Our Wisconsin Revolution is proud to endorse an array of candidates for Congress, State Senate and State Assembly from every part of Wisconsin. These six candidates all have primaries coming up on August 11. If they are in your district, be sure to VOTE for them!
GOTV Phone Bank Blitz
From August 6-11, Our Wisconsin Revolution will hold a Get Out The Vote Phone Bank Blitz for these six endorsed candidates with primaries. An OWR organizer will be on hand to lead each phone bank by providing a short training on the dialer, telling you about the candidate, going over the script, then helping to make calls and answer questions.
Here's the schedule:
Thursday, August 6, 5-7 p.m., Michael Beardsley, CD-6
Friday, August 7, 5-7 p.m., Dr. Mark Neumann, CD-3
Saturday, August 8, 3-5 p.m., Aisha Moe, SD-26
Sunday, August 9, 3-5 p.m., Melissa Sargent, SD-16
Monday, August 10, 5-7 p.m., Jayne Swiggum, SD-32
Tuesday, August 11, Noon-2 p.m., Samba Baldeh, AD-48
Phone banking is the most effective way to reach out to voters to let them know about our endorsed candidates, find out what issues matter most to them, and get them out to VOTE! The Wisconsin partisan primary on Tuesday, August 11 will decide who will be the party nominees for these important offices. Please sign up to help our progressive candidates win!
Southeast Wisconsin Chapter to relaunch Saturday
We are facing a pandemic, social unrest, and a looming economic crisis. All the while, ineffective politicians are choosing to prioritize the welfare of corporations, rather than the welfare of working class citizens.
We are living in a challenging time, but we cannot fall into despair. This is the time to rise up, and hold elected officials accountable and remind them who they were elected to represent. We at OWR must stand together to fight against the injustices that face us all.
That is why we will be rebooting the local chapters in southeast Wisconsin. We will be discussing the importance of local chapters and what actions we can take on a local level. Join us Saturday, August 1, at 7 p.m. to find out how you can get involved in local chapters.
Coal Costs Us: Week of Climate Action
Our Wisconsin Revolution is pleased to partner with Sierra Club Wisconsin and the Clean Power Coalition of Southeast Wisconsin to sponsor Coal Costs Us: Week of Climate Action, with daily actions and events all next week, August 3-8.
Coal costs us. It costs us our health, our economy, our climate and our environment.
There are six coal plants in Wisconsin that have yet to be announced for retirement. It is time for the utilities to commit to closing these dirty and costly plants. Join us for a week of climate action to demand a better future for our state.
Monday - learn: Join us for an online screening of the documentary We Neighbors, the story of Wisconsinites living next to the Oak Creek/Elm Road coal plants, which are majority-owned by We Energies. After the documentary, we will have a panel discussion featuring healthcare professionals, neighbors to the coal plant, and clean energy advocates.
Tuesday - share: Share your story and amplify others' stories. Tune into a podcast about coal in Wisconsin, watch personal stories on Facebook Live, and share a story of your own.
Wednesday - speak up for clean energy: Testify or submit written comments in support for clean energy! There will be a public hearing and written comment opportunities on this day.
Thursday - call: Call your utility and ask for a coal-free future.
Friday - create: Spread the word about the need for clean energy with art, chalked messages, posters, yard signs, and more!
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DNC Platform Vote Against Medicare for All Shows Party’s Disregard for Human Life This week, in a landslide vote, members of the Democratic National Convention Platform Committee showed us who they really are by voting against an amendment to add Medicare for All to the party platform. Party officials feel so strongly that the most vulnerable among us do not deserve even the most basic medical care that they decided to make it official: To solemnly swear that they are, indeed, up to no good.
Federal Stormtroopers Coming to Milwaukee – Whether We Want Them or Not Watching events unfold in Portland for the past few weeks has been surreal. Protesters in bike helmets and goggles, carrying umbrellas and homemade shields, battle it out nightly with federal forces in full camouflage riot gear, sweeping the streets with batons, crowd-control ammunition, and copious amounts of tear gas and pepper spray. It is terrifying enough this is happening on American soil. But even worse: It’s coming to Wisconsin, just in time for the Democratic National Convention.
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Monday - learn: 
As coronavirus cases continue to spike across Wisconsin, with millions of people losing health care as they are laid off from their jobs, 13 progressive candidates took a pledge to support single-payer, publicly funded health care on the federal, state, and local levels at the Our Wisconsin Revolution Forum on Health Care Policy held July 18, hosted by Dr. Richard McGowan, member of OWR’s steering committee for Dane County, and Andre Walton, OWR southeast regional organizer.
This week, in a landslide vote, members of the Democratic National Convention Platform Committee showed us who they really are by voting against an amendment to add Medicare for All to the party platform. Party officials feel so strongly that the most vulnerable among us do not deserve even the most basic medical care that they decided to make it official: To solemnly swear that they are, indeed, up to no good.
Watching events unfold in Portland for the past few weeks has been surreal. Protesters in bike helmets and goggles, carrying umbrellas and homemade shields, battle it out nightly with federal forces in full camouflage riot gear, sweeping the streets with batons, crowd-control ammunition, and copious amounts of tear gas and pepper spray. It is terrifying enough this is happening on American soil. But even worse: It’s coming to Wisconsin, just in time for the Democratic National Convention.