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Category Archives: Social Justice
Labor’s Defiant Lady: Remembering Mother Jones
On Labor Day 2015 we take a look back at the great Mother Jones, who spent most of her life as a union organizer working side-by-side with striking miners, steel workers, and children. It is through efforts of this great woman — and others — that a great American Middle Class was born. Things like the 8-hour work day, the 40-hour work week, and child labor laws didn’t “just happen.” It took literally, blood, sweat, and tears to win what now appears to be slipping away from us again in the 21st Century. Labor Day — a time to remember workers. Continue reading
Posted in Labor, Progressive Profiles, Social Justice, Unions
Tagged American Labor Movement, labor, Mother Jones, Unions
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We Remember… and We Look Ahead
This week marks a somber anniversary for human kind. August 6 and August 9, 1945. It has been 70 years since the United States military dropped the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. In an age of 24 hour news … Continue reading
Posted in Peace, Social Justice, Thoughts on Life
Tagged Iran nuclear deal, pace e bene, peace
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Looking Good At 50
There are many reasons to celebrate as Medicare turns 50 this week. Yet it’s a time to ask why we still don’t have a “Medicare For All” single payer health care delivery system in this country and how the “for profit” insurance companies continue to make it impossible for many to access health care. Bonus points if you know where Lyndon Johnson signed this historic bill into law. Check it out at the end of our blog. Continue reading
Posted in Single Payer-Health Care Reform, Social Justice, Thoughts on Life
Tagged ACA, Bernie Sanders, Health care reform, Medicare, single payer
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Fighting For Single Payer: Rose Roach Keeps Hope Alive For A Better Way For Health Care In The U.S.
No matter what the U.S. Supreme Court decides about the Affordable Care Act, the fight for a single payer health care delivery system in this country continues. Health care as a human right. For profit insurers out of health care. “There are plenty of health care dollars,” Minnesota Nurses Association Executive Director Rose Roach tells us. “It’s a matter of allocating them to actual health care.” Read more about how Roach continues the push for single payer to bring our country in line with the rest of the educated world. Continue reading
Posted in Labor, Progressive Profiles, Single Payer-Health Care Reform, Social Justice, Unions
Tagged ACA, Labor for Single Payer, Minnesota Nurses Association, Rose Roach, single payer
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Bernie Buzz: Sanders Will Re-Frame Our Political Conversations
Sen. Bernie Sanders’ announcement that he is seeking the Democratic Party’s 2016 Presidential nomination means that We The People now have a voice working to reframe the issues of our day and to remind us that democracy belongs to all of us not just the billionaire class. Continue reading
Posted in Campaign Finance Reform, Citizens United, Democracy, Labor, Social Justice, Thoughts on Life
Tagged 2016, Bernie Sanders, populist, Senator Bernie Sanders
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Henry A. Wallace: The ‘What Ifs’ Are Inescapable
Find out more about Henry A. Wallace, a wisdom voice lost to history. He came within an eyelash of being president, but lost out to political bickering to retain his spot as vice president on FDR’s 1944 re-election ticket. Wallace envisioned a post-war world built on peace as well as economic and social justice. Of course, these views made him too “controversial” for those already in power. Continue reading
Posted in Democracy, Peace, Progressive Profiles, Social Justice
Tagged economic and social justice, FDR, Henry Wallace, peace, the New Deal
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From The Ashes…Remembering A Teacher’s Hope
Why on a day when the State of Wisconsin is implementing Right to Work legislation just weeks after gutting public education would I have been rummaging through old documents and found the following hand-written notation from my father, a proud … Continue reading
Posted in Labor, Social Justice, Thoughts on Life, Unions, Wisconsin Politics
Tagged education, Henry Boyer, teaching
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Forgetting Our Land Grant Colleges History: Government Does Make Education Work For All Its People
We have forgotten that our Founding Fathers and Abraham Lincoln knew that federal and state supported public education was the lifeblood of the nation. We look back on the founding of the time-honored tradition of the land grant colleges. We ask those who think the world began with them, who do you think educated those who educated those who educated you? Continue reading
Posted in Campaign Finance Reform, Citizens United, Democracy, FEATURED, Social Justice, Thoughts on Life, Wisconsin Politics
Tagged education, higher education, land grant colleges, Scott Walker, the Morrill Act, University of Wisconsin
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Hope: A Duty, Not A Nicety
We asked last month: “Where do you see hope?” We received some great responses and found other everyday life examples to share. Keeping hope alive in 2015 and beyond is our duty. Read and please add your comments at the end to encourage all of us. Continue reading
Posted in Democracy, Environmental, Peace, Single Payer-Health Care Reform, Social Justice, Thoughts on Life, Voting and Electronic Voting Fraud
Tagged Hope, Labor for Single Payer, peace, TheBradBlog
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Tearing Apart The Fabric of Democracy — Again
I can’t believe we’re still advocating to stop voter suppression laws in 2014. But here we go again. The attempt to keep eligible voters from casting ballots tears at the very foundation of our democracy. We should be outraged at the breadth and depth of voter suppression that still rages within our so-called democracy here in the United States. Continue reading
Posted in Citizens United, Democracy, FEATURED, Social Justice, Voting and Electronic Voting Fraud, Wisconsin Politics
Tagged Voter ID, voter suppression, Wisconsin
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