If an airstrike was a drive-by and killed someone, the U.S. provided the car, the wheels, the servicing and repair, the gun, the bullets, help with maintenance of those and the fuel. In Yemen, a U.S.-backed Saudi-led airstrike has bombed with a bomb made by Lockheed Martin a bus carrying a group of children, killing dozens of civilians, mostly children under the age of ten. The head of the health department in Saada province, where the attack occurred, said at least 43 people were killed and dozens more injured. The U.S.-backed Saudi-led bombing campaign has repeatedly been accused of committing war crimes by targeting civilians. Meanwhile, an explosive new Associated Press investigation says the Saudi-led coalition has repeatedly cut secret deals with al-Qaeda, paying its fighters to retreat from towns or join the U.S.-backed coalition. The AP investigation accuses the United States of being essentially aligned with al-Qaeda in the fight against Yemen’s Houthi rebels, even as the U.S. says it’s fighting al-Qaeda in Yemen. In a war, the real question is “what does a victory look like?” In Yemen, the victor will take control of the poorest country in the region one without oil reserves and one where most of the buildings, hospitals and schools have been leveled by American-made, Saudi-deployed bombs. Most Americans do not know we are at war, and few would know where to locate Yemen on a map. Incongruously, both the Democrats and Republicans support this war. If you want to reduce illegal immigration, then support real democracy in Central America and other countries we have invaded. The U.S. military already made 56 armed interventions in Latin America. Stop legitimizing fraud and injustice. If you want to reduce terrorism then stop funding the Saudis’ bombing of the people of Yemen and Syria. Is there not a better way of using U.S. tax dollars? -----Don Timmerman
DON’S JOKES
Two women were talking. One said, “I can’t believe that Eve got Adam to eat that apple. I can’t get my husband to eat any fruit.” Two other women were riding their donkeys along with Mary. The sticker on one of the woman’s donkey read, “My son is an honor student.” Another woman’s donkey’s sticker read, “My son is in medical school.” The sticker on Mary’s donkey read, “My son is God.” Why can’t you play cards in the Amazon? There’s too many cheetahs. I now know what short shorts are by the old man who sits next to me in Yoga class. I am opening a philosophy gym and calling it the “Why”. Why did my washing machine stop pumping out water? And more importantly , where is my hamster? The mother of an 8 year old daughter injected her with Botox for beauty pageants has lost custody. Her daughter didn’t look surprised.
What’s the best thing about Switzerland? I don’t know, but their flag is a plus. Heard about the actor who fell through the floorboards? He was just going through a stage. How do you keep a bagel from running away? Put lox on it.
What did one eye say to the other? I don’t know, but between you and me something smells. I have the world’s largest collection of seashells, you may have seen it, I keep it scattered on beaches all over the world. I never wanted to believe that my Dad was stealing from his job as a road worker. But when I got home, all the signs were there.
In a small town, there were two friars. They were behind on their belfry payments, so they opened up a small florist shop to raise funds. People like buying flowers from the friars, but another florist in town was upset and asked them to close down. They refused. So the florist hired Hugh, a known thug in town to “persuade” the friars to close down. They refused so Hugh beat up the friars and trashed their store saying he would be back if they remained open. Terrified, they did so, proving that Hugh, and only Hugh, can prevent florist friars.
INTERESTING FACTS
Minerall wealth in Afghanistan has been estimated at about $1 trillion. Trump suggested that it could be tapped by companies in the United States and elsewhere.----Common Dreams, 8/8/18
President Trump signed a record-setting $716 billion military spending bill. That’s a $82 billion increase over the current year. The bill includes over $21 billion for nuclear weapons programs, including $65 million for a new submarine-launched, low-yield nuclear weapon.
In Brooks County, Texas as many as 300 unidentified bodies of immigrants were found in a mass grave in the Arizona Barry Goldwater Bombing Range, a 70 mile stretch of desert used for the military bombing exercises. They died after crossing in the U.S. and waiting hours for Border Patrol to respond to their 9/11 calls. The U.S. government washed its hands of this and is not assisting in finding the names of these deceased people. ---Democracy Now, 8/15/18
Undocumented immigrants have been detained at government offices after two immigration agencies coordinated with one another to ensure they would come in to obtain legal residency—so that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents could essentially entrap them, arresting and in some cases deporting them. ---Common Dreams, 8/14/18
Percentage of U.S. public school teachers who spend their own money on school supplies : 94%. The average amount a teacher spends each school year is $479. -----Harper’s Index Immigrants don’t qualify for ANY benefits or “free stiff”. You must be thinking pf the $180 billion a year that the top 500 U.S. corporations get in corporate welfare.
The Madison Water Utility has reported that Truax Field’s Wisconsin Air National Guard base is a possible source of low levels of perfluorinated compounds (PFAS) in the city’s drinking water. Concentrations of toxic #PFAS chemicals in groundwater at Truax are more than 500 times higher than federal health advisory levels and low levels of these same contaminants have been detected in a downgradient municipal water supply well. The complete Utility update is posted here. Please send a courteous email message to [email protected] TODAY supporting a public informational meeting! ---- CSWAB
Rest in Peace to former Casa Maria volunteer Tish Minor who led a courageous life. Tish was a member of the Milwaukee NAACP Board of Directors for many years and active with the Wisconsin Poor People’s Campaign. David McReynolds, a longtime pacifist and socialist whom historian Howard Zinn and many others have called a “hero of the antiwar movement,” has died last week at the age of 88. For nearly four decades, from 1960 to 1999, McReynolds was a staff member with the War Resisters League
NOTES FROM 21ST STREET: Recently I have been thinking about the poem, “Mending Wall” by Robert Frost. The line that runs through my mind is “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall”. The Administration says that if we build a wall on our borders with Mexico we will all be safer. But walls cannot stop the smoke from the forest fires in the west from polluting the air across our country. A wall cannot stop the radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear reactor from reaching our shores. A wall will not stop caring people from giving refuge to immigrants who come into our country. A wall gives a false security and hardens the hearts of people on both sides of the wall. If we would spend the trillions of dollars, now targeted for building a wall and weapons of war, instead on helping our brothers and sisters around the world we would have no need for a wall. From the poem, “The Mending Wall,” “Before I built a wall I’d ask to know what I was walling in or walling out. and whom I was like to give offense, something there is that doesn’t love a wall, that wants it down”. When the Berlin wall came down the world celebrated. Let us learn from that. Barriers are not needed in our world, hands extended out in friendship and care are. Peace, Roberta
Sat., Sept. 1 --- Sidewalk Sale sponsored by Welfare Warriors on 27th & Michigan from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Click here for more details!
Thurs., Sept. 6 ----Jericho Walk at 9 a.m. and Prayer Vigil at Noon hoping and praying that no more immigrants be separated from their families and detained for periods of time in U.S. prisons at I.C.E., Knapp & Broadway.
Sat., Sept. 8 ---Farm to Table Dinner Party from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Urban Ecology Center, 1859 N 40th St., sponsored by Wellspring, Inc. Donations accepted.
People’s Climate March at 1 p.m. at Zeidler Park, 4th & Michigan. Come and enjoy the outdoors while you can.
Sat., Sept. 15 ---Brady Walk to raise funds for a cure of diabetes starting at Greenfield Park at 10:30 a.m. Contact: Kate 262-370-8021
Thurs., Sept. 20 -----Vigil Opposing Sales of Guns at Brew City Shooters Supply, 43rd & Lincoln, starting at Noon.
Many of you were involved in 1968 Milwaukee resistance events such as the Open Housing marches, the Sure/Respond movements at Marquette University and Milwaukee 14 supporters. Others were active in works of mercy centered around the Casa Maria Catholic Worker community, such as Highland Community School, the St. Ben’s meal program and more.
NOTE
Sept. 21 – 24 ----50th Anniversary of Milwaukee 14 ----On Saturday evening, September 22, we are holding a 1968 reunion dinner at St. Benedict the Moore church (which continues to host the daily meal program Sunday through Friday). A middle-eastern buffet dinner with meat and vegetarian options is being catered by Aladdin Foods. The cost of this dinner is $16 per person. Please register for this dinner in advance. We are asking that you pay ahead of time, if possible. Send a check made out to either Bob Graf or Gary Giombi, put Reunion Dinner on the memo line and mail to Milwaukee 14 Today, c/o Bob Graf, 5113 W. Wells Street, Milwaukee, WI 53208. Except for the Saturday meal, there are no mandatory costs to you but we do appreciate any additional contributions to be used toward speaker’s transportation, hall rental, lunch and programming costs. Thank you for your generosity.
If you wish to pay during the weekend we will need to know that you do plan to attend the meal so we can inform the caterer by Friday of that week.
Jim Forest, due to health reasons, will not be able to join us in person but may be present via SKYPE. In his place, Jeff Dietrich, of the LA Catholic Worker will address us Saturday morning. Jeff was inspired by the Milwaukee 14 action 50 years ago. With his wife, Catherine Morris, he became a leader of the Catholic Worker house in Los Angeles practicing works of mercy and works of resistance. The motto of the LA Catholic Worker is “Comfort the Afflicted and Afflict the Comfortable.” Jeff has written several books and articles, including the book Broken and Shared.
Bob and Pat visited Mike and Nettie Cullen last week and are happy to report, if Mike’s health stays okay, they will be joining us with some of their children. Call Bob at 414-379-4162 or 313-443-1293.
DON’S JOKES
Two women were talking. One said, “I can’t believe that Eve got Adam to eat that apple. I can’t get my husband to eat any fruit.” Two other women were riding their donkeys along with Mary. The sticker on one of the woman’s donkey read, “My son is an honor student.” Another woman’s donkey’s sticker read, “My son is in medical school.” The sticker on Mary’s donkey read, “My son is God.” Why can’t you play cards in the Amazon? There’s too many cheetahs. I now know what short shorts are by the old man who sits next to me in Yoga class. I am opening a philosophy gym and calling it the “Why”. Why did my washing machine stop pumping out water? And more importantly , where is my hamster? The mother of an 8 year old daughter injected her with Botox for beauty pageants has lost custody. Her daughter didn’t look surprised.
What’s the best thing about Switzerland? I don’t know, but their flag is a plus. Heard about the actor who fell through the floorboards? He was just going through a stage. How do you keep a bagel from running away? Put lox on it.
What did one eye say to the other? I don’t know, but between you and me something smells. I have the world’s largest collection of seashells, you may have seen it, I keep it scattered on beaches all over the world. I never wanted to believe that my Dad was stealing from his job as a road worker. But when I got home, all the signs were there.
In a small town, there were two friars. They were behind on their belfry payments, so they opened up a small florist shop to raise funds. People like buying flowers from the friars, but another florist in town was upset and asked them to close down. They refused. So the florist hired Hugh, a known thug in town to “persuade” the friars to close down. They refused so Hugh beat up the friars and trashed their store saying he would be back if they remained open. Terrified, they did so, proving that Hugh, and only Hugh, can prevent florist friars.
INTERESTING FACTS
Minerall wealth in Afghanistan has been estimated at about $1 trillion. Trump suggested that it could be tapped by companies in the United States and elsewhere.----Common Dreams, 8/8/18
President Trump signed a record-setting $716 billion military spending bill. That’s a $82 billion increase over the current year. The bill includes over $21 billion for nuclear weapons programs, including $65 million for a new submarine-launched, low-yield nuclear weapon.
In Brooks County, Texas as many as 300 unidentified bodies of immigrants were found in a mass grave in the Arizona Barry Goldwater Bombing Range, a 70 mile stretch of desert used for the military bombing exercises. They died after crossing in the U.S. and waiting hours for Border Patrol to respond to their 9/11 calls. The U.S. government washed its hands of this and is not assisting in finding the names of these deceased people. ---Democracy Now, 8/15/18
Undocumented immigrants have been detained at government offices after two immigration agencies coordinated with one another to ensure they would come in to obtain legal residency—so that Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents could essentially entrap them, arresting and in some cases deporting them. ---Common Dreams, 8/14/18
Percentage of U.S. public school teachers who spend their own money on school supplies : 94%. The average amount a teacher spends each school year is $479. -----Harper’s Index Immigrants don’t qualify for ANY benefits or “free stiff”. You must be thinking pf the $180 billion a year that the top 500 U.S. corporations get in corporate welfare.
The Madison Water Utility has reported that Truax Field’s Wisconsin Air National Guard base is a possible source of low levels of perfluorinated compounds (PFAS) in the city’s drinking water. Concentrations of toxic #PFAS chemicals in groundwater at Truax are more than 500 times higher than federal health advisory levels and low levels of these same contaminants have been detected in a downgradient municipal water supply well. The complete Utility update is posted here. Please send a courteous email message to [email protected] TODAY supporting a public informational meeting! ---- CSWAB
Rest in Peace to former Casa Maria volunteer Tish Minor who led a courageous life. Tish was a member of the Milwaukee NAACP Board of Directors for many years and active with the Wisconsin Poor People’s Campaign. David McReynolds, a longtime pacifist and socialist whom historian Howard Zinn and many others have called a “hero of the antiwar movement,” has died last week at the age of 88. For nearly four decades, from 1960 to 1999, McReynolds was a staff member with the War Resisters League
NOTES FROM 21ST STREET: Recently I have been thinking about the poem, “Mending Wall” by Robert Frost. The line that runs through my mind is “Something there is that doesn’t love a wall”. The Administration says that if we build a wall on our borders with Mexico we will all be safer. But walls cannot stop the smoke from the forest fires in the west from polluting the air across our country. A wall cannot stop the radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear reactor from reaching our shores. A wall will not stop caring people from giving refuge to immigrants who come into our country. A wall gives a false security and hardens the hearts of people on both sides of the wall. If we would spend the trillions of dollars, now targeted for building a wall and weapons of war, instead on helping our brothers and sisters around the world we would have no need for a wall. From the poem, “The Mending Wall,” “Before I built a wall I’d ask to know what I was walling in or walling out. and whom I was like to give offense, something there is that doesn’t love a wall, that wants it down”. When the Berlin wall came down the world celebrated. Let us learn from that. Barriers are not needed in our world, hands extended out in friendship and care are. Peace, Roberta
Sat., Sept. 1 --- Sidewalk Sale sponsored by Welfare Warriors on 27th & Michigan from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Click here for more details!
Thurs., Sept. 6 ----Jericho Walk at 9 a.m. and Prayer Vigil at Noon hoping and praying that no more immigrants be separated from their families and detained for periods of time in U.S. prisons at I.C.E., Knapp & Broadway.
Sat., Sept. 8 ---Farm to Table Dinner Party from 5 to 8 p.m. at the Urban Ecology Center, 1859 N 40th St., sponsored by Wellspring, Inc. Donations accepted.
People’s Climate March at 1 p.m. at Zeidler Park, 4th & Michigan. Come and enjoy the outdoors while you can.
Sat., Sept. 15 ---Brady Walk to raise funds for a cure of diabetes starting at Greenfield Park at 10:30 a.m. Contact: Kate 262-370-8021
Thurs., Sept. 20 -----Vigil Opposing Sales of Guns at Brew City Shooters Supply, 43rd & Lincoln, starting at Noon.
Many of you were involved in 1968 Milwaukee resistance events such as the Open Housing marches, the Sure/Respond movements at Marquette University and Milwaukee 14 supporters. Others were active in works of mercy centered around the Casa Maria Catholic Worker community, such as Highland Community School, the St. Ben’s meal program and more.
NOTE
Sept. 21 – 24 ----50th Anniversary of Milwaukee 14 ----On Saturday evening, September 22, we are holding a 1968 reunion dinner at St. Benedict the Moore church (which continues to host the daily meal program Sunday through Friday). A middle-eastern buffet dinner with meat and vegetarian options is being catered by Aladdin Foods. The cost of this dinner is $16 per person. Please register for this dinner in advance. We are asking that you pay ahead of time, if possible. Send a check made out to either Bob Graf or Gary Giombi, put Reunion Dinner on the memo line and mail to Milwaukee 14 Today, c/o Bob Graf, 5113 W. Wells Street, Milwaukee, WI 53208. Except for the Saturday meal, there are no mandatory costs to you but we do appreciate any additional contributions to be used toward speaker’s transportation, hall rental, lunch and programming costs. Thank you for your generosity.
If you wish to pay during the weekend we will need to know that you do plan to attend the meal so we can inform the caterer by Friday of that week.
Jim Forest, due to health reasons, will not be able to join us in person but may be present via SKYPE. In his place, Jeff Dietrich, of the LA Catholic Worker will address us Saturday morning. Jeff was inspired by the Milwaukee 14 action 50 years ago. With his wife, Catherine Morris, he became a leader of the Catholic Worker house in Los Angeles practicing works of mercy and works of resistance. The motto of the LA Catholic Worker is “Comfort the Afflicted and Afflict the Comfortable.” Jeff has written several books and articles, including the book Broken and Shared.
Bob and Pat visited Mike and Nettie Cullen last week and are happy to report, if Mike’s health stays okay, they will be joining us with some of their children. Call Bob at 414-379-4162 or 313-443-1293.