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Wisconsin People's Assembly

Date: April 9, 2011 - 12:00pm - April 10, 2011 - 6:30pm

Location

State Capitol, MATC Downtown, and O'Keefe Middle School Madison, WI 53703
See map: Google Maps

They have their house. It's time we built our own house. It's time for the . . .

Register now for the Wisconsin People's Assembly
 
WISCONSIN PEOPLE’S ASSEMBLY
Noon, Saturday, April 9th to 6:30pm, Sunday, April 10th
 
   For the full schedule and locations, including speakers and workshop subjects, see: http://wisconsinwave.org/full-schedule-wisconsin-peoples-assembly
 
 
   ~ Saturday, April 9th ~
   12:00pm-2:00pm RALLY AT STATE CAPITOL: Ride the Wave Back to the Capitol!
   2:00pm-3:00pm MARCH TO WMC: Take Wisconsin Back from the Corporate Interests!
   4:00pm Registration Opens at Georgia O'Keefe Middle School, 510 South Thornton Ave., Madison
   5:00pm & 7:00pm MAJOR PANELS at Georgia O'Keefe Middle School:
       5pm UNDERSTANDING AUSTERITY: Wisconsin in a global perspective
       7pm BUILDING A POPULAR MOVEMENT: Overcoming inequality & uniting us all in common cause
 
   ~ Sunday, April 10th ~
   8:30am Registration Reopens at Downtown Campus of Madison Area Technical College
   9:30am-11:00am MAJOR PANEL: DIRECT ACTION CAMPAIGNING: Achieving the Will of the People when government closes its doors 
   11:30am-1:00pm WORKSHOPS
   1:00-2:30pm Lunch Break
   2:30pm-4:00pm WORKSHOPS
   4:30pm-6:30pm MAJOR PANEL: DEMAND DEMOCRACY: Democratizing our elections, economy, budget process, and constitutions 
 
   For the full schedule and locations, including speakers and workshop subjects, see: http://wisconsinwave.org/full-schedule-wisconsin-peoples-assembly

 

 

 

Spend this Saturday and Sunday in Madison with hundreds of other Wisconsinites as we convene the first in a series of meetings of the Wisconsin People’s Assembly. By participating in the Assembly, you will have the opportunity to meet, learn from, and build lasting personal connections with Wisconsinites coming from all trades, communities, and backgrounds. Together, we will create the kind of solidarity and strategies required to overcome the corporate takeover of our state, reverse the damage that has already been done, and win reforms that strengthen Wisconsin's democracy for future generations to come.
 

This first Wisconsin People's Assembly will focus on three common themes:

  • Building a Popular Movement -- that overcomes inequality and unites all of us in common cause.
  • Direct Action Campaigning -- in order to achieve the will of the people when the official government closes its doors to us.
  • Winning Democracy -- by strengthening local democracy, expanding participation, democratizing elections, and amending our constitution.
The Wisconsin People’s Assembly is convened by the Wisconsin Wave, a popular mobilization of workers, students, farmers, small business owners, the unemployed, retirees and others against corporatization and austerity, and for democracy and shared prosperity. The Wisconsin Wave is organized around a founding document, available here, and the following six principles:
 
  1. Our state government must guarantee a fully funded public sector including education, health care, human services, transportation, public safety, and vital regulatory agencies.
  2. Taxes on large corporations and wealthy individuals should be returned to reasonable levels in order to solve the state’s fiscal crisis.
  3. The state must respect the rights of workers to organize unions and bargain collectively.
  4. Initial budget priorities must be established through public participation instead of closed door meetings between public officials and special interest lobbyists.
  5. Voting rights must be expanded, not limited, to insure that every Wisconsinite can take part in our democracy.
  6. Wisconsin deserves government of, by, and for the people, not the corporate elite; corporations have no constitutional rights and may not buy our elections or government.

For more information on the Wisconsin Wave, see the website at http://www.WisconsinWave.org. If your organization would like to endorse this movement, please click here.
 
Please print out these handbills and posters and distribute them in your area.


REGISTER NOW:  http://wisconsinwave.org/registration-wisconsin-peoples-assembly

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