Wisconsin Network for Peace and Justice

Founded in 1995, the Wisconsin Democracy Campaign is a nonprofit, nonpartisan watchdog group dedicated to clean government, where people matter more than money. We track money in politics on our unique public database. We write about issues of money and politics on our website. And we advocate for campaign finance reform and other policies that will make real the promise of democracy.

The Senate is working right now on the Build Back Better legislation.  Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer has said he wants to have a vote before the holiday break. One piece of the legislation includes a partial protection for potentially 6.5 million of our undocumented friends and neighbors. It is not the pathway to citizenship we hoped for, but temporary protection from deportation and the possibility to obtain work permits.  Please contact Senators Baldwin and Johnson this week

The fight continues to Stop Line 3! On December 14th, one year after the start of direct action to stop construction, we are renewing our calls to the US Army Corps of Engineers to order a federal Environmental Impact Statement. 

This is URGENT. Email and Call your Senators to tell them: we CAN afford healthcare, education, and green jobs! The people and planet CAN’T afford an $8 Trillion  Pentagon budget!

WNPJ will continue to add statements as they come in, please check back for more.

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WISDOM: The verdict in the Kenosha murder case has come as a shock to us all.  We cannot excuse the expressions of white supremacy that have surrounded this situation and the people who will see this as some sort of vindication of violent behavior...Even worse is that some will use it to portray the killer as some sort of hero. This verdict is one more demonstration that our criminal legal system is broken.  A young white man was just exonerated for actions we all know would have been punished severely if he had been African-American or Native American.  Unfortunately, in our state and country, justice is not blind. Read more

The threat of nuclear war is now higher than it was during the Cold War. That’s according to former Defense Secretary William Perry -- who is no peacenik.  That’s why it’s more urgent than ever that our Representatives institute a policy of No First Use and No Sole Authority in order to reduce the grave peril posed by nuclear weapons.

The following request came to WFVJ through our friends at the Wisconsin Council of Churches.  Please respond to volunteer@wichurches.org if you are able to help out. We need volunteers who would make a commitment of volunteering regularly; either volunteering once a week for a set time (for example, every Tuesday for 8 weeks) or people who would like to go up to Ft. McCoy and stay for a week (there is housing on base available).

This Action Alert concerns the new U.S. arms sale to Saudi Arabia. Our Peace Action campaign to block this sale scored a major victory when we were able to gain a Senate vote on the sale. The Senate will be voting on a resolution by Senators Paul, Sanders and Lee to block the sale any day now. Can you call your Senators today and ask them both to vote for this resolution to disapproval the sale?

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