Category: Events

Starting May 9th, join our support check-in meetings on Zoom from 6 to 6:45 Central every other Thursday (except July 4th) until the primary election in August. The dates are May 9, May 23, June 6, June 20, July 11, July 25, and Aug 8. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO PRE-REGISTER FOR THIS MEETING! To get the Zoom link, go to cclwi.org/calendar-for-CCL-Wisconsin and click on the event on the May 9th calendar page.

These meetings are for everyone who is or intends to be holding conversations with people in their personal networks who are environmental supporters but don’t vote regularly. 

We know that conversations with the people around us are important, and yet it also can be hard to do. We are all learners in this undertaking so the Zoom check-in lets us share what we are learning, practice our techniques, set personal goals and cheer each other on! If you missed the training, you can watch the videos and learn more at the check-ins.

Conversations with people in our social networks make a difference because:

• We can reach people that aren’t registered, aren’t on campaign lists, or don’t respond to phone calls from unknown callers.
• We can take more time to listen and respond to them, and talk more than once.
• We learn communication skills that are useful throughout our advocacy work and lives.
• We start or deepen relationships in our community

You can get more information on our team page on our cclwi.org website. 

2024 may be the most vital election year yet for our planet. With phone banking, we can mobilize hundreds of environmentalists to vote.

Please join and support Wisconsin CCL member Sam Moon, who will host our third Wisconsin Night phone banking session on 5/8 at 6 pm CT! No experience is required–Sam will train you. In the session, we will join other phone bankers from across the country to take part in a campaign for another state that has an upcoming election. At the end, we will have a brief team meeting to share our thoughts. These sessions will prepare us for when we run our own Wisconsin-focused phone banking sessions during the primary and presidential elections.

If Wednesday nights don’t work for you, you can sign up for other phone banking sessions on the Environmental Voter Project’s (EVP’s) website. If you have questions or would like to join our phone banking team, please contact jun.gesteland@gmail.com.

Learn and practice skills that help you listen well and activate people’s own stories that motivate them to be an environmental voter. Leave with a plan for how you will start having your courageous voter conversations.

This is the second in a three part series to train ourselves to have effective conversations with potential climate voters in our social circles. We can learn to listen with compassionate curiosity and help people activate their own values and reasons for being an environmental voter. Brandyn Keating, CEO of YOUnify, has years of experience with voter engagement and deep canvassing. She will lead us through three workshops on Zoom. They will be recorded and posted on cclwi.org, however you’ll get the most benefit by attending in person if you can.  Watch the first workshop.

Sign up for the Courageous Voter Conversations team to receive future notifications: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScfsKdgvELKMZXAu5j8Df6VmEhlFzQNsQ_FtETbXuUAZcis1g/viewform 

With all the discord surrounding our politics these days we know that there are lots of climate supporters who need some extra inspiration and support to vote. Through conversation and personal networking, we can reach many people who are otherwise going to be missed by the campaigns. In a state like Wisconsin, every vote counts!

2024 may be the most vital election year yet for our planet. With phone banking, we can mobilize hundreds of environmentalists to vote.

Please join and support our intern, Jun Gesteland, who will host our second Wisconsin Night phone banking session on 4/3 at 6 pm CT! No experience is required–Jun will train you. In the session, we will join other phone bankers from across the country to take part in a campaign for another state that has an upcoming election. At the end, we will have a team meeting to share our thoughts. These sessions will prepare us for when we run our own Wisconsin-focused phone banking sessions during the primary and presidential elections.

If Wednesday nights don’t work for you, you can sign up for other phone banking sessions on the Environmental Voter Project’s (EVP’s) website. If you have questions or would like to join our phone banking team, please contact jun.gesteland@gmail.com.

Our personal outreach matters! Learn how to identify the people in your life that you want to have conversations with about being an environmental voter. There are more of them than you might realize! Then get the basics about how to start those conversations and keep them productive. 

This is the first of a series of trainings and support sessions we will hold this year. Your RSVP will also give you access to the recording, though we encourage live participation if at all possible because we will be working in breakouts much of the time. It’s open to all CCLers and any new buddies who might work with you on your Courageous Voter Conversations this year.

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