Class War in Wisconsin

Mubarak of the Midwest

Onward street fighters in the state of cheese! Mubarak of the Midwest, Scott Walker, is determined to bring Republican, T-Party style (that's Tyranny Party in case you didn't know) martial law and authoritarian government to our new third-world economy with his refusal to negotiate on anything short of the elimination of collective bargaining rights. Middle class, Sorry I hardly knew ye! Yes, we may not win but at least now we are not lying in the road waiting for the steamroller. Keep on keepin' on sisters and brothers, the rest of the country is rooting for you.

Read more here: Invitation to Class War,
AFL/CIO--Wisconsin is about every worker

The War on Workers Escalates

The Streets of Madison

Wisconsin has declared war on public sector employees, more specifically on their unions. The voracious Republican beast won't be satisfied until we are all homeless and out on the streets. Scott Walker has become the Hosni Mubarak of Wisconsin leading the call to arms, trying to mobilize private and public sectors workers against each other.
He is even trying divide and conquer from within by offering to exempt police and firefighters (often the highest paid group) from his draconian proposals.

 This battle has been fermenting quite a while. In the last election the people of San Francisco defeated, by a large margin, proposition B, a proposal by public defender Jeff Adachi to charge workers more for health care and cut into the benefits of the most underpaid.

The Streets of Cairo

In Wisconsin Walker is trying to eliminate collective bargaining, the raison d'etre for unions, completely. Fortunately, the people of Wisconsin are fighting back. With 30,000 in the streets yesterday, Madison is beginning to look, not quite Cairo, but definitely a bit like Bahrain.Instead of pulling down everyone to the lowest possible level, we should be struggling to improve the quality of all our lives.