Mary's articles and Bio from Huffington Post:
Mary Bottari is the Director of the Center for Media and Democracy's Real Economy Project and editor of the www.BanksterUSA.org site for bank busting activists. She is an experienced policy wonk and public interest advocate. For the last ten years she has served as a senior analyst for the Washington, D.C.-based consumer group Public Citizen in its Global Trade Watch division. She has investigated and documented the impact of international trade agreements on public policy including in the areas of financial services, health care, toxics regulation, food safety, and the environment. Prior to her stint at Public Citizen, Mary was press secretary for U.S. Senator Russ Feingold and worked for many years in the Wisconsin State Senate. She has an M.A. from the University of Chicago and a B.A. from Bryn Mawr College. She lives in Madison, Wisconsin with her family. Her favorite Wisconsin cheese is Prairie Ridge Reserve.
Lisa's United Wisconsin
bio:
Lisa has been active in state and local politics, both personally and professionally, for nearly 20 years. She is a graduate of University of Wisconsin – Madison, and most recently served as the Executive Director of a women's health organization fighting for reproductive justice. Previously, Lisa worked in the social services field focused on issues of poverty, homelessness, and affordable housing. She began her career in child care, working for several years with Head Start programs and also teaching technical college courses for child care providers. In addition to her position as Executive Director of United Wisconsin, Lisa currently serves on Madison's City Council.
Rep. Janis Ringhand
Lisa Subeck
Feb. 13, 2013 Forum:
Stopping the Proposed Taconite Mine
in the Penokee Range of Wisconsin
Speakers:
Paula Albers
Rock County Proggressive Steering Comittee member
Former Montana resident with experience fighting the
after effects of open pit mines
The Four Lakes Group is your local branch of the Sierra Club. We are an all volunteer organization dedicated to environmental education and conservation. We are one of nine Groups in the Wisconsin John Muir Chapter.
INFO (from the Sierra Club):
The company Gogebic Taconite (GTAC) purchased the mineral rights for a vast area in northwestern Wisconsin-- 21,000 acres along 22 miles of the beautiful Penokee Range in Ashland and Iron Counties. In 2011, GTAC proposed to build what could become the largest open-pit iron-ore mine in the world (4 1/2 miles long, 1.5 miles wide and up 1,000 feet deep) to extract taconite, a type of low-grade iron ore. Although they claimed to have no interest in circumventing Wisconsin's safe-guard mining laws, they ended up working behind the scenes for months to gut the same mining laws that they supposedly were not interested in changing. AB 426 demolished environmental safeguards related to mining, eliminated public input, reduced revenues to local communities, and rushed the permit review process.
You can find these words of
his inside the Memorial.
"I am not an advocate for frequent changes in laws
and constitutions, but laws and institutions must go hand
in hand with the progress of the human mind. As that becomes
more developed, more enlightened, more discoveries are made,
new truths discovered and manners and opinions change, with
the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to
keep pace with the times. We might as well require a man to
wear still the coat which fitted him when a boy, as civilized
society to remain even under the regiment of their barbarous
ancestors."