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Ready to take action for social justice? Join us for Madison Action Day 2025 in Madison, WI!

 Engage with policymakers, connect with advocates, and make your voice heard. We are sharing our priorities for the State Biennium Budget. Priorities include Justice Reinvestment, Immigration, Public School Funding, and Badgercare Expansion. Together, we can create a more equitable future.  Includes box lunch and Madison Action Day tshirt. We are taking a coach bus with a bathroom. Sign up for bus in registration, additional $10 per person towards bus costs. 

 April 10, 2025

Look below for schedule and locations of buses leaving from Fox Cities.

Arrive to Madison Masonic Center by 9:00 am.  Finish meeting with legislators including a wrap up of the day by 4 pm, and bus will depart at that time.

Register now at $45: https://bit.ly/madisonactionday2025  

Those who register will receive information and zoom link about a April 3 zoom one hour meeting meeting at 6 pm which will give an overview of the day, including a sample of a legislative visit. Participants also will be receiving a digital copy and a hard copy of a booklet that summarizes WISDOM and our affiliates and our priorities for the budget. 

Bus Pickup Times and Locations:
No glass allowed on the bus.  Food & beverages allowed in paper, plastic or aluminum only.

WisDOT Park & Ride 05-02 [DPE], Lawrence Dr. De Pere    Arrive for loading 5:45/6:00 am departure
First Congregational Church UCC, 724 E. South River Road, Appleton Departs at 6:35 am
St. Mark's Lutheran Church, 149 S. Green Bay Road, Neenah Departs at 6:55 am
Washburn Park and Ride, 70-01 Park & Ride, 2500 S.Washburn Street, Oshkosh   Departs at 7:20 am
Arrive at Masonic Center, 301 Wisconsin Avenue, Madison at 9:00 am

Return from Grace Episcopal Church,  116 W. Washington Ave. Madison at 4:00 pm, returning to all the drop off sites.  See more for list of budget issues and schedule for the day. 

ESTHER’s Promise in 2025
Empowerment, Solidarity, Truth, Hope, Equity, and Reform
Connie Kanitz, ESTHER President

Redeeming Justice: From Defendant to Defender: My Fight for Equity on Both Sides of a Broken System, by Jarrett Adams

Keith Findley, the keynote speaker at ESTHER’s 20th Anniversary Banquet on November 16, is a key figure in this 2021 book by Jarrett Adams. Adams introduced Findley at the banquet and gave moving testimony about the new life Findley’s Innocence Project gave him.

Adams was seventeen when an all-white jury  in Jefferson County, Wisconsin, sentenced him to twenty-eight years behind bars for a crime he didn’t commit. In this unforgettable memoir, Jarrett recalls the journey that led to his exoneration—and inspired him to devote his life to fighting the many injustices in our legal system. With time running out for him to file his appeal, the Wisconsin Innocence Project at the University of Wisconsin Law School offered to represent him, both in drafting his appeal and representing him in court.