capital

• Green dollar capital

Spiritual Capital Trumps

I have seen the power of the spirit as the driving force for the major evolutionary breakthroughs of my lifetime, transformations worth vastly more than the current green dollar value of the U.S. Government at the federal level.

• Peace Movement

• Civil Rights Movement

• Women’s Movement

• Ecology/Sustainability Movement

Millions of Dollars of Pro Bono Genius Labor Power

It’s not grants, it’s not dollar investments, As much as the pro bono genius labor power Poised to be offered to the cause of saving our planet, And therefore saving ourselves, and Advancing transitions from industrial to ecological cities.

If someone would take the time to make the calculations, many millions of dollars worth of highly skilled labor power have been invested by the most willing 10% of Milwaukee citizens, to the urban agriculture, global sustainability, and eco-spirituality projects we are blessed with.

With the army of retiring boomers arriving, and at least 10% of them with the resources required to join in, it’s as much a question of organizing our current enterprises and creating new ones to provide a place for this cultural, social, and spiritual capital to be invested in preserving and enhancing the vast bounty of natural capital that awaits our mindful practice, e.g. composting on a municipal scale.

The Commercial and ®Evolutionary Classes: Sweet Water Complexities

From the point of view of the commercial classes, who focused on single bottom line possibilities of Sweet Water Organics(SWO) and paid little attention to the foundational work of the Sweet Water Foundation(SWF), the Sweet Water story is on hold.

From the point of view of those, like myself and Emmanuel Pratt, who focused on the ®Evolutionary possibilities (per Grace Lee Boggs’ “The Next American Revolution”) of Sweet Water, our “utopian visions” have been vastly exceeded by the facts.

I have been close to the stories of two MacArthur genius award winners, and I will be surprised if the mutualistic symbiosis of the Sweet Water Community(SWC) with Emmanuel Pratt’s network does not yield the MacArthur Award for Emmanuel and a continuing flow of high recognition for the current Sweet Water star, i.e. the Sweet Water Foundation. Know, however, that Sweet Water is a key player in a global integral ecology movement of on the ground experimenters who will also win our ongoing appreciation on the stage and at the edge of history, like Dr. Subra Mukherjee of the Sweet Water inspired Indo American Aquaponics Institute.

The Commercial Class and the ®Evolutionary Sweet Water Debates

Some of the original SWO “partners” expected quick commercial success with a single bottom line focus. Emmanuel Pratt and I were not of that view.

We saw Sweet Water Organics as a necessary research and development project with too many unknowns to expect quick green money bottom line performance. Our Sweet Water was an emerging network of practitioners, and the Sweet Water hybrid, i.e. the Academy(SWF) and the farm(SWO) was seen as a science lab, a multifaceted 21st century school “without walls,” an eco-business incubator, an emerging community center, and possibly a model for urban infill development with a “Sweet Water Village” potential.

The Sweet Water ®Evolutionaries proposed a focus on multiple bottom lines, e.g. ecology and equity, as well as multiple-income streams, e.g. fish and produce sales, but also compost, worms, worm castings, small plot intensive garden structures, workshops, tours, urban agriculture and aquaponics installations. And they also framed Sweet Water as a necessary experiment, a long march through series of trials and error, evolutionary gropings, cognizant that tens of millions of mindful acts are required for anything of enduring substance to manifest. “Success is not final, failure is not fatal, what counts is the courage to continue.” (WC) Or, as Al Sharpton’s Grandma told us, “Life’s ont about falling down. It’s about getting yourself back up!”

From Riding Whales and Dodging Bullets To Astonished Participants In Miracle Cascades

We believed aquaponics to be quite possibly humanity’s most earth friendly and prolific method of food production, a major response to the challenge of food security, global warming, and the transition from industrial cities of consumptive capitalism to organic cities with cultures of respect and care, for all life forms, in harmony with nature. We opened our story to the public and the media from the get go, despite the possibility of substantial mistakes. Zorba the Greek was present in my mind’s eye, as was this mantra: “You wished it stranger. You left the path of your own free will. And you are lost if you believe in danger.” The cause was important enough that it had to be tried. And, we’re still trying!

Emmanuel and my core theory was that Sweet Water Organics could make a sufficient mark with its start-up team as to attract new sources of capital: green dollars, social, cultural, and spiritual capital that would launch the good ship Sweet Water for fruitful projects over the years and throughout Milwaukee and beyond.

Sweet Water, Alive and Well. Every City Deserves a Sweet Water!

Sweet Water, the Farm and the Academy, and the Community,
Is a museum alive, an evocative destination, and a science lab!

Sweet Water is a high tech, high science,
High craft, high art

Center for safe and delicious food production—
fresh fish and produce, locally sourced!

Sweet Water is a center for hands on education
For young and old.

A center for attracting and energizing
Inventors, innovators, enterprisers…active citizens!

Civic minded celebrators!

Transforming our great industrial cities
Into even more inspiring organic cities.

Every city in every country,
In all of earth’s great civilizations and cultures…

Deserves a Sweet Water and a Growing Power!

Sweet Water Multigenerational Experiments For A Higher Humanity

In communion with all life forms

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Sweet Water Foundation Recent Breakthroughs

Nice Chicago NBC program on Sweet Water’s Emmanuel Pratt and the SWF’s collaboration with CCA Academy on the South Side of Chicago.

http://chicago.cbslocal.com/2013/05/03/your-chicago-cca-academy-and-aquaponics/

Sweet Water Foundation has been and continues to be recognized by the US Dpmnt of Agriculture and now the US Dpmnt of Energy for the educational/curricular/outreach work that we do with the 50+ schools we have worked with across 3 cities. Many sites have and continue to feature our work such as this http://www.urbanfarmonline.com/urban-farm-news/2012/08/10/sweet-water-foundation-makes-a-difference.aspx

Sweet Water Foundation is a key partner in the ACTS Housing project currently underway in Milwaukee offering solutions to address the dire situation of foreclosure in Milwaukee. http://www.milwaukeenns.org/2012/12/24/washington-park-partners-offers-doorbuster-on-foreclosed-homes/
This pilot project is being watched closely by Wells Fargo, Bank of America, and PNC bank for the potential to translate to other cities.

Sweet Water Foundation is highly recognized and respected in cities like Chicago as the work we did in Milwaukee inspired Chicago State University to appoint me as Director of the Chicago State Aquaponics Center, which also highlights the ongoing educational and outreach work Sweet Water Foundation does. The center is partially funded by both the USDA and the US Department of Education as a potential national model (also inspired by the IBM Smarter Cities Milwuakee report).

Building upon the work at the CSU Aquaponics Center, Sweet Water Foundation was just recognized for our efforts in Chicago as I was one of 5 individuals featured as one of 5 green award winners in Chicago (http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/April-2013/2013-Green-Awards-Emmanuel-Pratt/)

Sweet Water Foundation has been funded by the USDA and is being recruited by NASA for the outreach and educational work we do resulting from our Midwest Aquaponics Expertise Development (http://citiesprogramme.com/cities/americas/usa/milwaukee/maintaining-and-improving-water-quality/water-cleaning-and-reuse/midwest-aquaponics-expertise-development-initiative-maedi).

Sweet Water Foundation’s Seed to Table Project Pilot initiative has been recognized and awarded for two years with promise of future funding by Newmans Own Foundation under our name

Tomorrow I have a conversation with several media companies interested in featuring Sweet Water Foundation as part of several national Toyota Green initiatives (http://www.toyotagreen.com/)

For the past three days, Sweet Water Foundation has been highlighted in the American Planning Association national conference for the educational and outreach we do ‘growing neighborhoods’. It is worth noting that city planners all seem to see the potential translation of the model we have developed on the Cobbs properties and the greater implications it presents for the entire Rust Belt but also internationally.

After being asked to be featured at the National Science Foundation funded talk regarding ‘Challenges in Vertical Farming (http://challengesinverticalfarming.org/), Sweet Water Foundation has also been featured in a Global publication http://www.asabe.org/publications/resource-magazine.aspx as part of a series of upcoming publications along the theme of Controlled Environment Agriculture. The magazine features trends, new technologies, issues, and applications related to agricultural and biological engineering.

Tomorrow I will be leading a mobile tour of a group across our network of sites (see flyer attached and this link:
http://www.planning.org/store/product/?ProductCode=ACTIVITY_13CONF_W057)

For the past 3 years, Sweet Water Foundation currently has had ongoing partnerships and is receiving increased interest with every major University in both Milwaukee and Chicago along with UW Madison for collaboration. All of these universities continue to get grant funding leveraging us as their partner. They also continue to publish papers in support of our work and impact. This does not include the national interest from Harvard, Cornell, Columbia, Dartmouth (many of which our team has either graduated from or worked with directly).

Sweet Water Foundation has been a key partner supporting the Organic Therapy Project with the Veterans in Milwaukee. Such was featured in the TEDx talk by Howard Hinterthuer of the Center for Veterans Issues (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObUoupoeJfw) as has since been discussed as a potentially national model.

Sweet Water Foundation was recently requested to be a listed partner in the USAID global submission with several partners in India and Kenya with which we have worked over the years as part of our Growing Networks initiative (http://growingnetworks.weebly.com/). Our submission was just received and we await response soon.

Sweet Water Foundations AQUAPONS program (funded and supported by MacArthur Foundation, Mozilla Foundation, and Bill & Melinda Gates Foundations) will be featured in the summer launch of the Chicago Summer of Learning program as part of a national platform to introduce new models of education.
(http://chicagosummeroflearning.org/ | http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/mayor/press_room/press_releases/2013/january_2013/mayor_emanuel_announcessummeroflearninginitiative.html)

From my perspective, the recent evolution of aquaponics/urban ag is somewhere between the evolution of the car with Henry Ford (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Ford) meets Apple with Steve Jobs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Jobs).

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Schizophrenia — New Hope for Effective Treatment Through Drug Development

Friday, May 31 Alumni Memorial Union Marquette University
1442 W. Wisconsin Ave. 7:15 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.

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Why Has Thomas Friedman Ignored Aquaponics?

Response to Friedman’s Postcard from Yemen in today’s NYT, published in comments section.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/08/opinion/friedman-postcard-from-yemen.html?comments#permid=42

With the Aquaponics Community Garden collaboration platform nearing 10,000 information sharers, the MacArthur Mozilla Foundations supporting Sweet Water Foundation’s AQUAPON Badge program for free digital training, Milwaukee/Chicago school systems introducing aquaponics into the high school curricula, Chicago State’s Emmanuel Pratt sparking a South Side Chicago Renaissance, i.e. “there grows the neighborhood,” and more, I am very, very curious why Mr. Friedman has never mentioned aquaponics, an earth friendly, water conserving, small space intensive food production methodology at the edge of “taking off.” Yemen’s children, America’s children, the world’s children, deserve a chance to learn aquaponics, to grow food for their family, and experience a hands on learning resource for science, technology, engineering, math(STEM), artisinal and eco-spirituality.

Indo American Aquaponics Institute(IAAI) “Aquaponics Olympics”

I have just been given an enthusiastic endorsement of the vision of our experiment with student/chaperon(mentor) micro aquaponics demonstrations, basically designed and installed by students, with students, with the eBook cameras running, and the student teams also be helped in harnessing internet connectivity for local/global kick start fund raising for the cause.

Students Harvest IT and Ecological ®Evolution Resourcs For Noble Deeds, Fun, and the Emerging Ecological Age

Why not have the first of 10,000 steps towards the global aquaponics olympics being an invite to the aquapons of the world to submit their high school or college students, or any youth less than 22 years of age, to sign up for a competition that would determine who would be the first one or two chosen for the D.C. installation.

All of this would be tied in with the SWF Badge Program and Subra’s India visions.

I myself would start out with the school teachers we’ve worked with in Milwaukee and DC, and my preference would be that you two would be the ones writing the invite letter for the competition.

I would also suggest we reach out to the emerging network of aquaponics experimenters to encourage them to alert their young partners to this new possibility.

What say?

More at http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/IndoAmericanAquaponicsInstitute/AquaponicsOlympics

Live Work Learn While Rebuilding New Orleans

This note showed up when digging into 2008 efforts to spark a live work learn exchange between the New Orleans and Milwaukee Renaissance movements, hoping to find a safe and inspiring place for my daughter Bridie, who with her honey Celi, is hoping to do the right thing in New Orleans.

My life changed at Alice’s Garden in Milwaukee That night when the sons and daughters of New Orleans Brought their story and shared their vision With the people of the Great Lakes cities.

Venice Williams, Greta Gladney, Pamela Broom, Kris Pottharst,and David Coffman Filled my mind and heart with images of a noble city and its stalwart survivors digging in, Digging, hammering, sawing, painting, cleansing, Gathering…celebrating sweet life’s possibilities right straight through unspeakable grief, betrayal, And tragedy.

Ready to join with all who come to bring

Will Allen’s Growing Power movement,

Grace Lee Boggs’ beloved community movement,

And other projects and movements to emulate

To the glorious renewing of deeply beloved

Mystic city…

New Orleans!

The hair on my arms has been raised and tingling since,
Whenever I flash on each of their presentations.
I have had to fight back tears of joy
In the face of what they, what we,
We brothers and sisters beyond New Orleans,
Kin with those who are staying
Entertaining decades long commitments
For some kind of New Orleans renaissance,
Indispensable for the Milwaukee renaissance,
The Chicago, Detroit, St. Louis renaissance movements,
And more…

Because the human race is one.

Perfect Saturday Summer Evening
Milwaukee 2008

A New City of New Orleans

Good morning, America, how are you?
Don’t you know me I’m your favorite child.
I’m the people of the city of New Orleans,
I was down but now I’m back
Let’s move it on.

I was down but now I’m back
Let’s move it on.

There’s a train they call
The City of New Orleans
Stops at cities great along the way…

Detroit, Old Milwaukee, and Chicago,
St. Louie is the last stop of the day.

And on that train a rainbow throng is gathering,
With eyes fixed on the prize of freedom,
And on that train a global village’s bloooming,
Visions of the new dawn that we’re growing,
Knowing, the human race is one.

Good morning, America, how are you?
Don’t you know me I’m your favorite child.
I’m the people of the city of New Orleans,
I was down but now I’m back
Let’s move it on.

I was down but now I’m back
Let’s move it on.

You Know I’m Movin To New Orleans

You know I’m movin to New Orleans,
I’m movin to New Orleans,
Gonna rent me a house
Grow me a farm
I’m movin to New Orleans.

Not gonna winter in Milwaukee,
No more winters in Milwaukee,
Gonna move on down South,
Gonna rent a battered house,
Help fix up New Orleans,
Help fix up New Orleans.

There’s a freedom train a comin
There’s a freedom train a comin
From Detroit, Milwaukee,
Chicago and St. Louis…
A freedom train’s a comin

Cars with black gold from Milwaukee,
Filled with black gold from Milwaukee,
The world’s finest soil,
Red wrigglers gifts to us,
We’ll bring black gold from Milwaukee.

to be continued…

 Last night I was pulled away

From incorporating the sublime moment
When Greta’s ineffably fine son Steven
Played music from heaven
To compliment the food we shared
From utopian sources vastly beyond
My farthest reaching youthful vision.
The urban agrarians of Milwaukee
At Alice’s Garden feast for New Orleans
Did our Holy City proud.
Milwaukee. New Orleans.
Detroit. Chicago. St. Louis.

Holy cities to be co-created
With Mother Nature, Father Sky,
Heavenly spirits manifest
On magical Mother Earth!

Viva, the renaissance of
The great American cities!

Perfect Summer Sunday Morning
Milwaukee 2008

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PAIMI PUBLIC INPUT NOTICE

We Want to Hear from You!

Protection and Advocacy for Individuals with Mental Illness (PAIMI) Program

On Tuesday, June 18 – Thursday, June 20, 2013, representatives from the United States Department of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), Center for Mental Health Services (CMHS) will visit the Madison office of Disability Rights Wisconsin, the state’s designated protection and advocacy agency for persons with mental illness.

SAMHSA/CMHS invites you to send written comments about the PAIMI Program services and activities conducted by Disability Rights Wisconsin.

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Culture Wagon Contract Moment for Amaranth Urban Sanctuary

Would like to see some of these beauties in Riverwest and Bay View!

And every neighborhood of Milwaukee, for starters.

--
James J. Godsil, ABD, co-founder Sweet Water Organics, Sweet Water Foundation
President, Sweet Water Foundation

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MICAH Important Dates Updated 04/30/2013

Wednesday, May 1st 10:30am: MAY DAY Solidarity March

Thursday, May 2nd: Community Stakeholder’s meeting

Thursday, May 2nd: MICAH Transportation Group Meeting

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Within the Epic of Evolution

Hands on eco friendly practical science,
A sacred pathway to wisdom.

Experiment!

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Catholic Priest Chooses Earth As Primary Revelation Story

Father Thomas Berry suggests we put the text of the Bible on a shelf for 20 years and give attention to “The Universe Story.”

Only if the human imagination is activated by the flight of the great soaring birds in the heavens, by the blossoming flowers of the Earth, by
the sight of the sea, by the lightning and thunder of the great storms that break through the heat of the summer, only then will the deep inner experiences be evoked within the human soul.

All these phenomena of the natural world fling forth to the human a challenge to be responded to in literature, in architecture, ritual and art, in music and dance and poetry. The natural world demands a response beyond that of rational calculation, beyond philosoph8ical reasoning, beyond scientific insight. The natural world demands a response that rises from the wild unconscious depths of the human soul. A response that artists seek to provide in color and music and movement.

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Alterra Bay View Thursday All City Tea Hour

One Tony Zielinski Godsil Thursday 4 p.m. Milwaukee Eco Tourism Brainstorm and Sweet Water Harvesting

So I am hoping to co-create Alterra Bay View All City Tea Hours, every Thursday at 4 p.m., with the first gathering including our visionary alderman Tony Zielinski, who is key to Sweet Water/City of Milwaukee hoped for gift of what I would estimate to be a $250,000 state of the art aquaponic system. Perhaps your program might harvest some of this gift along with veterans and other worthy partners.

Ecological City Tour Experiments

Advancing Urban Sanctuaries

We will also be discussing “eco tourism” for each Milwaukee neighborhood, starting with Bay View, Riverwest, and the “Urban Sanctuary” of the Washington Park Partners in Walnut Hills. Melodyand Muneer shared that concept “urban sanctuary” with me.

What say?

Why not?

Godsil

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Make Your Voice Heard. Attend a Budget Hearing!

Wisconsinites have been packing budget hearings across the state to speak out on the harms Gov. Walker’s 2013–2015 budget will inflict upon middle class communities in Wisconsin. As many of you learned during our virtual union-meeting in March, Gov. Walker’s budget proposals are no-good for workers and will continue to slow job growth and Wisconsin’s economic recovery.

In case you missed our virtual union-meeting, download our 2013-2015 Budget Summary to learn how Gov. Walker’s budget will impact you and your family. The Budget Summary provides a detailed guide of anti-worker proposals outlined in Gov. Walker’s budget.

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MICAH’s 25th Anniversary Gala

MICAH Celebrates 25 years of continuing to do what is just!

Friday, May 17, 2013 1451 Renaissance Place located at 1451 N. Prospect Ave., Milwaukee

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April 17th Madison Public Transportation Day Agenda

Public Transportation advocates and supporters are welcome and encouraged to attend. There is no registration fee for individuals. Cost for lunch will be $8.00 per person (includes sandwich, beverage and dessert). Payment should be made at the event and receipts will be provided. Checks should be made out to WURTA.

Parking at the Hyatt is available in a ramp attached to the hotel. We have arranged for a $5 fee parking fee for the day (self-park).

Please RSVP with number of attendees to: greg.seubert@ci.wausau.wi.us

I hope to see you there!

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Budget Listening Session

Wednesday, April 24, 2013

TIME: 5:30pm - 7:30pm
WHERE: Washington Park Senior Center 4420 W Vliet St., Milwaukee
Let your voice be heard!
Tell us where you think your tax dollars should be going. Education? Transportation? Job Creation? Childcare? We want to hear from you!

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Get On the Bus! Trip to Madison to Oppose Milwaukee County Takeover Bill

By Citizen Action of Wisconsin

Greetings!

As you probably know, politicians have introduced AB85, a bill to take over Milwaukee County, removing power from the people to hand it to corporate interests. This is the infamous Sanfelippo/Darling/Taylor bill that would cripple the County Board and centralize authority in the hands of the County Executive — and cover it up with a sham referendum. It’s an attack on local control — and we in Milwaukee won’t stand for it.

WHAT: Milwaukee to Madison bus trip to oppose AB85
WHEN: Wednesday, April 10th, 7:30 am — bus departs at 7:45 sharp — will return no later than 4 pm
WHERE: 1927 N. 4th St -- meet up at MICAH -- parking available

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A Story of a Sweet Water Universe

This is the start of the story of the Sweet Water universe as I have witnessed it, from its start December 31, 2008, on up through this Spring, 2013. My hope is that the telling of this story might inspire others to create something I might call a Sweet Water(SW) galaxy within an expanding SW universe.

On New Years eve morning 2008 it was my great honor and thrill to have inspired Growing Power’s Big Will Allen, recent recipient of a $500,000 MacArthur Genius award, and on whose board I worked since late summer 2005,

to join with two young, highly accomplished builder/developer/contractors Josh Fraundorf and Steve Lindner, to hear their vision of transforming a 10,000 sq. ft. factory building into a commercial upscaling experiment of Will’s aquaponics demonstration model.

Unable to attend the meeting, but in the project loop, were Filmmaker Emmanuel Pratt, a Ph.D. candidate in architecture and urban planning at Columbia University

and Fred Binkowski of the Great Lakes Water Institute.

The meeting was also graced with the presence of Milwaukee’s Department of City Development Director, Rocky Marcoux, an executive from Miller Brewery, Jeff Hembrock, a dynamic naturalist, artisan, and educator, Dave Mangin, artist/artisan/organic farm innovator Jay Salinas, of Growing Power and the Worm Farm Institute, Kein Burton of DCD, and Rick Miller, Will’s aquaponist.

The invite I sent to Marcoux anticipates the grand alliance that manifest in support of this vision. Marcoux was happy the Sweet Water Organics start-up team asked not for money to advance the cause, but rather his help with the legal and administrative challenges of what we discovered was the world’s first effort at a commercial aquaponics experiment in a repurposed industrial building and complex.

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Rev. Willie E. Brisco, Community, Common Sense and Comfort

By Patricia Obletz

Reverend Willie E. Brisco is dedicated to social justice. He is the spiritual force who twice has been nominated and elected president of MICAH, Milwaukee Inner-city Congregations Allied for Hope. In both 2010 and ’12, he ran unopposed. MICAH is a member of Wisdom, which is the Wisconsin branch of the Gamaliel Foundation. Gamaliel’s work is based on the practice of the community organizing genius, Saul Alinsky. He trained potential organizers how to motivate local community leaders to create, maintain and expand the reach of independent, grassroots and faith-based community organizations to inspire ordinary people to impact the political, social, economic, and environmental decisions that affect their lives.

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Letter from Zagora: The Tyro

March, 2036

ED. NOTE: From time to time the Riverwest Currents receives a letter to the editor with a date from sometime in the future. How the letters are sent remains a mystery, but we print them as a curiosity to share with other Riverwesters. This one arrived in mid-February. Enjoy.

I moved to Zagora in the summer of 2016, back when the area was still called by is old name, Riverwest. It was some years before we formally took on the old Polish name, Zagora, “the land beyond the green hill.”

I was young, when I moved here – in my early twenties. I didn’t have a penny to my name, but I had some skills, a lot of energy, and a real willingness to get involved. I had heard that Riverwest was an easy neighborhood for a young person to start out, because there was a lot of opportunity to get involved on the neighborhood level and make a living.

When I first came to the neighborhood, I went to the Riverwest Co-op & Cafe and the Public House – the cooperatively owned bar.

The people I met there directed me to the Time Exchange, and I filled out some forms and a questionnaire where I listed my abilities, as well as information on my gifts, skills and passions – what I loved to do most. The Time Exchange issued me 15 hours worth of credit that I could use in the neighborhood.

The first place I went was the Riverwest Hostel, a remodeled building with lots of nice, sunny rooms, I got a private room with a shared bath that I could pay for with my time credits, or a combination of credits and currency. The Hostel had a dining room and communal kitchen that was hooked up with the Food Hub Community Kitchen. We could buy food with time credits and cook ourselves, or pay for meals prepared at the Hostel. If we were so inclined, we could get involved with food preparation right at the Hostel, and earn some credits that way.

I was not such a great cook, however, so decided not to inflict my culinary shortcomings on my fellow Hostellers. I knew what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a Tyro.

A Tyro is an apprentice. If there was something going on in the neighborhood that someone knew they wanted to get involved with, they could go and make themselves useful. If they were good enough and met a real need that increased the value of the project, they could get chosen by the working group on that project to become a Tyro. This was the entry into the work of the neighborhood. If you were chosen to be a Tyro you could earn enough credits that you could pay your way – a good, basic living situation and food.

If you couldn’t get a Tyro gig right away, you might have to work outside the neighborhood to bring some US currency in to supplement your income until something opened up in the neighborhood. Those were the early days of that whole system, so a lot of us had outside jobs. It was good for the neighborhood, because we spent our money locally and helped the local economy. I actually picked up some writing projects for a while, but it didn’t take more than a year or so before I could pretty much sustain myself on the time exchange credits.

While I was getting settled in I worked at some of the local DIY projects. I built a bike at the Bike Collective, and built a computer at the Maker Space. I was proud of that computer. It worked well enough that I was able to use it to access the local neighborhood internet, Reservoir.Local, and use the Open Ties online services. That meant I could keep track of all my time credits online, as well as access information about neighborhood services and job opportunities. Lots of businesses want people that they can pay in time credits. It always seemed like a neat idea – it’s like everyone is pretty much equal – everyone has a certain amount of time they are willing to give to the community in exchange for a place to live and food to eat.

I remember there were people advertising for a Tyro on Open Ties. I looked over the list of positions, but none of them really interested me. They were looking for a health care Tyro to do data entry – not what I wanted. The soil building project always needed Tyros to turn compost piles. Some people loved that, but I took a pass.

I wanted to learn about the communications system. I started going to the Communications Council meetings whenever they were listed on the Open Ties online community calendar. I decided to see if I could be a Tyro working on the online project associated with the Riverwest Currents – the worker collective-owned newspaper.

I started out by volunteering whenever I could. I soon picked up some projects that paid some time credits, and things were going pretty well. It took me a little over a year until I found a project that boosted me to Tyro status. I came up with a real innovation that raised our online advertising revenue substantially. The workers collective met and agreed that I could be a Tyro with a regular time share salary. Soon I was getting assignments from several members of the collective, and started to learn a lot about the communications system.

The rest, as they say, is history. I’ve been working in the Zagora communications collective for twenty years now. I’ve done pretty well. I joined the Power Up health club in its early days. It was fun to go work out on the exercise machines that generated energy for the power grid. I haven’t had to use the Neighborhood Health Service much, but the couple of times they referred me to a traditional hospital the costs were covered by the Zagora Insurance Cooperative.

It hasn’t always been easy. There were years when we weren’t able to produce enough food locally, and even the public gardens didn’t do so well. Food prices went up and it was harder for everyone. Sometimes people got tired of it and left. But we usually figured out some way to make things work.

There’s no getting around it – you have to be resourceful to keep a sustainable neighborhood system functioning. The one we have here in Zagora works pretty well most of the time. It’s important that everyone is willing to help out. If that attitude isn’t there, it would be hard to make it here. But if you want to invest yourself in the neighborhood, it really will support you pretty comfortably. You’re not going to get rich. But getting rich is something that… I don’t know… it just kind of went out of style.

So, what do I want to say to the people back in 2013? Don’t be afraid to start new things, I guess. A lot of the organizations and neighborhood institutions that we take for granted now started out around that time. I know it seems like a lot of work to get things started, but there’s enough time to make them happen.

Good luck to you. You’re inventing the future that I live in.

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MILWAUKEE COUNTY BOARD TO HOLD OPEN HOUSE APRIL 9

Public Invited to Courthouse to Learn About County Government

(MILWAUKEE) – The Milwaukee County Board will host the 3rd Annual Open House from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Tuesday, April 9 in Room 201 of the Milwaukee County Courthouse, 901 N. 9th St.

The free event is designed for local residents to learn about County government and reforms proposed at both the state and local levels. The event will include a County-Wide Resource Fair featuring each County department’s employment opportunities.

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RIVERWEST CO-OP CAFE IS HIRING: CAFE CO-MANAGER

The Riverwest Co-op is a member-owned and largely volunteer-run organization. Our vegan/vegetarian cafe, which uses mainly organic and local ingredients, is seeking to hire two individuals capable of co-managing the cafe and ensure smooth daily operations.
This is a full-time salaried management position responsible for caf staff performance and food quality. The position includes vacation time, PTO and other benefits. Reports to Board of Directors. Member of the Workers’ Collective.

Qualifications:

• Management experience.
• Knowledgeable and skilled in food preparation.
• Ability to work in a volunteer-based organization with collective management.
• Ability to develop systems of order/self-running programs to make deli/caf run.
• Good communication and listening skills.
• Cooperative or non-profit experience preferred.

Send your cover letter and resume to:

ATTN: Human Resources Committee
Riverwest Co-op & Caf
733 East Clarke Street
Milwaukee, WI 53212

Or email them to: hr@riverwestcoop.org

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Tom Lais IBIKE Oulo Adventure

Tom was the only USA speaker at a winter bike conference in Oulo Finland. He gave his talk to an audience which included the Ministers of Transportation from Norway, Sweden, and Belarus.

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March 23rd at RecriproCITY!!!!

Justseeds Artists’ Cooperative: “Collective (Print) Action: Political Print Portfolios”

Justseeds presents an exhibition on political print portfolios. Stop by ReciproCITY and see four portfolio projects that Justseeds has co-organized. On exhibit will be:

• Migration Now (a portfolio on border and migrant labor issues)http://migrationnow.com/

• War is Trauma (a portfolio in collaboration with Iraq Veterans Against the War)http://www.ivaw.org/war-is-trauma

• Resourced (a portfolio examining resource extraction - fracking, mountain top removals, dams, coal burning power plants, etc – and the movements organizing to stop these destructive practices) http://justseeds.org/resourced

• This is an Emergency! (a portfolio on reproductive rights and women rights)http://meredith-stern.tumblr.com/

ReciproCITY: an experimental art space at Sweet Water 2151 South Robinson Avenue, Milwaukee, WI, 53207 (414) 489–0425
http://sweetwater-organic.com/

Opening reception with the Justseeds artists: Saturday: March 23rd, 5–8pm;

PLUS: SGCI bus tours will also stop by ReciproCITY and Sky High at 10:15am-11:00am and 1:15–2:00 on Saturday, March 23rd.

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Conference on Stigma of Mental Illness

Join us for the The Stigma of Mental Illness in the African-American Community: “Removing the Stigma and Mask of Shame 2013 Conference” on Saturday, April 27, 2013, from 9:00 am until 1:30 pm at the Milwaukee Area Technical College 1015 North 6th Street (M605- 6th Floor of the Main Building) Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53223.

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Brainstorming: Elder Boomer Organic Healing Gardens, Home Gr/OWN USA

I would very much appreciate introductions to your city’s equivalent of Trish Herbert, one of the Twin Cities heavy lifters in service to our elders, for the purpose of exploring

Life Begins at 60 eBooks & Tours

So I am hoping to introduce the concept of “life begins at 60″ to the boomers, with a focus on our movement’s providing fields for exploring new ways of giving and getting. I would like to inspire other boomers to do the same in their city. Here’s a film on one boomer who was graced by encountering Big Will Allen, who provided a doorway to a whole new way of living and working upon saying “It’s not about a green thumb. It’s about fertile soil! And I can show you how to grow rich soil with what once was called “waste.”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCiCfu-wtqQ

New Careers and/or “New Work” in Urban Agriculture For The Boomers

In Milwaukee, thousands of hours of pro bono genius work, of the kind we really, really want to do, has been provided by boomers in service to family, school, and community food gardens. This stream of mindful labor is soon to become a river as Milwaukee’s Mayor advances the Milwaukee Home Gr/OWN project, one of the top 20 finalists in the Bloomberg Challenge.

http://city.milwaukee.gov/ImageLibrary/Groups/cityGreenTeam/documents/2012/HOMEGROWNUpdateandNextSteps_De.pdf

Home Gr/OWN Organic Healing Gardens USA

A model worthy of a 2016 campaign pledge is the marriage of Home Gr/OWN with the Center for Veterans Issues Organic Healing Gardens.

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Making-a-difference/Change-Agent/2012/1011/Gardening-projects-change-lives-of-troubled-veterans

K’uu Wamubu and Mr. Sims call their initiatives for the veterans Urban Sustainable Agriculture, or,USA.

Home Gr/OWN USA Program on Racial Healing and Foreclosure As Community/Family Resource

So with Home Gr/OWn USA as a starting template, an imaginative coalition could put together some pilot projects across the nation for the Kellog Foundation’s Racial Healing and HUD’s foreclosure programs. Developing rainbow teams to help rainbow clients transform foreclosed homes into integral urban homesteads, working with Habitat and Faith Communities of all of God’s children is a start up concept. Enhancing this work with internet connectivity and badge training/credentialing, creating alliances between school teachers with aquaponics and raised bed demos, with the MacArthur Badge Programs like SWF’s AQUAPONS project for STEAM and problem solving pedagogy, creating police station/neighborhood community gardens, “living libraries”(including OBama’s Bronzeville Presidential Living Library for South Side Chicago Renaissance) and so forth, would keep lots of boomers engaged on up to their 100th birthday parties.

http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/BadgeProgram1/0

Let the life begins at 60 experiments in urban agriculture begin!

Why not?

Godsil

James J. Godsil, ABD, co-founder Sweet Water Organics, Sweet Water Foundation
President, Sweet Water Foundation

http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/EarlySweetWaterStory/HomePage

The above sent to Comfoods March 21, 2013

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Home Gr/OWN USA at the Soldiers Home: Profiles of Courage in the War at Home

Sometime over the next 5 or 10 years.

Urban Sustainable Agriculture(USA)—K’uu Wamubu & Mr. Sims’ vision

Organic Healing Gardens for Veterans through marriage of
Home Gr/OWN and USA!

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Making-a-difference/Change-Agent/2012/1011/Gardening-projects-change-lives-of-troubled-veterans

Home Gr/OWN USA—Mayor Barrett & Milwaukee’s vision

http://city.milwaukee.gov/ImageLibrary/Groups/cityGreenTeam/documents/2012/HOMEGROWNUpdateandNextSteps_De.pdf

Someday, God willing, Home Gr/OWN USA at the Soldiers Home

2.4 million Americans fought in Iraq or Afghanistan

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/07/04/iraq-afghanistan-war-veterans-combat-trauma_n_1645701.html

The traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress disorder that are the signature wounds of these wars are invisible and hard to heal; as many as a fourth of those who fought in Iraq will suffer the ravages of these injuries for decades to come.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/20/opinion/the-silver-linings-of-iraq.html?hp

Why not?

G

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Rally To Preserve Postal Service Jobs And Six-Day Mail Delivery

By Wisconsin State AFL-CIO

Join a coalition of labor, civic and community groups to save Postal Service jobs and six-day delivery. Tell Congress to keep the U.S. Postal Service strong. Letter carriers and postal workers bring our mail to our doorsteps in snow, sleet and rain, in the heat and in the frigid cold. Now it is time to stand up and show our appreciation for the work they do and the essential services they provide to our community.

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St. Patrick Brigid Timbuktu(defined)

(l) Noun. At dawn of 21st century, starting in Milwaukee, a tradition building upon ancient holidays, providing authentic and engaged earth community citizens an opportunity to give voice to their work and their visions. Combines soap box orations with music, dance, food, and fun.

(2) Verb. To “St. Patrick Brigid Timbuktu” is to orate, sing, dance, and/or play with cherished friends to welcome the Spring in a seasonal but also historic way. To bring forth new realities from inspired visions.

http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/StPatsAtTimbuktu/HomePage

Last Thursday night our Mayor Barrett said Milwaukee is worthy of a

Nobel Prize.

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Budget Breakdown

By Wisconsin State AFL-CIO

We just wrapped up our first virtual union meeting with hard-working Wisconsinites across the state. On the call we discussed Gov. Walker’s 2013–2015 budget and how it relates to working people.

Get the facts. Click to download our Wisconsin AFL-CIO budget analysis document.

From irresponsible tax schemes to voucher schools, political payback, privatization plans and the short-sided rejection of Medicaid expansion, we break down the 2013–2015 budget and the impact it will have on working families across the state.

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FIRST “OUR MILWAUKEE COUNTY” LISTENING SESSION SET FOR TUESDAY

Proposed Agenda to Focus on Countywide Governance, Consolidated Services, Funding Source and Mental Health

Tuesday, March 12 at 6:30 p.m. Wilson Park Senior Center, Main Hall, 2601 W. Howard, Ave., Milwaukee
Supervisor Jason Haas

Other listening sessions currently scheduled include:

• Thursday, March 14 at 6:30 p.m. Wauwatosa Public Library, Firefly Room, 7635 W. North Ave., Wauwatosa

Supervisor James “Luigi” Schmitt

• Tuesday, March 19 at 6:30 p.m. North Shore Library, 6800 N. Port Washington Rd., Glendale

Supervisor Theodore Lipscomb, Sr.

• Tuesday March 19 at 6:30 p.m. Evangel Assembly of God, Chapel area, 9920 W. Good Hope Rd., Milwaukee

Supervisor Deanna Alexander

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Author Wes Moore At MATC

Hear Mr. Moore speak on March 14 at 6:00 p.m. in Cooley auditorium at MATC’s Milwaukee campus. Please spread the word with schools and community organizations that are doing the important work of encouraging the safe and healthy development of Milwaukee’s children.

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Will Christie Convince Walker?

On Wednesday, March 14th, Gov. Walker is hosting a fundraiser for New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie at the Wisconsin Club. Gov. Christie accepted Medicaid funding to protect thousands of lives in New Jersey. Join Citizen Action of Wisconsin as we hold a press conference to call on Gov. Christie to convince Gov. Walker to do the same!

What? Press Event Outside of the Gov. Walker Fundraiser for NJ Gov. Christie

Where? Wisconsin Club - 900 W Wisconsin Avenue Milwaukee, WI 53233
(We’ll be on the corner of Wisconsin Avenue and 9th Street!)

When? Thursday March 14th 10:30 AM sharp

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Entry on Mental Illness Added to AP Stylebook

For years, NAMI has worked to have the news media abandon inaccurate, careless, or stigmatizing language or practices in reporting on mental illness.

Finally, the Associated Press has included rules on mental illness http://www.ap.org/Content/Press-Release/2013/Entry-on-mental-illness-is-added-to-AP-Stylebook in the new edition of the AP Stylebook, the bible used throughout the industry.

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Reception Honoring Milwaukee Area State Legislators

Make It Work Milwaukee! Coalition and Milwaukee Mental Health Task Force Invite you to Join Us for a Reception Honoring Milwaukee Area State Legislators

Monday, March 11, 2013
4:00 – 6:00 PM
Program at 4:45 PM

Please RSVP by March 7th

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Improving the Governor’s BadgerCare Proposal with a Tax-Saving Alternative

(March 2013)

Governor Walker’s plan for BadgerCare should be improved to greatly lower state costs and reduce taxes.

The Governor’s BadgerCare plan acknowledges that Wisconsin should reduce the number of uninsured residents. We applaud him for that decision. As legislators review that plan, they should consider amendments that will lower state costs, avoid employer taxes, and reduce the “cost shift” of uncompensated care to Wisconsinites and businesses.

A preliminary analysis by the Legislative Fiscal Bureau (LFB) indicates that the state could cover more people at a significantly lower cost by fully utilizing the Affordable Care Act to close the current gap in BadgerCare coverage.

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Embedded Reporter Sunday Night

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A Whole Which is Greater; Why the Wisconsin “Uprising” Failed

This Friday, March 1st People’s Books Cooperative (804 E Center St) will be hosting a book reading and discussion at 6pm.

This book, a year and a half in the making, offers the reflections of thirteen mid-Westerners and the editors on the state of the state of Wisconsin (with excursions into U.S. economic/foreign policy) following the election of Scott Walker as Wisconsin’s governor, up through the failed recall effort launched against him.

Join contributers Dan Grego, Eric Yonke, and Margaret Swedish as we discuss Democracy, Fascism, how the uprising effected education in Wisconsin and as Margaret puts it ‘What’s really going on.’

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Food Gardens At Neighborhood Police Stations?

What kind of healing would occur were Americans to co-create food gardens at neighborhood police stations?

At the Milwaukee Mayor Barrett’s great State of the City Speech I introduced a vision to Police Chief Flynn and about 5 police officers who joined in the event. The Chief and the officers thought it an idea worthy of our attention and some on-line conversation, for starters.

A Grand Milwaukee Alliance for Food Gardens at Neighborhood Police Stations!

Milwaukee’s artists, artisans, and “agrarians” would team up with Faith Communities, Veterans Groups, Young Elder associations, schools, universities, business and community groups to offer our police officers

Raised Bed Gardens for Good Food and Beauty

4 by 8 ft. veggie gardens, which would also be artistic creations of great beauty.

Good food for our physical and mental health!

Oganic healing gardens for veterans of the wars abroad,
For veterans of the wars at home.

As Big Will Allen says, “Food brings all of God’s children to the table.”

Within a Decade: Police/Faith Community/School Culture Wagons

Modest raised bed gardens over the years might evolve into these:

http://www.milwaukeerenaissance.com/CultureWagonMovementIndustry/HomePage

Digitally enhanced would provide neighborhood micro-producers with help reaching global markets, like the ITC e-Choupal program. Could also foster citizen/public servant/official dialogue.

• e-Choupal

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-Choupal

What say?

Why not?

Godsil

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