NOT The WHCD

 

NOT The White House Correspondents' Dinner will provide real facts, pundits, correspondents, and lots of comedians. 

Pay per view: $20.26.

More info here: https://www.meethook.live/not

Call - Bring them back

From Indivisible: 

Call TODAY and demand your elected officials speak out and use every tool they have to push back on Trump's unconstitutional disappearances.

It's not just Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Salvadoran immigrant and father of three who lived in Maryland for over a decade before being abducted and sent to El Salvador withOUT charges, hearing, trial, or conviction. Hundreds of immigrants and some US citizens, born in the United States, have been kidnapped and spirited away to hell sites in the US and in other countries. But his case is important because it exposes the Trump administration's unlawful behaviors and plans for the future.

Read more here. Then, email and call Congressional offices today. 

As Steven Beschloss notes, "The refusal by the Trump regime to provide Kilmar Abrego Garcia due process endangers every American's civil liberties."

Earth Day

Meanwhile ...

"Here’s the science: Limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees C (2.7 degrees F) above pre-industrial levels is essential for avoiding increasingly severe and widespread climate change impacts, but doing so requires cutting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions 42% by 2030 and 56% by 2035, relative to 2023. Current policies alone will achieve less than a 1% reduction by 2030 and 2035." -  Systems Change Lab

Global atmospheric carbon = 430 ppm. (Target passed long ago = 350)

Stop driving fossil-fueled vehicles and stop flying as much as possible (want vs. need). Walk, bike take the bus, car pool, take the train. If you have to drive, replace a ff car with an EV. (Used EVs are more and more affordable.)

Stop purchasing high-carbon foods, including beef, dairy, chocolate, shrimp, coffee, palm oil, rice. Move to a low-carbon diet.

Seal & insulate your home. Upgrade and electrify appliances. 

If you can, install solar panels on your home. La Crosse county is doing another solar group buy. Energy credits of 30% are still available for solar, energy upgrades, battery storage and more.

Stop buying and using plastic. On top of the microplastic contamination crisis, most plastic is made of fossil fuels. When it's tossed, very little is recycled. Around here, it may be burned to produce eldctricity. (Libby fir the closure of the "waste-to-energy" trash burner, too.) Plastic pollution is also a social justice issue.

Avoid buying unneeded stuff. Reduce stuff, reduce global emissions from shipping and transportation of goods. Share, support "libraries of things," swap, buy 2nd hand.

Beyond personal changes, go bigger. Vote for the good guys. Get active to change institutional and community behaviors. Feed back about product choices and packaging. If you control messaging, advertising, or communications, put the carbon-friendly choices in front. Make sure people know they don't have to drive to your event. Highlight vegan choices. Urge people to rethink high-carbon habits. Talk about it all the time to everyone. 

Learn more. Updates coming. Get started now.

We can't wait  We can't ignore. We can't not act.

If not now, when?

April 19 - Report & Next Steps

From Tasha:

More than 500 people showed up on April 19, and that estimate is on the lower side of things, and we also filled that entire food caravan for Wafer in the two hour time slot that we were there! That is AMAZING! In two hours, you all filled an ENTIRE FOOD CARAVAN! What a bunch of REVOLUTIONARY BADASSES WE GOT! And we still don't have the total amount of money that we raised that day, so I will provide those totals when I find out!

Again, absolutely AMAZING!

For our Community Bingo, not everyone was able to turn their sheet in, so I will be opting to have it at our next rally as well and hopefully get more people to participate. Thank you to those who participated and I hope that you were able to meet with other people in your community that you don't normally talk to.

If you would like to get more involved with events, please feel free to email* and I will do my best to get as many of you involved as possible. Also, we do now have Facebook page for those of you who have Facebook, you can ask to join that.

Now for some reminders:

Tuesday, April 22 at 5 p.m. at the Cappella Performing Arts Center, 712 King St., there is a Town Hall meeting. Second Congressional District Rep. Mark Pocan will be there to speak. Our representative, Derrick Van Orden, is invited, but remember, he probably won't show, but we can still show up! So let's pack the town hall! You can sign up here: https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/776170/

Saturday, May 3, from noon to 2 p.m. at the corner of State Rd and Losey Blvd, we will be having our next demonstration, May Day Strong. I invite you all to attend, bring you signs, your voices, your friends and join in solidarity against Trump and Elon, and against those who fall in line (DVO) with their policies to demand change! You can sign up here with this link: https://www.mobilize.us/mayday/event/775365/

[CP: There is also a LOVE OUT LOUD demonstration at this same corner on May 4 from 1 to 2 p.m. in support of the LGBTQ+ community.] 

**** Additionally, every Friday from noon to 1 p.m. at City Hall in La Crosse (corner of Fourth Street & La Crosse Street, there is a drmonstration. You can also sign up and attend those: https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/774392/

**** Mark your calendars for May 10th from noon to 4 p.m. as we will be hosting a speaker event at Riverside park. We will have more details to come.

Lastly, I want to thank each and every one of you for continuing to show up, continuing to be loud and proud and standing up for La Crosse, for Wisconsin's 3rd Congressional District, for our nation, but most importantly for one another. Take care of yourselves, take care of one another, and together, we can win this fight for democracy.

* Use the CONTACT form on this page and CP will forward your message to Tasha.

June 6 - Vets March in DC

 

June 6 at 2 p.m. in Washington, DC

Sign up for info:

https://www.unite4veterans.org/