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Uneasy Conscience
It’s the fourth day of the 96th Annual NAACP Convention. In the gargantuan Ballroom of the Midwest Airlines Center delegates representing every state in the union are heatedly debating a resolution calling for the banning of the use of the taser, the “non-lethal” weapon employed by police personnel across the country. It’s impossible not to be swept up into the furor of the moment, the high energy and unquestionable conviction of those who speak for and against the resolution.
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Ongoing Hope and Vision
by Camille Goldin
“You are civil rights activists,” boomed Youth and College Director Brandon Neal to his attentive teenage audience. “You are the young people that will take in this information that is being given to you now, take it back with you to your respective communities, and [apply it]. That is your job!”
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Green Oasis
by Janice Christensen
The June 14 Riverwest Neighborhood Association meeting was packed. Greenfolks Gardeners turned out in force to support their neighborhood project. People filled every chair, and many sat on the floor. Two children inspected a map of the garden propped against the wall as the adults talked about the future of the neighborhood garden on Wright Street between Booth and Holton.
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Inside Story - Jewel
by Jackie Reid Dettloff,
photo by Kurt Johnson
The scene is the Jewel-Osco store on the corner of Humboldt and North – the same store that caused such controversy when it was first proposed back in 1997. Local residents crowded into meetings of the City Zoning Committee and the Common Council to express their opposition to the development, but all to no avail. Jewel-Osco came into Riverwest with promises of providing a quality supermarket that would be an asset to the neighborhood and providing jobs to local residents.
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Riverwest Renewal
by Julia Kolker
Inside Fuel Café one May afternoon hipsters guzzle java in the smoky din to the whirr of the coffee grinder. Down the street, shoppers peruse naughty trinkets on the shelves of The Tool Shed, a female-friendly erotic boutique. A few blocks down the street, Riverwesters chow down on spicy African cuisine at Club Timbuktu. What do all of these businesses have in common? All are small, locally owned enterprises located on Center Street in Riverwest.
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Neighbor Spotlight
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Wayne Carter
Wayne Carter really likes his car. He has good reason to, having worked many hours at odd jobs to save up for a 1985 Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera. He uses his car to get around the neighborhood and to his sister’s house. More importantly, he needs his car to get to school and work.
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Business Spotlight
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Shalem Healing
by Suzanne Zipperer, photo by Kurt Johnson
For Robert Fox, who recently moved his practice from Wauwatosa to Riverwest, it could also mean the balance of Eastern and Western healing traditions. Fox, who has a Master of Science degree from the Midwest College of Oriental Medicine in Racine, uses the Eastern approach to the body and healing along with Western science. “I use the ancient wisdom and the modern technology,” he explains.
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Hot Diggity Doggs
text/photo by Tim Lambrecht
Mazen Muna had already been paying rent at 1433 East Brady Street for a couple months before he knew what kind of restaurant he wanted to open. What he did know was how important location is to the success of a new business.
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