FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASEJanuary 27, 2022 CONTACT: Missy ZomborMelissaZombor@gmail.com262-894-5920 Excessive call fees exploit families of incarcerated individuals and create dangerous barriers to successful reentry MILWAUKEE — The Milwaukee DSA announces its support of a resolution that would end the practice of charging residents of Milwaukee County’s correctional facilities for voice and video calls. The Milwaukee County […]
Contact: Alex Brower (414-949-8756) or Tom Hansberger (407-375-7555) Milwaukee – The Milwaukee Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is proud to announce a slate of three socialists candidates for the Milwaukee County Board of Supervisors for the spring 2022 local elections. The candidates are Eric Rorholm in District 3, Ryan Clancy in District 4, and Juan
The Milwaukee chapter of the Democratic Socialist of America stands in full support of the efforts of the Carmen Charter Schools workers to form a union, and is ready to commit its time and resources to help them do this. The charter school movement, begun in the 1990’s, along with the school voucher movement started
A project of the Milwaukee DSA Education Committee Are you interested in becoming the best organizer you can be? Do you want to expand socialism here in Milwaukee, but are unsure of where and how to start? Have you been involved but feel like the project did not go anywhere? If you answered yes to
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“Johnny 99” – Bruce Springsteen Johnny 99 is off of Springsteen’s Nebraska album, released in 1982, an album that could have been named Tales from the Reagan Recession, which lasted from 1981 to 1983. The recession was the culmination of a decade of rising oil prices, inflation, the resignation of Nixon, the loss of the Viet
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By Tom Hansberger Midnight Mass – 5 stars Midnight Mass scared me more than almost any other horror film or series I have seen. If horror should be judged on how scary it is, then Midnight Mass is a horror masterpiece. But that standard is not objective, of course, and the reasons Mike Flanagan’s latest
From In These Times magazine Each year, In These Times magazine makes a limited number of subscriptions available to valued readers—for free. This year, we’ve invited Milwaukee DSA to take part. You can claim your free magazine subscription here. In These Times is an award-winning, monthly magazine that has covered movements for social and economic justice
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By Alex Brower Last Tuesday, November 23, the Milwaukee Common Council adopted the new maps for aldermanic districts for the City of Milwaukee. These maps need to be approved as a result of population changes identified from the 2020 US Census. This comes just a short time after the Common Council approved the newly redrawn
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Dear Comrades, By now you’ve surely heard the news: Kyle Rittenhouse, the vigilante teenage murderer who crossed state lines to seek violence in a parking lot in Kenosha, Wisconsin, has been found not guilty by an almost all-white jury and an obscenely racist judge. The jury’s decision to declare Kyle Rittenhouse not guilty on all
Auf Auf Zum Kampf (traditional march, adapted by Bertolt Brecht) On the eve of the outbreak of the First World War, the Second Socialist International gave permission to member organizations to support the war effort if their country was threatened with attack. Given the complex circumstances of the onset of the war, most of the