Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice: Then and Now
Virtual celebration6:00: Sustainable Saturday Night “Dine & Share”, an informal virtual potluck.6:30 – 8:00:
– Music, spoken word and video
– 30th Anniversary Program, featuring Madison’s Raging Grannies, Skip Jones, Voices Against Violence Coalition, Mystique and more
– Member Organizations share their work
Please join us on Zoom or live streaming at https://www.facebook.com/WisNPJ!
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Register here for this online event: https://www.mobilize.us/ourrevolution/event/376888Extraction industries are destroying people and planet for the profit of a few. Whether it’s Enbridge’s Line 3 and Line 5 to carry dirty tar sands oil across Wisconsin for export or the Back Forty metallic sulfide mine that threatens the Menominee River, extraction is running rampant in our state with little to no oversight.But the people, led by indigenous groups, are fighting back. In this event, Our Wisconsin Revolution and the Sustainable Saturday Night team will present a town hall on Indigenous-Led Resistance to Extraction Industries.Join us at 6 p.m. CT for the first half hour to hear original music about Line 3 from singer-songwriter Larry Long, as well as testimony from a recent visitor to a Line 3 resistance camp: Justice Peche (Oneida), OWR board member.Then our panel discussion will get underway at 6:30 p.m. with a lineup of speakers that includes:
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Saturday, Feb. 27 – 6pm – Sustainable Saturday Night – Building Unity for a Just Budget Share on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/457305152119171
Join the largest number of groups ever to work together on the state budget. Help plan what we need to do over the next four months to overcome major racial and economic inequities. Wisconsin was once the leader for progressive income taxes supporting public education and local infrastructure. But since 2010 this state has almost abandoned family farmers, has increased mass incarceration, has refused to accept expanded Medicaid, and has slashed state aid to public schools.
At this Sustainable Saturday Night,