Say NO to Republican Data Center Biill

From Wisconsin Conservation Voters

You’ve certainly seen data centers all over the news lately with new ones and new proposals popping up constantly across the state. These data centers need massive amounts of energy to operate and currently there are no requirements that data centers must pay 100 percent of their full energy costs.

 

TAKE action now: urge your state legislators to reject AB 840 >>>

 

Wisconsin residents should not have to pay for large tech companies to site data centers in their communities. Period. Data centers should have to pay the full costs of their energy load, including being connected to the electrical grid. 

 

A new Republican bill, AB 840, introduced last week, would increase costs and pollution for Wisconsin residents by limiting lower-cost renewables and not explicitly requiring that tech companies pay the full costs of their energy and connection to the energy grid. That bill is moving fast and is expected to be in the Assembly on Tuesday, Jan. 20.

 

TAKE action now: urge your state legislators to reject AB 840 >>>

Learn more here: https://conservationvoters.org/priority-campaigns/data-centers

Online training Monday & Tuesday

Red Wine & Blue presents Moms for Good: Joining Together to Stop ICE. Monday at 6 p.m. ONLINE.

Join Red Wine & Blue and other mom and caregiver groups as we come together to process what’s happening, support one another, and take concrete steps to protect our communities, stay safe, and demand accountability. We will fight together. Join us! See you there! https://redwine-blue.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_MjyPvpTzQomLuiBI7-cECA

Tuesday, January 13 at 7:30 p.m. ONLINE

Join Chippewa Valley Indivisible's group leader, Cyndi Greening, for a training and presentation on their ICE rural rapid response tactics. Specifically, how did they create infrastructure from scratch in a rural community? What systems worked, what would they do differently next time, and what can you do now to prepare for ICE raids in your community?

Register here: https://www.mobilize.us/indivisible/event/881507/

Free America Jan. 20

From Women's March:

One year into Trump’s second regime, we face an escalating fascist threat: raids on our communities, troops occupying our cities, attacks on immigrants, families torn apart, mass surveillance, and terror used to keep us silent. It is time for our communities to escalate as well.

2025 was a year of marches that showed our collective strength. And as the threats grow, our movement must evolve and escalate. Trump and his allies have already made clear that a second term would bring a deeper wave of misogyny, racism, xenophobia, and violence than the first.

On January 20, we call on our communities to organize teams, call your neighbors and classmates, and turn your back and walk out on fascism. Host mutual aid planning meetings, organize public service, but walk out to block the normal routines of power, and make the stakes real. This is a protest and a promise. In the face of fascism, we will be ungovernable.

Stay tuned for local info.

UPDATE! x2 Sunday March - Venezuela, Democracy, ICE OUT!

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UPDATE! x2

STILL ONE EVENT.

NOON at 4th & State Street

US out of Venezuela AND ICE OUT for Good is a march starting at noon at 4th Street & State Street.

You can get there on the bus! Take any bus to the Transit Center and get on the #5 bus at 11:35. It will take you directly to 4th & State. 

Public Info - City Administrator

The La Crosse Area Chamber of Commerce will host a forum on the plan to hire  city administrator on Monday, January 12 from 11:45 to 1:00 p.m. at the Radisson in La Crosse.

Administrators for the cities of Onalaska and Viroqua will talk about the role v a city administrator in working g with the business community. La Crosse council members may be in attendance.

Learn more about the proposal to add an administrator at https://www.cityoflacrosse.org/your-government/city-council/city-administrator-working-group and register for the event at https://business.lacrossechamber.com/ap/Events/Register/v5F8A1ZIKCyCm