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 Vol. 084 Issue 004 (August 1 2020)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 In Our Own Backyard
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IN OUR OWN BACKYARD As we enter the fifth month of massive disruption caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, chaos appears to have taken root throughout the land. Our sociopathic President...
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The Case for Nonviolence
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LUEDERS, BILL
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THE CASE FOR NONVIOLENCE On the night of June 23 in Madison, Wisconsin, the city where this magazine is published, anger turned to violence. Hundreds of protesters took part in tearing down...
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'This Is a Revolution'
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Leanza, Lauren Justice and Emilio
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ON THE LINE – PHOTOS by LAUREN JUSTICE and STORY by EMILIO LEANZA
‘THIS IS A REVOLUTION’
The police showed up in full riot gear. Behind them, a line of National Guard members, dressed in beige...
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No Comment
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Valuing Women’s Work Yew-Kwang Ng, an economics professor at Fudan University in China, a country with thirty-four million more men than women due to sex-selective abortions under its...
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Letters
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Mark Anthony Rolo, 1962 - 2000
On May 30, we lost our dear friend Mark Anthony Rolo, after a long illness. An enrolled member of the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, Mark was a...
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Blast From the Past
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‘THE OPPOSITION WAS LEFT DASHED AND HOPELESS’ The Progressive started out as a suffragist magazine, under the guidance of Belle Case La Follette, wife of founder “Fighting Bob” La Follette. What...
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Cutting Medicaid Into Oblivion
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Ervin, Mike
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CUTTING MEDICAID INTO OBLIVION
R ecently, I received one of those urgent emails beseeching me to take quick political action. You know how it goes. The email explains an issue, then it...
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The Scary 2020 Election
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Conniff, Ruth
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THE SCARY 2020 ELECTION
J oe Biden’s growing lead over Donald Trump in national polls ahead of the 2020 presidential election makes sense if you think most Americans would prefer a leader who...
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Smoking Gun
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White, Police Bias, in Black and
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POLICE BIAS, IN BLACK AND WHITE The police murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Rayshard Brooks, among others, have drawn renewed attention to police racism and brutality. But unequal...
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A Path Forward for Wisconsin
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Barnes, Mandela
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A Path Forward
for Wisconsin
BY MANDELA BARNES Wisconsin is known for a handful of things: our world-famous cheese, the Green Bay Packers, and homegrown indie folk artist Justin Vernon...
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How Trump Plans to Win Wisconsin
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Bybee, Roger
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Mark Jefferson knows what he must do to deliver the state of Wisconsin to Donald Trump: energize and expand the President’s base. Roger Bybee, a frequent contributor to The Progressive, is a...
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Reinventing Milwaukee
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Holmes, Isiah
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REINVENTING
MIL W AUKEE BY ISIAH HOLMES DNC host city is struggling with COVID-19, systemic racism, and its own past. Isiah Holmes, a native of Milwaukee, is a journalist with the...
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The Fight for Democracy in Wisconsin
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Mandell, Douglas M. Poland and Jeffrey A.
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THE FIGHT FOR
DEMOCRACY IN
WISCONSIN
State Republicans have set out to reverse the state’s progressive
legacy—by commandeering its mechanisms of governance.
BY DOUGLAS M. POLAND AND JEFFREY...
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Ground Zero for Dark Money
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Graves, Lisa
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Ground Zero
for Dark Money
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=>477 runs through Wisconsin—and so does the pipeline for outside cash. Brad Parscale, then manager of President Donald Trump’s...
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Rebuild Farmer-Labor Solidarity
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Lloyd, Sarah
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RebuildFarmer-LaborSolidarity COVID-19 has created new opportunitiesto reform the nation’s food system. BY SARAH LLOYD The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the deep divisions and inequalities in...
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Make the Best of Public Education
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Bourenane, Heather DuBois
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MAKE THE BEST OF
PUBLIC EDUCATION
The grace period is over: It’s time for America to be the grown-up our kids are counting on. BY HEATHER DUBOIS BOURENANE Amid the chaos caused by the...
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What Rural Voters Want
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Cramer, Katherine J.
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What Rural Voters Want
It isn’t new policies or programs; it’s respect from their fellow citizens. Over the past decade, I have invited myself into the conversations of groups of people meeting...
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Q: What Should the Nation Learn from Wisconsin's Progressive Past?
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Q: What Should the Nation Learn from Wisconsin's Progressive Past? BARBARA LAWTON Former lieutenant governor of Wisconsin, serving two terms from 2003 to 2011 Paeans to the progressive...
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'The Killing Was Really Cut and Dry'
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Gilmore, Brian
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‘The Killing Was Really Cut and Dry’ George Floyd’s murder sparks a worldwide campaign to end policing as we know it. BY BRIAN GILMORE IN the foreword to his poetry anthology on police...
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On the Anger of Black Women
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Taylor, Vanessa
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On the Anger of Black Women
BY VANESSA TAYLOR
“The sun goes down, the batons come up.” I went to Ferguson, Missouri, in the fall of 2014 in a van full of strangers. All of us went as a...
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Whose Justice System Is It Anyway?
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Law, Victoria
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Whose Justice SystemIs It Anyway? Participatory defense helps ordinary citizens have a greater say in court outcomes. BY VICTORIA LAW Fox and Rob Rich help people participate in their own...
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It's Not Just the Cops
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Strang, Dean A.
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It’s Not Just the Cops
BY DEAN A. STRANG The calls for real transformation of policing are urgent and needed, but not enough. Transformation can start, but not end, there. The police, after...
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The Lessons We Haven't Learned
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Caldicott, Helen
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The Lessons We
Haven’t Learned
My birthday is August 7, sandwiched between the anniversary dates for the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (on August 6 and August 9, 1945, respectively). I...
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Anguish in Human Form
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JUNKERMAN, JOHN
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Anguish in Human Form
Maruki Gallery keeps alive the memory of the world’s .rst nuclear attack. BY JOHN JUNKERMAN John Junkerman is an American documentary filmmaker, living in Tokyo. His...
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'Listen to the People'
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Stockwell, Norman
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‘Listen to the People’ Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison talks about what politicians need to do. BY NORMAN STOCKWELL I n November 2018, Keith Ellison was elected attorney general...
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Book
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BOOKS
Imagining a Better World
In his new book of essays, Scott Russell Sanders celebrates the power of imagination as an agent of positive change. “Imagination,” Sanders writes, “breaks the...
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A Complicated Day in the Neighborhood
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Farsad, Negin
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A COMPLICATED DAY IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD
I live in a great neighborhood in New York City. It’s the kind of neighborhood where you’ll hear impromptu jazz in the park, where fireflies light the summer...
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Taking it to the Streets
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Higgins, Maeve
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TAKING IT TO THE STREETS
In the dying days of May, I found myself sitting in my childhood bedroom in rural Ireland, doomscrolling on my phone and waiting for something to happen. New York City,...
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Another Racist Team Name Bites the Dust
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Zirin, Dave
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ANOTHER RACIST TEAM NAME BITES THE DUST
He said it would never happen. He taunted those in the Native American and activist communities who demanded that he get with the times. He told USA...
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The Spell and Dispel
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Rozga, Margaret
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THE SPELL
You will forget the number 3 the hypnotist told her and she counted one two four her ten fingers numbered eleven. How? You will forget your last name John John John… Who...
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Progress in the Age of COVID-19
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Hightower, Jim
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PROGRESS IN THE AGE OF COVID-19
In the February and March primary elections, a cabal of backroom political geniuses rushed out a coordinated campaign, screeching that impending doom awaits the...
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