More than 2.6 million Wisconsinites cast their ballots by the time polls closed on Tuesday, November 3rd. Local leaders will gather to thank election officials, poll workers, and volunteers who helped ensure voters across the state, from the Mississippi River to Milwaukee, could make their voices heard in a safe and orderly election, despite unprecedented threats of interference from the federal government.

But Election Day is not the finish line. It is a new beginning for the people of Wisconsin to demand the changes we need. Across Wisconsin, regular people are confronting the growing threat of hyperscale data centers, rising healthcare costs, underfunded public schools, and a political system where wealthy special interests wield more power and influence in Madison than the people who live here.

The groups will call on Wisconsin’s newly elected Governor and State Legislature to work with organized people across the state and take meaningful action on major priorities for Wisconsin people and families including:

• Fully Funding Wisconsin’s Public Schools so every child can receive a first-class education and communities can end the cycle of local funding referendums for basic operations.
• Dramatically expanding BadgerCare and opening it up to individuals and small employers as an accessible and affordable alternative to for-profit insurance.
• Ending Wisconsin’s state sales tax exemption for data centers so Wisconsin families aren’t forced to subsidize massive Big Tech corporations, and ensuring communities have meaningful protections and a real say before these projects move forward.
• Overhauling the prison system to improve public safety, close antiquated prisons, and invest in effective alternatives.

Local grassroots leaders will discuss the upcoming state budget process and the opportunity it gives Wisconsinites to organize around a fundamental question: Will our state government work for regular people, or will wealthy special interests continue to set the agenda?

The election gave Wisconsinites the power to choose who represents them. Now, residents will organize to make sure those leaders are accountable to  the people who elected them and deliver the changes our communities need.

What: Grassroots Press Conference to lay out Wisconsin People’s Agenda, call on newly elected leaders to put Wisconsin families ahead of wealthy special interests

Who: Citizen Action of Wisconsin, GROWW (Grassroots Organizing Western Wisconsin), Wisconsin Public Education Network, and WISDOM) including speakers:

• Bill Hogseth, Co-Executive Director of GROWW
• Rita Simon, M.D., member of Citizen Action of Wisconsin
• Segdrick Farley, Transformational Justice Campaign Consultant for Western Wisconsin, WISDOM
• JoAnne Applebaugh, member of Grassroots Organizing Western Wisconsin
• Stephanie Farrar, Eau Claire Area School District Board of Education President, Wisconsin Public Education Network 

  When: Monday, November 9, 9:00 AM

  
  Where: Outside Eau Claire County Government Center off Oxford Avenue. The address is: 721 Oxford Ave, Eau Claire, WI 54703