March 14 - Janesville, Forum Take Back Wisconsin

Forum--How Progressives can Take Back Wisconsin

Speakers:

Ruth Conniff, covers national politics for The Progressive Magazine.

Sen. Tim Cullen, 15th Senate District

Wed March 14 at Basics Food Coop, Janesville

6 PM-6:30 PM cheese & cracker reception (nonalcoholic potluck)
6:30 PM-8 PM, speakers & discussion

Basics CO-OP Natural Foods, 1711 Lodge Dr, Janesville, WI 53545

Flyer pdf.

Feb. 25 - Milton, RCP Meeting

The next meeting of the Rock County Progressives will be Saturday, February 25, 10 AM at Charming B's in Milton, in the old church at the Southeast corner of 26 & High (make a right into the parking lot before High and after Piggly Wiggly if going North on 26).

Suggested agenda:

Forums: Reviewing the previous, promoting March, planning April (we got Matt Rothchild and need another speaker plus a topic) and beyond...

Chuck

Feb. 8 - Janesville, Forum: Why Unions Matter

Forum -- “Why Unions Matter”

Walker's attack on collective bargaining was part of a larger assault on all unions. Yet many don't seem to realize how unions matter to them. This forum will address how unions are important to all working people, even those not in unions.

Wednesday, February 8, at 6 PM

Basics CO-OP Natural Foods, 1711 Lodge Dr, Janesville, WI 53545

Speakers:

Kathleen Falk, gubernatorial candidate, former Executive of Dane County

Ed Sadlowski, AFSCME, Janesville district staff representative

6 PM-6:30 PM cheese & cracker reception (nonalcoholic potluck)
6:30 PM-8 PM, speakers & discussion

Presented by the Rock County Progressives, our mission is to promote education & activism around progressive issues in Rock County.

Jan. 21 - Milton, RCP Meeting

There will be a meeting of the Rock County Progressives this Saturday, January 21, at 10:30 AM at Charming B's in Milton.
819 E. High St.

Suite 1 in the old church on the southeast corner of 26 & E. High St. Coming from the south on 26, make a right into the parking lot just before High Street.

Dec. 14 - Janesville Forum, Walker's War On Working People

Forum--Walker's War on Working People:
How his policies & actions have hurt Wisconsin's 99%

Speakers:
Rep. Chris Taylor, 8th Assembly District (Labor & Workforce, Ways & Means and Health Committees), former public policy director of Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin

Ben Manski, Wisconsin Wave, Liberty Foundation, Move to Amend coalition, campaign manager Green Party presidential campaign

Wednesday, December 14
6 PM-6:30 PM cheese & cracker reception (nonalcoholic potluck)
6:30 PM-8 PM, speakers & discussion

Basics Food Cooperative, 1711 Lodge Dr, Janesville, Wisconsin

Dec.7 - Janesville, Drinking Liberally

Hello Progressives,

Janesville Chapter of Drinking Liberally will meet Wednesday Dec. 7 at 7 PM. WE meet at the Speakeasy Lounge in downtown Janesville.

The Janesville chapter of Drinking Liberally is sponsored by Rock County Progressives.

Drinking Liberally is a national organization and is under the Living Liberally umbrella. To help build our membership please visit the website (link below) and sign-up to receive monthly updates.

http://livingliberally.org/drinking/chapters/WI/janesville

Janesville Drinking Liberally will be meeting the first Wednesday of every month at the Speakeasy Lounge, downtown Janesville. At this time we are scheduled from 7-9 PM, but we are open to increasing the time and possibly days if enough interest is shown.

Some of us don't actually drink alcohol and we often order some food from the Speakeasy menu. So everyone should feel free to come and join us.

I am one of the co-hosts for Janesville Drinking Liberally.
Feel free to contact me if you have any questions.
The first pitcher is on me!
See You there,
Ken Pearson
critster@charter.net

Nov. 20 - Milton, Rock County Progressives Meeting

The next meeting of the Rock County Progressives will be on Sunday, November 20, 4 PM at Deb's Family Dining, 100 Front Street, Milton WI

Hope to see you there!

Please let us know what you think even if you can't come to the meeting. You can do so by e-mailing me at oggc@psly.net or the RockCountyProgressives@Gmail.com (you cannot simply hit reply to this e-mail as it is a moderated list).

Nov. 12 - Janesville, Recall Walker & Kleefisch Training

Saturday, November 12 · 2:00pm - 5:00pm

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Location UAW HALL JANESVILLE
1795 LAFAYETTE STREET
Janesville, Wisconsin

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Created By Democratic Party of Rock County

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More Info There will be a training THIS SATURDAY for people interested in volunteering for the RECALL effort. Please RSVP here or send a message to Lisa Sheldon, Steph Mulvey, or Vivian Creekmore. Keep in touch through Facebook.

Nov. 9 - Janesville, Ed Garvey Forum "Walker to Wall Street

Wednesday 6 PM, November 9, 2011

Forum--"Walker to Wall Street: How the Koch Bros. & ALEC changed Wisconsin"

Speakers:

Ed Garvey, co-founder of Fighting Bob Fest, editor and publisher of FightingBob.com.

A Madison "Occupier" (To be announced)

Elliot Majors of the Recall Walker Campaign

6 PM-6:30 PM cheese & cracker reception (nonalcoholic potluck)
6:30 PM-8 PM, speakers & discussion

Basics CO-OP Natural Foods, 1711 Lodge Dr, Janesville, WI 53545

Oct. 13 - Milton, Rock Forward

THIS THURSDAY OCTOBER 13:

ROCK FORWARD—JUNCTION PUB, MILTON, 6:30
EAT, DRINK, & LIBERAL CONVERSATION!

Who: Anyone interested in liberal conversation

What: GET-TOGETHER once a month to eat, drink, and TALK. No RSVP, no agenda, no meeting—just socializing. Order and pay for your own.

NEXT GET-TOGETHER:

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13, 6:30 PM
JUNCTION PUB, 130 MERCHANT ROW, MILTON

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Oct. 12 - Janesville, Recall Elections Forum

The Recall Elections (Past and Future)
Lessons Learned... Challenges ahead...

Speakers:
Ted Lewis Director, Rock Valley Education Professionals
Marcia Riquelme, Wisconsin Recall Task Force.
Janis Ringhand, Representative 80th Assembly District

Wednesday, October 12
6 PM-6:30 PM cheese & cracker reception (nonalcoholic potluck)
6:30 PM-8 PM, speakers & discussion

Basics Food Cooperative, 1711 Lodge Dr, Janesville, Wisconsin

rockcountyprogressives@gmail.com

Oct. 4 - Drinking Liberally

Our next social gathering, “Drinking Liberally” will be held on Wednesday, October 4, at the Speakeasy in Janesville, at 7 PM.

The Rock County Progressives are sponsoring the gathering -- Drinking Liberally is an independent organization with chapters throughout the country, including Milwaukee & Madison.

The Speakeasy Lounge and Restaurant is at 19 North High Street.

Sept. 25 - RCP Meeting

There will be an “organizing meeting” of the Rock County Progressives this Sunday, September 25 at noon, at Charming B's coffeehouse, 819 E. High St. Suite 1, Milton, Near the intersection of 26 & High street. Go east at High and then turn right into the driveway.

Proposed agenda:

Speakers for next forum in October on the recalls, past and future.

Drinking Liberally--new location (if you can't come but have a good idea of where to hold it, please let us know).

Creating a web site.

The Walker recall-- regional meetings.

Voter ID campaign?

Other business.

Sept. 14 - Janesville Forum, Kloppenburg

Forum: Lessons Learned... Improving Wisconsin's Elections

Speaker: JoAnne Kloppenburg

Recent candidate for the WI Supreme Court, Assistant Attorney General Kloppenburg has been a litigator and prosecutor at the Wisconsin Department of Justice since 1989, serving under Attorneys General from both parties: Don Hanaway, Jim Doyle, Peg Lautenschlager and JB Van Hollen.

Wednesday, September 14
6 PM-6:30 PM cheese & cracker reception (nonalcoholic potluck)
6:30 PM-8 PM, speakers & discussion

Basics Food Cooperative, 1711 Lodge Dr, Janesville, Wisconsin

Sept. 7 - Drinking Liberally Meeting

The next meeting of the Rock County Progressives will be on Wednesday September 7 at 6:30 PM.

We will be discussing plans for our October forum. I’m thinking maybe we should do one on past and future recalls? Ideas for topics/speakers are welcome, e-mail me at rockcountyprogressives@gmail.com if you have some good suggestions and are unable to make the meeting.

It will be followed by a social gathering At 7:00 PM, “Drinking Liberally.” This is a national organization with chapters in Madison & Milwaukee. While it is sponsored by RCP, it is not affiliated.

Location: Fins in Newville: Fins Bar and Grill | 723 Ellendale Road, Edgerton, WI 53534 | 608.884.0346

"Drinking liberally" doesn't mean a lot or necessarily alcohol :-).

We are being a bit more organized this fall, all of our meetings/socials will be held on the 1st Wednesday of each month, and the forums will be the 2nd Wednesday.

Hope to see you there!

Chuck

July 27 - Edgerton, Drinking Liberally

We will be gathering socially at Fin's in Edgerton at 7 PM, Wednesday July 27, to organize a local chapter of “drinking liberally,” hope to see you there. Living Liberally

We will be having a picnic Wednesday, August 10, second annual celebration of the Gulf of Mexico (the first was after the BP spill), stay tuned for details.

Chuck (Rock County Progressives)

June 29th - Janesville Medicare Forum

Forum on How Ryan Would Destroy Medicare.

Speakers:

Rob Zerban, Kenosha County Supervisor and candidate for the first Congressional District (Paul Ryan's).

Robert Kraig, Executive Director of Citizen Action of Wisconsin, author of "Rep. Paul Ryan's Budget Plan a Trojan horse Assault on American Values"

Wednesday, JUNE 29
6 PM-6:30 PM, cheese & cracker reception (nonalcoholic potluck)
6:30 PM-8 PM, speakers & discussion

At: Basics Food Cooperative
1711 Lodge Dr Janesville, Wisconsin

Chuck (Rock County Progressives)
rockcountyprogressives@gmail.com

March 10, Rally Milton Teachers

MILTON—The Milton Education Association, Milton’s teachers union announced that it plans to sponsor another rally in support of public employees Thursday afternoon in Milton.

According to a posting on the teachers union’s facebook site, the rally will be at 4:30 p.m. Thursday at Milton East Elementary School, along Highway 26 in Milton.

The post said the group hopes to double attendance it had at a rally last Thursday at the elementary school. The rally drew a crowd of teachers and other public employees, union members said.

The group had gathered to protest Gov. Scott Walker’s pending budget-relief bill, which seeks to curtail collective bargaining rights for public sector unions and tp force the union members to pay more for health and retirement benefits.

Forwarded by Rock County Progressives

March 9, Ft. Atkinson Rally

There will be a rally for Public Employees on Wed. March 9th on the Main St. bridge from 5-6 p.m. The Community Informational Forum will be postponed because of a need for more coordination of speakers and for the schools and city to gather more information. A key factor is that the city needs more time to gather more information on how the budget will impact it. We do not wish to give out incorrect or incomplete information.

Please bring family and friends to the rally. If all goes well, we may have another the following week before the Forum.

Jude Hartwick
FEA V.P.

Forwarded from Rock County Progressives

Pricele$$ Documentary At Basics

Rock County Progressives present: Pricele$$, a non-partisan documentary that examines citizens efforts to eliminate a root cause of countless social and environmental problems - the inordinate influence of special interest money in government. From the film makers who brought you Empty Oceans, Empty Nets and Farming the Seas.

Tuesday, February 22
Reception 6:00 pm
Film 6:30-7:30 pm
Basics food cooperative
1711 Lodge Dr Janesville, Wisconsin

rockcountyprogressives@gmail.com