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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
We take stock on 1 million COVID-19 deaths in America. What does it say about the country and what does it portend for the future? Primary elections have started across the country and we look at the role of Donald Trump in the elections. Robert discusses lessons to be learned from John Fetterman’s campaign for U.S. Senate in the upcoming…
Friday, May 6th Citizen Action is hiring! Movement Politics Director Campaigns Director Northeast Wisconsin Co-op Organizer Hundreds rally in Eau Claire to support abortion rights Less than 24 hours after the U.S. Supreme Court draft opinion overturning abortion rights was leaked on Monday night, hundreds of people in Eau Claire took to the streets Tuesday in protest. Organized by local…
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 and the 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…
Friday, April 29th Citizen Action is hiring! Movement Politics Director Campaigns Director Northeast Wisconsin Co-op Organizer RSVP for Citizen Action Brewfest 2022! Wednesday, June 22nd, 6pm, Milwaukee Office. Citizen Action members and staff attend People’s Action Strategy Summit in Denver this weekend. Citizen Action Driftless Organizing Coop’s Earth Day 2022: Protect the Future. On Earth Day, last Friday, April 22nd,…
