http://newiprogressive.com/images/stories/S5/healthcare-physician-asst-s5.pngWisconsin has seen an onslaught of attempts to pass restrictive abortion laws in recent years by GOP politicians.

http://newiprogressive.com/images/stories/S5/evers-speaks-dairy-mo-s5.pngEver’s plan provides $150 surplus refund to every Wisconsin resident, targeted relief for childcare and caregiver costs, and investments in education while holding the line on property taxes.

Those alarmed by the actions of the radical right are going to have to warm up to agitation and provocation. American now stands at a crossroads.

ALTOONA, WI - Several decades ago three young students journeyed through dusty rural California in hopes of meeting famed migrant farm worker organizer Cesar Chavez. Once they found Chavez, they sat with him and asked, “Cesar, how do you organize? ” Chavez replied, “well, first you talk to one person, then you talk to another person, then you talk to another person….”

The students assumed Chavez misunderstood their question and clarified that they wanted to know how mass movements are built. Chavez repeated, “first you talk to one person, then you talk to another.”

The key to making change is as elementary as Chavez’s secret of organizing.

It comes down to discomfort.

Comfortable people don’t move. They stay where they are because they are comfortable where they are. To make them move, they have to be made uncomfortable.

It’s like the basic law of physics . . . and object at rest will remain at rest, unless some force makes it move. A corrupt political establishment will stay corrupt and a failing political system will keep failing us, unless some force makes the powers-that-be change their ways.

That force is discomfort.

http://newiprogressive.com/images/stories/S5/kamala-harris-vp-getty-s442.jpgVice President Harris visited Milwaukee Monday to highlight the $841 million over the next five years Wisconsin is receiving for clean water projects.