Michael Synowicz

Michael Synowicz is an adjunct professor of philosophy at the College of Lake County and at Harper College in Illinois. He is an active member of the AFT union there. He serves on the board of directors at People's Books Co-op in Milwaukee, where he also volunteers. He worked as an activist for two organizations in Wisconsin, Citizen Action of Wisconsin and Working America. At the Citizen Action he canvassed for universal health care; at Working America (an affiliate of the AFL-CIO) he canvassed to get Barack Obama elected. He has written three novels with a philosophical bent and a number of philosophical pieces. He is currently working on a book entitled "We the Milwaukee Progressives," where he is profiling a number of Milwaukee's unsung heroes in the progressive movement. He also served as a board member of a free health clinic, the Bread of Healing Clinic, where he wrote patient stories for their website.

LATEST ARTICLES BY Michael Synowicz

U.S.

University of Wisconsin takes off its cap
March 20, 2013 By Michael Synowicz
What a rat race! No, I don't mean the auto industry or Silicon Valley, or even the vicious corporate American scene. I mean academia.
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Opinion

Citizens United, Wisconsin style
March 12, 2013 By Michael Synowicz
With Citizens United and now "The Roggensack Rule," in the light of day judges can be wined and dined by the very party they will be ruling on.
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Opinion

Thank you, Governor Walker
June 30, 2011 By Michael Synowicz
It's time for progressives to take a moment to join together in offering Gov. Walker thanks.
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Opinion

Wisconsin, the law, and Chief Justice Shirley Abrahamson
June 22, 2011 By Michael Synowicz
Reading the judge's dissent last week, I was not surprised that she maintained her integrity, as I witnessed it first-hand when I knocked on her door three years ago.
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U.S.

Why the Wisconsin goings-on affect all workers
March 7, 2011 By Michael Synowicz
The only protection workers have to fight against exploitation is a working democracy. And so unions were born.
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Opinion

Republicans should get their story straight
February 24, 2011 By Michael Synowicz
The right wing, in its assault on working people, is full of contradictory statements.
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Opinion

Reflections on Friday’s protest in Madison
February 21, 2011 By Michael Synowicz
The aches in my bones from yesterday's rally in Madison, Wisconsin, were welcomed aches.
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Opinion

16,000 marched on Wisconsin’s capital fighting for democracy
February 16, 2011 By Michael Synowicz
A country's attitude toward its unions is a good measure of their attitude toward democracy - their real attitude toward true democracy.
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