On Wednesday, February 27th, the Senate Health Committee heard testimony on SB 398, the Women's Health and Safety Act. The bill seeks to repeal Wisconsin statute 940.04 (Wisconsin's Criminal Abortion Ban), which, if Roe v. Wade is overturned, would outlaw nearly all forms of abortion in Wisconsin. Moreover, the law includes a penalty of up to 15 years in prison for doctors who perform an abortion and a woman could receive up to 3.5 years in prison for having an abortion or performing an abortion on herself. The law is currently unenforceable as the U.S. Supreme Court ruling Roe v. Wade legalized abortions in all fifty states 35 years ago. However, if Roe fell, Wisconsin's Criminal Abortion Ban would immediately go into effect; local district attorneys could prosecute both women and doctors involved in the now-illegal procedure.

I've made a small change to the system tonight.  Now those of you who are in the contributors and editors roles (and if you can see this message, that means you) can now delete comments on blog entries that you have created.  This might be handy if someone posts a comment on one of your articles that is particularly inflammatory.  Don't go nuts, though.  

Steve 

Hi -

I'm going to be out of town starting this afternoon, and then pretty much till Oct. 15. I'll be checking my email, etc. at least every couple of days - but things will be a little slow in the contact department till after I get back, so don't expect real quick response to anything.

I'll be in Minneapolis at Nordic Roots Festival over the weekend, then leaving for Nova Scotia for a while. Then going immediately to a business show for 2 days, so it's gonna be nuts.

Category: Bloggers

Roles: editor, contributor

Hello All -

I've just put in a feature on Uppity Wisconsin to be able to more easily embed video on the site. When you post a blog entry now, you should see a number of entry spaces on the form called "remote video". I've only enabled this for a couple of video providers at the moment, including YouTube. Basically the way this works is that you either enter in the URL for the video in question, or the Embed code for the video in the box, and Whallah! (sorry, couldn't resist) you get the video embedded at the end of your blog entry. This has very minimal testing at the moment. I'm in the process of setting up a couple of different HOWTO videos but it's hard to get them finished with all the other stuff going on.

Let me know if you have any questions.

Steve

Okay then - I'm going to be heading to YearlyKOS late tomorrow morning. Which means that I won't be actively editing the site or be very available most of the time.

If you want to get in touch, try sending an email to shanson [at] uppitywis [dot] org.

If you REALLY want to get in touch, send a short email to spage [at] cruiskeenconsulting [dot] com, which should page me (assuming my phone actually works in McCormick place - new phone, have no idea). I'll be back probably Sunday night.

Look for me on CSPAN!

Thought this was interesting -- it appears that we're pretty heavy in the Madison and Milwaukee areas.

A few of us have been kicking around the idea of having a meeting for progressive bloggers and webmasters later in the year. It struck me that one good possibility might be to do this in conjunction with Fighting Bob Fest - but I'm very open to suggestions. Ideas ? Either comment here or drop me a line through the contact button at the top of the site.

Okay, so maybe you aren't Virginia Woolf. Still, that doesn't mean that we don't want to feature your blog on Uppity Wisconsin. You can have your own blog here -just sign up for an account (you know, over there on the left column) and you'll immediately have your own blog. You can write about anything you want, though of course we'd like you to mostly stick with progressive politics. We're looking for more writers to write about Wisconsin topics, anywhere in the state.

It's all pretty straightforward. We promote articles from your blog to the front page if we think they're of general interest.

Help save our readers from having to listen to me all the time, and give them a break. Write for Uppity Wisconsin. Become famous in the Blogosphere. And in the process, help improve the state and the country.

So come on in - get an account, go to Create Content -> Blog Entry, and get whatever it is off your chest.

Cross-posted at the DailyKos.

December 15, 2006

Open Letter to Senator Barack Obama:

From: David Cook, Menomonie, WI

As you ponder whether you will enter the race for the Democratic nominee for President in 2008, I would like to share with you my heartfelt request that you only make the decision to enter this contest if you are willing to lose the nomination on the basis of your policy positions.
I am writing as a progressive Democrat, a senior citizen on Medicare, and an active member of the United Church of Christ.

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