Citizen Action Weekend ’26 Newsletter, Friday, May 5th
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- Statewide Climate Action Coordinator.
- Southeast Wisconsin Organizer.
- North Central Wisconsin Organizer.
Join Citizen Action of Wisconsin and attend Citizen Action Annual Member Meeting, tomorrow, Saturday, June 6th, 10am.
Join us tomorrow, Saturday, May 6th, 10am – 11:30am, as we continue to work and build a progressive base of leaders across the state to garner the power we need to elect a Governor and a Legislature committed to tackling the affordability crisis.
This annual meeting is taking place virtually. Once you sign up, you’ll receive a confirmation email. You will receive the Zoom link via email on the morning of the annual meeting.
It must be Summertime in Wisconsin!
Citizen Action members and organizers were out last weekend talking about BadgerCare Public Option, 2% of income utility rate cap, and $20 Wage.
Some pictures from the farmers market in Door County and Heal The Hood in Milwaukee County.
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Citizen Action Driftless Region Update: Climate Action Team Is Coming Together – And We Want You In It
We’re building something new in the Driftless Region, and we need people like you to make it work.
Our first-ever Climate Action Team holds its inaugural meeting on Thursday, June 18th from 6–7 PM in a hybrid format. Join us in person or online. Email Aron at aron.newberry@citizenactionwi.org to get the Zoom link or meeting location.
The team’s first focus is getting the Inflation Reduction Act Home Efficiency Rebate Program (HOMES) and Home Electrification and Appliance Rebate Program (HEAR) funds into the hands of La Crosse residents who qualify. These programs help homeowners and renters make energy efficiency upgrades, and the savings are real.
Our very first team member and leader knows this firsthand. She used these funds on her own home, completed the energy audit, and then went further, helping local contractors navigate the reimbursement process after completing upgrades. That’s exactly the kind of action-oriented, community-rooted expertise this team is built on.
The team will also be actively supporting three bills: the Data Center Pause Bill, the Climate Accountability Act, and a 2% Utility Rate Cap Bill.
And this fall, we’re planning a climate town hall in La Crosse. More details coming soon.
If you care about a more sustainable, affordable world, this is your team. Email aron.newberry@citizenactionwi.org to get involved.
Citizen Action in the News
Citizen Action Executive Director Robert Kraig had a wide ranging interview on federal and state politics on the Rick Solem Show on WIZM Radio La Crosse. You can listen to the hour long interview here.
Citizen Action’s Robert Kraig was on the Jeff Santos Show to check in on the midterms nationally and the Wisconsin Governor’s race. The nationally syndicated show airs in Wisconsin from 2 to 5 PM weekdays on the Civic Media radio network.
You can watch this week’s interview with Robert here. (@ 2 hour 7 minute mark of video)
Listen to “Low wages and worker power” Battleground Wisconsin Podcast
Welcome to June, it’s Pride Month! We encourage our listeners to RSVP to Citizen Action’s Annual Meeting this Saturday, at 10am. Robert gives us the latest tick report amid national concern about tick-borne illnesses. Spurred by global warming, tick activity continues to surge in Wisconsin while the national media descends on Martha Vineyard as the island is beset by ticks, and victims are forced to avoid red meat.
Trump visits Western Wisconsin, the home of Wisconsin’s pivotal Congressional District 3. Is he an anchor on embattled MAGA incumbent Derrick Van Orden and other Republicans on the ballot or does Trump know how to generate a massive turnout of MAGA voters?
We dive into a critically important Wisconsin Health Assessment, a periodic report mandated by the State Legislature.Rarely do such radical findings come from an official state government report. This year’s report finds that a stunning 1 in 10 Wisconsinites skipped needed health care due to cost. The report also contains shocking revelations on low wages, the growing unaffordability of housing, massive under investment in public education (especially in low income BIPOC majority schools), and a chronic under investment in public health. Will the next legislature act on this searing indictment of status quo policies or kick the can down the road?
MASH union president Peter Rickman joins us to discuss the state health assessment, building worker power, and to update us on newly scheduled $20 Wage Town Halls in Fond du Lac, Madison, Milwaukee, Sheboygan, and more locations.
We close with news that Boss Vos vows to try again on the failed surplus budget deal. With Governor Evers continuing to complain about the failure of the first effort, will they get another kick at the cat?
Listen to the show.
