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Wisconsin supports their local Communist
Speaking to Alexander Norton, WAHSAYAH WHITEBIRD talks about the opportunities and challenges in being the only explicitly Communist elected official in the English-speaking world
The city council member in rural Wisconsin is the only openly Communist elected official in the English-speaking world
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WAHSAYAH WHITEBIRD’s intro on his facebook profile reads “Yes, I am the local Communist. If you want to add me, cool. Just don’t expect me to be a Liberal.”
Then rather surprisingly this is followed by “City Council Member at Ashland, Wisconsin.”
In May Whitebird was elected in the rural community where he works in the town deli, openly a member of none other than the Communist Party USA, now in its hundredth year.
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