Content about Social Issues

This is a movie that Student Progressive Dane and the newly formed Badger Impact Coalition (a committee formed to combat the New Badger Partnership) will be showing. The movie will become increasingly relevant as tuition skyrockets here at UW-Madison and students have to take out increasingly huge loans that are being coined as "financial aid."

This movie will display just what "financial aid" is and what a great burden it is to possess it upon graduation. A must see for all students interested in the New Badger Partnership!

This will be a long fight, and we can't let our patients down...
So join us on Saturday for our second Health Care Workers March! Please wear white coats or other medical attire. We will have a large banner showing our support for a strong Medicaid program in Wisconsin, a PNHP banner, and any signs that you wish to bring!

Calling all elders, senior citizens, grandparents, retirees, crones, and sages!
Another concern for seniors. The bill gives absolute power to the new Secretary
of Public Health to decide who get health care and who doesn’t. Dennis Smith is
the out-of-state, Secretary whom Walker chose because of his advocacy against
Medicaid. Smith proposes that states give it up altogether rather than accept
Obamacare.

Education and Health Care in the Budget: A Milwaukee Town Hall Hearing

Sen. Lena Taylor will hold a special Town Hall Hearing on Education and Health Care in The Budget. She will be joined by other Milwaukee legislators and special guests MPS Superintendent Dr. Gregory Thornton; Eric Gass, City of Milwaukee Health Dept. Research and Policy Director; and Dr. Patricia McManus of the Wisconsin Black Health Coalition. Testimony will be taken after 8pm as events allow

The event is open to the public.

Chris Hedges is an American journalist, author, and war correspondent, specializing in American and Middle Eastern politics and societies. His most recent book is titled, "Death of the Liberal Class," which he will be his lecture topic of choice for the night.

Hedges is also known as the best-selling author of War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2002), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction.

Milwaukee Press Conference Commemorating the Anniversary of Healthcare Reform and Protesting Walker’s Extreme Budget

Millionaires for Darling. Alberta will be having lunch with that minority of people who benefit from her policies at the Wisconsin Club -- 6200 W. Good Hope Rd. Come by and protest at 11:00am. May 23.

Honor the Memory of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4th

WE ARE ONE FOR QUALITY HEALTH CARE

UW hospital and clinics employees are holding an informational rally outside the hospital, Monday, April 4th. April 4th marks the anniversary of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

The award winning film Broadcast Blues shows how the consolidation of the media into corporate hands is jeopardizing our news, information, and even public safety. Includes a discussion with the filmmaker, Sue Wilson. Wilson, an Emmy wining TV producer, radio personality, and contributor to the Huffington Post, will help organize local groups to put the Public back into broadcasters' Public Interest Obligations.

Wisconsin Tour Information: Harry Cowan, [email protected], 916-812-9002

Mequon contact Joyce Latham - [email protected], 262-375-3890

http://www.suewilsonreports.com

The Wisconsin Alliance for Retired Americans is a member of We Are Wisconsin which is a network of labor, community and state wide nonprofits, protesting the Governor's budgets and its impact on Wisconsin citizens.

Starting Saturday, June 4th, 4pm., there will be a protest of the Joint Finance Committee approving the Governor's budget with some amendments. We will be doing this by setting up tents by the capital square.

Health Care Forum with Robert Kraig
Sunday, May 23, 12 noon
Our Lady of Lourdes, 3722 S. 58th Street, Milwaukee

Join the Wisconsin chapter of Physicians for a National Healthcare Program
on July 30th to celebrate Medicare's 46th Birthday!

Despite years of success, opponents to making healthcare a public good
are seeking to privatize and cut Medicare, along with Medicaid and
Social Security.

NOW is the time to organize against these attacks and in support of
the solution to our healthcare crisis: Medicare for all.

Please join us on Saturday to stand up for for healthcare as a human right!

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