Protest

This year marks the 40th anniversary of a landmark ruling that reaffirmed the 1837 treaty rights of a northern Wisconsin tribe to hunt, fish and gather on ceded territory. In 1983, two brothers from the Lac Courte Oreilles Band of Lake Superior Chippewa, Fred and Mike Tribble, were arrested for spearfishing outside the boundaries of…

The killing of George Floyd, a Black resident of Minneapolis, reignited ongoing protests against police brutality — a movement fueled in part by a widening breach between law enforcement and the local communities they are charged with serving. In Wisconsin, the most persistent demonstrations have been in its largest cities, Milwaukee and Madison, but protestors…

The person arrested Tuesday in connection with a 2022 attack on an anti-abortion group’s building received a doctoral degree from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, but is no longer affiliated with the school, administrators confirmed Wednesday. Screenshots of Hridindu Roychowdhury’s affiliation with a lab at the university were spread on social media following his arrest by…

Hundreds of supporters of abortion rights gathered at the state Capitol in Madison on Saturday afternoon to rally amid growing concerns that a U.S. Supreme Court decision in the coming weeks will overturn legalized abortion. Planned Parenthood Advocates of Wisconsin had organized the late-afternoon event. Gov. Tony Evers and U.S. Sen. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., were…

Police and firefighters are investigating suspected arson at the Madison headquarters of an anti-abortion group just days after the release of a leaked draft opinion that would overturn the landmark abortion rights case Roe v. Wade. Windows were broken and the inside of an office at Wisconsin Family Action was burned. A graffiti message spray-painted…

Olga Halaburda Hietpas spent the week buying out military supply stores in Fond du Lac and northeast Wisconsin. On Friday, she put those supplies into a yellow moving truck. “I bought up all the knee pads in Green Bay,” she said. “I bought up heavy-duty, really good socks. Not all boots are very good, but…

Leave it to Wisconsinites to fight autocracy one can of beer at a time. Starting this weekend, Milwaukee’s Lakefront Brewery is selling 32-ounce take-home crowlers that come with a new label featuring Russian President Vladimir Putin. The words, “Putin is a dick” are scrawled across the autocrat’s forehead while a tank takes aim at his…

Several dozen people gathered below the wind-whipped Wisconsin flag at Kenosha’s Civic Center Park on Sunday and warmed up with chants for justice before taking to the streets in protest of the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse. Demonstrators on Sunday traced the route Rittenhouse took the night in August last year when he shot and killed…

The Rev. Jesse Jackson is scheduled to join a march in Kenosha on Sunday to demand criminal justice reform following the acquittal of Kyle Rittenhouse. A statement by Jackson’s Rainbow PUSH Coalition says the march Sunday afternoon is set to trace the route Rittenhouse took the night in August last year that he shot and…

While many are holding their breath waiting for the jury to decide Kyle Rittenhouse’s fate, the girlfriend of one of the men he killed said it doesn’t change what happened. Hannah Gittings only dated Anthony Huber for about six months before he died, but she said their connection was instant. Gittings had recently stopped using…