All day events:

Solidarity Sing Along at NOON: Solidarity Sing Along

Monday, December 3, 12:30 P.M. Room 412 East 

Demand a “hearing slip” 

Register AGAINST ALL legislation under consideration 

Then pack the State Street steps at 5:30 P.M. 

 #RESPECTMYVOTE rally 

Bring warm winter gear, signs, banners, songs, your loud voices and bullhorns, hailers and kazoos (and other noise makers)! If you or your organization can assist with snacks, hot non-alcoholic beverages, food etc. please bring these items as well. 

ALSO CONTACT:

Senate Majority Leader Fitzgerald@legis.wisconsin.gov
(608) 266-5660
Assembly Speaker Rep.Vos@legis.Wisconsin.gov
(608) 266-9171
Gov. Scott Walker:
(608) 266-1212, govgeneral@wisconsin.gov,walker.wi.gov/contact-us

Call other legislators: 1-866-832-1560

Hosted by Milwaukee Area Labor Council

Labor Phone Bank to Oppose Lame Duck Power Grab

Wisconsinities went to the polls in November and voted for a new direction in Madison. Now, right wing politicians in the Legislature plan to stop the people’s movement from moving Wisconsin forward. They aren’t looking to help working families in this special session, but to rig our democracy to their own unfair advantage.

Join us to call union members and connect them to their State Legislators to Oppose the Lame Duck Power Grab.

Shifts are 10am-1pm, 1pm-4pm, 4pm-7pm but feel free to stop by whenever you have time!

Contact Emily with questions or to RSVP- emueller@wisaflcio.org

Shining a Light on the Wisconsin GOP Power Grab

5 p.m. Monday, December 3, 2018, 2 E Main Street, Madison, WI State Capitol

The voters of Wisconsin spoke in the November election, but Republicans in Madison have scheduled a lame duck session to try and invalidate those results.

We will bring an illuminated message to an already planned rally taking at the Capitol Monday night at 5:30pm. Join us in holding this message and registering our outrage over this lame duck session. We will meet at 5;00pm at the Lady Liberty statue.

Here is a summary of some of those proposed changes:

– limit early voting to suppress voter rights and move the 2020 presidential primary from April to March for the sole stated goal of rigging the chance of retaining conservative Supreme Court judge Daniel Kelly. (There’s actually also a good thing in this bill related to making it easier for overseas voters to vote. It’s the only good thing I saw in any of the hundreds of pages I read but maybe I missed something before I made coffee.)
– radically limit powers of the Attorney General, including by requiring approval of withdrawal from lawsuits, and by allowing the GOP-led legislature to determine who represents the state in court
– give GOP lawmakers more power over Gov. Scott Walker’s economic-development agency, Wisconsin Economic Development Corp., which Evers has sought to dissolve, and remove Evers’ ability to appoint WEDC CEO, and other rule making changes that would, for instance, require Evers to get permission from the legislature before he could ban guns in the Capitol
– prevent governor from seeking to withdraw from federal waiver for work requirements for state benefits
– a ton of changes to agency rule making and waivers [could use some help making sense of this massive section of major and minor changes from someone smarter than me]
– change funding and allow tax for roads