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Downtown Employee Appreciation Week kicks off with virtual and socially-distanced activities

Downtown Employee Appreciation Week kicks off with virtual and socially-distanced activities

Posted by | Sep 14, 2020 |

Milwaukee Downtown BID #21 has once again teamed up with downtown businesses and community leaders to celebrate the areas’s 90,000+ employees during the 15th annual Downtown Employee Appreciation Week, September 14 to 18. The weeklong celebration returns this year in a safe and socially-distanced format with virtual participation options. Each day, downtown employees can partake in a variety of live-streamed events, including a 15-minute virtual morning meditation with Cathy Stadler, a lunchtime concert series presented by Marcus Performing Arts Center featuring a different Milwaukee musical artist every day, and virtual fitness classes ranging from yoga and Pilates to barre...

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Wallpapered City: Three new murals by Wisconsin artists to be painted in Black Cat Alley

Wallpapered City: Three new murals by Wisconsin artists to be painted in Black Cat Alley

Posted by | Sep 12, 2020 |

Two Milwaukee artists and one Stevens Point artist will paint murals in September at Milwaukee’s premier street art destination, Black Cat Alley. Black Cat Alley is a public arts destination owned by the East Side BID, and managed by the artist-led group that founded it in 2016, Wallpapered City. Black Cat Alley is free and open to the public 24/7, year-round, and is visited by over 10,000 people every year. Located between Kenilworth and Ivanhoe, it is nestled in the alley between the Oriental Theatre on Farwell Avenue and Colectivo Coffee on Prospect Avenue in the historic East Side...

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Trump staged photo op at destroyed camera shop after owner refused to participate

Trump staged photo op at destroyed camera shop after owner refused to participate

Posted by | Sep 9, 2020 |

Tom Gram bought the business eight years ago though he does not own the building, which was destroyed by fire during recent protests. The owner of a camera shop that was destroyed in Kenosha and highlighted during Donald Trump’s visit on Tuesday, September 1, said the president used his store for political gain by appearing with a former owner of the business – as Joe Biden announced he and his wife Jill will visit the Wisconsin city on Thursday. Tom Gram said he bought the Rode’s Camera Shop business from the Rode family eight years ago, though John Rode...

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Police and Militia tactics in Kenosha reflect an authoritarian prelude to a modern Civil War

Police and Militia tactics in Kenosha reflect an authoritarian prelude to a modern Civil War

Posted by | Sep 9, 2020 |

The chaos and violence that are unfolding in Kenosha looks like the beginning of a civil war. I feel as though I am watching some natural disaster develop, suddenly overpowering any hope for social change “before it’s too late.” Is it already too late—that is to say, too late to disarm our concept of social order and, for God’s sake, safety? The American problem of guns is not only that there are so many of them, vastly more than there are people; and that they are deemed, by so many Americans, necessary for survival and empowerment, commanding a reverence...

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A sudden preoccupation with the suburbs to make White people afraid for the wrong reasons

A sudden preoccupation with the suburbs to make White people afraid for the wrong reasons

Posted by | Sep 8, 2020 |

Dear Suburban White People in America, Donald Trump is right: you should be very afraid – just not of the people he tells you to fear. I know this year has been relentless in its terrors and challenges, and in your exhausted state it may be difficult to think clearly but I want to try because it is important. I want you to step back and consider the message he has been sending to you in his press conferences and via overnight tweet storms and through his bottom-feeding surrogates and in his dollar store stormtrooper deployments—and especially with his...

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The Republic for which it stands: What will being an American mean without Democracy?

The Republic for which it stands: What will being an American mean without Democracy?

Posted by | Sep 8, 2020 |

Long before Donald Trump was elected to the highest office in the land, many scholars shared their fear that American democracy was in jeopardy. Since the 2016 election, it has become clear that the system envisioned by the Founding Fathers is ending. Farhad Manjoo warned about this in his recent New York Times column, I’m Doomsday Prepping for the End of Democracy. Manjoo pointed to political violence on the streets, the pandemic, unemployment, racial polarization, and natural disasters, all of which are destabilizing the country, and noted that Republicans appear to have abandoned democracy in favor of a cult-like...

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