About Us
Freedom Action Now (FAN) advances the feminist abolitionist agenda, mobilizing allies to support grassroots organizations led by working class Black, Southeast Asian, and other women and queer people of color in Wisconsin.
Freedom Action Now (FAN) advances the feminist abolitionist agenda, mobilizing allies to support grassroots organizations led by working class Black, Southeast Asian, and other women and queer people of color in Wisconsin.
Join Freedom, Inc. and Freedom Action NOW Events!
Oct 19, 2026 5:30 PM
A workshop on preparing effective testimony for the Oct. 20 Common Council meeting. Everyone has a story to share — and yours is an important one.
Oct 20, 2026 6:30 PM
A regular Council session — not a budget hearing on the City's official calendar, but it lands mid-cycle: Finance publishes its budget amendments Oct 23, and alders file Council amendments Oct 27–Nov 4. What gets raised here shapes what survives to November.
Oct 20, 2026 6:30 PM
Join us at the Common Council meeting to demand: no on terminating Monitor Glass, real resources for civilian police oversight, and community control of the police.
Oct 21, 2026 12:00 PM
A noon gathering at the City-County Building to remind our elected officials who they work for — and who they are responsible for.
Oct 22, 2026 4:00 PM
Join us and our team of national lawyers to better understand what your rights, risk and reality is when encountering police.
Oct 23, 2026 10:30 AM
We demand an end to the policing and jailing of our community — invest in care, not criminalization.
Oct 24, 2026 5:00 PM
A free Halloween night at Freedom, Inc. HQ — haunted house, costumes, food, music, and arts and crafts.
Oct 26, 2026 4:30 PM
Finance's final vote on the 2027 operating budget amendments. Any oversight-funding language lives or dies here. Alders filed by Wed, Oct 21 at 12 PM; Finance publishes by Fri, Oct 23 at 1 PM. After this, everything goes to the full Council.
Nov 10, 2026 5:30 PM
The vote. Public testimony and deliberations on the capital and operating budgets; the Council adopts the 2027 budget and authorizes the property tax levy. Council amendments were filed by Nov 4 at 12 PM and published Nov 6 at 1 PM — they are public before this meeting, so we know exactly what is on the table going in. In 2025 the adoption resolution passed on the first night.
Nov 11, 2026 5:30 PM
Conditional continuation — the Council reconvenes if Day 1 does not finish. The Council may recess and reconvene the following evening.
Nov 12, 2026 5:30 PM
Third conditional night — the outer limit of the budget process. After this, the 2027 budget is final.
