07.15.25 With apologies to your inbox, WFFWi updates yesterday’s special alert:
MKE organizers moved the July 17 event away from the MKE Bastille Days celebration to a location near the Collectivo Cafe by the lake – details and RSVP HERE.
Speaking of Bastille Days, Rebecca Solnit just published a great piece in honor of the original Bastille Day (14 July 1789). The essay’s topics range from today’s American autrocities to history’s victories against despots. Definitely worth reading! Solnit posits that the French “No Kings” day was not the violent July 14 event in Paris, but a non-violent act that occurred later that year…