Friday, May 1st Vote from Home for the May 12th Special Election! Request your absentee ballot today! You have until Thursday, May 7th to request your absentee ballot online. Plan ahead for August 11th Primary Election and request your absentee ballot today. Contact your local leaders and encourage them to plan for safe voting options for voters this August and…
We review the latest Wisconsin coronavirus news, including the GOP lawsuit seeking to overturn the Governor’s Stay at Home order. Do the Republicans really have a case? The panel welcomes Up North News reporter Jonathon Sadowski to dig into the significant outbreak of COVID-19 in Brown County meat plants, the lax response from the corporate owners and county health officials,…
Nearly a million coronavirus cases nationally, including 5,687 in Wisconsin (WI), over 54,000 U.S. deaths and nearly 300 WI deaths. Dozens of cases linked to in-person voting on April 7 in Milwaukee. And, hundreds of cases confirmed among workers at a JBS meatpacking plant in Green Bay. No zip code is immune. Meanwhile: “The federal government scrambled Friday to stave…
Friday, April 24th Citizen Action Organizes Health Professionals To Speak Out Against Social Distancing Protests In video statements recorded this morning, health professionals explain why the the Governor’s Safer at Home order is an essential measure for containing COVID-19, creating conditions to gradually and safely reopen the economy This morning, Friday, April 24th, before scheduled State Capitol protests against Wisconsin’s…
The GOP war on public health continues in Wisconsin with Republican legislative leaders appealing to the right-wing Wisconsin Supreme Court to overturn the Governor’s stay at home order and inciting dangerous protests at the state capitol scheduled for Friday. We welcome attorney Mark Thomsen, who specializes in medical malpractice and nursing home neglect, to discuss Speaker Vos’s repugnant amendment to…
Friday, April 17th Join Citizen Action for our event “Collective Care in the Time of COVID” Citizen Action has partnered with People’s Action to host an online live event this Saturday, April 18th, at 2:30pm called Collective Care in the Time of COVID. Individual action and social distancing–while critical–aren’t enough to solve this crisis. During this event, we’ll discuss and…
We welcome State Representatives Marisabel Cabrera and Jonathan Brostoff to discuss their courageous votes against the very weak COVID-19 relief that clear the Legislature this week. Republicans in the Legislature blocked efforts to include free testing and treatment, a vital step we must take to contain the pandemic, address racial inequality, and open up the economy. The inadequate legislation was…
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Date: April 14, 2020 Contact: Representative Brostoff, (414) 708-9878 “If We’ve Only Got One Shot, We Have to Get This Right” Reps. Brostoff and Cabrera Statement on AB 1038 MILWAUKEE – In response to their vote against Assembly Bill (AB) 1038 earlier today, State Rep. Jonathan Brostoff (D-Milwaukee) and State Rep. Marisabel Cabrera (D-Milwaukee) released the following…
For Immediate Release: April 13, 2020 Contact: Robert Kraig (414) 322-5324 robert.kraig@citizenactionwi.org Link to release here Legislature Must Do Better on Free Testing and Treatment for COVID 19 Governor’s Relief Plan Makes Progress on Free Treatment which is excluded in GOP package Statewide: A major difference between Governor Evers and State Legislative leadership will, unless addressed, hamper Wisconsin’s COVID-19 containment…
Coronavirus impacts the entire nation, with over 530,000 cases and 20,000 plus deaths nationally. The Midwest is a hot spot, with Wisconsin having over 3,200 cases and an increasing death toll. Only a handful of state counties do not yet have confirmed cases. Doctor Ryan Westergaard, chief medical officer of the Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS), said: “I would…
