Madison — The crowd swelled to an estimated 65,000 on Saturday as citizens from across the state gathered on the Capitol Square to condemn Governor Scott Walker for his year of assault on all that Wisconsinites hold dear: Workers rights, education, healthcare, the environment, First Amendment rights, voters rights, public safety, women’s reproductive rights, human […]
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STEAL THIS BOOK, NOT MY VOTE Installment #2: How We Got Here
This is the second installment of a series of excerpts from my new book, STEAL THIS BOOK, NOT MY VOTE. Due out April 7, 2012, the one-year anniversary of Kathy Nickolaus finding 14,000 votes two days after Joanne Kloppenburg was declared the winner of the 2011 Wisconsin Supreme Court election. Without those votes, there never would have […]
Pocan & Risser Lead Effort to Restore Collective Bargaining
March 8, 2012 by WCMC On Thursday, State Representative Mark Pocan and Senator Fred Risser held a joint news conference to announce the Collective Bargaining Restoration Act, which would repeal the anti-union provisions of Wisconsin Act 10. March 11 will mark the one-year anniversary of Governor Walker’s signing of Act 10, which stripped Wisconsin’s public […]
“You Could Have Killed a Child!” In Fitzwalkerstan, an Unattended Sign is as Dangerous as an Unlocked Gun
March 8, 2012 by WCMC March 7, 2012 was a special day. The ferrous mining bill AB426 was sent back to committee by Scott Fitzgerald, and I wanted to celebrate by coming to the Solidarity Sing Along. I picked up my banners and went to the Capitol rotunda at noon as I have hundreds of […]
Scott Fitzgerald Reacts to Mining Bill Failure in the Senate
March 8, 2012 by Lady Forward Scott Fitzgerald spoke with reporters in the Senate Parlor after a failed vote on the Mining Bill.
Wisconsin Uprising Marks One-Year Anniversary
February 15, 2012 by Lady Forward Valerie Van Horn brought her crock pot to the rotunda on Tuesday to commemorate the one-year anniversary of the beginning of the Wisconsin Uprising. Shortly after the capitol occupation ended last winter, the Department of Administration came up with a list of items “prohibited” from the capitol. A foamboard […]
Walker “War Room” Now Officially Established in Milwaukee to “Defeat the Recall”
January 31, 2012 by Barbara With BREAKING NEWS: The Campaign to Defeat Obama has officially sent the Save Scott Walker From Prison team on the red eye last night from Sacramento, California to set up their strategic “war room” somewhere in a Milwaukee Super 8 motel [see above photo]. According to their literature, their goal […]
Walker’s “Governor of the Year” Award: Think Time’s 1938 Man of the Year, Hitler
January 2, 2012 by Barbara With Last week, Governor’s Journal, a little-known online publication focusing on all things gubernatorial gave Scott Walker the Governor of the Year Award. Dean Pagani, editor and sole proprietor of this one-man shop sat down to an interview with Wisconsin Reporters to explain the intention behind the honor. [See video […]
UPDATE: Ashland Cty Board Ad Hoc Committee on Mining Rescinds Support
March 4, 2015 UPDATE: Gogebic Taconite (GTac) allegedly closed their Hurley office on March 1, 2015. With the price of iron ore crashing, GTac said it was the proliferation of wetlands in the Penokees Hills that made the area un-mineable. However, the power of the people coming together to protect the water also gave the seeds of justice a chance to prevail. This blog, originally published […]
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