Saturday, November 22nd Join Citizen Action of Wisconsin Today! Support NEW Utility Rate Cap Bill. Contact your State Legislators and urge them to co-sponsor. Big utilities rig the system against all of us to jack up prices and make the climate crisis worse. Several states have laws capping the percentage of income people have to pay for utilities. Wisconsin has…
We discuss the pathbreaking Utility Rate Cap bill which is currently circulating for co-sponsors in the state legislature. We praise the current co-sponsors and encourage our listeners to reach out to their state legislators today. We expose the continuing perversion of democracy and human decency that finds Speaker Robin Vos unilaterally blocking the latest effort to pass a PostPartum Care…
Join Citizen Action of Wisconsin Today! Citizen Action Climate and Utility Justice Lobby Day is a huge success! Thanks to all the citizen lobbyists from around Wisconsin who attend our Climate and Utility Justice Lobby Day this Tuesday, November 11th at the State Capitol. Nearly 150 citizen lobbyists participated in lobby meetings with their state legislators. We were advocating support…
This week America met the “Benedict 8” – who pursued a craven, cynical, and ultimately unstrategic betrayal of the American public. We dive into how the “Benedict 8” and the leadership that enabled them exposes what’s wrong with Democratic leadership and how it fails to deliver on its goals. Does this low point provide a moment to break with failed…
Join Citizen Action of Wisconsin Today! Citizen Action members talking to voters in our communities. Citizen Action Event in Milwaukee Talks Public Transportation Citizen Action hosted the “Milwaukee County Community Conversation on Budget, Climate, Transportation, and Equity” on October 30th. Over 60 attendees joined to engage directly with County leaders about transit, climate, health, equity, and parks. Participants asked questions,…
With Matt under the weather, Robert goes solo with the help of podcast producer Mollee Albinger asking the questions. We dig into the aftermath of the Democratic sweep in the off year elections this week. What does it mean for the ending of the government shutdown and the fight to save liberal democracy? Meanwhile, still unwilling to negotiate with Democrats…
Happy Halloween! Join Citizen Action of Wisconsin Today! Citizen Action organizes against SNAP food assistance cut offs and encourages members to donate to food banks. In Milwaukee, Citizen Action North Side Rising attended a media event at the Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association in Milwaukee today to announce donations from multiple organizations to the Hunger Task Force in the face of…
We take a deep dive into the escalating data center debate in Wisconsin for the entire show. We welcome IUPAT District Council No. 7, Director of Governmental Affairs Office, Andy Buck to tell us why their union supports the current data centers that will be built union and how IUPAT members get work and sustain work. Next, State Senator Chris…
Join Citizen Action of Wisconsin Today! Citizen Action of Wisconsin talks to voters. Everyone needs healthcare! We are talking to voters about a BadgerCare Public Option and other other important Citizen Action bills we are supporting in the current state legislature. Learn more about the bills we are talking to voters about. Join us! Citizen Action of Wisconsin attends No…
As Trump takes a bulldozer to the White House and liberal democracy, we take a deep dive into the devastating potential impact of the tech oligarchs here in Wisconsin. Foxconn 2.0: the Data Center Invasion, shows that as in the movies the sequel is even worse than the original. Robert tells us about economist Jerrod Bernstein’s forecast that there is…
