Subject: Events today in NW Wisconsin Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 07:37:17 -0600 Message-ID: <B14120EE5C432443B21102F7925DAD020142039B@COKE.uwec.edu> From: "Grossman, Zoltan C." <GROSSMZC@uwec.edu>
Civil rights lawyer in New Richmond Feb. 2
Morris Dees, a co-founder of the Southern Poverty Law Center, will
present a lecture titled "With Justice For All" for the Bakke Norman
lecture series at the New Richmond High School gymnasium (701 E 11th St)
on Wednesday, February 2 at 7:30 p.m. The lecture will be the ninth
annual lecture presented in the Bakke Norman lecture series. The lecture
is free and open to the public. According to Dees' biography at the
Southern Poverty Law Center website, in 1967, lawyer Morris Dees had
achieved extraordinary business and financial success with his book
publishing company. The son of an Alabama farmer, he witnessed firsthand
the painful consequences of prejudice and racial injustice. He
sympathized with the Civil Rights Movement but had not become actively
involved. A night of soul searching at a snowed-in Cincinnati airport
changed his life, inspiring Dees to leave the safe, business-as-usual
world and undertake a new mission."When my plane landed in Chicago, I
was ready to take that step, to speak out for my black friends who were
still 'disenfranchised' even after the Voting Rights Act of 1965," Dees
wrote in his autobiography, A Season for Justice. "Little had changed in
the South. Whites held the power and had no intention of voluntarily
sharing it..."I had made up my mind. I would sell the company as soon as
possible and specialize in civil rights law," Dees said. "All the things
in my life that had brought me to this point, all the pulls and tugs of
my conscience, found a singular peace. It did not matter what my
neighbors would think, or the judges, the bankers, or even my
relatives." Out of this deeply personal moment grew the Southern Poverty
Law Center. Dees' efforts have helped bankrupt the KKK, imprisioned hate
crime perpetrators and resulted in numerous other successes in defending
civil rights. Dees was born in 1936 in Shorter, Alabama. He was active
in agriculture during high school and was named the Star Farmer of
Alabama in 1955 by the Alabama Future Farmers of America. Dees attended
undergraduate school at the University of Alabama where he founded a
nationwide direct mail sales company that specialized in book
publishing. After graduation from the University of Alabama School of
Law in 1960, he returned to Montgomery, Alabama's capital, and opened a
law office.
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From: Mike Miles and Barb Kass
Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 8:38 PM
Subject: Northwoods Peace Initiative--Arrowhead/Weston Power Line Can Be
Stopped Tomorrow
Dear Peacemakers,
Wednesday, February 2, may be the day that the Arrowhead/Weston power
line is stopped once and for all!! Please come to the rally and Douglas
County Board meeting where the vote as to whether the line will cross
Douglas County will be taken. This is not only an environmental issue,
it is a human rights issue as the Cree nation is facing utter
devastation by the flooding of their land so Manitoba Hydro and American
Transmission Company can sell cheap electricity for enormous profit.
Please read the following letters from activists who have been
spearheading opposition to the proposed line. Come to Superior,
Wisconsin and join the final stand at the Douglas County Courthouse!!!
Dear friends,
On Wednesday, Feb. 2, there will
be a rally in Superior, WI against the proposed massive
Arrowhead-Weston Power Line. The rally will begin at 4:30pm and will
be held in front of the Douglas County Courthouse on Hammond Ave.
Following the rally, the Douglas County Board will be holding a
meeting/hearing on the issue at 6pm. The Board will be voting at this
meeting on the power line, so it's CRUCIAL that as many people as
possible attend both the rally and the Board meeting. At the Board
meeting there will be over an hour set aside for public testimony.
The Arrowhead-Weston line is a for profit project that will most
likely result in an economic, health, safety and environmental
nightmare for northern Wisconsin and Minnesota residents. It's
purpose is to take cheap electricity from Manitoba Hydro (a hydro dam
complex in Canada that has displaced and devastated the Cree) and sell
it at a huge profit in the Chicago/SE Wisconsin area. The Douglas
County Board meeting is our last, best chance to
stop this line!
See Save Our Unique Lands (SOUL)
http://www.wakeupwisconsin.com