Marching After One Year Without Roe
Grassroots organizations took to the streets of Milwaukee to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that overturned Roe v. Wade.
Milwaukee News Roundup: July 7, 2023
Another week is in the books, complete with new horrors and challenges and advancements into the never-before. From Washington, D.C. to Milwaukee, the people at
An Oak Creek Starbucks took down Pride decorations. Newly unionized workers went on strike.
On Sunday, July 25, the unionized workers at the Starbucks at 8880 S. Howell Ave. in Oak Creek went on strike to protest the company’s decision to remove decorations celebrating Pride month.
Republicans’ budget means the continuation of Wisconsin’s mental health crisis
Evers has announced he will sign a budget that contains few if any of the mental health measures he once described as urgently needed.
Socialist Song of the Week: When the Levee Breaks
This song wasn’t just written in an atmosphere of fear, pain, and hopelessness. Behind it were social forces around class and race, by which some people with power tried to make sure fear, pain, and hopelessness are visited on those without power, rather than themselves.
Supreme Court ruling, White House response highlight anti-democratic nature of student debt crisis
Last week, six members of the U.S. Supreme Court determined more than 40-million student borrowers across the country would not receive $20,000 in debt relief
Milwaukee News Roundup for June 30, 2023
Where there’s smoke…
Wisconsin Republicans’ budget is class warfare. Will Evers fight back?
Wisconsin Republicans’ budget would give hundreds of millions of dollars in tax breaks to the state’s wealthiest families while refusing to fund programs aimed at supporting the state’s working class.
What is happening to Milwaukee’s air?
Capitalism is suffocating us. But there’s something we can do about it.
Advocates to rally again for child care support as Legislature sets votes on budget
Child care advocates and providers plan rallies around Wisconsin Tuesday to reiterate their call for more child care support in the state budget before it goes to the floor of the Legislature.