Citizen Action Weekly; Friday, June 10th

Citizen Action is hiring! Campaigns Director Citizen Action of Wisconsin Endorses Mandela Barnes for U.S. Senate Listen to a special interview with Mandela Barnes about our endorsement and his campaign. Citizen Action of Wisconsin and our national network People’s Action announced Thursday our endorsement of Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes to represent Wisconsin in the United States Senate. Barnes received overwhelming…

“Citizen Action endorses Mandela Barnes for U.S. Senate” Battleground Wisconsin Podcast

We welcome Lt. Governor Mandela Barnes, Citizen Action’s newly endorsed candidate for U.S. Senate, to discuss his historic campaign and why Citizen Action endorsed in the hotly contested primary to take on Mega MAGA Senator Ron Johnson. We debrief our 3rd Congressional District Candidate Forum, which featured the 4 Democratic candidates running to replace Ron Kind in one of the…

Citizen Action of Wisconsin endorses Mandela Barnes for U.S. Senate

|Listen to a special interview with Mandela Barnes about our endorsement and his campaign. Volunteer to make phone calls for Mandela Barnes with People’s Action and Citizen Action. Every Wednesday, 5pm – 8pm. Citizen Action of Wisconsin and our national network People’s Action announced this Thursday our endorsement of Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes to represent Wisconsin in the United States…

Citizen Action Weekly; Friday, June 3rd

Citizen Action is hiring! Campaigns Director Citizen Action North Central Organizing Co-op Climate Action Plan Meeting For the better part of a year, the Sustainability Committee for the City of Wausau has been discussing the creation of a Greenhouse Gas Reduction Resolution. Approximately 6 months ago, members of Citizen Action asked this committee to consider committing and working to develop…

“Policing police and school libraries” Battleground Wisconsin Podcast

We welcome guest panelist Isiah Holmes, an award-winning journalist from the Wisconsin Examiner, for an extended conversation focused on recent revelations on police accountability and mounting book censorship. We discuss the news that no charges will be filed against Police Officer Joseph Mensah in the fatal shooting of Jay Anderson. This came despite a botched investigation that led Judge Yamahiro…

Citizen Action Weekly; Friday, May 27th

Memorial Weekend Citizen Action is hiring! Movement Politics Director Campaigns Director Eau Claire media event highlights 1.5 million Wisconsin residents eligible for free or low-cost internet access. Citizen Action Northwestern Organizing Cooperative, Opportunity Wisconsin, and For Our Future held a media event this week in Eau Claire as part of the new “Paving the Way” statewide tour, highlighting how the…

“Proliferation of guns” Battleground Wisconsin Podcast 

We welcome State Representative Supreme Moore Omokunde as a guest panelist for a serious discussion of the proliferation of guns and lack of political courage to do anything real about it. With our government ground to a standstill on everything that matters to voters, can democracy survive? We break some news, as Rep. Moore Omokunde gives us a preview of…

Citizen Action Weekly; Friday, May 20th

RSVP for Citizen Action Brewfest 2022! Wednesday, June 22nd, 6pm, Milwaukee Office. Join us as we take an evening to celebrate! We’ll be giving our first ever Democracy Defenders Awards to two Milwaukeeans who have courageously stood against the right-wing conspiracy to end multiracial democracy in America. There will be refreshments and hors d’oeuvres! We’ll have a variety of craft…

“Amtrak to Green Bay” Battleground Wisconsin Podcast

What is the potential impact of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law after 6 months? Can it, as Green Bay Mayor Eric Genrich proposed on a media call hosted by Citizen Action this week, fund an expansion of Amtrak to the City of Champions? What do this week’s Pennsylvania primaries portend for WI? Are the insurrectionists and the progressive populists on the…

Citizen Action Weekly; Friday, May 13th

Citizen Action is hiring! Movement Politics Director Campaigns Director Northeast Wisconsin Co-op Organizer Make Meds Affordable The Citizen Action Healthcare for All organizing co-op is gearing up to throw down over the price of prescription drugs. In the United States, prescription drug corporations continue to raise the already-outrageous prices of medicines. Households face impossible decisions, such as whether to buy…