AI and data centers have the potential to make our lives more efficient. Faster. More productive. It might connect us to more people, or make communication easier. It might make us better organized. But why is that so important? Ask yourself: what are we currently getting out of this?

Dianne Hesselbein is pro-business and anti-worker. She’s bad on healthcare, a genocide denier and Zionist, She’s also MAGA-friendly. Fortunately, Nathan Kalmoe is running a write-in campaign against her.

AD51 has been narrowly electing Republican Todd Novak since 2014. This year his opponent is Ben Gruber, a DNR conservation warden and union organizer.

At the heart of the surveillance logic, there is the rather silly idea that, if criminal behavior is caught on camera and successfully prosecuted, the behavior will be deterred and there will be a reduction in crime, without any attention paid to the conditions which gave rise to it.

Punishing David Crowley and the establishment by withholding your vote is not a punishment at all. It will give them the excuse they need to continue serving donors and neglecting voters.

Interests will clash from time to time, as the landlord wants to raise rents and the capitalist does not want to raise wages. It is at those times that we see increases in homelessness.

One way to look at it is that we live inside a machine that makes homeless people. Instead of replacing the machine, we’ve painted a mural on it. 

A group of Fran Hong supporters and socialists in central Wisconsin have organized a conference at Steven’s Point on Oct 3, inviting organizers from around the state to attend. Here is the introduction and starting list of demands.

We call on MPS to provide the work-order data required by the board, make its public lead page a useful account of testing and completed and outstanding work, adopt proactive soil and regular water testing consistent with its obligations under ch. NR 700, Wis. Adm. Code, and show how lead safety factors into facilities decisions. Lead exposure is preventable.

There are other interests in the neighborhood in which these businesses are located, namely those who live and work there, but they don’t have an Alderman, as they haven’t purchased one.