Politics
UNIONS ARE LIKE FAMILIES
When one mentions the word family, the first thing that comes to a person’s mind is the group of people you grew up with-father, mother, siblings and perhaps your grandmother or grandfather. Perhaps your definition of family is your immediate family-yourself, your spouse/significant other and your children. But stop and think about it. We have many more families in our daily lives than what immediately comes to mind. We also have our work family, our church family and our community family just to name a few.
Human beings do not live in isolation. We are very social ...
SENATOR JOHNSON, DO YOUR JOB
People in Wisconsin work hard and expect others to do the same.
Imagine having a job and telling your employer that for the next eight months, you refuse to do your job.
Senator Johnson is doing exactly that! Ron Johnson was hired by us, the “employers” of Wisconsin, who pay his generous salary and benefits to work for us. He took an oath to uphold the Constitution. The Senate has a constitutional duty to hold hearings and to “advise” and “consent” after the President has nominated a qualified person to fill a U.S. Supreme Court vacancy.
Fifty four ...
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 ...
CAFO Alternatives and Solutions
Huge factory farm operations called Concentrated Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs) are growing in number. The advocates for CAFOs claim they are a necessary, more efficient way to produce cheap food. But is this true? Are there economical alternatives to industrial agriculture?
Opponents to CAFOs, backed up by a growing body of research, say there are better ways to economically raise meat. CAFOs are not the inevitable result of market forces. Alternative production methods can be economically efficient and technologically sophisticated, and can deliver abundant animal ...
How Would You Spend $1 Trillion Dollars?
How Would You Spend $1 Trillion Dollars?
It is tax time again. Where do your taxes go? Would you rather see your tax dollars spent better? If you could be in charge, how would you spend $1 trillion?
Budgets are about choices. It is about choosing what you can do, or not do, with limited resources. Congress sets spending priorities each year in the Federal “discretionary” budget. They decide whether to spend more on education or tax breaks, cancer research or food stamps, space exploration or housing assistance, diplomacy or bombs.
The Federal budget ...
Democracy Spring April 2016
“Now is the time to take mass nonviolent action on a historic scale to save our democracy. Following a ten-day, 140 mile march from Philadelphia to Washington DC, thousands are gathering this week in our nation’s Capital to demand Congress take immediate action to end the corruption of big money in our politics and ensure free and fair elections in which every American has an equal voice.”
“Every American deserves an equal voice in government. This is our birthright of freedom, won through generations of struggle. But today our democracy is in crisis. American ...
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 ...
Highlights From JoAnne Kloppenburg’s Campaign Speech
Video highlights from JoAnne Kloppenburg's Campaign Speech. Taken from cell phone video March 22, 2016 at UW Marathon County in Wausau.
DEMOCRACY AWAKENING AND DEMOCRACY SPRING
The Wisconsin Grassroots Network (WGN) has endorsed the upcoming events of Democracy Awakening & Democracy Spring taking place in Wash DC in April 2016.
We wanted to pass on this information so that you are aware of this should you want to become involved or even just follow what is happening. Some members have signed up and will be joining the movement next month in DC.
Democracy Spring will take place prior to and in concert with Democracy Awakening. Here's a link for more info: http://www.democracyspring.org/
Over 200 groups are sponsoring Democracy ...
CONNECT WITH PROGRESSIVES IN WISCONSIN
Progressives are being heard more than ever, in Wisconsin as well as across the nation.
The first event of this new coalition was held on March 19 in Green Bay with the Progressives Freedom Campaign launched by Scott Wittkopf of Frame 4 the Future.
Other sponsors of the event are Blue Jean Nation, Wisconsin Grassroots Network, Forward Institute and Wisconsin United to Amend.
http://bdgrdemocracy.wix.com/freedom-campaign
Progressive Freedom Campaign helps grassroots to organize and communicate effectively.
It seeks to bring Wisconsin progressives together ...
