Unity Gathering

media release: ATTENTION: The January Unity Gathering might “Sell Out!” (In a good way.)

We don’t want to turn anyone away, but we do have limited space.

REGISTER TODAY to secure your place at the January Unity Gathering - 9 am-4 pm, January 11 & 12, at the Wisconsin State Capitol: https://tinyurl.com/JUG-Registration

Thank you to the 30 groups that are offering their support to January Unity Gathering!

Check out the names of the leaders who are putting their name on the “Partner Invitation Letter.” We’d love to add yours too! Sign up here: https://tinyurl.com/JUG-2025-Signup. This sign-up is also to make sure that we keep you updated with updates about the Gathering.

Please, share the Partner Invitation with your favorite partners and friends!  There is still plenty of room for you and your people!

This conference will be led by some of Wisconsin’s leading activists for peace, justice, sustainability, and democracy. There will be powerful keynote speakers, panel discussions, breakout groups, fabulous food, music, dancing, and more!

If you are on Facebook, please share this event page: https://tinyurl.com/JUG-2025-Fb-Event

Here are several of the Wisconsin leaders who will be speaking at this conference:

State Rep. Francesca Hong

Milwaukee 9th Dist. Alderwoman Laressa Taylor

Janan Najeeb, Co-founder and Director of the Muslim Women’s Coalition

Emilio De Torre, Director of Milwaukee Turners

State Rep. Darrin Madison

John Nichols, Author and writer for The Nation, The Cap Times, and others

*** If you are one of our support partners and you’d like to have one of your team members on one of our panels, have them fill out this application: https://tinyurl.com/Panelist-Application. We will let you know as soon as we can if we have a slot for this prospective panelist. 

If you’re coming to this gathering from outside of Madison and you would like a free place to sleep on Saturday night, or if you live in the Madison area and you have a sleeping space that you can offer up, please write to our in-home hospitality coordinator, Judy Miner at judeminer@gmail.com.

Lastly, we would like to offer a virtual option for the January Unity Gathering, but we will need a few people who can host via Zoom. If you are “Zoom-savy” and you’d like to help bring this event to those who can attend via Zoom, please call Building Unity at 608-630-3633.