Friday, January 11th Citizen Action of Wisconsin statewide staff meets for strategic retreat this week in Milwaukee. This week Citizen Action of Wisconsin organizing staff meet in Milwaukee for a strategic retreat. In 3 days of intensive (and exhausting) work we made progress in planning our 2019 issue and electoral campaigns, evolving our organizational culture, improving our effectiveness as a…
Friday, January 4, 2019 Welcome Noah Reif, Citizen Action’s new Northwestern Wisconsin Co-op Organizer Noah joins the Citizen Action team after spending the 2018 midterms with For our Future-Wisconsin. They grew up in Beechwood, Wisconsin before attending St. Norbert College and graduating with a Bachelors of Music- Liberal Arts. In 2016, Noah ran for State Assembly District 88 against John…
Friday, December 14th Citizen Action of Wisconsin Stands with Wausau Council member Mary Thao Citizen Action of Wisconsin members in North Central Wisconsin are very troubled by the events on the Wausau City Council that prompted Council member Mary Thao to recuse herself from closed sessions of the Council. Mary experienced these sessions as an unwelcoming space where diverse perspectives…
Happy Thanksgiving Weekly Brew Fest: Mandela Barnes, Gwen Moore and Lisa Neubauer speak; Members who ran for office highlighted. This Monday evening the 10th Annual Citizen Action Brew Fest was held at the historic Coakley Bros. Building on Milwaukee’s southside. Brew Fest featured inspiring speeches from Lt. Governor-Elect Mandela Barnes, Congresswoman Gwen Moore and State Supreme Court candidate Lisa Neubauer.
Get Out the Vote 2018 Help Elect Citizen Action members and endorsed candidates for the State Legislature
Friday, October 19, 2018 Citizen Action members join Mandela Barnes and former HHS director Kathleen Sebelius at media conference Highlight importance of the ACA’s ban on discrimination against people with pre-existing conditions. Denise Patton, a Citizen Action co-op member and small business owner, flanked by fellow co-op members, Mandela Barnes & former US HHS director Kathleen Sebelius, sharing how…
Friday, October 5, 2018 Northeast Cooperative hosts Fair Maps Town Hall in Oshkosh In preparation for the November referendum on nonpartisan redistricting in Winnebago County members of Citizen Action, the League of Women Voters – Winnebago County, and others in the Fair Maps Coalition organized a town hall to educate voters on this important issue. Sachin Chheda, director of the…
Friday, September 28, 2018 Citizen Action and SOPHIA/WISDOM attend national conference on addiction Citizen Action of Wisconsin Organizing Director Angelique Rogers and SOPHIA Youth Activist Maria Barajas represented Wisconsin this week at Community Catalyst’s 2018 Gathering for Action on Addiction in Atlanta. The convening included structured roundtable conversations in which participants from across the country harnessed their collective energy and…
Friday, September 21, 2018 Walker’s Bait and Switch on Pre-existing Condition Discrimination Becomes Dominant Issue in Governor’s Election Scott Walker’s declaration last week that he would protect people with pre-existing conditions from discrimination is in sharp contrast to his actual record as governor and any policy proposal he has made to date, raising the specter that he is deliberately misleading…
Friday, September 14th Citizen Action hits the doors for members running for office With Labor Day long gone, the fall general election is heating up with only 2 months left until Election Day on November 6th. Last weekend Citizen Action members started hitting the doors in support of Organizing Cooperative members who are running for State Legislature. In Milwaukee members…
