"Let's make America work for everyone."

The Oregon Area Progressives host a

Community Open Mic

on the 1st Friday of most months. 

OAP Open Mics are held at the Kick Back Cafe, 107 S. Main St., in Oregon.

Join us in person or follow us on  FaceBook Live:

 https://www.facebook.com/OregonAreaProgressives/live/

The OAP Open Mic, which began in April of 2011, features expert guests on highlighted topics, along with an ‘open mic’ portion when audience members can share music, poetry, announcements, jokes, rants, and other items of community interest. Open Mics regularly include action items such as writing postcards and making phone calls.

Past guests and topics have included elected Wisconsin legislators such Rep. Mark Pocan, State Senators Janis Ringhand, Mark Miller, and Kathleen Vinehout to discuss such issues as the state budget, education, transportation, etc.; Dr. Robert Kraig from Wisconsin Citizen Action on Affordable Care Act; Dick Smith of Citizen Climate Lobby on how to lobby Congress regarding climate change; Heidi Rose from Wisconsin Anti-Violence Effort on Gun Violence in Wisconsin; Oregon School District representatives on Bully Prevention, Mary Flynn from Lutheran Social Services on supporting immigrants; Drs. Dan Bennett and Eric Moffit from Physicians for a National Healthcare Program on single payer healthcare; Lisa Graves from the Center for Media and Democracy, John Nichols of the Nation Magazine and Matt Rothschild of the Progressive Magazine.

During state and national elections in 2010, 2012, 2014 and 2016, OAP has run the southern Dane County staging location for the Coordinated Campaign and turned out higher than average Democratic vote totals in our region. In addition, OAP regularly hosts voter registration drives and voter education forums. In 2011 and 2013, OAP organized day-long conferences on the American Legislative Exchange Council and the effects of Citizens United with national experts, including Rep. Jan Schakowsky, John Nichols of the Nation Magazine, Lisa Graves from the Center for Media and Democracy, Rep. Mark Pocan of Wisconsin’s 2^nd Congressional District and the late Bob Edgar from Common Cause.

Progressive Partners

Oregon Area Progressives is a member of Progressive Partners, which exists to support and facilitate communication, coordination, and collaboration among autonomous, community-based, progressive grassroots groups and community allies. We invite you to connect with these member groups:

Countyline Progressives (Belleville, Monticello, New Glarus area)

• DeForest Windsor Area Grass Roots
• Eastside Progressives (Madison)
• Grassroots Citizens of Wisconsin (Iowa, Sauk, Lafayette and Grant Counties)
• Grass Roots Organization of Waunakee (GROW)
• Madison Isthmus Neighborhood Team (MINT)
• Madison Teal Team
• Madtown O’s (Madison’s west side)
• Middleton Action Team (MAT)
• Oregon Area Progressives
• People 4 Progress (Mazomanie, Black Earth, northwestern Dane County)
• Progressive Windsor
• Reedsburg Area Concerned Citizens
• Sauk Prairie Action Team / Sauk County Progressives
• South Madison Team
• Southwest Wisconsin Area Progressives (SWWAP: Mount Horeb & surrounding area)
• Stoton Dems and Progressives
• Sun Prairie Action Resource Coalition (SPARC)
• United Fitchburg
• Verona Area Progressives