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Public Policy Tipoffs Involving Wisconsin Newsletter for Saturday September 21, 2024 ( 5 items )  

'We Dissent': Project 2025 -- A roadmap to hell
MADISON, Wisconsin, Sept. 20 -- The Freedom From Religion Foundation issued the following news release: The hosts of the "We Dissent" podcast discuss on its latest episode the most urgent Christian nationalist threat to democracy Project 2025. On episode 34, FFRF Deputy Legal Director Liz Cavell, Americans United Legal Director Rebecca Markert and American Atheists Vice President for Legal and Policy Alison Gill dig into the Heritage Foundation's Project 2025, the comprehensive transition road  more

Breaking: CodePink Disrupts Vice President Kamala Harris at Madison, WI Event
LOS ANGELES, California, Sept. 21 -- CodePink, a grassroots peace and social justice movement working to end U.S.-funded wars and occupations, to challenge militarism globally, issued the following news release: Madison, WI -- Peace activists with CODEPINK-Madison, SJP University of Wisconsin-Madison and unaffiliated Madisonians used Vice President Kamala Harris' campaign event in Madison as an opportunity to call attention to her role in supporting the ongoing genocide in Gaza. Holding banner  more

Christian patriarchy -- and its oppression -- focus of FFRF TV show
MADISON, Wisconsin, Sept. 19 -- The Freedom From Religion Foundation issued the following news release: This week's episode of the Freedom From Religion Foundation's "Freethought Matters" TV interview show focuses on Christian patriarchy and the women still trapped in it. Guest Cait West was raised in the Christian purity movement, where women are taught to be completely subservient to fathers. She eventually found the courage to break away and is now a writer and editor based in Michigan. She  more

Evangelical climate change denial is killing our planet
MADISON, Wisconsin, Sept. 20 -- The Freedom From Religion Foundation issued the following news release: New research confirms that evangelical Christian beliefs are the strongest predictors of climate change denial. New York University political scientist John Kane and University of Oklahoma sociologist Samuel Perry have published a new working paper finding that the belief claiming God "has a secret timeline involving Jesus' return and the world's decline and destruction" is the strongest rel  more

FFRF Action Fund: 'Theocrat' Wants School Chaplain Program That Secular Activist Decries
MADISON, Wisconsin, Sept. 21 -- FFRF Action Fund, an organization that says it develops and advocates for legislation, regulations and government programs to preserve the constitutional principle of separation between state and church, issued the following news: FFRF Action Fund's "Secularist of the Week" is a stellar secular activist who testified before a Florida school board, urging board members to vote down a chaplain program in its public schools. Our "Theocrat of the Week" is the leading  more