The Peace Learning Center of Milwaukee, Inc. awarded Karen Swanson and Crystal Mello the Don Austin-Phyllis Berentsen Peacemaker of the Year Award at a celebration Wednesday, November 14. The award is named for Don Austin and Phyllis Berentsen, honoring their extraordinary work founding and developing the Peace Learning Center, which provides workshops that teach methods of nonviolent conflict resolution.
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Heartland Development Group: Clearcutting in Glendale
Despite recent community efforts to preserve the natural viewshed and wilderness along the banks of the Milwaukee River, a Milwaukee-based developer recently clear-cut about five acres of river shoreline in the northern suburb of Glendale.
Holiday Helpers in Riverwest
Meet Isaiah, or Ike as his friends call him. He said you could “put down anything” for his last name.
You may have seen him pushing his shopping cart on the sidewalk outside your house or along alleys, always with trash bags fat with aluminum cans draped over each side. Ike’s bloodshot eyes and weathered hands speak for his experience: an admittedly hard life spent on these streets.
Ike was born in Eupora, Mississippi, and moved to Wisconsin 13 years ago with his wife and two children. Today he calls Riverwest his home.
Plight of Single Mothers
I did a double take “no, he didn’t say that!” when I read the mayor’s ignorant claim (October issue) that the “root cause” of current youth crime is a high rate of teen births in 1993. I was repulsed by his bias and disappointed that Riverwest Currents gave a voice to his foolish bigotry. Then I read Bushell’s editorial and understood why this ugly, unsubstantiated attack on young single moms was promoted.
I Was A Teenage Mom
I was a teenage mom.
It was a different world in 1970. Abortion was not an option – at least not for a frightened 17-year-old in a small Wisconsin farming community.
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