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Milwaukee students walkout of class in call to end gun violence on Columbine anniversary

Posted by Editor | Apr 23, 2018 |

April 20 marked 19 years since the massacre at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, where two heavily armed high school students shоt and kiIIed thirteen people. It has also been just over two months since the mass shооting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. In the Greater Milwaukee Area and schools across the country, students stepped away from their desks at 10:00 a.m. and joined the National School Walkout. The action was part of the movement that began after Parkland, when students stood up to call for legislation to end gun violence. More than two...

Artists announced for new Black Cat Alley murals

Posted by Editor | Apr 20, 2018 |

The East Side’s Black Cat Alley will kick off the installment of two new murals. Beginning on Friday April 20, visiting artist Adam Hernandez of Columbus, Ohio will begin work on a ten-foot piece titled “Godmask” from a series he has been pursuing in recent years. He will be at work on this piece for April Gallery Night and Day, April 20 to 21, and the public is welcome to visit and observe the work in progress. In May, work will begin on a larger mural in the alley. The new mural will be installed on a north-facing segment...

Great TV Auction celebrates half a century of fun and fundraising

Posted by Correspondent | Apr 14, 2018 |

This year is the golden anniversary of a beloved Milwaukee tradition, as the Great TV Auction celebrates a half century. Over the last 50 years, southeastern Wisconsin has embraced this unique, live, on-air fundraiser for Milwaukee PBS, growing from 250 volunteers and a handful of donors in its first year, to thousands of volunteers and donors today. Area viewers made this the nation’s #1 PBS fundraising auction, both in net revenue raised and in prime-time ratings. The 50th Anniversary Great TV Auction will be held over two consecutive weekends, from Friday to Sunday, beginning the weekend of April 27-29...

Trump directs Homeland Security to monitor domestic news media and journalists

Posted by Syndicated | Apr 12, 2018 |

U.S. Department of Homeland Security spokesman Tyler Q. Houlton dismisses “tinfoil hat wearing” reporters who question the government’s motives in an official tweet. The DHS is looking to compile a database of journalists, bloggers and social media “influencers” here and overseas, Bloomberg reported. A request filed on April 3 sought a contractor to gather information on people posting across all platforms — radio, print, digital, and television — in 100 languages. Bids are expected on April 13. According to Bloomberg, the request came amid “heightened concern” about accuracy in media and the potential for foreigners to influence U.S. elections...

After Marching for Our Lives comes Marching to the Polls in November

Posted by John Pavlovitz | Apr 8, 2018 |

Marches are powerful things. They are a necessary visual reminder that we are not alone. They help provide a sense of scale in dark days; to right size the threats that seem so towering and overpowering. They give us a chance to stand with a tribe of affinity and be a tangible response to the things that burden us. Marches are awe-inspiring and goosebumps-inducing and breathtakingly cathartic moments. But marches don’t vote. They can’t craft legislation and they won’t protect people in danger. Marches won’t jettison corrupt leaders from their well-fortified perches of power. They can’t reach into the...

Federal proposals under consideration to regulate Facebook

Posted by ProPublica | Apr 7, 2018 |

For years, Congress and federal regulators have allowed the world’s largest social network to police itself — with disastrous results. Here are four promising reforms under discussion in Washington. A recent gathering in a Washington DC ballroom for an annual “tech prom,” hundreds of tech industry lobbyists and policy makers applauded politely as announcers read out the names of the event’s sponsors. But the room fell silent when “Facebook” was proclaimed — and the silence was punctuated by scattered boos and groans. These days, it seems the only bipartisan agreement in Washington is to hate Facebook. Democrats blame the...