Category Archives: Clarence Kailin Chapter 25

East Wash Affordable Housing-Veteran Preference, Scheduled to open 2021

Veterans will be given preference.  Some units will be low-moderate income, others will be at market rate.

“Today Gorman and Company informed TLNA and Alder Zellers that they have been approved for the WHEDA tax credits that they were seeking for the Valor project on the Messner site at 1326 E. Washington (site includes 1314 and 1318 E. Washington). They had earlier received commitments from both the City and County for allocations from their respective affordable housing funds, so their financing package is complete.

The development team will soon present the final exterior design details to the TLNA Steering Committee for the proposal. Assuming the committee meeting goes well, Gorman will subsequently seek final Urban Design Commission approval for the exterior…”

  • Patrick Heck, [soon to be former] Development Chair for Tenney-Lapham Neighborhood Association

 

“The six-story affordable housing project at 1314-1326 E. Washington Ave. for veterans and their families sits on the former Messner building site.

The project includes 59 units, 50 of which would be affordable. It’s estimated to cost $14.8 million, and recently received $950,000 from the city’s Affordable Housing Fund. The project is applying for federal low income housing tax credits. If granted, developer Gorman & Company could begin construction in 2020 and finish by mid-2021, a city staff report says…”

Affordable Housing Being Built on East Washington

Guernica by Pablo Picasso: In Response to War Crimes in the Spanish Civil War

Guernica

Video from France 24 – Picasso’s Guernica: The world’s most famous anti-war painting

“Probably Picasso’s most famous work, Guernica is certainly the his most powerful political statement, painted as an immediate reaction to the Nazi’s devastating casual bombing practice on the Basque town of Guernica during Spanish Civil War…”
Guernica, 1937 by Pablo Picasso

The man, who our chapter of Veterans for Peace is name after, Clarence Kailin volunteered to fight as the Abraham Lincoln Brigade in defense of the elected Spanish government against a coup engineered by Generalissimo Francisco Franco with the backing of Germany’s Adolf Hitler and Italy’s Benito Mussolini.
Premature Antifascist – John Nichols

“The Spanish Civil War broke out in July, 1936, after a group of conservative military tried to overthrow the progressive government of the Popular Front, elected in February of the same year. Expecting an easy coup, the military rebels were surprised to encounter massive popular resistance, especially in the large urban centers. In a matter of days, the country was split in half, with one zone controlled by the government (known as Republicans, Loyalists, or Reds), and the other by the rebels (also referred to as Nationalists, Fascists, or Whites). Three years of bloody fighting followed. General Franco quickly emerged as the Nationalist commander in chief. The main leaders on the Republican side were President Azaña and Prime Ministers Largo Caballero and Negrín. The war ended with a Nationalist victory on April 1, 1939; Franco would rule Spain as a ruthless dictator until his death in 1975.

The war quickly became internationalized. Global public opinion rallied around one of the two factions, seeing the war as either a struggle of democracy against fascism or, conversely, of Christian civilization against Communism. Fearful of escalation, several Western governments signed a Non-Intervention Pact. It was a dead letter from the outset. Franco immediately requested and received extensive military support from Nazi Germany and fascist Italy. The Republic was in turn supported by the Soviet Union and, to a smaller extent, by Mexico. The other Western powers refused to stand by the embattled Republic, not even allowing it to buy arms on the international market. Nevertheless, thousands of concerned citizens from some fifty nations, ignoring their own governments’ purported neutrality, rallied to the Republic’s support. Almost forty thousand men and women, including 2,800 Americans, traveled to Spain to help fight fascism. Most of them joined the International Brigades, organized in 1936 by the Communist International. The U.S. volunteers in Spain formed several battalions and served in various units (medical, transportation) and came to be known collectively as the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.”
The Abraham Lincoln Brigade and the Spanish Civil War

 

 

Spanish Civil War: the Spanish town of Guernica, after the bombing by German and Italian aircraft, 1937. (Photo by: Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

 

 

 

 

Counter Recruiting at Boscobel, Wisconsin High School

Rhonda Scallon, Boscobel High School guidance counselor and alternative education coordinator, examines the visual display during a Veterans For Peace counter recruiting visit to the school lunch room March 21, 2019. 

Photo by David Giffey

This is the ninth year Veterans For Peace Chapter 25 has visited Boscobel High School and provided a graduating senior with a $500 scholarship for writing the winning essay on the topic: “Why I Believe War Is Not the Answer.”

The scholarship will be awarded during a ceremony in May. Boscobel, in Grant County, is one of six rural high schools in Southwestern Wisconsin receiving regular visits from Veterans For Peace. Other schools include Dodgeville, Baraboo, Richland Center, Riverdale in Muscoda, and River Valley, Spring Green.

Truth In Recruiting – Vets for Peace

Madison’s St. Patrick’s Day Parade 2019

Veterans for Peace-Madison, Clarence Kailin Chapter 25 took part in the 22nd annual St. Patrick’s Day parade that was held on March 17 on the Capitol Square in Madison, Wisconsin.

“St Patrick’s Day, while not a legal holiday in the United States, is nonetheless widely recognized and observed throughout the country as a celebration of Irish and Irish-American culture.”
– Wikipedia

Photos are the work of Paul “PT” McMahon.