Burlington Area Progressives: BAP Presents Tom Gilding as Fighting Bob La Follette!

Wednesday, May 23, 2012

BAP Presents Tom Gilding as Fighting Bob La Follette!

MARK JUNE 2nd on your CALENDARS! The Burlington Area Progressives are Proud to Present Tom Gilding as Wisconsin's Great Progressive Hero Fightin Bob La Follette!

Fighting Bob will hold forth from the period appropriate Bandstand at Echo Lake Park, 595 Milwaukee Avenue (Hwy 36) in downtown Burlington. The fun starts at 3:00 and will include live music by Tamara V and original Recall Songs by Jack La Follette, Jacob Merseberger, Yours Truly and anyone with a voice or noise making implement that wants to join in.

After a long day of phone calls and canvassing you'll be thirsty, tired & hungry, so bring your favorite beverage (Beer, Wine, Soda), lawn chairs and a dish/snack. We have the pavillion too with all the picnic tables in case of hot sun or rain. This is going to be fun and inspirational, so let's get a big crowd and show Burlington how Progressive Badgers roll!

Please feel free to print post and distribute widely the attached 8x11 jpeg poster. I have them in pdf and 11x17 and handbill size versions as well.

"Men must be aggressive for what is right if government is to be saved form men who are aggressive for what is wrong." - Robert M. La Follette, Sr.

FORWARD!

Thank you for all you do!

Sean
(262) 237-4351

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at Plaza Theater
448 Milwaukee Ave., Burlington, WI, 53105 (map)
$10.00 General

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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.