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The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness and the Rise of Scott Walker
The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness and the Rise of Scott Walker by UW-Madison Professor, Katherine Cramer Part 2
In Part 1, I summarized three themes people in the 39 rural groups spoke about: The role and size of government, taxes, and the animosity toward public sector employees. In Part 2, I will continue with the concerns of the rural people who were interviewed.
1. The need for good paying jobs. “[It’s a great place to live] if you like poverty.” Many people work two or more jobs while living in poverty. The mine was a contentious issue. “Come back if they shoot down this mining. Then we’ll really be mad.” The Koch ...
Vote on August 9th
Remember to vote on August 9, 2016, and bring your IDs!
PROGRESSIVE FREEDOM CAMPAIGN COMING TO WAUSAU
Please mark your calendar for May 15, Sunday, from noon til 4:30 p.m. for the Progressive Freedom Campaign at the Central Wisconsin Airport Conference Room.
Progressive Freedom Campaign is designed to help grassroots groups to organize and communicate effectively. Progressives throughout the state are connecting with each other. The workshop provides tools to put people and communities over power politics.
Real political change starts in local communities. Local people come together around shared progressive values. Many of you are already involved in your local group. Now you can glean wisdom and connect with other grassroots groups of Wiscon...
ENBRIDGE ENERGY’S PIPELINES COMMUNITY DISCUSSION
Panelists will focus on education, public safety, environmental, and property owner concerns.
CITIZEN ACTION OF WISCONSIN MEETING
Hello Friends,
You are invited to an upcoming meeting that local Citizen Action of Wisconsin members and I are holding next week Wednesday April 20 6:00 PM at the Rib Mountain Goodwill Store. We need your input, can you join us?
We want to discuss a new topic in Wisconsin politics, the Citizen Action of Wisconsin Organizing Cooperative. But first, the back story. Early in 2015 a number of leaders in Milwaukee decided that it was time to try something new to make Wisconsin a better place to live and work. We knew that we needed to launch a new way to organize progressives that did not rely only on large donors or distant foundations, that was ...
Wausau’s Child Poverty Crisis
Clips and statistics from the latest Wausau mayoral debate related to the increasing child poverty rates in Wausau. Statistics are cited as American Community Survey Estimates from http://factfinder.census.gov.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JS5ICbdM5DE
VOTE ON TUESDAY, APRIL 5th
Vote on Tuesday, April 5. This is an important election that includes a variety of races. Remember your voter ID!
FAIR ELECTIONS PROJECT
Our current gerrymandered legislative districts are the “worst partisan gerrymanders in modern American history.” In many cases, our votes in such a district are meaningless.
In the last election, Democratic votes outnumbered Republican votes. Yet two-thirds of the State Assembly seats are held by Republicans. Something is drastically wrong.
Here is good news. The Fair Elections Project has been launched to oppose partisan gerrymandering. The Project aims to ask the courts “to implement a standard that can measure when there’s too much partisan gerrymandering, violating the Constitutional rights of the citizens of a given state.”
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STAND UP, STAND OUT— A CALL TO COMMUNITY SERVICE CELEBRATE MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR. DAY on JANUARY 18
The theme of 2016 celebration of Dr. King is Stand Up, Stand Out—a Call to Community Service.
Through words and music, Wisconsin celebrates Dr. King’s life and legacy. The time is Monday, January 18 at noon in the Rotunda of the State Capitol in Madison.
Broadcast live on Wisconsin Public Radio, www.wpr.org and on Wisconsin Public Television, www.wpt.org –live streamed on www.wpt.org. The one-hour highlights broadcast airs on the WPT main channel at 9 p.m.
We remember Dr. King with some of his quotes:
“Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: What are you doing for others?”
“The function of education is to teach one ...