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Joanne Boyer is founder and editor of Wisdom Voices Press and www.WisdomVoices.com. Her first book is "Wisdom of Progressive Voices." Joanne has worked in professional communications for more than 30 years. Her career includes being the first woman sports writer for several daily newspapers in the 1970s. Born and raised in Milwaukee, WI, she resides in Minneapolis with her husband, also an author.
(2 comments) SHARE Wednesday, February 9, 2011 The Importance of Telling Our Progressive Stories
Telling our personal stories can help keep alive the social and political accomplishments of the Progressive movement. A whole generation needs to hear how our daily lives were improved by what progressives fought for and achieved.
(2 comments) SHARE Friday, November 2, 2012 ALEC: Alive and Well and Pushing Voter Suppression In Minnesota
Minnesota now faces "cut and paste" ALEC voter suppression legislation being embedded with permanent ink in our state constitution. It's another ballot amendment that has national implications.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, November 30, 2011 Is Your Vote Really Being Counted?
Brad Friedman's diligent work exposing the manipulation and fraud of our electronic voting system makes him a true defender of our democracy.
SHARE Friday, February 20, 2015 Forgetting Our Land Grant Colleges History: Public Higher Education Does Work
We have forgotten that our Founding Fathers and Abraham Lincoln knew that federal and state supported public education was the lifeblood of the nation. We look back on the founding of the time-honored tradition of the land grant colleges. We ask those who think the world began with them, who do you think educated those who educated those who educated you?
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, June 22, 2012 Food For Thought As We Await The Supreme Court Ruling
Will single payer -- the people's choice -- ever become a reality? As we await the Supreme Court's decision on the Affordable Health Care Act, a few insights from Wendell Potter on the work ahead.
(2 comments) SHARE Tuesday, October 2, 2012 Paul Wellstone: 10 Years Later, Oh How He Is Missed
Paul Wellstone's brilliant progressive voice was silenced in a plane crash 10 years ago this month. We should never forget (and thanks to Wellstone Action his legacy lives on) his belief that government could positively impact people's lives.
SHARE Friday, September 14, 2012 So You Think It's Easty To Get An ID Card? Think Again
Read here about what it's like for someone whose life is not just like yours to try and get an ID. We have become so insular these days that we have forgotten what it's like to walk a mile in someone else's shoes.
SHARE Monday, January 30, 2012 Are We Teaching Our Kids to Earn -- Or How to Think?
What does it mean to be educated? It is as important to prepare the next generation for well-lived lives as well as jobs. Here's a toast to the importance of a Liberal Arts education.
SHARE Thursday, June 30, 2011 Fighting Back Against Citizens United
Grass roots organizing remains the most potent tool to combat the flow of corporate money into our political campaigns. Wisconsin Democracy Campaign Executive Director Mike McCabe offers some tips on how to do that.
(3 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 10, 2011 Trying to Slay the Citizens United Dragon
The Wisconsin state senate recall elections gave us our first taste of the impact of Citizens United. Some organizations are working to amend the Constitution to stop the damages from this Supreme Court ruling.
(1 comments) SHARE Friday, November 11, 2011 The Penn State Tragedy: Power and Control Once Again Trump Knowing Right From Wrong
The Penn State child sex abuse scandal is another example of how power, control and greed have scared us deeply. We are once again provided the chance to reflect and make positive changes to who we are as a people and what we value as a society.
(2 comments) SHARE Thursday, September 24, 2015 100 Years Ago We Thought Very Differently About The Pope
100 years ago it would have been unthinkable for a Pope to address the U.S. Congress. Anti-Catholicism and anti-immigration fervor ran rampant. We take a quick trip back in time to illustrate how one of today's premier Catholic universities and its premier football team came of age despite this discrimination against the Catholic Church. It gives us hope that 100 years from now, the issues Pope Francis discusses today will al
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, March 14, 2012 "The real impetus of voter ID laws is partisan"
Voter photo ID laws laws are part of comprehensive campaign to deny the vote to millions for partisan gain -- essentially sacrificing the health of our democracy to win elections. So says Judith Browne Dianis, co-director of The Advancement Project. Learn how you can fight back.
(1 comments) SHARE Monday, June 4, 2012 Wisconsin's Final Recall Hours: From Jackson Browne to Get Out And Vote
Tuesday will hopefully bring an end to Scott Walker and his Wisconsin-tradition busting. It won't be easy. Those who grab power through lies and deceit never go quietly into the night. Can the people take back democracy or are we headed toward oligarchy?
(5 comments) SHARE Wednesday, August 20, 2014 'The goal is to have one party that's worth a damn'
Mike McCabe's new book, Blue Jeans In High Places: The Coming Makeover Of American Politics, offers ways to break out of the political entrapment of our current two-party system. "I came to the conclusion that this is a moment that cries out for some political game changers." As he describes, we have one party that's scary and another that is scared.
SHARE Monday, May 23, 2011 Fighting Bob Fest North: Wisconsin Grassroots Keep Growing
Wisconsin's grassroots action cannot be undone by Governor Scott Walker. Fighting Bob Fest North was the perfect antidote to Wisconsin's voter suppression law that just passed.
(4 comments) SHARE Wednesday, September 18, 2013 While Republicans Threaten To Defund It, The ACA Takes Us Closer To Single Payer
The ACA will save me money on one hand. But our for-profit health care delivery system still rules the day. Why do we tolerate a system that rates our lives like Olympic medals (bronze, silver, and gold). Let's start the push to move the ACA toward single payer.
SHARE Wednesday, November 23, 2011 From Ohio to Wisconsin Labor Leads The Way
Standing up for the middle class is the most American thing one can do and no one does that better than the labor movement in this country. Well wishes from Ohio's AFL-CIO President Tim Burga to the workers in Wisconsin.