Citizen Action Weekend ’24, April 19th
April 19th
Citizen Action is hiring! NEW Driftless (La Crosse Area) Coop Organizer; Driftless (La Crosse Area) Deep Canvass Field Organizer; Green Bay Deep Canvass Field Organizer
Citizen Action’s Organizing Team starts 12 week Organizing Bootcamp Training with People’s Action.
This Tuesday, Citizen Action’s entire organizing staff began a 12 week organizer training program led by our national network People’s Action to sharpen and deepen our collective organizing skills and build relationships with 40 other organizers from around the country in the program.
People’s Action executive director, Sulma Arias addressed the Bootcamp attendees to start the training and expressed her and People’s Action’s deep commitment to investing in the development of organizers who are prepared to lead an Organizing Revival necessary to change this country.
Citizen Action North Side Rising on the doors this week organizing support for BadgerCare Public Option and finding new members!
Citizen Action North Side Rising organizes against We Energies shut offs and the new outrageous 15% rate increase.
RSVP for Health Care Action Meeting, Wednesday, April 24th, 7pm
Join us for the largest Healthcare Activist meeting in the state. April brings warmer weather and new hope for a new healthcare system that actually cares for people. The size of your wallet should not determine what kind of care you receive.
So be sure to join us!
RSVP 40th Anniversary Celebration in Eau Claire, Tuesday, April 30th, 6pm
Join us for a joyous celebration of 40 years of powerful organizing at Citizen Action of Wisconsin! Citizen Action executive director Robert Kraig is researching our history (much of it preserved at the Wisconsin Historical Society) and will present his findings on our history.
Join us Tuesday, April 30th, 6:00pm. The Coven, 131 S. Barstow St. #202, Eau Claire.
RSVP or more information: [email protected]
Citizen Action night at the movies in La Crosse, Monday, April 29th, 5pm
The Citizen Action of Wisconsin Driftless Co-op is thrilled to co-sponsor this special movie screening. Make plans now to join us in La Crosse!
Citizen Action in the News
Citizen Action of Wisconsin North Side Rising Organizing Co-op was in the news this week challenging the latest huge rate hike proposed by the for-profit utility, We Energies. See an interview with Citizen Action organizer Keviea Guiden on WTMJ TV 4 Milwaukee here.
Citizen Action’s Robert Kraig was on the Earl Ingram Show for the full hour to discuss the GOP’s absurd claim that Governor Evers is seeking to radically change the balance of power in state government. Listen to the full hour Here.
The Earl Ingram Show airs on the growing Civic Media radio network from 8 AM to 10 AM weekdays. Robert is the regular guest every Wednesday 9 AM to 10 AM. Civic Media now has radio stations in every media market where Citizen Action has an organizing co-op. You can also subscribe to the Earl Ingram show on Apple, Google, Spotify, and other podcast platforms, and listen on Alexa and on TuneIn. For a video of the program you can watch on YouTube.
Listen to “Staring at our electoral future” Battleground Wisconsin Podcast
In a potential preview of November, MAGAite Steven Campbell refuses to step down following losing his Green Bay City Council election, even after losing the recount he paid for. Trump has been encouraging his acolytes to seek fraud claims everywhere, laying the groundwork for his future claims of a stolen election in the fall.
We talk about the decision of Supreme Court Justice Ann Walsh Bradley to step down, setting up another epic Supreme Court election next April that will determine the balance of the Wisconsin Supreme Court and the future of abortion rights and democracy in the Badger State. Also as nomination papers drop, we urge movement progressives to run in state legislative races.
Meanwhile, the bitter fruits of right-rule continued in Wisconsin. We discuss the staggering implications of a new report revealing that nearly 40% of Wisconsin teachers left the profession after 6 years, a direct result of Act 10 and the GOP assault on public education. Meanwhile on the energy front, renewable energy laggard We Energies proposes another outrageous 15% rate hike as Southeast Wisconsin residents protest the increase.
Finally a new MU Law Poll has U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin over 50% and leading Eric Hovde.
Listen to the show.
RSVP to Citizen Action’s 40th Anniversary event in Eau Claire, Tuesday, April 30th, 6pm.
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