Category Archives: Activism

Mining Bill Update

Posted on February 17, 2012 by Lacinda

We’re emailing you once again with an important and troubling development on the mining issue and the hearing. As you may have heard, State Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald disbanded the Senate Mining Committee and cancelled the hearing due to … Continue reading →

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Award-winning Performer Tom Neilson Does Benefit For Mining Education

Posted on January 25, 2012 by Lacinda

Saturday, February 18, you can not only help protect Wisconsin’s environment, but enjoy an afternoon and evening with activist folk singer, Tom Neilson. The Sierra Club’s Four Lakes group will host a special benefit performance by the noted activist and … Continue reading →

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Why we need a “Mining Protection Benefit”…

Posted on January 10, 2012 by Lacinda

The Four Lakes Group is sponsoring an upcoming Mining Protection Benefit Concert with award-winning folk artist Tom Neilson on February 18 at the Bartell Theater.  Get details and purchase tickets online to help support our work, and read below to … Continue reading →

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Reflections on civil disobedience and the Keystone XL Tar Sands Pipeline

Posted on September 4, 2011 by dferber

By Judy Skog, activist and Sierra Club member At 5:00 am on Monday, August 29, I and three other people from Madison got into my car for the 16 hour drive to Washington, DC. We were travelling to DC to … Continue reading →

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Report on the Keystone XL Protests in Washington DC

Posted on August 31, 2011 by dferber

by Peter Anderson, activist and Sierra Club member The First Thing The Swat Team Took Away Was Our Obama Buttons. Washington’s burly SWAT team, with every imaginable crime fighting gizmo dripping from their 35 pound belts, are an odd deployment … Continue reading →

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Polluters Over People Bill

Posted on August 7, 2011 by arittman

As a child in the early 60s, I swam in Lake Michigan at a beautiful beach in Grant Park, South Milwaukee. The water was ice cold even in August and clear as glass. Ten years later that same beach was closed to swimming. Piles … Continue reading →

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