Organizing Director

Job Description: Organizing Director Citizen Action seeks applicants hungry for the opportunity to build the power to achieve the sweeping changes Wisconsin needs to become a just, equitable, and sustainable multiracial democracy. The person in this position leads Citizen Action’s base building, issue, and electoral campaigns, and supervises organizers beyond Wisconsin’s two largest metro areas, in the state’s pivotal Northwestern,…

Milwaukee Area Deep Canvass Field Organizer

Objective: Citizen Action of Wisconsin seeks a dynamic and socially committed person to join our team and lead the implementation of an innovative electoral field program. This is a limited term, full-time (40-50 hrs/week) position located in the Milwaukee area, Wisconsin. This position runs through December 2023. The person will be considered for other open positions when this position expires….

Statement of Solidarity with the Hmong/Lao Community in Wausau

Released: 5/25/23 Joint Statement of Solidarity by Citizen Action and WISDOM In Support of the Hmong Community in Wausau Citizen Action of Wisconsin and WISDOM stand in solidarity with the Hmong community in Wausau and offer support to the Vongphakdy family as they seek a just response to the racist and homophobic comments their student experienced at the hands of…

TAX DAY 2023: Congress Should Make the Rich and Corporations Pay Their Fair Share, Not Cut Critical Services

TAX DAY 2023:  Congress Should Make the Rich and Corporations Pay Their Fair Share, Not Cut Critical Services  This Tax Day, Washington is gearing up for the latest edition of a familiar debate over federal spending and revenue. On the one side, President Biden and Democrats in Congress want the rich and corporations to pay a fairer share of taxes….

Tax Day Event: Families Face Cuts Unless Congress Stands Up to Billionaire & Corporate Tax Dodgers

MEDIA ADVISORY FOR APRIL 17, 2023 Milwaukee: As middle class and working Wisconsinites file their taxes, Citizen Action will host a news conference on the cost of the refusal of billionaires and major corporations to pay what they owe in taxes. At the event, we will release a new report from Americans for Tax Fairness which shows that when billionaires…

Wisconsin Supreme Court Endorsement

Citizen Action of Wisconsin, a statewide grassroots social justice organization with members in every region of the state, announced the dual endorsement of Judge Janet Protasiewicz and Judge Everett Mitchell in the pivotal four way race for the Wisconsin Supreme Court. The election will decide the balance of the court, determining whether Wisconsin has a constitutional Supreme Court which fairly…

The Ongoing Plot Against Democracy – Battleground Wisconsin Podcast

This week host Matt Brusky is on vacation, and we have as a special guest panelist State Senator Chris Larson. Chris and Robert Kraig dig into the latest revelations from the January 6th Committee documents which putt more of Senator Ron Johnson’s fingerprints on the insurrection; the constitutional impasse in the House over the next Speaker, Trump’s obsession with overturning the results…