“My second act in Congress will be signing on to Medicare for All (119th Congress H.R. 3069). Politicians say we can’t afford universal healthcare, public education, environmental protections, and so many other policies and programs essential for human thriving and flourishing. Meanwhile, those same people provide blank checks for wars, militarism, and corporate subsidies.

That’s why my first act in office will be signing Block the Bombs (H.R. 3565), to restrict arms sales to Israel.”

Even if you don’t win, filing for candidacy and getting media attention is a great way to put some fear in centrists and take back your own political participation power. Corporate Democrats are often cowards. Fear works on them. For many, fear seems to be the only thing they respond to. We just need them to be afraid of us.

Taking money from J Street is not the political liability that taking money from AIPAC is, but… Neither organization would tolerate a Senator that they financed proposing a reduction of aid to the state of Israel.

But the IHRA legislation conflates antisemitism with the state of Israel. Seven of its 11 examples of “antisemitism” specifically reference Israel. And while the Federation claims that the definition does not limit free speech, in truth there are real life examples we can point to where it is being used to penalize individuals calling out Israel for the genocide it is committing.

There are 3 major healthcare systems who run healthcare in Milwaukee, that reach across the state of Wisconsin and beyond. All three have missions that supposedly also center the sanctity of human health and life.  And yet they, like every single other hospital system in the United States, have said nothing about the destruction of hospitals in Gaza.

As the fall-out of the election unfurls upon us, we must remember that it was pro-genocide Zionists who helped cement Harris’ position as a status-quo politician. Ann Jacobs’ hard work helped ensure Harris would proceed with an unpopular platform and a disastrous campaign strategy, facilitating Trump’s victory.

This is a public statement by government officials excusing criminal acts. They acknowledge that the vandals with the paint violated Atta’s rights, but then say that Atta should have expected this violation. They reframe and minimize his property being attacked as him “not being welcomed with open arms.” This is how government officials build a permission structure for hate crimes, which then occurred with the more brazen attack that very night. 

Palestinian solidarity activists in Milwaukee have been threatened, spat on, and subject to trespassing and vandalism in their homes. Five of them were beaten, restrained and dragged into custody by police. Some Zionists even went to Marquette under the cover of darkness and armed with a pistol to desecrate a Palestinian memorial.

Beginnings are hard. Some of them you’re forced into: being born, your first day at school, the first time you have to pay your own rent. This is different: we’re voluntarily starting something new, we aren’t sure how it will go, but we hope it’s worth the effort.