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Editorial: Letter From Zagora

by Currents Staff

Editorial: Letter from Zagora     

ED. NOTE: Every few months the Riverwest Currents receives a mysterious missive that seems to be from the future.

They come with clear instructions about how and when to publish them. The writer often refers to some kind of  cause and effect notion – we need to print the letter now, so that something specific will happen, and the future of  the letter will be the future that comes about. We’ve toyed with the idea that, if we didn’t print a letter, perhaps the  future they come from would wink out of existence, and the letters would cease. We decided not to take that chance.                

Posted inFurther Down Stream

Further Down Stream April 2009

by Jan Christensen

Compiled by Janice Christensen  Send your Further Downstream news items tofurtherdownstream@gmail.com

VIA CRUCIS – The Living Way of the Cross (Via Crucis) will begin at noon on Good Friday, April 10. The solemn procession, with hundreds of people participating, begins at St. Casimir Church on Bremen & Clarke and ends at St. Francis Church on 4th & Brown. A live re-enactment of the final days of Jesus takes place at various locations around Riverwest and along Holton St., with prayers and readings in Spanish and English. Expect some traffic and parking restrictions for a few hours along Holton St. between Clarke & Brown.

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Riverwesters Reflect:

by Jan Christensen

Where Were You When the aradigm Shifted – Part II

… on the morning of inauguration, thousands of folks stood patiently, obediently, and quietly in line waiting for our gates to open, clutching
our precious purple tickets. Every once in a while someone would start a chant of “O-BA-MA!” or “Fire it up, ready to go!” But the chants would die out in 10-20 seconds from lack of response.

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Milwaukee’s First – Post Racial – Black History Month?

by Currents Staff

Photo and story by Zachary Sell 

Fe b r u a r y , Black History M o n t h , arrives as the first days of an Obama presidency unfold. 

For a country whose past has been defined by racial oppression, November’s election has caused some to believe that the United States, ever progressing, has entered a post-racial era. Yet, as the New Year’s Day shooting of Oscar Grant by Oakland, California police officers painfully reminds us, race continues to define the contours of American society.