How you can help defend Wisconsin
1) Gather signatures for the recall of eight Republican Senators
We need your help to recall 8 Republican Senators who stood with Scott Walker and rammed through his extreme agenda that ends 50 years of civil rights and strips teachers, nurses, librarians and other workers of their right to collective bargaining. The clock is ticking and we now have less than 60 days to collect the signatures we need to force a recall. Every day counts.
Please take a look at the volunteer schedule and sign up to help.
2) Make phone calls
Whether you have 30 minutes or 3 hours to spare, you can help by making phone calls to inform people across Wisconsin of events happening in their districts; to recruit volunteers for rallies, marches and events; to ask people to canvass for recall efforts; to thank past volunteers; and so on. Don’t worry if you don’t have experience.
There are numerous alternatives to austerity – one is a state bank
As states struggle to meet their budgets, public pensions are on the chopping block, but they needn’t be. States can keep their pension funds intact while leveraging them into many times their worth in loans, just as Wall Street banks do. They can do this by forming their own public banks, following the lead of North Dakota—a state that currently has a budget surplus.
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