The Way I See It!

One of the Organizers of the Protests Against Opportunities, Inc

Posted by Randy Hollenbeck on Aug. 1, 2011

Wisconsin, Protest, Scott Walker, Public Sector Unions

Citizen Action of Wisconsin

Citizen Action unites over 100 dues-paying affiliates in the fight for a better future for our families and communities.  We also work with many organizations across the broader "progressive coalition.”  Our partners include the state's leading labor, senior citizen, environmental, community, interfaith, women's, family farm, teacher's, and civil rights organizations and Native American tribes, including: Action Wisconsin, AFSCME, Clean Wisconsin, Hmong/American Friendship Association, Milwaukee LGBT Community Center, Menominee Indian Tribe of Wisconsin, Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, Voces de la Frontera, Wisconsin State AFL-CIO, Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC), and the Wisconsin Farmers Union. Citizen Action brings together these diverse groups to form a united front and work together around common goals.

http://citizenactionwi.org/about/about-us.html

Taking a look at their facebook just might tell you more about them!

http://www.facebook.com/CitizenActionWI

Notice anything?  Leftist group???

This organization describes itself as a broad "progressive coalition" working for "social, economic and environmental justice," and whose "partners include the state's leading labor, senior citizen, environmental, community, interfaith, women's, family farm, teacher's, and civil rights organizations and Native American tribes."

On July 6 Citizen Action filed an oath of independent disbursements to support Senator Dave Hansen (D-Green Bay) against Republican challenger David VanderLeest in the July 12 recall.  On July 14 Citizen Action filed an additional oath indicating its support for Representative Sandy Pasch's (D-Whitefish Bay) challenge to Senator Alberta Darling (R-River Hills) in the August 9 recall.

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Take a look at the Directors, anything or anyone stick out???

Citizen Action of Wisconsin Board of Directors       

Mark Thomsen (President)

Wisconsin Association for Justice

Jackie Boynton (Treasurer)

At Large Member

Lynn Breedlove (Vice President)

Executive Director

Disability Rights Wisconsin

Leon Burzynski (Secretary)

President

Wisconsin Alliance of Retired Americans

Tanya Atkinson

Vice President of Public Affairs

Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin Advocate

Peter Bakken

Director of Public Policy

Wisconsin Council of Churches

Katie Belanger

Executive Director Fair Wisconsin

Lew Boyd

Menominee Indian Tribe of WI

MacCanon Brown

Executive Director

Repairers of the Breach

Pam Campbell

Vice President PSRP

AFT-WI

Connie Raether

ESTHER (Wisdom)

Jim Cavanaugh

President

South Central Federation of Labor

Sheila Cochran

President

Milwaukee Area Labor Council

Guy Costello

WEAC

Gene Farley

Madison Institute

Jim Garrity

President Council 40

Linda Gaston-Mounger

Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association

Bryan Kennedy

President

AFT-WI

Linda Leaf

NAACP

Marilyn Nemeth

Alliance for Retired Americans - WI Chapter

Christine Neumann-Ortiz

Executive Director

Voces de la Frontera

Craig Oliver

At Large

Candice Owley

President

WI Federation of Nurses & Health Professionals

Chris Rose

Workers United

Brad Schwanda

UAW

Jason Sidener

Political Action Representative

AFSCME Council 40

Amy Stear

Wisconsin Director 9to5

Clarrissa Barnes

At Large Public Member

Bruce Colburn

SEIU

Betsy Kippers

WEAC

Bill Neuhaus

WI Famers Union

Sandy Pasch

State Representative

Helen Keld Roys

State Representative

Rev. Ken Wheeler

Cross Lutheran Church

http://citizenactionwi.org/board/citizen-action-of-wisconsin-board-of-directors.html