I haven’t blogged much about Wisconsin for two reasons. First, based on my experience organizing anti- Iraq war protests, getting hundreds of thousands in the streets is no guarantee that demands will be met. You may just be ignored. Second, there’s been no call to arms from the major unions, no talk of massive [...]
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Wisconsin unions can now either give it all they’ve got, or they’re done for. Right now, after Scott Walker and the Wisconsin Senate Republicans have pushed through this step in the decades-long corporate assault on labor, the unions really have their backs against a wall. Membership has declined, manufacturing has gone oversees, the national Democratic [...] It’s not like what the Koch Brothers and Scott Walker are attempting is something new. Big money continually tries to subvert and influence politics. But usually it’s done more subtly and out of sight. The banksters do their influence-peddling behind closed doors so the public has much less idea what’s going on. But Scott Walker [...] Middle East protests may topple more governments but the underlying problems of poverty, rising prices, and income disparities will remain. Will the outcome for many of these countries be something like Pakistan is now? And who is Raymond Davis, supposed diplomat who killed two Pakistanis with highly accurate shots and is now jailed there? [...] |  | ||||
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