For Immediate Release–May 3, 2024 Contact: Robert Kraig, [email protected] (414) 322-5324. Citizen Action Stands with Students, Free Speech and Ending the Israel’s Collective Punishment of the Palestinian People Milwaukee: Citizen Action of Wisconsin is calling for Wisconsin universities and colleges to respect and nurture the rights to free speech, free assembly, and academic freedom on their campuses. Students are protesting…
For Immediate Release, Oct 19, 2023 Contact: Robert Kraig (414) 322-5324, [email protected] Advocacy Groups and Educators Oppose Brewers Stadium Urge Lawmakers to slow the process down, use their full leverage to negotiate a better deal in the broad public interest Statewide: Today 6 prominent advocacy groups signed onto a letter to Governor Evers and State Senators opposing the massive and…
For Immediate Release–June 23, 2023 Contact: Robert Kraig (414) 322-5324, [email protected] Statewide: 15 advocacy groups and unions sent a letter earlier today to Governor Evers urging him to deploy his vast veto powers to force the Legislature to negotiate over BadgerCare Expansion. (Read letter) The letter does not call on Evers to veto the entire budget, or the entire Medicaid…
June 23, 2023 Governor Tony Evers 115 East State Street Madison, WI 53707 Dear Governor Evers, Wisconsin’s failure to adopt BadgerCare Expansion as authorized under the Affordable Care Act is leaving a dangerous health affordability gap for people living just above the poverty line. We, the undersigned, urge you to leverage your powerful veto pen to push the legislature…
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…
For Immediate Release April 18, 2023 Contact: Robert Kraig, 414-322-5324, [email protected] Statewide: As middle class and working Wisconsinites do their civic duty by filing their taxes by today’s deadline, many ultrarich Americans and the most profitable corporations avoid paying their fair share. Citizen Action of Wisconsin is releasing a new report from Americans for Tax Fairness which shows that when…
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….
For Immediate Release, Monday January 30, 2023 Contact: Robert Kraig (414) 322-5324, [email protected] Statewide: Partnering with national researchers, Citizen Action of Wisconsin released today a new demographically balanced survey of 1,196 Wisconsinites on the affordability of health care in the Badger State. The survey found 59% of survey respondents had experienced at least one health care affordability burden over the…
For Immediate Release: January 26, 2023 Contact: Robert Kraig (414) 322-5324, [email protected] Citizen Action Makes Dual Endorsement in Pivotal WI Supreme Court Election. Statewide: Today, 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…
For Immediate Release December 24, 2022 Contact: Robert Kraig (414) 322-5324, [email protected] Milwaukee: Last night, We Energies suffered a 30% disruption in their natural gas supply chain, risking a “significant natural gas outage.” The potential risk during the coldest storm in years was so significant that customers were asked to turn their thermostats down to 62 degrees to avert an…
