For the past nine years Citizen Action of Wisconsin Education Fund (CAWEF) has hosted a small but very successful beer taster and silent auction fundraiser. This social event helps raise funds for the important work that Citizen Action of Wisconsin Education Fund and it’s sister organization, Citizen Action of Wisconsin, does. This year the event will be on Monday, November…
Friday, October 19, 2018 Citizen Action members join Mandela Barnes and former HHS director Kathleen Sebelius at media conference Highlight importance of the ACA’s ban on discrimination against people with pre-existing conditions. Denise Patton, a Citizen Action co-op member and small business owner, flanked by fellow co-op members, Mandela Barnes & former US HHS director Kathleen Sebelius, sharing how…
For Immediate Release– October 11, 2018 Contact: Robert Kraig (414) 322-5324 robert.kraig@citizenactionwi.org Walker’s election year plan impacts a tiny fraction of health consumers, is dwarfed by premium reductions in neighboring Minnesota, and does not make up for cost of his sabotage Statewide: After 7 years of working to sabotage the Affordable Care Act in Wisconsin, Scott Walker is making misleading…
WXPR Radio (December 26, 2017) BadgerCare Public Option Still in Limbo in Madison Duluth News Tribune (December 21, 2017) Wisconsin Insurance Costs Vary Widely WRRD 1510am (December 15, 2017) Kevin Kane on Earl Ingram on Child Poverty Campaign WQOW (December 14, 2017) Ending child poverty campaign kicks off in Eau Claire WEAU (December 14, 2017) Groups combine to launch End…
Friday, October 5, 2018 Northeast Cooperative hosts Fair Maps Town Hall in Oshkosh In preparation for the November referendum on nonpartisan redistricting in Winnebago County members of Citizen Action, the League of Women Voters – Winnebago County, and others in the Fair Maps Coalition organized a town hall to educate voters on this important issue. Sachin Chheda, director of the…
Friday, September 28, 2018 Citizen Action and SOPHIA/WISDOM attend national conference on addiction Citizen Action of Wisconsin Organizing Director Angelique Rogers and SOPHIA Youth Activist Maria Barajas represented Wisconsin this week at Community Catalyst’s 2018 Gathering for Action on Addiction in Atlanta. The convening included structured roundtable conversations in which participants from across the country harnessed their collective energy and…
Friday, September 21, 2018 Walker’s Bait and Switch on Pre-existing Condition Discrimination Becomes Dominant Issue in Governor’s Election Scott Walker’s declaration last week that he would protect people with pre-existing conditions from discrimination is in sharp contrast to his actual record as governor and any policy proposal he has made to date, raising the specter that he is deliberately misleading…
Friday, September 14th Citizen Action hits the doors for members running for office With Labor Day long gone, the fall general election is heating up with only 2 months left until Election Day on November 6th. Last weekend Citizen Action members started hitting the doors in support of Organizing Cooperative members who are running for State Legislature. In Milwaukee members…
2018 Endorsements Governor/Lt. Governor Tony Evers/Mandela Barnes (Citizen Action Organizing Cooperative member) U.S. Senate Tammy Baldwin Attorney General Josh Kaul State Treasurer Sarah Godlewski (Citizen Action Organizing Cooperative member) U.S. Congress District 1 Randy Bryce U.S. Congress District 5 Tom Palzewicz U.S. Congress District 6 Dan Kohl U.S. Congress District 7 Margaret Engebretson The following is a list of Citizen…
The Farm Journal headline said it all: “Farmers Helped Elect Trump, But Trade Wars Erode Their Support”. Its survey showed Trump’s poll numbers sinking. “That’s because the trade wars strike the balance sheets of farmers who are already fighting through the fourth year of tough times – with no relief on the horizon” (Farm Journal). A clueless Trump has declared…
