Rebecca Kemble

“Jim Crow, move over, the Wisconsin Republicans have taken your place,” says a Democratic state senator.read more

Whatever yardage was gained in February has been slowly but surely lost.read more

We need to move well beyond the realm of electoral politics.read more

“These are the benefits that are needed to feed families. Any week that they don’t get these benefits is harmful to people.”read more

Aggression by Scott Walker’s Department of Administration must stop, say protesters.read more

“I saw blood all over him and me. I didn’t know if he still had the knife, or whether or not I had been stabbed.”read more

On Wednesday night the Wisconsin State Assembly voted to approve legislative and congressional redistricting maps that Representative Fred Kessler called, “the most vicious abuse of partisan power that I have ever seen in the Wisconsin Legislature, and I’ve been here since 1961.”read more

Next Tuesday the Wisconsin state senate will meet in extraordinary session to vote on three redistricting bills. One redrawing state legislative boundaries, one redrawing state congressional district boundaries, and the other to change the law so that the first two bills are legal.read more

It is important to support community-based and independent media to counter corporate misinformation.read more

“We’ve always valued involving people in state government. It’s part of our constitution. ‘The doors of the houses of the legislature shall always be open’ was put there for a specific reason.read more

The Wisconsin state assembly housing committee just passed a "landlord rights" bill that is a direct attack on tenants and on fair-housing ordinances that took years to get on the books.read more

The NRA’s lobbyists—but not the citizens of Wisconsin—were allowed to go into Walker’s office for the signing ceremony.read more

The gun rights activists in the capitol today are the only ones in the last 4 months who have hurt anyone.read more

“At what point do we abandon all sense of compassion? These are hard working people and you're treating them like they're trash!”read more

We need to study the deeper meanings of civil disobedience and non-violent action against injustice and get over our desire to be liked and approved of by authority figures,read more