Friday, March 12th There is still time to register for “How to have conversations with people who disagree with you” virtual training on Saturday, March 13th from 10AM-12PM. Join Citizen Action of Wisconsin to learn “How to Have Conversations with People Who Don’t Agree With you” led by the Citizen Action of Wisconsin Field Team and Organizing Staff. After this training…
Friday, December 11th Sign Up to Phone Bank into Georgia with the People’s Action Health Care For All Team! Do you like Democracy? Do you believe that health care is a human right? Do you want to see Mitch McConnell out of power? Then you should sign up to phone bank for the Georgia senate races with People’s Action health…
Friday, November 13th Attend Citizen Action of Wisconsin’s Virtual Fundraiser Wednesday, November 18th, 6pm We won Wisconsin for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, and now it’s time to celebrate and to plan for big progressive advances in 2021! Join us for our first virtual fundraiser! We will be joined by Tammy Baldwin, and Mandela Barnes to give perspective on the…
Friday, October 30th Parting is such sweet sorrow! Please join Citizen Action of Wisconsin staff in expressing our gratitude to our 2020 Deep Canvass Phone Banking Team and saying goodbye for now! Citizen Action of Wisconsin launched our Deep Canvass program back in January of this year, and our big dreams were to have 8 staff across the state knocking…
Baldwin legislation would extend unemployment and work-share before July deadline, create New Deal-style publicly subsidized jobs program, begin climate transition, improving racial equity, and revitalizing rural areas Statewide: In a virtual town hall meeting this morning over 160 Citizen Action leaders and members heard a full report from U.S. Senator Baldwin on the need to maintain and further extend economic…
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…
Democrat Chris Larson is a lifelong resident of Milwaukee County . He graduated from St. Thomas More High School and UW-Milwaukee. Now, he and his wife, Jessica, are raising their own family here. Chris had never backed away from taking on the big challenges. He fought for increased funding for public education, BadgerCare expansion, and commonsense gun safety reforms. With…
The panel diggs into the repercussions of the Super Tuesday primaries, and the dramatic thinning of the Democratic primary field down to two major candidates. What are the implications? We also discuss yet another right-wing threat to health care coverage for millions, the implication of Covid-19 for caregivers, two Wisconsin State Supreme Court scandals, and media stories indicating that a…
Amid the world-wide spread of the coronavirus and steep plunge of the U.S. stock market and global indices, Trump announced his plan to respond to the deadly virus. Trump struck a self-congratulatory tone: “We’ve had tremendous success … beyond what many people would’ve thought”. Trump falsely emphasized that the threat to Americans is “very low”. He also stated, with no…
Friday, February 28th Wisconsin’s 2020 Race Class Narrative Project presented this week in Milwaukee by Anat Shenker-Osorio Citizen Action helped organize a presentation in Milwaukee by nationally renowned communications and messaging Guru Anat Shenker-Osorio to unveil new communications research on race, class and gender in Wisconsin. The event was attended by over 120 individuals, including local elected officials and leaders…
