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Stay Home for Thanksgiving

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In November of 1918, President Woodrow Wilson issued his annual Thanksgiving proclamation.  He spoke about the end of the first World War, saying that peace “has not came as a mere cessation of arms, a mere relief from the strain and tragedy of war. It has come as a great triumph of right.”  Nowhere, however, […]

Recovering Indigenous Agriculture

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In November of 1621, so the story goes, the Wapanoags shared a harvest feast with the English colonists of the Plymouth Plantation in what is now the state of Massachusetts.  That event, now etched in our collective minds as the first Thanksgiving, has come under increased scrutiny in recent years.  Was that a peaceful sharing […]

Wisconsin Property Tax Policy Perpetuates Historic Racism

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Since 1999, the Wisconsin Budget Project, an initiative of Kids Forward, has advocated public spending on projects that benefit low to moderate income families.  Recently, the project turned its lens on how the state property tax system favors the wealthy, and perpetuates longstanding racial segregation.  Tamarine Cornelius is a policy analyst with Kids Forward, and […]

Tips from a chronically ill person for surviving social distancing wit...

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Ellen Samuels is a UW-Madison professor in the English and Gender & Women Studies departments and is a founding member of the UW Disability Studies Initiative(@UWDisStudies). She lives with a disability that makes her days unpredictable and often keeps her housebound, sometimes bed-bound. When the pandemic hit, she saw that we were all facing challenges […]

Pressing Whole Foods to tackle plastic waste

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Last week the Wisconsin Environment Research & Policy Center, along with the Plastic Pollution Coalition, BRINGiT, and Student PIRG chapters, are pressing Whole Foods to rein in their expanded use of single-use plastic packaging and have sent a letter to John Mackey, Whole Foods’ CEO urging him to take action on tackling plastic waste. Megan […]

Hollar: Mainstream media favors centrist ideologies

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In a recent article in Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting, Senior Analyst Julie Hollar writes about the centrist-bias of the media, and their fears of covering progressive issues out of concerns of displeasing their major corporation advertisers. Her article “Drawing All the Wrong Lessons From Media’s Election 2020 Failures” shows how right-wing Trump supporters and […]

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