Let's get organized

Lots is happening, and needs to be happening right now as the coup proceeds to the next steps in law-breaking, evil cruelty, wreck America madness. 

This site was started in 2005 to help organize local like-minded allies around environmental protection, climate action, human rights, support for public programs and institutions, free and fair elections, no wars, and more. It was meant to be a community bulletin board to help people connect and to avoid two great events being scheduled against each other.

But, it's not easy to always know what's going on, who speaks for whom, and what others are doing already that might benefit what you are trying to do. Especially now that we have myriad platforms (many owned by the oligarchs we are protesting please remember!) it's easy for things to be missed.

You don't have to sign up for anything to view this site, to post on the calendar, to call for action, to share your event. I've thought about switching to the WordPress platform which isn't part of the Alphabet empire, but almost twenty years of posting seems like too big a lift right now. But, for those who are not and don't want to sign up for (and, in many cases, give up rights to sensitive personal data to) those platforms, we hope to provide as much information as possible to help people support and defend those programs, values, and institutions.

You can help! Please use the contact form to send a guest blog post or ask to be a cp blogger, send info about a one time program or activity or a recurring demonstration or meeting, or highlight a local issue that needs our attention.

In addition, groups like Our Wisconsin Revolution, For Our Future, Indivisible, Wisconsin Progress, MoveOn, Working Families Party, Third Act, La Crosse Dems, DSA, A Better Wisconsin Together, and others are hosting meet-ups, planning sessions, and events but who is on every mailing list? Yikes!

When we hear of something, we will post it here. Use the calendar form to tell us about events. Use the contact form to send a guest blog or message. 

Weekly demonstrations that we know about (send us info about others please):

• Thursdays at noon at 4th & Main - Women in Black vigil
• Thursdays at 5 p.m. at Mormon Coulee Rd & Losey Blvd - anti-ICE 
• Fridays at noon at City Hall lot (La Crosse St & 4th St) - Honk & Wave

Weekend Reading - Updated!

From Jim Stewartson - "The 'Know. Name. Disrupt' (KND) method is largely based on my personal experience as a journalist and activist trying to disrupt QAnon, which uses techniques I helped pioneer for digital entertainment two decades ago, but added an entirely new psychological attachment infrastructure—which I have now studied, and battled, for five years." (Also check out his "The Rupture Has Arrived - Seven Signs We are No Longer A Democracy.")

From Sarah Kendzior - "Imagination is nothing to take for granted. It is one of the main qualities that fascist regimes attempt to outlaw. But they do not need to outlaw what is surrendered."

From Indivisible - "Our shared future depends on everyday Americans choosing to fight back. We believe each of us has a role to play — in blue states, red states, and political battlegrounds across America. We believe MAGA will seek to divide and conquer us, isolating us one by one in an attempt to fracture our resolve. We believe standing together, Indivisible, is the only way to protect our families, our neighbors, and our democracy. And we believe that we will win."

From Substack author "Sarah Connor" - James Hansen's Latest Warning. The 1.5°C Paris target? “Deader than a doornail,” Hansen says. Even 2°C is wishful thinking without radical action. The worst and most probable case is that we keep going as we are, triggering total collapse. But the message in plain terms? We are running out of time faster than we think, because the danger was underestimated from the start."

From the Substack Weaponized Spaces by Caroline Orr Bueno - "A sophisticated strategy is playing out in plain sight that few outside of digital war rooms truly understand or even notice. It doesn't require hacking servers or bribing tech executives. It doesn't even break any rules. It simply requires understanding exactly how algorithms work — and turning them into accomplices."

More coming.

Saturday NO BUY DAY

 

League of Women Voters

 

If you are not a member of the League of Women Voters, why not? This is one of the oldest defenders of voting rights in our country with a track record of registering voters, educating voters about the issues, and ensuring candidates have opportunities to connect with voters.

Join today and then plan to meet up with other LWV members at Sunday's ice cream social from 2 to 4 at Weigent Park. (Register in advance so they'll have enough ice cream!)

Long Range Plan Open Houses

The La Crosse Area Planning Committee (LAPC) will host two open houses on August 18 and 19, for the update of the long-range, Metropolitan Transportation Plan. 

The project team has more to share about the plan itself and how public input has been incorporated in the plan development process. The public has two opportunities to learn more, provide input, and get questions answered. The draft plan will be ready to review in the coming weeks, so mark your calendars for these open houses:

First Open House: Monday, August 18 from 4 to 5:30 p.m. at the Town of Onalaska Town Hall, N5589 Commerce Road, Onalaska, WI 54650.

Second Open House: Tuesday, August 19 from 4 to 6 p.m. at the La Crosse County Administration Building, Room 1107, 212 6th St N, La Crosse, WI 54601. This open house is accessible by Downtown MTU bus service.

For those who cannot make it in-person, can attend the second open house virtually on August 19 from 4 to 6 p.m., to ask any questions. Any person may access this meeting utilizing the following options.

Option 1: Use the link below to join the TEAMS meeting on your desktop/laptop/phone to stream audio, video or both. If you do not have TEAMS on your desktop/laptop/phone, after you activate the link “Click here to join the meeting” you will have to follow several prompts to join the meeting.

Join the meeting now
Meeting ID: 224 190 802 908 8
Passcode: 4Gv9C3GV

Option 2: Dial in by phone (audio only)
+1 262-683-8845,,841117613# 
United States, Allenton

Find a local number
Phone conference ID: 841 117 613#

For more information, contact 

Erin Duffer, AICP (she/her)

Transportation Planner

La Crosse Area Planning Committee, MPO

Phone: 608-785-5597

eduffer@lacrossecounty.org