Battleground Wisconsin
Battleground Wisconsin is Citizen Action of Wisconsin’s weekly podcast that features the latest political news from the front lines in the embattled state of Wisconsin.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 45 minutes
- Episodes
- 510
- Years Active
- 2016 - 2025
Who will fight for the public interest, instead of a billionaire
Huge news from Planned Parenthood on Thursday morning, they are announcing the resumption of abortions in the state.
We welcome national baseball stadium expert Neil deMause, from Field of Schemes, …
00:51:26 |
Fri 15 Sep 2023
It's all about power
We start with the GOP threat to lawlessly impeach Justice Janet Protasiewicz in a desperate attempt to hold on to gerrymandered maps. Will the latest Republican attack on democracy succeed? We dig in…
00:50:23 |
Thu 07 Sep 2023
Special Interview with Dave Zirin on public money for billionaire’s stadium.
Dave Zirin, the sports editor of The Nation Magazine and an award winning journalist, joins the show to discuss the current effort by the owner of the Brewers to get half a billion dollars in public …
00:13:32 |
Thu 07 Sep 2023
ReThink Brewers Ownership: A push for public equity
We welcome economist Dr. Michael Rosen to discuss ReThinking Brewers ownership and demanding public equity in the team in exchange for public tax revenue.
Another climate change-induced category 4 h…
00:52:09 |
Fri 01 Sep 2023
Bad week for public education
We welcome Milwaukee Teachers Education Association President Amy Mizialko back to the show to talk about the devastating news about a huge expansion of a private religious voucher school the former …
00:53:40 |
Fri 25 Aug 2023
A free & independent media in Wausau & Wisconsin
We start with a major threat to the 1st Amendment in the Northwoods that has made national news. Shereen Siewert, the editor and publisher of the Wausau Pilot and Review, joins us to discuss how her …
00:47:58 |
Thu 17 Aug 2023
In These Times of movement building
In this week’s episode we welcome new In These Times magazine executive director Alex Han to discuss the vital role of independent progressive media, and the cutting edge journalism the historic maga…
00:51:52 |
Thu 10 Aug 2023
Historic Indictment & investiture
We discuss the Wisconsin flavor to the historic Trump indictment this week where the role of fake electors is central. We talk about the decades-long work that military sexual trauma survivors have d…
00:52:06 |
Thu 03 Aug 2023
Hot Union Summer
The hot union summer continued this week with the historic and game changing Teamsters victory over UPS (and their Wall Street backers). The breakthrough is part of an upsurge in labor activism acros…
00:48:11 |
Fri 28 Jul 2023
Public Schools Unite Us: Special guest WI Public Education Network’s Heather DuBois Bourenane
We welcome Wisconsin Public Education Network’s Heather DuBois Bourenan to discuss public education in Wisconsin following a state budget that saw the largest expansion of private voucher schools as …
00:51:19 |
Thu 20 Jul 2023
From Budget to Culture Wars
This week we discuss the ongoing fallout of the disastrous State Budget and the GOP immediate shift to a renewed culture war offensive. We are joined by State Representative Supreme Moore Omokunde f…
00:50:58 |
Fri 14 Jul 2023
Budget Autopsy & Model for a New Progressive Politics
In this week’s episode we assess the budget debacle and offer an inspiring model for a brighter political future. In the first half of the show, we assess the damages from the GOP State Budget, signe…
00:50:36 |
Fri 07 Jul 2023
Standing up to Wisconsin’s billionaire bullies
The Canadian Wildfires have wafted back into Wisconsin this week making climate change up close and personal. It also reinforces our recent success in helping the Milwaukee Common Council to pass the…
00:47:52 |
Thu 29 Jun 2023
Radical Solidarity
We are joined by State Representative Kristina Shelton to discuss the state budget battle in Madison and why she voted in “radical solidarity” against the structurally racist Shared Revenue-Education…
00:48:07 |
Fri 23 Jun 2023
Fake Compromise
We discuss the Shared Revenue “compromise” between Governor Evers and the leaders of the Gerrymandered Legislature and dissect how it is more of a capitulation than an agreement between co-equal bran…
00:48:11 |
Thu 15 Jun 2023
Fight for our lights, lives, and our planet
We comment on the wildfires choking skies across Canada and America and their direct connection to climate change. The dangerous air should teach us all about what it really feels like every day for …
00:48:02 |
Thu 08 Jun 2023
Minority Rule in MAGA America
We discuss the federal “debt deal” that passed the House on Wednesday, setting up its passage by the Senate just ahead of the June 5th default deadline. Did President Biden effectively diffuse a figu…
00:48:46 |
Fri 02 Jun 2023
Fighting Outsourcing
We dive into the precarious “Debt Crisis” drama in Washington. How did the GOP and the media turn it into a debate on “spending,”when Republican Presidents are the ones that ran up the national debt …
00:47:04 |
Fri 26 May 2023
Speaker Vos takes Milwaukee hostage
We discuss the shared revenue plan rammed through the State Assembly late on Wednesday by Speaker Vos. The plan harms Milwaukee by providing less shared revenue than other cities and towns, and conta…
00:55:59 |
Thu 18 May 2023
Organizing BLOC by BLOC
We discuss our state budget veto campaign that went on a statewide media tour this week in La Crosse, Eau Claire, Wausau, and Green Bay to support Gov. Evers using his strongest in the nation veto pe…
00:49:13 |
Thu 11 May 2023
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