Experts: Wisconsin only ‘Republican broke’

from David Ferguson, Raw Story According to The Wisconsin State Journal some economists allege that Governor Scott Walker’s budget crisis is a fabrication invented out of whole cloth and predicated on a series of tax breaks for corporations and the wealthy. Walker has repeatedly asserted that the state is “broke”, but using the word “broke” [...]

Wisconsin Union Law Passage To Be Examined By Judge

Todd Richmond, AP A week ago, Wisconsin Republicans thought they’d won the fight over the state’s polarizing union rights bill. They’d weathered massive protests, outfoxed Senate Democrats who fled the state and gotten around a restraining order blocking the law by having an obscure state agency publish it. They even started preparations to pull money [...]

Indiana prosecutor told Wisconsin governor to stage ‘false flag’ operation

 from Raw Story An Indiana prosecutor and Republican activist has resigned after emails show he suggested Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker stage a fake attack on himself to discredit unions protesting his budget repair bill. The Republican governor signed a bill on March 11 that eliminates most union rights for public employees. In an email from [...]

Look Over There! Look Over There! Nothing to See Here… Look OVER THERE!!!

by Scott Creighton While most of the MSM focuses entirely on Japan or the drifting fallout, winds of CHANGE are blowing through the Obama administration who are definitely taking advantage of the distraction. The president has chosen this particular moment in time to take up the question of gun control in the wake of the [...]

Power Concedes Nothing Without a Demand

by Chris Hedges, Truthdig The liberal class is discovering what happens when you tolerate the intolerant. Let hate speech pollute the airways. Let corporations buy up your courts and state and federal legislative bodies. Let the Christian religion be manipulated by charlatans to demonize Muslims, gays and intellectuals, discredit science and become a source of [...]

100,000 Show Up for Madison Protest on Saturday

from the Associated Press Clogging the Wisconsin Capitol grounds and screaming angry chants, tens of thousands of undaunted pro-labor protesters descended on Madison again Saturday and vowed to focus on future elections now that contentious cuts to public worker union rights have become law. Protests have rocked the Capitol almost every day since Gov. Scott [...]

General Strike Pamphlet

by Steve Ayers at IWW What Do We Face? Walker’s bill, if passed, will strip public-sector unions of the right to collectively bargain regarding all workplace issues other than basic wages. Workers would no longer have a legal say in their pensions, their healthcare plans, workplace safety, or any other pertinent issues. Without collective bargaining, [...]

Tens of thousands gather at Indiana’s statehouse to support workers’ rights

from Raw Story Facing down icy conditions, tens of thousands of union workers and supporters gathered outside Indiana’s statehouse Thursday to protest a bill that would strip all union workers of their bargaining rights. Like in Wisconsin, a number of the state’s elected Democrats have fled, preventing a vote from taking place. Also like Wisconsin, [...]

“This is War”

Micheal Moore talking on Rachel Maddow’s show (yeah… I know) about the situation in Madison Wisconsin.  This is class warfare. It’s been going on since the Reagan revolution (and beyond actually, since the Lewis Powell Memo and the American Liberty League got ready to overthrow the US government in ’34)… and yes, they seem to [...]

Madison firefighters’ union president calls for general strike

by Steven Webster, Raw Story Joe Conway, president of the Madison firefighters’ union, said recently that the political situation has grown so dire in Wisconsin, he’d support a general strike. “We should start walking out tomorrow, the next day … See how long they can last,” he told reporters with The Uptake. “This is a [...]

Gov Walker Faked a Financial Crisis to Privatize Milwaukee County’s Security Guards

by Scott Creighton As Rachel Maddow has been pointing out, Gov. Walker earned his loyalty from the Koch brothers by running his union-busting scam before in Milwaukee County when he was serving as county executive. He made up a financial crisis and used it to privatize the county security guard jobs, which have been unionized for [...]

‘America Is NOT Broke’: Michael Moore Speaks in Madison, WI — March 5, 2011

Protests Across the Country to Support Worker’s Rights

100,000 in Wisconsin “largest since the Vietnam war” Wisconsin Cop explains who he works for “When we took this job, we swore an oath to protect and serve the members of our community. And that is exactly what we intend to do” Missouri rally Chicago Michigan Go to Raw Story to read and see photos [...]

RALLY TO SAVE THE AMERICAN DREAM

RALLY TO SAVE THE AMERICAN DREAM Today, Saturday, February 26th, at Noon Local Time in Locations in All 50 States by Scott Creighton Stand with the people of Wisconsin, Stand with the working people of America Gov. Walker’s budget bill is not just about austerity measures that force working Americans to accept less to pay [...]

Press Release from Wisconsin Professional Police Association

(Cops will be sleeping with the protesters. Obviously they are concerned about Gov. Walker’s consideration of using agent provocateurs. COPS STANDING AND BUNKING WITH WISCONSIN PROTESTERS) THE WISCONSIN PROFESSIONAL POLICE ASSOCIATION FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: February 25, 2011 Contact: James L. Palmer, II, 608-273-3840 HEAD OF POLICE UNION ASKS GOVERNOR TO KEEP CAPITOL OPEN AND ANNOUNCES [...]