Saturday events

Coulee DSA is holding its monthly coffee social at Oh Oh Coffee  332 Front Street on Saturday at 10 a.m.

Learn more about Coulee DSA here https://coulee.dsawi.org

Also on Saturday from noon to 2:30 at or around Burns Park, there will be a picnic with free food, bring some if you can, and a collection of non-perishable food items.

And from 2 to 5 p.m. on Saturday, Fokus Photo, Studio 307, 123 4th St. S., is offering A FREE studio portrait of anyone who brings a shelf-stable food or money donation to support our unsheltered neighbors through WINN (What I Need Now).

SHOW UP FOR BIKE LANES!!

SHOW UP FOR BIKE LANES!  

THURSDAY, NOV. 13, CITY HALL AT 6 P.M.!

If at all possible, please show up to support the 3rd and 4th Street bike lanes NOVEMBER 13 at City Hall at 6 p.m. There is no public input allowed at this meeting (if you haven't yet emailed and/or called your council rep about this, please do it Thursday before 6!!)

Signs are not allowed at council meetings, so PLEASE WEAR YOUR BIKE HELMET whether you bike there or not. Some council members are apparently waffling. We need all the advocacy we can get!

WisDOT will be reconstructing 3rd and 4th Streets, both state highways, and have given the city two options. One would remove one lane of car parking to give enough space for a parking protected bike lane on each street. The other option would keep all car  parking, narrowing the parking lanes a bit in order to widen the sidewalks with zero bike infrastructure. 

 

The La Crosse City Council will vote on which option to recommend. They should recommend Alternative 1. 

The La Crosse Climate Action Plan calls for increasing and improving safe-for-all-ages-and-abilities bike infrastructure in order to reduce the greenhouse gas emissions from Vehicle Miles Traveled. This is an opportunity to invite more people to bike to shopping, events, and social engagements, paid for by WisDOT. 

Thirteen years' worth of studies have proven that ONLY protected bike lanes (not paint, not sharrows) provide actual safety for bike riders AND for all other road users. 

Studies also show that better bike infrastructure increases business at bike lane-adjacent businesses. It slows traffic and makes it easier for those walking and biking by to stop and check out stores and restaurants on the route. In fact, when a Toronto politician tried to remove a bike lane from a shopping street, the business owners fought back.

There are some concerns from those with disabilities, but there are models and examples of best practices to take special needs of those with mobility and vision impairments into consideration. 

Please contact your council member and come to the City Council meeting Thursday night at 6 p.m. at City Hall! Wear your helmet!!

DVO Protest Thursday

From Opportunity Wisconsin:

Congressional Republicans, including Congressman Derrick Van Orden, shut down the government just because they refused to lower health care costs for Wisconsin families. Republicans would rather shut down the government, which is going to cause real pain for Wisconsin families, than reverse their harmful health care cuts or prevent premiums from skyrocketing. Earlier this year, they acted quickly to make tax breaks for billionaires and big corporations permanent - now they’re sitting on their hands while the government is shut down because of the crisis they created.

Join us on Thursday, Nov 13th, from 4:00-5:30 outside Rep. Derrick Van Orden’s La Crosse office to call on Congressman Van Orden to take action to keep health care costs down.

Feel free to bring signs and make your voices heard! (No electoral signs please!)

Event site: https://www.mobilize.us/owi/event/870002/

CALL NOW

 From MayDay Messages:

Last night, Senate Republicans slipped something into the government funding package that should set off alarms for every taxpayer.

Tucked away in the continuing resolution is a provision allowing certain GOP senators — whose phone records were seized during the Jack Smith Jan 6 investigation — to sue the federal government for $500,000 or more each time their communications were accessed without notice.

Let that sink in:

• A measure financed by your tax dollars—

• Written into a spending bill you pay for—

• Designed to give handouts to the very lawmakers who just enabled it.

House Republicans were furious. Not because it’s corruption—it’s because they were left out of the deal. This means we have leverage. They’re exposed.

This is our moment to hit the system when it’s vulnerable.

🔍 What to Know

1. The rollover bill to end the shutdown now heads to the House.

2. If this clause stays in — the bill passes — the government reopens with the payout intact.

3. That means: a corrupt precedent, billion-dollar distractions, and people still suffering while lawmakers get sweet deals.

📞 What You Need to Do Today

• The House reconvenes at noon ET. A vote is expected soon after.

• Find your representative at house.gov/representatives

• Call them. Tell them: “If this payout-provision stays in the bill, I expect you to vote NO on the continuing resolution.”

• Share this message. Make noise. Flood those lines. This afternoon matters.

Plan Now - People's Sick Day/Black Out the System/General Strike

PLAN NOW for a week of General Strike.

From The Peoples Sick Day: No work. No School. No Purchases. No streaming. No feeding the system.

From General Strike - more details.

From Black Out the System.