Citizen Action Weekend 2025, Friday, January 31st
Join/Donate Citizen Action of Wisconsin Today!
Attend Citizen Action of Wisconsin’s An Evening with Susan Crawford on Thursday, February 13th, 6pm.
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.
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 the Capitol to talk directly to legislators during the mid-day. Following our visits with legislators, we will debrief together and make plans for continuing our lobbying back home.
RSVP here and organizer will follow up with you.
This will not be are only Lobby Day at the Capitol.
Read Citizen Action’s Letter to Governor Tony Evers’ with Citizen Action’s budget priorities.
Citizen Action North Side Rising members plan for State Budget and Local Campaigns.
Thanks to all the Citizen Action North Side Rising members who attended this weekend’s member planning meeting where they prepared for the upcoming state budget and local organizing campaigns.
To learn more about how you can join North Side Rising and organize to make change with others in your community, contact: [email protected], [email protected], or [email protected]
Join us, no matter where you live in the state, take action with Citizen Action on the upcoming state budget.
SIGN UP to have an organizer follow up with you about how you can get involved.
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 chaos created by a slew of Trump executive orders. Robert is on the show every Wednesday from 9 AM to 10 AM on the statewide Civic Media Network. Station list here.
Listen to “The health of mothers, children and democracy” Battleground Wisconsin Podcast
We continue to highlight that Boss Vos is blocking bi-partisan health care for children and mothers for the first year of the child’s life and is creating a wedge among Republican Legislators. Is this a foot in the door to more legislative independence from the powerful “boss” of the Assembly? We think it is an important fight that must be won or there will be more futility in the upcoming state budget and next legislative session despite new maps. We urge our listeners to call their state representatives immediately, especially Republicans.
We preview the upcoming state budget battle on public education funding by revealing new data finding Wisconsin again has the widest disparity in US between Black and White reading scores following over a decade of state budgets failing to properly fund public schools, including the last state budget that gave away a historic increase to failed voucher schools. We encourage our listeners to sign up for an upcoming Citizen Acton lobby day at the state Capitol on March 4th.
We highlight the mainstream media taking the bait on a fake Susan Crawford scandal hook, line, and sinker, with Wisconsin Public Radio’s awful headline leading the pack of poor coverage. We encourage our listeners to attend our An Evening with Susan Crawford, February 13th, 6pm and hear directly from the candidate.
We review and try to provide context to Trump’s continued chaos this week, including ramping up ICE raids, Trump’s flagrantly illegal order to freeze all in-direct federal social spending causes confusion and pain. We discuss our appreciation for the leadership many state and local leaders have shown standing up to Trump actions during the first couple of weeks, including Wisconsin Democrats proposing legislation to forbid state and local officials from cooperating with mass deportation. The leadership of state and local progressives will be vital to continue making progress on the issues and values we care about as the federal government descends into dysfunction on these critical priorities.
Listen to the show!
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