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Jail Communications Campaign Victory

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By the Jail Communications Coalition We fought hard, we fought smart, and we won! The Abolitionist Working Group and our community coalition for free jail communications campaigned against a 3-5 year, exploitative contract between the Dane County Sheriff and Smart Communications, which the Dane County Board of Supervisors voted to reject on September 18, 2025.  The contract would have meant continued financial exploitation of jail residents and their families, keeping human connection for those awaiting trial behind a paywall and denying jail residents physical mai through the dehumanizing and inefficient practice of mail scanning. We are celebrating and learning from … Continue reading Jail Communications Campaign Victory

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Monthly Round-Up – September 2025

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by a comrade This article is written by a DSA member and does not formally represent the views of MADSA as a whole or its subgroups.  Welcome to Vol. 2 of the monthly round-up! The content in this publication overlaps significantly with our DSA newsletter and monthly General Membership Meetings. To sign up for the newsletter or check out an upcoming General Membership Meeting, visit: https://madison-dsa.org/events/ Socialists Run for Seats Locally and Across the Nation Socialist candidates have been making headlines across the country for offering a hopeful alternative to establishment Democrats. Exciting recent campaigns have included mayoral candidates Zohran … Continue reading Monthly Round-Up – September 2025

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MADSA Abolitionist Working Group Opposes Additional Spending on Jail

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Calls on Community to Demand Dane County Invest in Care Not Cages On Thursday, January 18, 2024 the Dane County Board of Supervisors will be voting on RES-286, which would increase the budget for the Jail Consolidation Project by $27.6 Million, bringing the total budget of the project to $197 Million. If this jail is built, it will be the most expensive public works project ever in Dane County by a long shot. But this community has the opportunity to say: no more. District 2 Supervisor Heidi Wegleitner says, “It’s disappointing that some are so eager to pour more money … Continue reading MADSA Abolitionist Working Group Opposes Additional Spending on Jail

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Two Madison Companies Complicit in Constructing Georgia’s “Cop City”

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By the People’s Green New Deal Working Group Sign our petition to tell TranSmart and Corporate Services Company to divest. TranSmart and Corporation Services Company (CSC), based in Madison, are a couple of the hundreds of subcontractors and institutions nationwide that are contributing to the construction of Atlanta’s Cop City project. We are asking TranSmart and CSC to drop their construction contracts and support of the unjust and immoral Atlanta Public Safety Training Center project. Atlanta’s Weelaunee Forest, one of the largest urban forests in the country, is the proposed site of the widely opposed Cop City, an international training … Continue reading Two Madison Companies Complicit in Constructing Georgia’s “Cop City”

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A Call to Head to the Frontlines of the Line 3 Struggle

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By Brian Ward The epicenter of the Indigenous and environmental struggle right now has been the fight against Line 3 in northern Minnesota. This pipeline has violated Anishnaabe treaty rights and threatens clean water bringing tar sands oil from Alberta, … Continue reading A Call to Head to the Frontlines of the Line 3 Struggle