Politics
Tenth Annual Wisconsin Grassroots Festival
TENTH ANNUAL
WISCONSIN GRASSROOTS FESTIVAL
March 24, 2018
Registration 8:00 / Event 9:00 To 4:45
Wisconsin Heights High School
10173 US Highway 14 / Mazomanie, WI
Suggested $25 Donation / Lunch Included
People Organizing for Solutions
SPEAKERS
Lisa Graves
John Nichols
Matt Rothschild
Mark Pocan
LUNCH TIME SPEAKER
Senator Tammy Baldwin
21 BREAKOUT SESSIONS
A Progressive Agenda for Criminal Justice Reform
Coalition-Building in the Democratic Party of Wisconsin
Editorial Cartooning: Breaking Through The Noise With Pen, Brush ...
CONFOUNDS THE SCIENCE
LYRICS to CONFOUNDS THE SCIENCE
(Written by Don Caron – Music by Simon & Garfunkel)
Hello darkness my old friend.
It’s time for him to tweet again,
but first he’ll have to check in with fox news
‘cause that’s the only place he gets his clues.
That’s how things get planted in his brain,
where they remain,
and it confounds the science.
The problem is he’s not alone.
He tweets to people on his phone
that global warming is a giant hoax
perpetuated by the liberal folks,
and he hires people that all think the same,
that play his game
and it ...
Doing Your Part
I have written in the past about not losing hope in these troubled political times. Good change can come if good people get active. In the past there were many people who did organize and advocate for change. All that is good about our current society is the result of these people's activism. Some of these people were the great men and women we read about in the history books. But many were unsung, unknown people who did the small things needed to build progress.
Democracy is not a spectator sport. Democracy must have citizens that do their part. They don't have to be ...
COME CELEBRATE WITH NORTH CENTRAL ORGANIZING CO-OP
The Citizen Action of Wisconsin North Central Organizing Co-op has a lot to celebrate!
2017 was not an easy year for many of us, but we have seen a level of activism over the past 12+ months that inspires hope. Our organizing co-op has over 200 dues paying members and thousands of supporters who are willing to help us organize around important issues and elections.
They helped lead the fight (with other organizing co-ops and allies) to resist the repeal and replacement of the ACA, worked with the Fair Maps Coalition to get over 30 County boards to pass resolutions ...
Why Not You?
(From Union Labor News, December 2017 You can follow Union Labor News on Facebook.)
It’s time for workers to run for office. Someone like you would be best.
Why? Because the culture wars are soon going to wrap up and we are going to need some common sense candidates with a track record of good judgment, friendliness, hard work, and community participation.
The Republican candidate for governor of Virginia embraced the Trump cultural agenda of division, distrust and dysfunction and was thoroughly trounced in a state that regularly elects Republicans. One of his ...
AMERICA’S NEW GREATNESS
It’s been a crushing year. One after another, hard-won social advancements have been blocked or dismantled in the rush to “Make American Great Again.” But what does that even mean?
Exactly when was America greater? When everyone used outdoor toilets? When women couldn’t work outside the home? When skin color decided who could marry whom, or vote, or eat at a lunch counter?
Is ‘great again’ a worthy goal, the best we should expect? Is the conservative mantra right, that free enterprise and individual liberty “under limited government” was and ...
CITIZEN ACTION: REVIEWING THE YEAR OF 2017
REVIEWING THE YEAR OF 2017
People are flocking to Citizen Action of Wisconsin groups across the state because they have a proven strategy for making Wisconsin a progressive state again.
Here is what has been accomplished in 2017.
Cutting-Edge Local Organizing Statewide: Citizen Action’s new Organizing Cooperatives (Co-ops) are rapidly spreading across Wisconsin in the places that we need to shift the balance of power. We have built 6 Organizing Co-ops across Wisconsin which give us a large deeply engaged membership and a truly state-wide reach. This includes the ...
SPEED AND ACCURACY LEAVE THE PUBLIC OUT IN THE COLD
In the past eleven years, I wrote 64 times about the problems of speed and secrecy in the legislative process. However, I never saw a calendar as broad and deep in controversy as the most recent one before the State Senate.
For weeks, we heard that the Senate would vote a hodge-podge of highly controversial bills. “Horrid,” one staffer called the expected Senate Calendar. None of us, including the public, knew what bills would come up for a vote.
The cloak of secrecy raised a bit on Friday when we received the tentative list of bills. But even the day before the ...
THE ANSWER IS BLOWING IN THE WIND
To the man-child who would be king the rebuke and contempt is coming fast, hard and clear when on November 7, 2017 elections loudly stated that the people of the country finally began to answer, "Hell NO, we won't take it any more". No to the Alt Right puppeteers, to those who wish to invalidate our Constitution and Bill of Rights and the words of the Declaration of Independence. For, as his main guide to the Dark Side, Steve Bannon stated, "I want to dismantle our administrative government", because he and those he represents feel our Constitutional democratic ...
TEN HEALTHY SIGNS THAT DEMOCRACY WILL PREVAIL OVER TRUMP
The Women’s Marches
The Women’s March on Washington and in other cities on January 21 constituted a powerful shot across Trump’s bow.
The Airport Protests
The protests that erupted on January 28 at JFK, O’Hare, and other airports to defend refugees showed that Trump can’t get away with scapegoating.
The Judges’ Orders
One federal judge after another has ruled against Trump’s Muslim bans.
The Marches for Science and the Earth
Trump has galvanized scientists and environmentalists: “There is No Planet B.”
The Press Gets a Spine
A...
