Connections

It's frustrating to hear of an event only after it's happened. For those of us who aren't members of FB or don't want to sign up for accounts with 20+ different organizations, it can be even harder to find out about events.

If you hear of an event and don't find it on the CP calendar, please use the calendar form to add it or use the contact form to send the link so we can highlight it.

Here are some things we know about this week:

Tonight - People's Town Hall (without DVO) from 6 to 7:30 p.m. You have to register to get the location: https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/813270/

Also tonight, feedback on WisDOT plans for State Highway corridors 53 and 14/61 from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at the Black River Beach Center. https://wisconsindot.gov/Pages/projects/by-region/sw/533516-lacrosse/us53us1461-pi.aspx

Friday, City Hall honk and wave from noon to 1 p.m. at the intersection of La Crosse Street and Copeland Ave. (3rd & 4th Streets). No sign up required.

Friday from 4 to 5 p.m., a "La Crosse Community Roundtable" at the Main Library, 800 Main St., hosted by Our Wisconsin Revolution. https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/813831/

Saturday from noon to 2 p.m. (NOT THURSDAY!) Good Trouble honk & wave at Losey & State Road. https://www.mobilize.us/mobilize/event/813270/

As always, please use 5calls.org to keep up the pressure. 

Bold Ideas symposium

 

Bold Ideas For A New Progressive Majority
The Institute for Policy Studies, The Nation, and Public Citizen in partnership with the Wallace Global Fund present the 2nd Annual Henry A. Wallace Symposium.

July 17 from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.

Live streamed from the University of California Washington Center in Washington, DC

The Institute for Policy Studies, alongside The Nation and Public Citizen, is hosting its second annual Wallace Symposium on Thursday, July 17th. This symposium is a capstone event of IPS’s Henry A. Wallace Fellowship Program, supported by the Wallace Global Fund.

As FDR’s vice president in 1944, Henry Wallace presciently warned about how racism, oligarchy, and media manipulation were nurturing the conditions for fascism in the United States. In order to defeat American fascism, Wallace wrote, we must boldly “go forward on the great adventure of making political, economic, and social democracy a practical reality.”

As the fascism Wallace warned about becomes a reality, progressive movements are fighting back on multiple fronts. But as Wallace pointed out, only a bold vision for the future can gather the forces necessary to preserve and rebuild our democratic institutions, rein in the oligarchs, and achieve a once-in-a-generation transformation.

How can we inspire the nation to build anew after the Trump administration? How can we replace the GOP’s cruel, militaristic budget for the few with a budget for people and the planet?

How do we expand democracy, transition to a green economy that lifts all workers, and advance a progressive rural agenda that actually comes from rural America? How can the U.S. be a good neighbor internationally, not a global cop or bad actor?

Bringing together elected officials, movement leaders, policy experts, and grassroots activists, this year’s Wallace Symposium will offer vigorous conversation about those big questions — and how to unite our different movements around the answers.

Learn more and register at https://ips-dc.org/event/2nd-henry-wallace-symposium

July 16 Town Hall

PEOPLES TOWN HALL

JULY 16  *  6 to 7:30 p.m.

REGISTER FOR LOCATION 

Trump, Derrick Van Orden, and the GOP just passed the big UGLY bill. This bill will take away vital services from working class families — just to give more to billionaires who already have it all. Come to our town hall and LET YOUR VOICE BE HEARD!

This bill will take health care away from Wisconsin families, including the elderly and children, as well as take food assistance away from hungry kids — all so they could fund an even bigger tax handout to the billionaires who will never have to worry about paying a single bill.

Hosted by WisDems.

Learn more: https://www.mobilize.us/wisdems/event/813270/

Rummage for Good

Support our Neighbors Garage Sale on July 11 & 12 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at 4816 33rd St S to benefit the  Coulee Region Immigration Task Force and the Hmong Cultural and Community Center. Cash donations also accepted on sale days.

Donations for the sale accepted Wednesday from 4 to 8 p.m. Text Jaralee at 608-317-5834 with questions

 

7/8: Town Hall with 3rd CD Candidate, Laura Benjamin

Town Hall with Laura Benjamin (Rep. Van Orden invited)

July 8 from 6 to 7 p.m.

Black River Beach Neighborhood Center

1433 Rose Street, La Crosse

RSVP: https://actionnetwork.org/events/la-crosse-town-hall-with-laura-benjamin-rep-van-orden-invited

info@laurabenjaminforcongress.com