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Wisconsin's protests for worker rights have inspired people all over the world, including this young man in Egypt's Tahrir Square. Expressions of international solidarity have included a flood of orders into local pizza shop Ian's, which has received offers to buy pizza for Wisconsin protesters from as far away as Egypt and Turkey. A large chart placed inside the State Street Ian's reports on where donations for pizza are coming from, and now records donations from every state in the union.

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Ann, a history teacher at Northland Pines High School, is a veteran presenter at the Many Ways of Peace center in Eagle River. You’re invited to join us as she evaluates the history behind unions and workers rights and talks about how lifting up workers is a much deeper issue than simply raising wages.  This is the topic we’re all talking about and concerned about.  Ann’s presentations on Gompers and LaFollette and Perkins will help us understand the background  of today’s controversy  as it is playing out not only in Wisconsin but throughout the country.  "Read More" below - to see the schedule and topics...

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The Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice (WNPJ), a coalition of 173 member organizations from across the state, conducted its first-ever candidate survey this year. WNPJ is a non-partisan, non-profit organization and does not endorse candidates.

The survey questions -- which reflect WNPJ member groups' state policy priorities -- asked candidates whether they support maintaining restrictions on new nuclear reactors, requiring background checks for all gun sales, issuing drivers’ cards regardless of immigration status, restoring voting rights to felons after incarceration, and requiring the Governor to ensure that any federal orders to deploy the Wisconsin National Guard are lawful.

The table below lists all candidates for state office who responded, and their responses.

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The Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice (WNPJ), a coalition of 173 member organizations from across the state, conducted its first-ever candidate survey this year. The survey's five questions reflect WNPJ member groups' state policy priorities. WNPJ is a non-partisan, non-profit organization and does not endorse candidates.

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A statewide coalition organized by Citizens for Safe Water Around Badger,  is calling for a comprehensive ban or other significant action to protect expectant mothers and infants from exposure to the herbicide atrazine in groundwater. 

“The current approach consistently remands action only after an exposure to unsafe levels of atrazine in residential well water has occurred,” the groups wrote in public comments to the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection (DATCP) .....

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A bill recently introduced by Rep. Don Pridemore would allow law enforcement officials to detain someone for up to 48 hours, if officials have a "reasonable suspicion" that the person is in the United States without authorization. To avoid detention, the person must immediately show proof of her or his immigration status.

WNPJ rejects such measures as racist diversions from the real problems facing Wisconsin.  These proposals would harm our state because:

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WNPJ members continue to express their opinions in the local papers. Please click on the authors' names to read their letters.

Norman Aulabaugh: Veterans offended by arrests of Capitol singers. Capital Times, 8/22/13.Norman Aulabaugh is a member of Veterans for Peace, a WNPJ member group.

Eve Galanter: Celebrate  Women's Equality Day at Sunprint. Wisconsin State Journal,  8/26/13. Eve Galanter chairs the Wisconsin Women's Network, a WNPJ member group.

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A sample of letters written by members of WNPJ and our member groups to their local papers in March:

Bonnie Beverstock: Laws sometimes challenge conscience
Daniel J. Guilfoil: If religious groups lobby, they should be taxed
Steve Books: How about using campaign money as stipends for volunteers?
Mitzi Duxbury: Why did Cap Times publish Stepp’s partisan gobbledygook?
Susan De Vos: We can cut greenhouse gases with more local foods, fewer highways, more mass transit
Carl Sack: Mine support survey obfuscated the issue
Al Gedicks: Sulfide mining rules should be applied here
Dave Steffenson: Secretary of state should again oversee lobbyists

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WNPJ members continue to write.  Click on the author to see the entire letters.

Henry St. Maurice: Armed civilians would not have helped in Boston:  Wisconsin State Journal, 4/27/13

Rick Bogle: Henry Vilas Zoo not appropriate home for giraffes:  Wisconsin State Journal, 5/25/13. Rick Bogle is co-executive director of Alliance for Animals, a WNPJ member group.