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September & October 2008Vol XVIII, No. 5

NEWS

Wisconsin Network for Peace & Justice

NETWORK

What’s Inside This Issue

p. 2 Report from WNPJ office p. 3 Fresh Food &

Orchids and Onions p. 4 Calendar p. 5 WI’s Global Trade p. 7 Buy Local, Buy WI p. 9 Bits and Peaces & “Winter Soldier” p. 10 P & J Resources

Creating a New EconomyRobert McClure

This strange and worrying moment inthe history of capitalism presents an op-portunity for those engaged in economicjustice work. Between a collapsing dol-lar, soaring fuel costs, the implosion ofcredit markets and the recent, breath-taking display of rapacity by mortgagelenders and their Wall Street backers, theexcesses of corporate capitalism havemade repeated headlines. With the flawsand inequities of the present system un-usually exposed to public scrutiny, weshould take the opportunity — while the

civic dialog about the economy brieflywidens and financial literacy hits a mod-est high — to press a much more revo-lutionary vision of economic justice.

While progressive movements havebecome adept at identifying institutions,rather than individual motivations, as theprimary perpetuators of societal ills likeracism and patriarchy, we continue tosuppose that a sort of blind worship ofmammon is the force that propels thewealth-concentrating trajectory of capi-

talism. Capitalism certainly makes a vir-tue of greed, and while it’s easy to pointfingers at Wall Street’s brokers and fundmanagers as the very embodiment of thatvice, it was indisputably you and I who– through opening that checking or sav-ings account, or choosing to participatein the retirement plan at work — pro-vided the suits the raw material withwhich they work (in part, on our behalf,we must add). Complicity in capitalistaccumulation runs uncomfortably wide

Wisconsin cities and small communi-ties were privileged this summer to hostthe Walkers for Witness Against Warin their 450-mile trek across our region.This effort was made to challenge andnonviolently resist our country’s continu-ing war in - and occupation of - Iraq.The Walk left Chicago on July 12, andwill reach St. Paul, MN August 31st, asthe Republican National Conventionopens.

There have been 10 – 12 core walk-ers, plus scores of day-walkers joiningin. The originating group includes KathyKelly (photo - 5th from left) and hercolleagues from Voices for CreativeNonviolence www.vcnv.org. We fol-lowed their progress through Illinois, Wis-consin, and up the Mississippi River toMinnesota, watching the maps and pho-tos on the WNPJ website www.wnpj.organd with regular e-bulletins from theWNPJ office on their progress. This col-laborative project provided benefits for

WNPJ – energizing our member groupsalong the route – and for VCNV, withthe Network providing the contacts forhosts and other resources to make thisjourney possible. Kudos to all!

Witnesses AgainstWar

See New Economy, page 6

Core group of Walkers from Voices for Creative Nonviolence - leaving Chicago, bound for St. Paul.

Thirteen activists were arrested atthe gates of Ft. McCoy, August

10th , as they protested the use ofthe WI National Guard being de-

ployed for wars abroad.

WNPJ Network News - September & October 2008

The Wisconsin Network forPeace and Justice facilitatesactivities, cooperation andcommunication among Wisconsinorganizations and individualsworking toward the creation ofa world free from violence andinjustice.

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

OFFICERS

• John Peck, Co-Chair, Madison [email protected]

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STAFF

••••• Judy Miner, Office Coordinator [email protected]

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Submit articles and calendar items to:E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 608-250-9240Mail: 122 State Street, #402 - Madison, WI 53703

REPORT FROM THE WNPJ OFFICEFrom Judy Miner, Office Coordinator

Thanks to all our volunteers who have helped recently with literature tabling inMadison and Milwaukee – Barb B., Terry T, Fred B, Chuck, B, Rick G. and BillC….and to all the volunteers from across the state who helped make the Pancakesfor Peace event a success – at the Midwest Renewable Energy Fair!

The staff at WNPJ has been supporting the work of the “Witness Against War”walkers, en route from Chicago to St. Paul this summer, organized by Voices forCreative Nonviolence. Their voice of peace has been heard across our state as ourmember groups have hosted the walkers. Wisconsin has provided hospitality andvenues for meeting our neighbors, in large cities and small villages. Their trip hashighlighted the misuse of the National Guard in military operations overseas. WNPJis part of a national “Bring Our Guard Home” campaign. Learn how you can getinvolved, by contacting Steve at [email protected] or Todd at [email protected].

WNPJ supports the work of our Immigrant Reform member groups, providingyard signs for statewide distribution that read “Immigrants Welcome” and accom-panying the activists on the bus to Postville, IA to protest a government raid thatswept up more than 400 immigrant workers. And we issued ALERTS about theWI Department of Corrections banning books for prisoners. Learn more fromCamy Matthy at [email protected].

WNPJ is working with others to coordinate efforts for peaceful resolutions -using diplomacy, not war – with Iran. To learn more, contact Bonnie Block [email protected] or Joy First at [email protected].

Other projects: 1) Our WNPJ website has been upgraded! See a difference atwww.wnpj.org? Thanks to several donors who have helped pay for this expensiveand necessary upgrade. 2) Our WNPJ BOARD RETREAT in August focused onRACISM, with an intensive workshop provided by Groundwork and experiencedtrainers, Marilyn Miller, Barb Munson, Tom McGrath, and Carol Lukens. The ra-cial diversity survey of WNPJ member groups was at the heart of this workshop.Details will be distributed in a future newsletter. 3) Plans are now being developedfor the Fall Assembly in Milwaukee, Oct. 4th - “Want REAL Security? Try GrassrootsOrganizing!” Look for registration materials as an insert in this newsletter, as wellas the proposed 2009 budget and slate of new BOARD members for 2009. We’llbe presenting the Peacemaker of the Year 2008 Awards at this Assembly. Join usas we celebrate their work!


AN ORCHID TO

Peace Action – Wisconsin and Vetsfor Peace who successfully organizedagainst Army recruiters use of a virtualurban warfare game at Milwaukee’sSummerfest. The game allowed fest-goers as young as 13 to hop into aHumvee simulator and fire machine gunsat life-size people on a computer screen.The Army shut down the game, tempo-rarily, at the request of Summerfest of-ficials.

A coalition led by 9 to 5, the Na-tional Association of WorkingWomen, that succeeded in collectingmore than 40,000 signatures to place alaw mandating paid sick leave for allMilwaukee workers on the November4, 2008 ballot. Amy Stear, director of 9to 5 Wisconsin said, “There’s nothingmore concrete than being able to voteon your interests. It’s what democracyis all about.”

AN ONION TO

The members of the WI Congres-sional Delegation (Kind, Ryan, Petri,Sensenbrenner and Senator Kohl)who voted for the Foreign IntelligenceSecurity Act Amendments violating thecitizens’ constitutional right to privacy,and providing immunity from lawsuits tomajor telecommunications corporationsthat participated in President Bush’s il-legal wiretapping program.

Wisconsin Representatives Kind,Kagen and Ryan, who have signed onas cosponsors to a bill, House Concur-rent Resolution 362, that calls for a na-val blockade of Iran – considered an actof war under international law. Thanksto strong opposition from the public, thebill, originally placed on a fast track forquick approval, has been shunted to theForeign Relations Committee, and sev-eral of the bill’s cosponsors have with-drawn their support.

“Fresh” Food Does Not Travel 1500 Miles....John E. Peck

If there was an odometer on everyapple, bunch of lettuce, or hamburgerthat shoppers pick up at a supermarket,they would probably be shocked. In anera of peak oil and global food crisis,people may want to get acquainted withthe concept of food miles.

A typical U.S. food item now travels1500 miles from where it is produced towhere it is consumed. This represents a50% increase in food miles since the1970s, mostly due to the rise ofagribusiness and globalization. Much ofthis mileage is concealed, because theU.S. has yet to implement country oforigin labeling (COOL), even though ithas now been passed by CongressTWICE as part of the Farm Bill. Whileit is relatively easy to find out that 80%of all toys sold in the U.S. come fromChina, it is virtually impossible to find outwhere food comes from. Such consumerignorance can be fatal - as demonstrated

last year when 20,000 dogs and cats diedin the U.S. from Chinese pet food con-taminated with melamine, a waste prod-uct of the coal industry. After being re-called, this same toxic pet food was stillrerouted into livestock feed and endedup on U.S. consumers’ plates anyway.The U.S. has been a food deficit nationfor many years now as we import over13% of what we eat – 260 pounds offood per person per year on average.That’s a lot of grapes from Chile, milkprotein concentrate from Ukraine, mel-ons from Madagascar, and frozen jumboshrimp from Vietnam. The rule is “ascheap as possible” whether conventionalor organic - in fact, the U.S. imports tentimes as much organic food as it exports.

When food riots broke out in 30 coun-tries this spring and U.S. retailers startedrationing staples like rice, not everyonewas caught by surprise. World Bankeconomists and Chicago commodity

speculators knew full well that theagrofuel boom would have ripple effectsacross the global food chain. When halfof the U.S. corn crop is being siphonedoff into gas tanks thanks to taxpayersubsidies of $1.35 per gallon, one shouldexpect to see egg prices rise 36% in theU.S., tortilla prices jump 60% in Mexico,and bread prices skyrocket 100% inPakistan. For every 1% increase in worldfood prices it is estimated another 16 mil-lion people become hungry. Food bankdemand in the U.S. has already climbedby 20% this year, and according to theUSDA there are already 36 million “foodinsecure” (i.e. hungry) people in thecountry.

Sadly, these rising food prices do nottranslate into fairer prices for small familyfarmers. Instead, the grain giants arereaping record profits: ADM’s profits areup 42%, Cargill 86%. This exploitative

The members of UNITE HERELocal 229, workers at the Aramark in-dustrial laundry on Madison’s east side,who stood up to union-busting tactics byAramark management and won decentwage increases as part of a new con-tract. When Aramark management tooka hard line in negotiations, the workersvoted unanimously in favor of a strike.The strike threat, combined with strongsupport from other local unions andWNPJ member group South CentralFederation of Labor, forced Aramarkmanagement to drop its demands forconcessions and agree to real gains forthe workers - including a $1,250 bonusin the first year, wage increases of 3percent in the second year, and 2.5 per-cent increases in third year of the three-year deal.

See “Fresh” Food, page 8


Calendar for September and October, 20089/6 Sat All Day Fighting Bobfest -Baraboo. At the Sauk CountyFairgrounds. Keynote speakersinclude: Bill McKibben, JimHightower, Phil Donahue, Rep.Gwen Moore, Rep. TammyBaldwin, among many others.WNPJ will have a table - come findour new yard signs - and volunteerto sit at the table! [email protected] orwww.fightingbobfest.org.

9/6 Sat 12 noon – 1 pm Stand forPeace Weekly Vigil – Milwaukee.Capitol and Oakland. All [email protected].

9/7 Sun 8am- 4pm Harvestingand Storing Food Workshop –Amherst. $75 At Artha SustainableLiving Center www.arthaonline.com.

9/7 Sun 9:30 am – 5:30 pm – KenButigan on “Tools for NonviolentChange” – Milwaukee. MarquetteUniversity AMU Chapel. SimonHarak, 414-288-8445 [email protected].

9/11 Thurs 7:30 - 9 pm “Speak forJustice: U.S. Veterans & IraqisCreating the Way Forward.” -Green Bay. Harmony Cafe, 1660W. Mason St. Co-sponsored by theSt. Norbert Abbey Justice andPeace Committee and HarmonyCafé. Meet Iraqi political analystRaed Jarrar and honorablydischarged Iraq War veteranEugene Cherry to learn about theeffects of the Iraq War on civiliansand soldiers fighting in Iraq.Speakers brought by the AmericanFriends Service Committee.Contact: Jessica Flores, 312-427-2533, [email protected] or SteveHerro, 920-337-4345 [email protected].

9/12- 9/14 Fri-Sun: 9am-5pm SolarWater Heating Installation Lab –Amherst. At Artha SustainableLiving Center, 715-824-3463,

www.arthaonline.com. MREA forregistration: www.the-mrea.org.

9/14 Sun Returned Peace CorpsVolunteers Annual Picnic andGeneral Meeting – Madison. AtTenney Park on East JohnsonStreet. Contact Char Thompson [email protected].

9/14 Sun MFIS Fall Picnic forInternational Students –Madison. For more than 40 years,MFIS has been hosting a fall“Welcome to Wisconsin” Picnicevent for international students.Volunteers needed. 608-213-2598or [email protected].

9/17 Wed Wisconsin CoalitionAgainst Domestic Violence(WCADV) Annual Luncheon –Madison. Monona Terrace.Commemorate the past 30 years ofWCADV’s work and to mobilizeothers to join them to end domesticviolence. www.wcadv.org/.

9/19 Fri 7 pm Prayer for Peace aspart of the Iraq Moratorium - DePere. St. Norbert’s College, OSJ.Contact: The Peace and JusticeCenter at (920) 403-3881,www.snc.edu/pjc or [email protected].

9/20 Sat 12 – 3 pm Ride forRenewables – Custer. MREA.Ride 15, 30 or 60 mile routes incentral Wisconsin. Followed byHarvest Fest. Cost: $30 adults; $10for kids; free under 13. [email protected].

9/20 Sat 2 pm Harvest Fest –Custer. MREA’s annual HarvestFest features cider pressing,pumpkin carving, guided tours ofthe MREA grounds to learn aboutrenewable energy, permaculture,music, local food and [email protected].

9/27 Sat Winter Soldier -Madison. Contact [email protected].

10/4 Sat. 8:30 – 5 pm WNPJASSEMBLY “Want REALSecurity? Try GrassrootsOrganizing”– Milwaukee.Registration - see insert flyer.

10/9 Thurs 7 pm Sr. HelenPrejean, Ambassador of PeaceAward - De Pere. St. Norbert’sCollege, Walter Theater. “Dead ManWalking: the Journey Continues”,followed by a reception at 8 pm.Contact: The Peace and JusticeCenter at (920) 403-3881,www.snc.edu/pjc or [email protected].

10/11 Sat Walk/Run/Eat EventSponsored by GSA for SafeSchools - Madison. In WarnerPark. Contact: 608-661-4141,[email protected]; orwww.gsaforsafeschools.org/

10/12 Sun 12 noon – 8 pm Pre-Parliament Event of WorldReligions “Come to the Waters” –Madison. At Edgewood College.http://religst.edgewood.edu/Conferences/Waters08.html. BobKoshin Hanson,[email protected].

10/19 Sun First Annual Run/Walk for Peace – Milwaukee.Whitnall Park. Sponsored by PeaceAction WI. [email protected].

10/23 Thurs Panel Discussion ofScholars on the Exhibition ‘NaziPersecution of Homosexuals 1933-1945’ – Madison. UW-Madison. Theexhibition is in Memorial UnionLibrary, from 10/10 to 12/10. Info?608-661-4141 orwww.gsaforsafeschools.org.

10/26 Sun 12:30 pm Annual UnitedNations Dinner – Madison.Monona Terrace. Celebrate the 60thAnniversary of the UniversalDeclaration of Human Rights.SPEAKER: Micheline Ishay. BonnieBlock, [email protected].


Peace and Patriotism are compatible in the July 4th Parade inMilton, WI. Sponsored by Rock Valley Fellowship of Reconciliation.

Photo submitted by Sue Nelson.

Progress and Challenges on Wisconsin’sGlobal Trade

Steve Watrous

Wisconsinites have been busy on eco-nomic globalization in the past fewmonths, with good news and projectsthat could use your help. In brief:

§ Pressure is building on Gov. Doyleand other local units of government tostop buying garments from sweatshops.

§ Consumers are buying more fair tradeproducts, the focus of World Fair TradeDay events in Milwaukee and around thestate.

§ Support is spreading for national leg-islation to prevent future “freetrade” agreements like theNorth American Free TradeAgreement (NAFTA).

On the down side, Wisconsinhas lost over 70,600 manufac-turing jobs since May 2001.Some of these disappeared tothe Southern U.S. or were dueto greater worker productivity,but other factories shifted pro-duction to low-wage countries.Below are some ways to slowthe “off shoring” of Wisconsinjobs.

The Milwaukee CleanClothes Campaign helped re-lease a new report about U.S.units of government buyingfrom factories that exploit their work-ers. The report, by the national organi-zation SweatFree Communities (SFC),is titled: “Subsidizing Sweatshops: Howour tax dollars fund the race to the bot-tom, and what cities and states can do,”and is available at www.sweatfree.org/subsidizing. This expose’ of several dis-mal factories included one of special in-terest to Milwaukeeans: the CharmingGarments factory in China. Five yearsago, Milwaukee passed an “Ethical Pur-chasing” ordinance requiring disclosurefrom companies wanting to sell garmentsto the city. The Blauer company’s suc-cessful 2003 bid revealed that it would

make police uniforms at Charming andpay 62 cents per hour.

The report, based on May 2008 inter-views with workers, found that Charm-ing is violating Chinese law with 15 hourshifts, child labor, and unpaid overtime.Charming managers also coach theworkers on how to lie to inspectors.Blauer says it has shifted production outof that factory and will complete a newaffidavit on where the uniforms are nowmade. Sweatfree Communities requests

that companies not “cut and run” whenworker abuses are exposed, but ratherwork to make the factories into non-sweatshops.

The group also demands that units ofgovernment join the proposed SweatFreeConsortium, a new collaborative pur-chasing strategy that overcomes theproblem of too many factories to inspect,and the frequent moving of work be-tween them. It interrupts the lowest-bidmarket mechanism that promotes a“race to the bottom” among suppliers togovernmental units. The Consortium issimilar to the “Designated Supplier Pro-

gram” being promoted at UW-Madisonand other colleges.

Gov. Doyle, with some prompting,wrote a letter July 12 to SFC declaring,“I am committed to protecting the rightsof workers and ensuring safe and hu-mane factory conditions. SubsidizingSweatshops is a report that all state andlocal governments must take seriouslyin our efforts to end human and laborrights violations. We have asked fourstate contractors to look into whether

their suppliers producesweatshop goods.”

The Milwaukee CleanClothes Campaign intends tofollow up on those contrac-tors’ reports and ask the gov-ernor to join the Consortium.The City of Madison has al-ready agreed to do so, andMilwaukee Alder TonyZielinski said he will urgethat city to join. Also, the Mil-waukee Area Technical Col-lege in June became thefourth unit of government inthis area to adopt an anti-sweatshop purchasing policy.

Government purchasing ischanging for the better and so are indi-vidual consumer preferences. World FairTrade Day, celebrated May 10, high-lighted the growing number of shops thatsell some kind of fair trade product.

In Milwaukee, 22 shops participated inthe First Annual Fair Trade Crawl. Mosttook part in the “World’s Largest (fairtrade) Coffee Break,” 1,000 fair traderoses supplied by TransFair were sold,and several shoppers won prizes forcrawling to at least eight shops. Manyof the stores are along Kinnickinnic Ave.near the Bay View Outpost Natural

See Global Trade, page 11


across the land, and even the best-in-tentioned of us are often implicated.

If we believe justice demands address-ing the inequities of the present system,then we’d better look further than sim-ply reordering tax codes to shift morewealth from rich to poor, or empower-ing those marginalized by capitalism towithstand its perditions, or to flourish bymastering its tools. We must look insteadat what might otherwise seem an inci-dental detail – the money-system we useeveryday for procuring our basic neces-sities.

Capitalism’s most malign deception isthat inequity results from the actions ofmarkets, or from supply and demand, orfrom individual greed. While all of thesehave their minor roles to play, it is thecentral bank-based, positive interest-ratemoney system which fundamentallydrives concentration of wealth, turningacquisitiveness from an option to a ne-cessity, setting each of us in competitionfor money against every other, and cod-ing constant expansion into the economyat every level.

Money is an information-carrying de-vice which human beings invented tomeasure the value of the goods and ser-vices we trade, and to store that valuebetween trades. Because it thereforeacts as a sort of language, money’s oneessential requirement is that the size andmeaning of its units be transparent toall, and invariant across time.

But, while it’s seldom remarked upon,how money is issued affects – and po-tentially corrupts — the way it measures.Central banks originate all money in capi-talist economies, and they do so by loan-ing it into circulation at interest, mostlyfor the sort of quotidian purposes thatare the stuff of everyday life: housing,education, business start-up, etc. As loanprincipal, each dollar represents a netdebt owed back to the banking system(the dollar, plus some amount of inter-est), but as money, it conveys the infor-mation during its circulation that it is onlyworth a fraction its face value. In other

words, the dollar has a permanent inter-est-cost attached to it, and every user— from the initial loan recipient forward— has the incentive to try and pass thatcost on. What results is the creation ofubiquitous (and generally automatic andunconscious) behavior among users ofcentral-bank money to somehow collectadditional value without laboring; this iswhat compels us to be slaves to price(advantaging the Wal-mart model of pro-duction), even if — morally – we’drather pay those that labor for us a livingwage.

It’s also what drives us to invest any idlemoney we’re able to amass, violating theprogressive precept that only labor (notprovision of money) creates wealth. In adebt-based monetary system with itschronically “short” money supply, allmoney has a cost, and any aggregation ofmoney can therefore potentially earnmoney by being lent out or supplied asequity for a productive enterprise. The fi-nancial services industry — which devotesitself to this iniquitous trick of producingmore money from less — now accountsfor an astonishing 98% (by some esti-mates) of all daily financial transactions,when currency speculation is added to themoney changing hands on the stock, bondand futures markets. No system whichpermits (much less demands) money bemade from money can ever pass musterwith a progressive vision of commerce.Only by reclaiming democratic control ofmoney - of the very language of exchange,of its definition of measure - can we cre-ate a system of trade, both locally and in-ternationally, which we can guarantee tobe non-exploitative.

Somewhat remarkably, we are per-fectly free to do this, and several dozencommunities in the U.S. have taken theopportunity (thousands of systems op-erate globally). Whether set-up as elec-tronic credits or paper notes, local cur-rencies are generally denominated inhours-of-labor (usually cross-denomi-nated in the U.S. at $10 or $12/Hour),cannot be lent at interest, and are demo-cratically controlled by their users. Es-

tablishing a system is no more compli-cated than organizing a barter network— individuals and businesses are re-cruited to become members, a papercurrency is printed, and all who join aresimply issued a small amount (say 3Hours worth) to get the money into cir-culation. The local scrip is then used, andcirculates, just like “regular” money.

Local currencies were conceived tosupplement national currencies and areissued with the object of expanding lo-cal money-supplies to sufficiency. Thisdrives up wages, encourages re-local-ization of production, shrinks the excesslabor pool and redistributes wealth moreequitably. Local currencies also presentan ideal opportunity to focus a muchwider audience on the fundamental prob-lems of capitalism, and they constitutean important step toward re-democra-tizing society. Because of the world-widecommonality of their denomination (ie.,the labor-hour), geographically disparatesystems can ideally be linked for devel-opment of national and internationaltrade. Most importantly, local currencyuse ultimately pushes us toward a trad-ing system where an hour of labor inevery corner of the world produces anequivalent standard of living, a feat in-conceivable under a trade regime basedon central-bank currencies and floatingexchange rates.

Local currencies are potentiallypowerful tools, partly because they dotheir work simply in the course of peoplespending money. Widespread, well-developed systems around the U.S.could be pulling hundreds of millions ofdollars out of chain-stores and perma-nently re-localizing that spending-power;but this requires a commitment to build acommon vision of fair trade at the locallevel. Madison Hours, south-centralWisconsin’s local currency system, isalways looking for volunteers to helpfurther such a vision, both locally and byassisting other communities.They can becontacted at www.madisonhours.orgor Rob at 608-257-6729. MadisonHours is a member group of WNPJ.

New Economy, from front page


Connecting through “Buy Local, Buy Wisconsin”

Jeanne Merrill

There is a growing skepticism about thesafety of our food system, compelling con-sumers to seek out alternatives. Accord-ing to an Associated Press-Ipsos poll, therecent salmonella outbreak linked to con-taminated tomatoes has left many Ameri-cans reconsidering where they get theirfood. In the past six months, nearly half ofconsumers have changed their eating andbuying habits because they are afraid theycould get sick by eating contaminated food.

Many are turning to farmers markets,Community Supported Agriculture (CSA)farms, and farm stands to find local foodthat they can trust.

What is local food, you may ask? Defi-nitions vary, but for most eaters local foodmeans having a connection to the placeand the farmers who raise their food. It isfresh, healthy, tasty food that is producedclose to home.

Eating within the foodshedThe concept of eating food produced closeto home took root in the United States inthe 1990s. Farmers markets were goingthrough a renaissance. And new modelsof connecting farmers directly with con-sumers were taking hold, including Com-munity Support Agriculture (CSA) farms,where consumers buy shares in a farm inreturn for weekly or bi-weekly boxes offarm fresh food.

UW-Madison Professor JackKloppenburg was among those calling fora new food system. With colleagues, hedeveloped the concept of the “foodshed”.Borrowing from the environmental con-cept of bioregionalism, the foodshed isbased on decreasing the geographical andpersonal distance between farmer andconsumer. The goal is to support local,small-scale producers instead of distant,input-intensive agribusiness.

Wisconsin: Local Food LeaderWisconsin is well positioned to be a leaderin the local food movement. The state

boasts the third highest number of farm-ers markets in the country, with nearly 200markets spread throughout communitieslarge and small. Wisconsin farmers andfood advocates were also among the firstin the country to develop CSA farms. Ourstate is now home to over 70 CSA farms,more than any of our Midwest neighbors.

Local food markets are expanding be-yond farmers markets and CSA farms.Farmers with local partners are seekingout new, institutional markets for their lo-cally produced products.

In Dane County, county planners haveteamed up with public and private institu-tions and farmers to increase institutionalpurchases of produce for local farms.Working with the Badgerland ProduceAuction, based in Montello, four institutionsin the last six weeks of the auction lastyear purchased 20,000 pounds of local pro-duce, totaling $12,000. Based on a surveyof Dane County institutional buyers, countyplanners estimate that local food purchasesfrom the auction will rise to 250,000 poundsin 2008.

Agriculture of the MiddleDeveloping institutional markets for localproducts can present important new op-portunities for farm businesses. Nationallyand in Wisconsin, the numbers of small andlarge-scale farms are increasing, but it isthe farms in the middle that are disappear-ing. These “middle” farms are too large todepend solely on direct marketing and toosmall to compete on the global market.Accessing larger, locally based markets,such as supermarkets, schools and hospi-tals, can allow mid-sized farmers to diver-sify, improve their bottom lines and stayon their land. But getting access to thesemarkets can present some challenges.

Wisconsin lacks key infrastructure insome parts of the state to effectively con-nect farmers and their products with new,local markets. In Northwest Wisconsin, for

example, farmers must go to Minnesotato find a USDA inspected meat facility toprocess their animals for sale across theborder in the Twin Cities. Many parts ofthe state also lack affordable distributionsystems that allow producers to pool prod-uct and move it local markets. Addition-ally, some producers lack access to mar-keting expertise to help promote their prod-ucts.

Buy Local, Buy WisconsinTo address these issues, farmers, industryleaders and food advocates pushed for anew state program to provide technical andfinancial assistance to deepen local foodsystem development in the state. The newprogram, called “Buy Local, Buy Wiscon-sin”, was funded for the first time in the2007-9 state budget.

Coordinated by the Wisconsin Depart-ment of Agriculture, Trade and ConsumerProtection (DATCP), “Buy Local, BuyWisconsin” provides grants and technicalassistance for local food initiatives through-out the state. Farmers and business lead-ers no longer have to reinvent the wheelwhen it comes to developing local foodsystems that work.

The “Buy Local, Buy Wisconsin” pro-gram goal is to shift 10 percent ofWisconsin’s $20 billion annual food expen-ditures to locally produced food. It is anambitious goal, but a needed one. By de-veloping stronger linkages between farm-ers and eaters, we can strengthen oureconomy and work to improve our health.

For more information on the “Buy Lo-cal, Buy Wisconsin” program, please goto: http://datcp.state.wi.us/mktg/business/marketing/val-add/directmktg/blbw.jsp orcontact Teresa Cuperus with DATCP:608-224-5101

Jeanne Merrill is a resident of TroyGardens Cohousing Community, anurban agriculture cohousing commu-nity on the Northside of Madison, WI.


scenario is not just limited to the farmer- it pervades the entire food chain, fromthe undocumented farm worker, to thenon-unionized meatpacker, to the part-time minimum wage cashier. For everydollar spent on an apple at Walmart, only4 cents go to the apple picker and 7 centsto the apple farmer, compared to 68cents for the mega retailer.

Even in a farm rich state like WI freshlocal food can be very hard to find. Tax-payer subsidies discriminate against fam-ily farmers and distort what’s “profitable”to raise. The result is that many veg-etables, fruits, and grass-fed animals areeconomically marginalized in favor ofjust a few commodity crop monoculturesthat mostly feed ethanol plants, factoryfarms, and junkfood makers. In WI, forexample, over half of ALL cropland isnow devoted to just two crops - cornand soy - with most of that being nutri-tionally inferior low quality geneticallyengineered varieties. Even in DaneCounty, which is home to 279 dairyfarms, only a few are organic. Organicmilk is trucked into Madison from as faraway as Colorado.

In 2007 Sen. Lassa (D- Stevens Point)introduced the Buy Local Buy Wiscon-sin bill with the admirable goal of shift-ing 10% of the state’s consumer fooddollars back into the hands of WI familyfarmers. Wisconsinites may spend $20billion annually on food, but when 98%of that amount goes towards out-of-state foodstuffs there is no local eco-nomic multiplier effect. Unfortunately,Gov. Doyle only budgeted $600,000 overtwo years for the Buy Local, Buy Wis-consin - less than what a single factoryfarm can receive in herd expansiongrants from the state.

Thankfully, many people help them-selves to re-localize their food/farmeconomies. These grassroots efforts fallunder the broader theme of food sover-eignty - a concept coined back in 1996by Via Campesina, the largest umbrellaorganization for farmers, farmworkers,pastoralists, hunter/gatherers, fishers,

and foresters in the world. Food sover-eignty valorizes common sense principlesof democracy, cultural integrity, andstewardship, with people determining forthemselves at the local level just whatthey plant, what animals they raise, whattype of agriculture occurs, and whatthey will eat for dinner.

To give but a few U.S. examples offood sovereignty in action: there are nowmore than 3,700 farmers markets, twicethe number in 1994; over 9 million acresare protected from development through1,500 landtrusts; there are over 1000community supported agriculture (CSA)operations, directly providing fresh foodfrom farmers to eaters each weekthroughout the growing season; thereare over 400 farm to school projects,getting healthy local food back into caf-eterias, as well as over 30 local foodpolicy councils that are reassertingdemocratic control over agriculture.Millions of people in the U.S. are en-gaged in various forms of agriculturalcivil disobedience, whether buying freshraw milk direct from dairy farmers orkeeping unregistered livestock in defi-ance of the National Animal Identifica-tion System (NAIS).

Wisconsin is high on food sovereigntyactivity. For instance, the OneidaTsyunhekwa Project is rediscovering thebenefits of “Three Sisters” (squash,corn, beans) gardens, while the HoChunk nation has done the same withits bison herd. Dane County boasts thelargest farmers market in the U.S., withover 10,000 people converging each Sat-urday to support hundreds of vendorsand keep millions of dollars in the localfood/farm economy. The fastest grow-ing segment of the state’s dairy industryis now organic and/or grass-based, ledin large part by the Amish and other un-conventional farmers. Hundreds ofpeople in Madison now have backyardchickens and fresh eggs daily. DrumlinCommunity Garden on Madison’ssouthside is gaining more and more pub-lic support in its David vs Goliath strugglewith the Alexander Company to defend

urban agriculture from encroachingsprawl - in this case a taxpayer subsi-dized luxury hotel complex.

Being able to grow and enjoy healthyaffordable nutritious food from your ownbioregion should be a right, not a privi-lege. By bringing together the buy local,fair trade, slow food, and organic move-ments, we can restore community-basedagriculture that puts people before profit.

John Peck - co-chair of WNPJ &director of Family Farm [email protected].

“Fresh” Food, from page 3

Making the health connection

Our food travels an average of1,500 miles from farm to plate andmuch of our food is highly pro-cessed. To support consumers ineating more fresh, locally producedwhole foods, health insurance com-panies are getting into the businessof food.

Physicians Plus, the Madison-based health insurance company,was the first in the country to offerfamilies a cash rebate of $200 to gotowards their CSA farm subscription.Now 4 insurance companies andHMOs in the Madison area offersome kind of cash incentive for theirmembers to sign up for a fresh boxof weekly or bi-weekly produce. Formore information go to: http://www.macsac.org/rebates.html.

Kaiser Permanente, the large HMObased in California, sponsors farm-ers markets in its hospital parkinglots. Started in 2003 in Oakland, CAby Dr. Preston Maring, the hospitalmarket became an instant successwith hospital staff, patients and visi-tors taking advantage of easy accessto fresh produce. Kaiser now hostsfarmers markets at 25 of its hospi-tals in 6 states. For more informa-tion go to: http://www.pps.org/mar-k e t s / i n f o / m a r k e t _ p r o f i l e s /food_insecurity/kaiser.


Bits & PeacesColombia Support: When Presiden-

tial Candidate John McCain visited Co-lombia at the end of June, he commentedthat all was well with the Government’sWar on Drugs. But in the name of theWar or Drugs, much indigenous land insouthern Columbia is being fumigated -destroying the livelihood of indigenouspeople who grow basic food crops suchas plantain, corn, cassava, and rice. Thetoxic fumes also cause major healthproblems, forcing people to leave theland - which may indeed be the intendedpurpose of the fumigation policy. TheEmbera-Chami people have vowed toresist. For more on the human rightsabuses in Colombia, see the Spring2008 issue of Action on Colombia,the newsletter of the Colombia Sup-port Network, [email protected].

The Economic Cost of War….In Wisconsin: Citizen Action of

Wisconsin, in its Summer 2008Progress Report calculates that thedirect cost to Wisconsin taxpayers ofthe U.S. invasion and occupation ofIraq will be $1.3 billion this year and$8.4 billion since 2003.

The $1.3 billion could have paid forhealth care coverage for 861,342people; it could have built 89 new el-

ementary schools, provided for 198,642college scholarships and 29,904 publicsafety officers. Citizen Action of WI isa member group of WNPJ.www.citizenactionwi.org.

In the Nation: Up to the first quarterof 2008, the government has spent morethan $522 billion on the invasion and oc-cupation of Iraq, with another $70 billionalready allocated for 2008.

With just the amount of the Iraq occu-pation budget of 2007, $138 billion, the

government could instead have providedMedicaid-level health insurance for all45 million Americans who are uninsured.What’s more, we could have added30,000 elementary and secondaryschoolteachers and built 400 schools inwhich they could teach. And we couldhave provided basic home weatheriza-tion for about 1.6 million existing homes,reducing energy consumption in thesehomes by 30 percent.

But the economic consequences of theIraq occupation run even deeper than the

squandered opportunities for vital pub-lic investments. Spending on war isalso a job killer. Every $1 billion spenton a combination of education,healthcare, energy conservation andinfrastructure investments createsbetween 50 and 100 percent morejobs than the same money going towar. Taking the 2007 Iraq budget of$138 billion, this means that the op-portunity to create upward of 1 mil-lion jobs was lost.

For more on the myth - that war isgood for the economy - see the ar-ticle by Robert Pollin and HeidiGarrett-Peltier, in The Nation, March18, 2008. http://www.alternet.org/story/79988/Photo by Cliff Cleland - DeKalb, IL

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Iraq Vets, Students work together forWisconsin “Winter Soldier”

Steve Burns, program staff at WNPJ

Members of Iraq Veterans Against theWar, including WNPJ’s Todd Dennis andstudents with UW-Madison’s CampusAntiwar Network are joining together toorganize a Wisconsin version of IVAW’s“Winter Soldier” hearings.

The original Winter Soldier hearings,organized during the Vietnam war byVietnam Veterans Against the War, drewtheir name from a quote by Americanfounding father Thomas Paine, who said,during the darkest days of the American

revolution, “These are the times that trymen’s souls. The summer soldier and thesunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrinkfrom the service of their country; but hethat stands by it now, deserves the loveand thanks of man and woman.”

Iraq Veterans Against the War followedin this tradition by organizing their ownWinter Soldier hearings at Silver Spring,Md. on the 5th anniversary of the U.S.invasion of Iraq, bringing together doz-ens of Iraq and Afghanistan veterans to

give eyewitness testimony of theirexperiences as an occupying army.

Since then, regional Winter Soldierhearings have been organized, the mostsuccessful being an event in Seattle thatdrew over 800 people. Wisconsin vetsand students hope to follow this example,and are working to build public interestand support for hearings to be held atthe UW-Madison campus in September.To help with the organizing, or for moreinformation about Winter Soldier, pleasecontact Todd at: [email protected].


Peace and Justice ResourcesThe movie, The War On Democ-

racy, by John Pilger, examines the falsedemocracy that comes with western cor-porations and financial institutions. It isthe story of the people of Latin Americawho have begun a mighty political move-ment, reclaiming concepts distorted bycorporatism. They are defending themost basic human rights in a war beingwaged against all of us. In The War OnDemocracy, the camera sweeps acrossthe Andes in Bolivia to the highest andpoorest city on earth, El Alto, then fol-lows Juan Delfin, a priest and a taxidriver, into a cemetery where childrenare buried. Bolivia has been asset-stripped by multinational companies,aided by a corrupt elite. In this epic storydescribed by one man, you will see thepeople of Bolivia stand up, expel the for-eign consortium that took their waterresources, as the camera pans across agiant mural that Juan Delfin painted. Thisis cinema in its finest form, a movingmural of ordinary lives and triumphs. Themovie can be viewed at http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article18236.htm.

The Center on Budget and PolicyPriorities http://www.cbpp.org is oneof the nation’s premier policy organiza-tions working at the federal and statelevels on fiscal policy and public pro-grams that affect low- and moderate-income families and individuals. Its re-search and analysis informs public de-bates over proposed budget and tax poli-cies and helps ensure that the needs oflow-income families and individuals areconsidered in these debates. It also de-velops policy options to alleviate poverty.The Center’s materials are used bypolicymakers and non-profit organiza-tions across the political spectrum, aswell as by journalists from a variety ofmedia outlets.

Vital in the final sprint towards the elec-tions is Fairness and Accuracy in Re-porting, FAIR, http://www.fair.org, the

national media watch group. It has beenoffering well-documented criticism ofmedia bias and censorship since 1986.FAIR advocates for greater diversity inthe press and scrutinizes media practicesthat marginalize public interest, minorityand dissenting viewpoints. As an anti-censorship organization, it exposes ne-glected news stories and defends work-ing journalists when they are muzzled.As a progressive group, FAIR believesthat structural reform is needed to breakup the dominant media conglomerates,establish independent public broadcast-ing and promote strong non-profitsources of information.

Gaveling Down the Rabble: How‘Free Trade’ is Stealing Our Democ-racy, by Jane Anne Morris, Apex Press,ISBN13: 978-1-891843-39-6, Copyright2008, 200 pp. Price: $18.95 -www.gavelingdowntherabble.org. In“Gaveling Down the Rabble”, author/activist Jane Anne Morris explores acentury and a half of efforts by corpo-rations and the courts to undermine lo-cal democracy in the United States byusing a “free trade” model. It was thatvery model that was later adopted glo-bally by corporations to subvert local at-tempts at protecting the environment andcitizen and worker health. Jane AnneMorris is a corporate anthropologist witha Ph.D. in anthropology from the Uni-versity of Texas.

The BBC reported startling eco-nomic equality figures in a recentdocumentary: the top 200 wealthiestpeople in the world control more wealththan the bottom 4 billion. The UnitedStates is the most economically strati-fied society in the western world. AsTHE WALL STREET JOURNAL re-ported, a recent study found that the top.01% or 14,000 American families hold22.2% of wealth - the bottom 90%, orover 133 million families, just 4% of thenation’s wealth. This statement from theBBC was one of the introductions to BillMoyer’s Journal interview of June 13,

2008 with Steven Fraser, author of WallStreet, America’s Dream Palace. Boththe book and the interview give insightsinto our money culture and the wideninggap between rich and poor. The book ispublished by Yale University Press, April2008, ISBN-13: 9780300117554; the in-terview is available at http://w w w. p b s . o rg / m o y e r s / j o u r n a l /06132008/profile2.html.

Years before Phil Gramm was aMcCain campaign adviser and a lobby-ist for a Swiss bank at the center of thehousing credit crisis, he pulled a sly ma-neuver in the Senate that helped createtoday’s subprime meltdown. David Cornexplains the deregulation fiasco inMother Jones, May 28, 2008,www.motherjones.com/news/feature/2008/07/foreclosure-phil.html. An in-terview of David Corn by Amy Goodmancan be read/heard/seen inwww.Democracynow.org.

Dr. Peggy Wireman, a WNPJ mem-ber, has just published Connecting theDots: Government, Community andFamily. The book includes a forewordby John Nichols Washington correspon-dent for The Nation, and carries rec-ommendations from CongresswomanTammy Baldwin and Lt. GovernorLawton. As one reviewer comments: “anessential tool for all of us committed tobuilding community...a clear blueprint forbuilding stronger communities andfamilies...chapter on race, class, age andethnicity is a must read for practitionersand students.” Dr. Wireman is availableto talk to member organizations or holda book signing in local bookstores or li-braries. She can be contacted [email protected]. Thebook, published by Transaction Publish-ers can be ordered through your localbookstore or directly from the publisher.An interview by John Colbert with Dr.Wireman on the fate of the working fam-ily can be downloaded from Peggy’swebsite www.connectingdots.us.


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Foods Cooperative, but they stretch fromFour Corners of the World on the westside to Brewing Grounds for Change onthe east side.

The organizing group, the MilwaukeeFair Trade Coalition, was formed a yearago when Milwaukee became an offi-cial “Fair Trade Town,” part of a move-ment that started in Europe and growingin the U.S. This group and others aroundthe state are already planning for FairTrade Month activities in October (moreat www.milwfairtrade.org).

One reason local governments havetaken the initiative on fair trade and anti-sweatshop ordinances is to respond toharmful “free-trade” policies enacted atthe national level. NAFTA, the WorldTrade Organization, and many smallerpacts benefit global corporations likeBlauer and General Electric while hurt-ing the average citizen and the environ-ment. The Bush administration is trying

to pass a similar agreement with Colom-bia before leaving office.

The upcoming presidential election willbe something of a choice on trade policy,with McCain as a strong “free” traderand Obama making critical remarksabout the old trade model. But regard-less of who wins the presidency, fairtraders hope to pass the Trade Reform,Accountability, Development and Em-ployment (TRADE) Act, probably nextyear. Written after discussions with sev-eral grassroots groups, this bill presentsa progressive vision of what a good tradeagreement must and must not include.

The Act requires review and renego-tiation of agreements like NAFTA, andsets requirements concerning affordablemedicines, government procurement,food and product safety. Supporters saytrade and investment are not ends untothemselves, but must serve as means forachieving societal goals such as eco-

Global Trade, from page 5

nomic justice, basic human rights, healthycommunities and environmental well-being.

The Wisconsin Fair Trade Coalition isworking to oppose the Colombia bill andto support the TRADE Act. Already,Sen. Feingold and Reps. Moore, Baldwinand Kagen have signed on as co-spon-sors (more about this legislation atwww.wisconsinfairtrade.org).

Wisconsin groups have been active andsuccessful on several fair trade fronts.Consumer buying and voting preferenceshave changed for the better, and bigbreakthroughs are possible, but a justworld economy won’t come about auto-matically. We could use a few morechange agents.

Steve Watrous, active with the Mil-waukee Clean Clothes Campaign andMilwaukee Fair Trade Coalition,[email protected].

WNPJ ORGANIZATIONAL MEMBERS(New Members in bold)

Alliance for Animals–MadisonACLU - MadisonAnathoth Community Farm–LuckAntigo People 4 PeaceArtha Sustainable Living Center, LLC -

AmherstBeloit Monthly Meeting of FriendsBenedictine Women of MadisonBread for the World – AppletonCable United Church of ChristCampus Anti-war Network – MadisonCandlelight Coalition–WauwatosaCasa Maria–MilwaukeeChurch Women United of WisconsinChurches Center for Land and People–Citizen Action of Wisconsin - Green

BayCitizens for Global Solutions– Dane

County and Whitewater ChaptersCitizens for Safe Water Around Badger–

MerrimacCoalition for Wisconsin Health–

MadisonCode Pink–BoscobelColombia Support Network–MadisonCommunity Action on Latin America–Concerned Citizens of Newport, Inc.–

Wisconsin DellsConcerned Citizens of Stevens PointCongregation of St Agnes, Justice Peace

& Ecology Office–Fond du LacCoulee Progressives–LaCrosseDale Heights Presbyterian Church

Outreach Committee–MadisonDeKalb, IL Interfaith Network for P&JDells Country Progressive VoicesDemocratic Socialists of America–

Madison AreaDriftless Community Radio–ViroquaEast Timor Action Network–MadisonELCA Greater Milwaukee Synod–Peace

and Justice CommitteeFamily Farm Defenders–MadisonFellowship of Reconciliation–Fox

Valley ChapterFirst Cong Church, UCC-MenomonieFirst United Methodist Church, Church

and Society Committee–MadisonFox Valley Peace Coalition–MenashaFranciscan Sisters of Mary–MadisonGay Straight Alliance for Safe SchoolsGlobal Connections Team:ELCAGrandmothers for Peace–Superior

Greater Wisconsin Committee -Madison

Great Lakes Region Social ConcernsNetwork

Habiba Foundation–JanesvilleHill Connections–ChaseburgHiroshima-Nagasaki A-bomb Exhibition

Committee - MadisonInterfaith Coalition for Worker Justice -

MadisonInterfaith Justice and Peace Group–La

CrosseInternational Committee for the Peace

Council–MadisonIraq Veterans Against the War - MadisonJewish Voices for Peace - MadisonJuneau County Peace Committee–

MaustonKickapoo Peace Circle–ViroquaLakeshore Peacemakers–ManitowocLoaves and Fishes Catholic Worker–

DuluthLutheran Human Relations Association -

MilwaukeeLutheran Office of Justice and Peace–

LaCrosseMadison Arcatao Sister City ProjectMadison Area Peace CoalitionMadison Area War Tax ResistanceMadison Buddhist Peace FellowshipMadison Friends of International

StudentsMadison Friends Meeting–Peace &

Social Concerns CommitteeMadison Hours Co-opMadison InfoshopMadison Mennonite ChurchMadison/Rafah Sister City ProjectMadison Unitarian YouthMUUYACMMadison-area Urban MinistryMarquette University Center for

Peacemaking - MilwaukeeMary House–Wisconsin DellsMidwest Renewable Energy Association-

CusterMiracles Prisoner Ministry - WI DellsNational Campaign for Nonviolent

Resistance–MadisonNational Peace Foundation–Eau ClaireNorthland Anti-War Coalition -

DuluthNorthwoods Peace Fellowship–WausauNukewatch–Luck

One Wisconsin Now - MilwaukeePAX Christi–MadisonPeace Action Wisconsin–MilwaukeePeace Economics–MadisonPeace North–DrummondPeople for Peace–WaupacaPeregrine Forum–MadisonPhysicians for Social Responsibility–

MadisonPlowshare Center–WaukeshaPortage Area Peace SeekersPreserve Our Climate–MadisonProgressive Forum–Washington IslandProgressive Voices–BarabooRacine Coalition for Peace and JusticeRacine Dominicans Justice OutreachRainbow Bookstore Cooperative–

MadisonRapids Citizens for Peace - Wisconsin

RapidsRed Cedar Peace Initiative–MenomonieReturned Peace Corps Volunteers of

Wisconsin–MadisonRock County Citizens for Peace–

JanesvilleRockford Peace and Justice Action–ILRock Ridge Community–DodgevilleRock River Peace Group - Ft.Atkinson -

WhitewaterRock Valley Fellowship of Reconciliation–JanesvilleSaint Bede Monastery–Eau ClaireSt. Norbert Abbey Justice and Peace

Committee–DePereSt. Norbert College, Peace &Justice

Center–DePereSauk Prairie Area Peace CouncilSchool of Americas Watch–MadisonSchool Sisters of Notre Dame–Elm

GroveSEIU District 1199W–MadisonSinsinawa Dominicans–SinsinawaSisters of St. Francis of Assisi–

MilwaukeeSisters of St. Francis of the Holy Cross–

Green BaySisters of St. Joseph, TOSFSisters of the Divine Savior–MilwaukeeSocial Justice Center - MadisonSocialist Party of Wisconsin–Milw.Socialist Party of WI–So. Central Local

–Madison

SOS Senior Council–MadisonSouth Central Federation of Labor, AFL-CIO–MadisonSouthern Lakes Citizens for Peace–

ElkhornSW Grassroots Citizens for Peace–

DodgevilleThe Madison InstituteUnion de la Trabajadores Inmigrantes -

MadisonUnited Methodist Federation for Social

Action, WI Chapter - LaCrosseUnited Nations Association–Dane Co &

Milwaukee Chapters & WisconsinDivision

UW-Milwaukee Peace Studies ProgramUniversity United Methodist Church–

MadisonVeterans for Peace–Chapters #25-

Madison, #153 -Cable, # 80 -Superior, & Sheboygan

Voces de la Frontera - MilwaukeeWatertown Peace and DemocracyWaukesha Catholic WorkerWAVE Educational Fund–MilwakeeWaysmeet Quaker Center–Richland

CenterWinds of Peace–Projects in VietnamWinnebago Peace and Justice Center–

OshkoshWisconsin Books to Prisoners ProjectWisconsin Coalition Against Domestic

ViolenceWisconsin Coalition to Normalize

Relations with Cuba–MilwaukeeWisconsin Community FundWisconsin Coordinating Council on

NicaraguaWisconsin Council of Churches–Peace

& Justice CommitteeWisconsin Democracy CampaignWisconsin GreensWI Impeachment/Bring Our Troops

Home–MadisonWisconsin Resources Protection

Council–LaCrosseWisconsin Women’s NetworkWomen in Black - Sauk City BridgeWomen’s International League for Peace

and Freedom–MadisonWorkers’ Rights Center Board -

MadisonYahara Friends Meeting–Monona


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