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Tea Party backers outnumbered in Wisconsin budget demonstrations

February 19, 2011 by Source

By James Kelleher / Reuters / Sat Feb 19, 2011 3:55pm EST MADISON, Wisconsin (Reuters) – Supporters of legislation to reduce public employee union bargaining power and benefits in Wisconsin were far outnumbered by opponents on Saturday, as the two sides shouted competing slogans under clear skies. Tens of thousands have demonstrated throughout the week […]

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Anna’s Video Pick – Ed Schultz in Madison Wisconsin

February 18, 2011 by Anna Daniels
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What does democracy look like? Does it look like teachers, police, firefighters, librarians, nurses, the people who remove snow and trash, and social workers who have peacefully and in large numbers turned out to support the right of working and middle class people to participate in unions and in the collective bargaining process?

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Riots in the Streets of Madison?

February 18, 2011 by Andy Cohen
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Of course, there are no riots. None. Not one. But that’s what the Right Wing talking heads want us all to believe. That’s what the Republican elected officials are telling us. They want us to think that those that are protesting newly elected Republican Governor Scott Walker’s plan to eradicate the unions and squash the labor movement are wreaking havoc all over the state of Wisconsin. The right wingers—including Walker himself—want us to believe that it is necessary to call out the National Guard to quell the violent protests breaking out all over the state. They’re propagating the lie that the hospitals are filling with injured protesters and the jails are being overcrowded by the violent offenders who are taking part.

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For 2nd Day Wisconsin Democratic Senators Prevent Anti-Union Vote

February 18, 2011 by Source
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By Jason Stein, Patrick Marley and Bill Glauber/ Journal Sentinel Online (Milwaukee, WI) /  Feb. 18, 2011 Madison — With Senate Democrats still missing, the Wisconsin Assembly convened at 9 a.m. Friday to take up Gov. Scott Walker’s budget-repair bill as activists continue to fill the State Capitol, drinking coffee, banging drums and digging in for […]

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