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A crowd of over 1,000 protesters listened to speakers in Jefferson Park before picketing outside Speaker Paul Ryan’s office in downtown Janesville.
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More than 1,000 converge on Janesville, picket Paul Ryan’s office

By Noah Habenstreit | Feb. 4, 2017

JANESVILLE, Wis.—In a demonstration that Janesville police said dwarfed any they’d seen, residents of south-central Wisconsin and beyond marched to House Speaker Paul Ryan’s constituent office Saturday to protest his stance on President Donald Trump’s immigration ban. About 1,000 people—most residents from the area but some coming from as far as Chicago and Eau Claire—convened at 12 p.m.

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Sen. Tammy Baldwin says she will not vote for Gorsuch for Supreme Court justice

By Lilly Price | Feb. 2, 2017

Keeping in line with some of her party’s colleagues, Democratic Senator Tammy Baldwin told the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Thursday that she will vote against President Donald Trump’s pick for the Supreme Court, conservative Colorado Judge Neil Gorsuch. Baldwin issued a statement Tuesday, the day of Gorsuch’s appointment, saying she would “fully review” Gorsuch’s record and was “deeply troubled” about his rulings on disabled students, against workers and against women’s reproductive healthcare.

President Donald Trump’s immigration ban is aimed to protect the United States, but some are worried it will have the opposite effect.
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UW foreign policy expert warns immigration ban could hurt national security

By Andy Goldstein | Jan. 31, 2017

Dozens of protesters gathered outside a federal courthouse in Milwaukee Saturday to protest President Donald Trump’s temporary ban on travel and immigration from seven majority-Muslim countries. Many of the more than 100 protesters are Iranian-born faculty and staff of the University of Wisconsin system, according to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Trump’s executive order, which intends to “suspend entry into the United States, as immigrants and nonimmigrants,” persons from Syria, Iraq, Iran, Libya, Sudan, Somalia and Yemen, spurred major protests at airports around the country. “The ban is counter to longstanding U.S.

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Trump reverses block on Keystone XL, Dakota Access Pipelines

By Meghan Kuemmel | Jan. 25, 2017

Construction will advance on the Keystone XL and Dakota Access Pipelines following President Donald Trump signing an executive order Tuesday, in a move that directly opposes an environmental action taken by former President Barack Obama. Energy Transfer Partners, the owner of the 1,172-mile Dakota Access Pipeline, were denied a permit by the Obama administration late last year after months of protests at Standing Rock Indian Reservation, which would be affected by the oil line.

“Wisconsin Works for Everyone” seeks to reduce barriers to work while ensuring “able-bodied” people receiving government assistance are working.
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Walker proposes requiring welfare recipients to work 80 hours per month

By Noah Habenstreit | Jan. 23, 2017

Gov. Scott Walker announced a welfare reform initiative Monday that aims to increase investment in skills training for the unemployed while also requiring “able-bodied” people receiving government assistance to work at least 80 hours per month. The plan, titled “Wisconsin Works for Everyone,” is part of Walker’s upcoming budget proposal, and builds on welfare reform initiatives originally signed into law by former Gov.

Thousands joined the Women’s March in Madison this Saturday where the protection of Planned Parenthood and women’s reproductive rights were a major theme.
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Planned Parenthood patients could lose care without Medicaid funding, report finds

By Lilly Price | Jan. 22, 2017

There will be a severe shortage of family planning services for Medicaid participants in Wisconsin if Planned Parenthood health centers are cut off from the state’s Medicaid program, a recent report shows. The study found that “without Planned Parenthood health center’s participation in the state’s Medicaid program, low income women, particularly low income women of color, will face significant barriers to accessing family planning services and other reproductive health care.” One of those barriers is the lack, or absence of, an alternative family planning service.

U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wis., announced he will not be attending President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration and that he would be attending the Women’s March in Madison the following day.
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Congressman weighs in on tuition cut proposal and upcoming Capitol marches

By Lilly Price | Jan. 19, 2017

U.S. Rep. Mark Pocan, D-Wis., said financial aid is a bigger issue than the cost of tuition and encouraged Wisconsin residents to participate in grassroots movements during an intimate news conference Thursday. The congressman was hesitant to support Gov. Scott Walker’s proposed in-state tuition cut for all UW System undergraduates, stating that if Walker doesn’t cover the costs of lost revenue the system will no longer be a renowned institution.

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