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Wisconsin's Spirit: Courage for Other States to Emulate worker struggles...
Posted: Fri, Feb 25, 2011 1:48am PST
Governer Scott Wilson busted by prank call from blogger pretending to David Koch BREAKING NEWS Koch Brothers & Scott Walker:
Today, WI Gov. Scott Walker, believing he was talking to prominent financial backer David Koch, told a Buffalo, N.Y. blogger that he was getting ready to issue pink slips to state workers in a strategy to force Democratic Republican Senators back to work....
Posted: Wed, Feb 23, 2011 5:48pm PST
2/23/11 Updates on Wisconsin Labor Struggle Solidarity Rallies were held across the nation, Peace & Freedom Party and the Green Party issued statements in support of Wisconsin labor and a general strike is pending....
Posted: Wed, Feb 23, 2011 7:43am PST
Wisconsin: Ground Zero to Save Public Worker Rights worker struggles...
Posted: Wed, Feb 23, 2011 1:47am PST
Live Reporting from the Wisconsin Protests Madison, Wisconsin's Indymedia is offline right now....
Posted: Tue, Feb 22, 2011 9:26pm PST
Where did the money go Gov. Walker? A campaign staffer for now-Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin was paid nearly a quarter million dollars in “consulting fees” in her role as a “lead fundraiser.”...
Posted: Mon, Feb 21, 2011 10:07pm PST
To Win, Prepare to Strike Wisconsin! The protesting Wisconsin workers are facing huge police forces, including snipers on roofs with guns pointed at them. One worker went on to recount how the state police acted as stormtroopers, gratuitously attacking demonstrators, including smashing his wife in the face, during an October 1967 student protest against recruiters for Dow Chemical (the makers of napalm) on the UW Madison campus....
Posted: Sun, Feb 20, 2011 10:16pm PST
WI: Labor leaders drag out Jesse Jackson, intensify efforts to temper protests (TCIMC) Updates and analysis from the working class revolt in Wisconsin...
Posted: Sun, Feb 20, 2011 6:50pm PST
Wisconsin Teachers Take a Stand (audio/mpeg 3.7MB) Teachers from across the state of Wisconsin are saying 'no' to Governor Walker's Budget Repair Bill, SB11. The bill calls for an end to all collective bargaining Rights for teachers and other state workers. Teachers, students and union workers say they will keep protesting until a change occurs....
Posted: Sun, Feb 20, 2011 1:52pm PST
How to Win in Wisconsin and Beyond The eruption of protests in Madison, Wisconsin against a rabidly anti-union Governor and legislature has become "ground zero" in a fight that, on the surface, appears to be labor unions vs. Republicans.
Digging deeper will reveal a conflict brewing for decades in American society that pits working people in general against an increasingly bold corporate sector. The side that wins the battle in Wisconsin will be empowered and the loser demoralized, affecting the morale of the fighters in the...
Posted: Sun, Feb 20, 2011 1:48pm PST
Honeywell Workers From Around the World Converge & Streamed in Metropolis | USW Local7-669 
There will be an international meeting of locked out USW Honeywell Metropolis IL nuclear processing workers on Feb 21. It will be streamed live on the web...
Posted: Sun, Feb 20, 2011 12:57pm PST
Wisconsin Labor Leads 2d American Revolution One year ago, on March 4, California students and teachers had a one-day strike for education, but nothing has improved because we did not have a general strike. Today, Wisconsin workers are striking and protesting the planned Democrat-Republican attack on the workingclass so as to maximize the profits of the capitalist class. The whole country should join this 2d American Revolution with all deliberate speed....
Posted: Sat, Feb 19, 2011 3:40pm PST
UFCW 2011: Heros or Zeros? In this big crazy world we all live in we meet a lot of different types of people. Some we encounter are heros While others are zeros...
Posted: Sat, Feb 19, 2011 9:23am PST
Union leaders want to limit the goals as Wisconsin protests grow. Continued battles in Madison Wisconsin. Union leaders and Democrats say its only about bargaining rights. They are preparing the ground for concessions on other issues. Workers and youth must not let this happen and use the heightened political mood to build a movement that can drive back the bosses' offensive and make some real gains for all workers....
Posted: Fri, Feb 18, 2011 1:49pm PST
The Wisconsin Uprising The sweeping anti-union legislation being pushed by Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is not about balancing budgets. It is a power grab, part of a calculated effort to undermine what's left of the most significant institutional counter-balance to the ever-weightier political influence of corporations....
Posted: Fri, Feb 18, 2011 12:18pm PST
Call to act in support of Wisconsin Workers and Students Fight Back News Service is circulating the following statement from the Bail Out the People Movement....
Posted: Thu, Feb 17, 2011 9:45pm PST
Wisconsin Gov. bans collective bargaining 4 public sector employees/massive protests erupt 
"Tens of thousands of Wisconsin residents are flooding the State Capitol in Madison in protest of Governor Walker's proposed budget "repair" bill that would end 50 years of collective bargaining for Wisconsin workers.Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker alleges that dismantling public sector collective bargaining rights is made necessary by a $3.6 billion deficit in the next budget, and a $137 million shortfall this year."...
Posted: Thu, Feb 17, 2011 9:34pm PST
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