Wisconsin Bail Out The People Movement (WIBOPM) was founded in June 2011 as an outgrowth of the national Bail Out the People Movement to oppose the trillion-dollar U.S. bank bailout and demand that the people get bailed out instead. WIBOPM is a completely independent organization and is funded entirely by poor and working people.
WIBOPM’s first protest was at Chase Bank in downtown Milwaukee to protest the mass foreclosures in the city. Since then, WIBOPM has taken up the most crucial issues facing workers, students, and ordinary people: including jobs; foreclosures and evictions; education and student rights; immigrant and worker’s rights; stopping racism and hate groups; opposing the ongoing wars that are bleeding the economy dry; fighting to stop billions of dollars being given to the bank for ‘debt service’, advocating for health care for all; Indigenous sovereignty; demanding reproductive freedom and justice for women and rights for LGBTQ+ people and much, much more.
We are fighting for a national Public Works Jobs Program much like the Works Progress Administration (WPA) enacted during the Great Depression; for a moratorium on home foreclosures; to stop evictions and utility shut-offs; to have the Employee Free Choice Act implemented; and to have full rights for immigrant workers among other struggles.
We oppose all attacks on poor and working people, daily in the streets and workplaces across Wisconsin. We oppose the $900 million hate machine of the Bradley Foundation and similar right-wing “think tanks” such as the so-called Americans For Prosperity and the Wisconsin Institute for Liberty, all enemies of the people.
WIBOPM members fight union-busting and other attacks against poor and working people. We support union contract campaigns and struggles, from the UAW Local 833 and ATU Local 998 strikes in 2015, to the Starbucks Workers United campaigns in 2022 and Meriter Nurses’ Strike in 2025. We steadfastly support public education and thus support unions like MTEA and MTI. We have slept on the marble floors of the People’s Capitol in the winter and spring of 2011 with our sisters and brothers and have participated in a rainbow of mass demonstrations in Madison, Milwaukee, and other cities in Wisconsin. We helped kick the Nazis out of West Allis in September 2011 and fascists out of Madison in both January 2019 and February 2024. We have joined many public education and immigrant actions, helped to fight for justice for Dontre Hamilton, and others murdered by the police, and much more.
Since June 2011, when our WIBOPM blog and Facebook page became LIVE, we’ve helped to promote thousands of people’s events in Wisconsin and internationally to build a fighting people’s movement! We really believe in UNITY & SOLIDARITY!
Join us! You can get in touch with WIBOPM by contacting us here. We work with other people’s organizations, such as the Moratorium Now Coalition in Detroit.
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