Wisconsin, Ohio, and other states having protests against governor bills to get rid of collective bargaining rights!

Anyone think about how this effects future teachers, firefighters and other workers?? Sh!T I would not want to invest in the job now.

Straight from Michael Moore's website.
The latest news on revolution in Wisconsin.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/

ET wrote:Straight from Michael Moore's website.
The latest news on revolution in Wisconsin.
http://www.michaelmoore.com/

Wisconsin will not be alone. The cuts in other states are overwhelming. People are not going to take it much longer. NY, NJ, CT and others announced cuts this week also.

Cuts announced all over the country. Cuts happening soon all over the country. Time to take to the streets. It will happen. It is happening now, in Wisconsin.

Just scary to think what will happen when residents of NY, NJ and CT join together. People have had enough. Protests like the one in WI could shut Wall St. down. Gee.....what a shame!

check these videos out of Wisconsin! Makes me ecstatic! There is hope for us all! Look at them!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qCsG4g0dzJo&NR=1

Ed Shultz had some great coverage on this last night, and is going to WI to air his show there. The man's a saint.

Boy, am I glad to find this thread.

WPR radio has been covering this topic a lot. Just click on WPR's Ideas Network to listen.

http://www.wpr.org/webcasting/live.cfm

Hello JaneWI..isn't it great! The people united can never be defeated! This is the start of a new era in protests! Thought it would never come back to this country!
Also.....the bill still has a chance people. It has not officially been struck down. Right desperateinri????
et

I found an article by the BBC:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-12498249

and the NY Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/18/us/18wisconsin.html?src=mv

Man, I wish I could get there....

I notice some of the "Fox News heads" on you tube are already slandering the protesters as "socialists" or "communists" just like they did when the French were protesting. They need to realize that their slandering is not going to work against the majority of Americans!!!!!!!!!!

The thing that worries me is that even though the French protested for months about all of the cuts, their government went ahead and enacted all of the crap anyway. It's like these governments are not afraid of the people anymore and they certainly are not working for the people like they are supposed to. They had better fear the Americans, though. We have over 300 million people!!!

Yes, ET, this is amazing. I hope they succeed in not letting Walker get away with it. I only wish I could get there.

Now this is an interesting article from a source I believe is local in Madison.

"Walker gins up "crisis" to reward cronies"

http://host.madison.com/ct/news/opinion/editorial/article_61064e9a-27b0-5f28-b6d1-a57c8b2aaaf6.html

Jen wrote:I notice some of the "Fox News heads" on you tube are already slandering the protesters as "socialists" or "communists" just like they did when the French were protesting. They need to realize that their slandering is not going to work against the majority of Americans!!!!!!!!!!

Union workers have been vilified for years and it seems the teachers' unions are one of the main targets. I personally know many people who now seriously dislike all teachers and believe the teachers' unions should be disbanded. The talk against unions has been going on for years and some people now believe the unions are to blame for all bad things happening in this country. Ohhhh, if only these people had actually studied anything about labor history....

Word, JaneWI

I'm just lucky to have found the new forum so I can vent here. It's a difficult thing to do where I live because it's known for being very conservative. When I'm riled enough I call it "McCarthy Valley" because that infamous senator is from this area....

Thank you all for "listening" to me on this topic because expressing my views to most people here would make me less than popular.

Ha Ha
Just reported none of the Dems showed up so they can't vote now.

stilllooking wrote:Ha Ha
Just reported none of the Dems showed up so they can't vote now.

Wow, just wow! I wonder how this is going to play out in the coming hours and days.

The police are looking for the democrats?

http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/dems-missing-from-wis-842326.html

@janewi....you are not alone as far as living in a conservative area. Remember me....in Gov. Scott's state of Florida. And I live in New Port Richey, which is in Pasco County. Very conservative, right-wing, you have to watch everything you say in public down here. I have learned the hard way, I have lost jobs because of my opinions, etc.
I am originally from NYC, where you can have your own opinions and no one gets fired for that..it goes with the territory, to be an individual up there...but not down here.
Did I tell you about working for Scientologists? Working for Accuform signs in Brooksville..where a coworker found out that I was pro-abortion and put a sculpture of a fetus on my desk? How does that grab you? Down here there is no recourse for job harassment of this nature. Went to lawyers, BBB..nothing can stop these horrendous situations from occurring.
Biggest mistake of my life, moving down here. But, the damage is done and I have to live with it.
BTW...did women's programming on WBAI-FM in NYC. Many broadcasters from WBAI-FM, now work for NPR...like Margot Adler.
et

ET, it sounds like you are in an area similar to where I am. Those people should not have been able to do that to you. It's just not right. I don't even have sufficient words to describe how sad I am that one, they treated you like that and two, they got away with it. There is no excuse for that type of behavior.

My main hope on the protest is that Madison is the most liberal part of the state. They also have the highest per capita of people who hold bachelor degrees.

Hundreds of students in Appleton, WI protested downtown in support of the protesters in Madison. Wish I had known about this earlier... I wonder where exactly they protested.

http://www.postcrescent.com/article/20110217/APC0101/110217003/Appleton-schools-report-many-teacher-absences

Rep. Paul Ryan compares Wisconsin protests to Cairo



http://content.usatoday.com/communities/onpolitics/post/2011/02/paul-ryan-wisconsin-protests-egypt/1

Now comes the speculation as to where the democratic senators have gone. Some people are saying they went to IL. I wonder where they have gone off to, especially with the police looking for them.

http://www.jsonline.com/news/statepolitics/116381289.html

Students stage walkout at Chippewa Falls Senior High School



http://chippewa.com/news/local/article_fe2b418e-3aad-11e0-a35b-001cc4c002e0.html