- Capitol Police Blocking Access to Building in Madison
- This is all tied to the joint legislative session on the budget on Tuesday. Governor Walker really doesn’t want to have to deliver the budget in a building under occupation. I think initially he planned to move locations, but that would not have been legal under Wisconsin state law. So instead of mass arrests and the negative publicity that would have went with it, Walker is going for the slow squeeze.
- REPORT: Top 10 Disastrous Policies From The Wisconsin GOP You Haven’t Heard About
- Since his inauguration just two months ago, Walker and the Wisconsin GOP have taken unprecedented action to undermine the state’s unions, environmental regulations, long-term fiscal health, social welfare programs and basic democratic structure. As Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) said Tuesday, Walker has stopped acting like the Republican governor of a Midwestern state and has instead “basically taken on the position of a dictator”…
- 100K Turn Out In Madison For Largest Rally Since Vietnam War
- "The coverage should have been everywhere in the media, but if you turned on your television in hopes of watching the rally from Wisconsin live, you were disappointed…
"CNN… at least managed to pull themselves away from celebrating the Tea Party long enough to take a quick glance at Madison."
Yes, CNN wished a happy birthday to the Tea Party. No, I'm not making this up.
You can read here about turnout in Los Angeles, Atlanta, Harrisburg PA, San Francisco, Charleston WV, Lansing MI, Salt Lake City UT, D.C., Annapolis MD and Richmond VA, St. Paul MN, NYC and Albany NY, Frankfort KY, Columbia SC, Boston MA, Albuquerque NM, Juneau AL, and Philadelphia PA. [link link and link-o-link]
- Something unusual is happening …
- A tweet from Wisconsin:
"3rd police officer in a row I've locked eyes with whose simply said, 'thank you for being here'. Something very unusual is happening…"
…If you want to see any news of this, the only place you can see it is on Fox where they are talking about the "hate in the faces" of the protesters and comparing it to Libya — presumably with the protesters in the role of Qadaffi.
You can best follow this on Twitter. Just like countries in the Middle East.
…Update II: According to the twitter machine: so far, no arrests. Some off duty police are staying with the protesters in solidarity.
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- Oscar Winners Celebrate Union Crews That Are ‘A Very Important Part Of The Middle Class’
- Also, later in the broadcast, Charles Ferguson — who won the Best Documentary Oscar for his film “Inside Job” — called for the prosecution of those responsible for the 2008 economic crash. “Forgive me, I must start by pointing out that three years after our horrific financial crisis caused by financial fraud, not a single financial executive has gone to jail, and that’s wrong,” Ferguson said.
[In case it needs to be said: I don't agree with every word of everything I link to. Signal boosts are awesome! --L.]
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