Tax Day Event: Families Face Cuts Unless Congress Stands Up to Billionaire & Corporate Tax Dodgers
MEDIA ADVISORY FOR APRIL 17, 2023 Milwaukee: As middle class and working Wisconsinites file their taxes, Citizen Action will host a news conference on the cost of the refusal of billionaires and major corporations to pay what they owe in taxes. At the event, we will release a new report from Americans for Tax Fairness which shows that when billionaires…
Job Description: Green Bay Deep Canvass Field Organizer
Objective: Citizen Action of Wisconsin seeks a dynamic and socially committed person to join our team and lead the implementation of an innovative electoral field program. This is a limited term, full-time (40-50 hrs/week) position located in Green Bay, Wisconsin. This position runs through July 1, 2023. The person will be considered for other open positions when this position expires….
Articles exemplifying Citizen Action’s Theory of Change
Criminal Justice Reform: In an editorial for In These Times, Citizen Action Executive Director Robert Kraig explains how social movement breakthroughs such as the historic Black Lives Matter protests in 2020 create opportunities for the defenders of the status quo to foment public backlash, and how establishment politicians backslide under the pressure. Community organizing can turn the tide back towards…
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…
Job Description: Northeastern Wisconsin Co-op Organizer
Citizen Action of Wisconsin is seeking to hire a Northeastern Wisconsin Co-op Organizer (organizing co-ops are Citizen Action’s chapter system).This is a full-time (40-50 hrs/week on average) salaried position. Some evenings and weekends are required, as well as in-state travel and occasional out-of-state travel. This is a work from home position that is based in Green Bay or the Fox…
