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“There is no system now in place that can change the disastrous course earth is on.” ~ Alice Walker’s poem “Democratic Womanism” 

Alice Walker, poet, writes: “The male leaders of earth appear to have abandoned their senses. …They murder humans and other animals, forests and rivers and mountains every day they are in office and never seem to notice it.”

The main forum in Wisconsin for orchestrating that devastation is coming up in the annual DNR/Conservation Congress election and vote Monday night, April 11, at 6:30 p.m. The event takes place in every county. The election determines who is in power in the Conservation Congress, and the election is the first order of business that evening. The Conservation Congress is supposed to represent the citizens’ interests to the Legislature.

The process needs radical reform to include transparency and wide citizen involvement.  It is time…