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IDHH in Milwaukee, Day 2 & 3

People of Earth! It was good to be back in the Cream City, a place I last visited in the earlier part of the century, on a drive across the country, where we broke down in the early trials of experimenting with running vehicles on vegetable oil. I’m grateful to It Did Happen Here for the chance to meet more beautiful Milwaukeeans.

Our host Jay Geils is a tireless organizer in the tradition of making sure everyone has shoes, food, a decent place to work, a life philosophy of service, an understanding of precious life becoming more precious when we twine in mutual aid. Jay orchestrated the printing of our shirts with the cooperatively run, worker-owned Shaky Hands Co-op. His ongoing projects include expanding various union efforts; participating in the Cooperation Milwaukee umbrella organization that fosters mutual aid relationships, cooperative development, community assemblies and other counter institutions; and resuming work on the pandemic-paused Operation Get the Lead Out, a grassroots coalition of citizens and community organizations fighting for the removal of the toxic lead pipe infrastructure in Milwaukee.

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