2022 Election Videos
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Articles exemplifying Citizen Action’s Theory of Change
Governor Evers’ Refusal to Mobilize Public Opinion Enabled Budget Disaster In an article for the Wisconsin Examiner, Citizen Action’s Executive Director Robert Kraig makes the case that Governor Evers has been failing to use his…
CLIMATE & JOBS Package – Wisconsin State Legislature
Citizen Action Explainer: THE ISSUE There is an overwhelming scientific consensus that we face runaway climate change unless we immediately start a bold transition and achieve dramatic reductions in greenhouse emissions by 2030. While many Wisconsin elected leaders believe in science and are publicly committed to addressing this generational challenge, we lack a plan up to the scale of the…
Movement Communications Director
Job Description: Movement Communications 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. Citizen Action of Wisconsin works to advance a long-term agenda for racial, economic and gender justice through state and local organizing campaigns that win real change in…
Citizen Action’s Radical Pragmatism
What is a movement building compromise? The Necessity of Compromise: Progressive power inside and outside government is greater now than it has been since the 1960s, but is incomplete. To pass new policy at the federal level (or enact executive action at the state level) we must find common ground with corporate-funded Democrats, which by definition means compromise. Citizen Action’s…
We Energies Profits at the Expense of People and the Planet
The CHALLENGE Wisconsin and Milwaukee face a crisis in the affordability of energy, and a disproportionate energy burden imposed on low income communities of color. Wisconsin also lags in meeting the international deadlines to reduce greenhouse gas emissions require to head off runaway climate change. We Energies, exploiting its lucrative government-mandated monopoly over a necessity of modern life, is a…
“SCOTUSAUTOCRACY” Battleground Wisconsin Podcast
We discuss the latest shock to American democracy, the SCOTUS leak of a draft majority opinion overturning Roe V Wade, with Planned Parenthood Advocates of Wisconsin’s Courtney Hayward. We explore the politics andthe implications for Wisconsin. Are there ways we can fight back effectively? Yet another judge orders Assembly Republicans to prevent the destruction of records in ex Supreme Court…
The Conspiracy Against Everything
From the conservative leaning WI Supreme Court making up the new “least changes” redistricting criterion to the Republican attempt to funnel public dollars to private schools, it seems the Sith Lords of the WI GOP are embarrassing the dark side…again! We delve into the new political maps for Wisconsin and give some political insider perspective of the new districts pros…
Pathbreaking BadgerCare Public Option Bill Unveiled
Public option, what? A sweeping BadgerCare Public Option Bill was announced this week in the Legislature, which does more than any bill introduced in over a decade to make health care more affordable and accessible in Wisconsin. We hit on the top details of the BadgerCare Public Option Bill and why it’s so important that legislation like this gets a…
