It's been over three weeks since Wisconsin got turned upside down by the Governor's budget repair bill.  Protests are happening in every corner of the state.  It's been reported that more than 300,000 people have made their way to the capitol to protest the governor's actions, and 14 of our senators remain in hiding in Illinois.

The Grassroots Leadership College is keeping busy with all the action.  We and our friends have trained thousands in nonviolence with our new Prepared and Peaceful nonviolence curriculum (Many thanks to A.B. Orlik of Writing Barefoot and Rebecca Krantz of Many Stones Consulting who took the lead writing the curriculum and all those who helped tweak it into a great piece of work).  A copy can be found on our homepage.

We're now working on developing tools to provide ongoing activist support, reflection and refueling programs, continuing to do nonviolence training, developing a series of skills trainings, and an online resource library.

You can be part of the action in many ways.  This week you can

1. help hand out flyers on Saturday at the capitol announcing upcoming trainings and other resources
2. go to the Ians Pizza on State facebook page and nominate the Grassroots
Leadership College to be a funding recipient
3. Promote our upcoming trainings to your networks-- updates can be found
at www.grassrootsleadershipcollege.org
4. come to volunteer night at the office Tuesday starting at 5pm
5. contribute online at www.grassrootsleadershipcollege.org or by sending
a check to the office 1321 E. Mifflin St. Suite 201 Madison, WI 53703
6. Share your favorite community organizing resources-- we are especially looking for very short "how to" pieces that we can post in our online library


If you'd like to help out or have ideas to share contact Amy at amy@grassrootsleadershipcollege.org or by calling 608-441-0085(w) or 608-658-5954.

peace,
amy