Citizen Action Weekend 2025, January 24th
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HOLD the DATE, Tuesday, March 4th: Citizen Action Capitol Lobby Day on State Budget
It is time for our State Legislature to put the money where we the people need it.
Citizen Action members from across Wisconsin will gather in Madison to talk to our state legislators about our state budget priorities.
Read Citizen Action’s Letter to Governor Tony Evers’ with Citizen Action’s budget priorities.
Plan on needing to free up the whole day for this event. We will help organize transportation which will leave from multiple cities in the morning to drive to Madison. We will meet before heading to teh Capitol to talk directly to legislators during the mid-day. Following our visits with legsiators, we will debrief together and make plans for continuing our lobbying back home.
RSVP here and organizer will follow up with you.
Attend Citizen Action of Wisconsin’s An Evening with Susan Crawford on Thursday, February 13th, 6pm.
Attend Fundamentals of Organizing Training
Wednesday, January 25th, 5pm – 8pm CST & Wednesday, February 5th, 5pm – 8pm CST
Join us and our national network, People’s Action, in a two day training on community organizing to build power. There will be four trainings led by organizers from across the nation. This is an opportunity to learn more about base building and what type of power we need to build. Please join our network of 30 states focused on governing where we live.
Citizen Action Northwest Organizing Cooperative to be a part of Winter Gathering in Eau Claire on Feb 1st, 1-3pm
Robert Kraig, Executive Director of Citizen Action of Wisconsin, will be among a half dozen Executive Directors visiting Eau Claire for the Winter Gathering, hosted by a coalition of Eau Claire-based community organizers including Citizen Action’s Northwestern Co-op Organizer Jeremy Gragert.
All are welcome to attend the event on Saturday, February 1st from 1-3pm at the on the third floor of the L.E. Phillips Memorial Public Library (400 Eau Claire St) in downtown Eau Claire.
The purpose of the event is to bring folks who are involved, or want to be involved, with grassroots organizations together for a discussion of important issues ahead of the Wisconsin State Budget, and meet each other over food, music and community building.
Some of the organizations included beyond Citizen Action include Wisconsin Farmers Union, Wisconsin Public Education Network, WISDOM, Power of Eau Claire, and GROWW.
Citizen Action members in Southeast Wisconsin: Step Up to Say “No New Gas”
We Energies is proposing two new gas plants in Oak Creek and Paris that would cause serious harm to our communities. A new analysis shows these facilities could result in 351 premature deaths, 93 heart attacks, and $192 million in annual health costs. Children, seniors, and low-income families would be hit the hardest, especially in areas already burdened by toxic air pollution.
We can stop this! Attend the upcoming public hearings to speak out for cleaner energy and healthier communities.
Interested in joining, email Kat Klawes at [email protected].
Paris Gas Plant Hearings:
February 5 | 2:00 PM & 6:00 PM
Pre-Hearing Pizza & Testimony Prep available!
Oak Creek Gas Plant Hearings:
March 25 | 1:00 PM & 6:00 PM
Citizen Action in the News
Citizen Acton’s Robert Kraig was on the Earl Ingram Show for the full hour to discuss the eventful early days of the second Trump Regime.
Robert is on the show every Wednesday from 9 AM to 10 AM on the statewide Civic Media Network. Station list here.
Listen to this week’s Interview Here
Listen to “The State of the State in Trump’s America” Battleground Wisconsin Podcast
Welcome to Trump’s America. We review the first 72 hours of manic action by the Trump Regime. We commend the moral courage of the pastor that stood up to Trump on behalf of the most vulnerable among us: “was anyone going to say anything.” Trump illegally impounds IRA and IIJA money, causing massive confusion. Meanwhile popular and essential healthcare and green infrastructure projects are put on the chopping block to fund massive new tax cuts for billionaires and the most profitable corporations. However, time remains for public response to popular issues to make a difference.
We discuss Governor Tony Evers’ State of the State speech on Wednesday evening, highlighting key priorities including; increased investments in K-12/tech colleges and universities, state funding to fill in expiring federal child care funding; new climate jobs and apprenticeships; and reigning in prescription drug costs. But while the Governor signaled support for many key priorities, what does it mean that he started the speech praising a decade and a half of Republican initiated tax cuts? Will the Governor raise the revenue needed to sustainably fund public schools, child care, health care, shared revenue, and the many other underfunded state priorities?
We close highlighting Boss Robin Vos’ effort to kill a bi-partisan Medicaid deal to expand access to healthcare for postpartum moms and their infants! We encourage our listeners to contact their state legislators to support the bi-partisan deal. Contact your legislators today.
Listen to the show.
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