Burlington Area Progressives

Saturday, September 19, 2009

We are pleased to announce that the Burlington Area Progressives (BAP), in conjunction with Organizing For America (OFA) and Health Care for America Now will be beginning our fall schedule with

Health Care Forum
September 24th
CATHE Building,
125 East State Street
Burlington, WI
begins at 7PM

Featured speaker: Brian Rothgery of Health Care for America.
This group was just featured on the Stephen Cobert Report and
Brian is the Wisconsin representative for them.

Penny Sharp, manager of the largest
state certified mental health outpatient clinic in Southeastern WI.

Our third speaker will be a volunteer from
Organizing for America

Topics will include problems with our existing health care system in the US and alternatives and solutions. Following the presentations (aprox. 1 hour total) we will have an open discussion forum with a Q&A format.

We look forward to seeing you there!

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OUR NEXT EVENT

Citizen Koch
Promoted by Burlington Area Progressives

Wednesday, August 13 6:30PM - 8:26PM
at Plaza Theater
448 Milwaukee Ave., Burlington, WI, 53105 (map)
$10.00 General

In this searing exposé on the state of democracy in America and the fracturing of the Republican Party, Academy Award®-nominated directors Carl Deal and Tia Lessin (Trouble the Water; co-producers of Fahrenheit 9/11 & Bowling for Columbine) follow the money behind the rise of the Tea Party. CITIZEN KOCH investigates the impact of unlimited, anonymous spending by corporations and billionaires on the electoral process, featuring stories of life-long Republicans whose loyalty is tested when their families become collateral damage in the GOP fight to take organized labor out at the knees. Alternately terrifying and funny, CITIZEN KOCH is an essential and powerful portrait of our political times.

Who We Are

Burlington Area Progressives is a non-profit, non-partisan group. Our mission is to inform, unify, and mobilize area citizens on local, state, and national issues.

A progressive is someone who believes in the betterment of society through progress. A progressive takes the best ideas from the past, updates them to the present, and uses them to create a better future. Progressives are concerned with freedom, social justice, education, health care, ecology, and voting rights -- among many other issues. Progressives believe that a rising tide should lift all boats. Unfortunately, the current tide seems to be lifting only a privileged few.

We believe that working together, we can turn back the waves of ignorance and oppression threatening our country and return America to the progressive values on which the country was founded -- values which made the United States a beacon of hope and freedom for the entire world.