Rally

Join the folks who brought nonviolence trainings to thousands during the Capitol Occupation!  Guests WTDY radio's Sly Sylvester and Senator Russ Feingold!

Wisconsinites have joined together and prevented Scott Walker’s radical plan to take away worker rights for three months, but he is not done. As we learned from their illegal attempt to jam through the budget repair bill in the dark of night, Walker and his allies are so hell-bent on taking away the rights of Wisconsin workers that they are prepared to use any and all means necessary to achieve their goals. Now, with their first cynical attempt at union-busting tied up in the courts, Walker’s allies now say they’re ready to add the rights-stripping measures to the state budget now flying through the legislature. Reintroducing plans to take bargaining rights away from workers into Scott Walker’s fatally-flawed state budget would consolidate Walker’s attacks on Wisconsin’s middle class into a single, horrific piece of legislation. Scott Walker’s budget: * Raises costs in health care and food assistance programs that are relied upon by 1.2 million workers, unemployed, retired and disabled people in Wisconsin * Breaks up and corporatizes the UW System, raising tuition and threatening closure of campuses * Guts the ability of Wisconsin Technical Colleges to prepare and retrain working people * Eliminates advanced placement and science and technology course in schools * Rolls back recycling and conservation programs throughout Wisconsin Despite all of this, Scott Walker’s fatally-flawed budget still has plenty of room for gifts for his dearest friends. Containing $200 million of tax breaks for corporations and the wealthy, as well as hundreds of millions of dollars in giveaways to his largest donors, Walker’s budget is a bonanza for the donors and corporate lobbyists who surely wrote it. The legislature must reject this horrifying budget and start over. The attacks on working families, seniors, students, the poor, and the environment and our rights must end. Join We Are Wisconsin and the Wisconsin Wave at the State Capitol at 2:30pm on Saturday, May 14, because our fight continues and we will not be silenced. Join us.

On the 8th anniversary of the US-led invasion of Iraq, join the Iraq Veterans against the War to stand in solidarity with workers organizing for their rights.  10 am - 11am Rally at UW Library Mall, then march up State Street to the Civil War memorial. Rally at noon at the King Street side of the Capitol.

President Obama is coming to Madison this week, and peace activists will assemble to call for an end to war and for shifting government spending priorities from the military to education and other needs. Note location change!!  If possible, please bring a large-sized banner or sign.