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thedailypage.com - There were thousands of signs at Saturday’s massive demonstrations around the Capitol, either supporting or criticizing Gov. Scott Walker’s attempt to weaken Wisconsin's public employee unions. But...


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politico.com - MADISON, Wisc. — Snow and ice pelted the Capitol here Sunday morning as protesters prepared yet again to storm the city and a group of Senate Democrats referring to themselves as the “Wisconsin 14”...


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modeducation.blogspot.com - While regimes across the Middle East face uprisings by workers and citizens fed up with autocratic rule, poverty and corruption, workers in the Mid-West have been protesting attacks on their workpl...


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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Yesterday, February 18, I attended a seminar on quality teaching sponsored jointly by the Education Writers Association and the Carnegie Corporation of New York. There were more than 50 journalists...


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theawl.com - It's already been a long weekend in Madison, Wisconsin. Protesters slept on the capitol floor and some Republican state legislators, after attempting to hold an illegal vote on Friday, made excuses...


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news.yahoo.com - COMMENTARY | Secretary of Education Arne Duncan traveled Wednesday to Denver to attend a national meeting on labor-management collaboration with teachers unions. This new friendliness between the D...


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allvoices.com - Wisconsin Governor Scott WalkerScott Walker warned state employees that if changes aren’t made to benefit contributions, 10-12,000 workers will be without work. Protesters have taken their concerns...


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npr.org - The Wisconsin state Assembly intends to vote on Gov. Scott Walker's proposal to strip collective bargaining rights from nearly all state employees. Thousands of teachers and others have descended o...


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duluthnewstribune.com - MADISON — Gov. Scott Walker ignored an offer of financial concessions by state and local public employees Saturday, calling once again for Democratic senators to stop “shirking their responsibiliti...


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rawstory.com - Tags: fox news sunday, governor, ipad, Legislature, mass demonstrations, News, republican governors, senate democrats, state, state senators, vote, wisconsin gov, workers unionsAs protests escalate...


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jd2718.wordpress.com - I received this from Anthony Cody. Please, read it, and sign up: I feel we should stand in solidarity with the teachers and other public employees in Wisconsin. Collective bargaining is a basic rig...


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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - WEACvideo | February 19, 2011 | 0 likes, 0 dislikesDedicated Wisconsin public employees say they have agreed to Governor Walker's pension and health care cuts, but they won't give up their rights.


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npr.org - Enlarge Mira Oberman/AFP/Getty Images While the legislative process stalls, politics by other means continues in the streets and in the capitol's hallways. Mira Oberman/AFP/Getty Images While the l...


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thonline.com - Because of the amount of traffic and the errors that automated computer scripts cause, automated computer scripts are being restricted to certain pages and certain time periods. If you feel that yo...


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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - I say, when the unwashed hordes descend on the capital demanding this and that, it’s disturbing. For the love of Smedley, can’t those despicable Wisconsin residents stick to their cheese and leave ...


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shoqvalue.com - By Shoq, on February 18, 2011, at 8:34 am This video will tell you just about everything you need to know about what Wisconsin is all about. If the left doesn't rise to this challenge, this nation ...


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realclearpolitics.com - February 20, 2011Sam Hananel And Jim KuhnhennOrganized labor is trying to re-energize and take advantage of the growing backlash from the wave of anti-union sentiment in Wisconsin and more than a d...


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jsonline.com - Feb. 19, 2011 7:00 p.m. | Madison - During the dueling demonstrations here Saturday on Gov. Scott Walker's budget-repair plan, doctors from various hospitals set up a station near the Capitol to pr...


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opednews.com - Cross-posted from "The Daily Narrative" at http://www.hlgoodall.com Let's face it: Rich Republicans hate government workers. Actually, they hate all union workers too. For example, let's take a...


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latimes.com - Critics portray the Los Angeles teachers union as politically all-powerful, able to swing elections and exert control over the Board of Education in the nation's second-largest school system. But i...


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motherjones.com - If you need to know the basics of what's going on in Wisconsin, read on. If you're already up to speed, you can follow the action on Twitter or jump straight to today's updates from our reporter on...


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journaltimes.com - Journal Times staff JournalTimes.com | Posted: Saturday, February 19, 2011 11:52 pm | RACINE - The Racine police and firefighters unions have come out against Gov. Scott Walker's collective bargain...


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cityofmadison.com - News Release Home For Immediate Release: Feb 19, 2011 For More Information Contact: Joel DeSpain 266-4897 SATURDAY'S CAPITOL SQUARE DEMONSTRATIONS Law Enforcement Praises Protesters' Conduct On beh...


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cbsnews.com - (CBSNews) For the past several days we've been seeing pictures of thousands of demonstrators, marching through the streets of one capital city. Not in Middle East, but in our own Middle West. Cynt...


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huffingtonpost.com - first posted at thenation.comAlready multiple members of the Super Bowl winning Green Bay Packers have taken public stands against the frightening, dictatorial, anti-union rampage of Wisconsin Gove...


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politics.gather.com - The GOP in Wisconsin values frugality. It wants to take away some rights and benefits of public workers in the state to trim the budget a bit. But where is the humanity? Doesn’t Governor Walker und...


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t-g.com - By JOHN I. CARNEY ~ jcarney@t-g.com State Sen. Jim Tracy of Shelbyville, who chairs the Senate Education Committee, has said in a letter that he supports teachers but that teachers unions "are in t...


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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - Governor Scott Walker took a state headed for a great surplusand instituted tax cuts for his Republican friends, which turned the surplus into a huge deficit. Now is using this deficit to justify t...


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businessinsider.com - by Linda BealeGOP deficit-reduction hype used in ideological "values" war?crossposted with Ataxingmatter There is concerted effort to portray Social Security as ruining the country by being a signi...


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host.madison.com - Anne E. McGill madison.com | | Posted: Sunday, February 20, 2011 4:30 am I agree with the stance of the State Journal's Thursday editorial, "Right direction, dangerous speed." The public has had li...


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capitolhillblue.com - By DOUG THOMPSONThe statue "Forward," on the steps of the state Capitol in Madison, Wis., is blindfolded with an American flag, Saturday, Feb. 19, 2011. A few dozen police officers stood between su...


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wiseye.org - 02.18.11 | Assembly Floor Session (Part 4) During this portion of the Assembly Special Floor Session a quorum call was ordered and roll call was taken. Assembly Democrats came in and stopped the v...


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knoxnews.com - We have two senators who are holding out and need some pressure applied ... Senators Rusty Crowe and Jamie Woodson" Tennessee Tea Party's website. Jamie Woodson NASHVILLE -- Conservative groups are...


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coopmike48 Iowa workers to rally at capitol to support unions - chicagotribune.com -http://goo.gl/z6CUQ #wisolidarity #wiunion#weacabout 1 hour ago · reply
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coopmike48 Tensions Rise As Indiana Legislators Put Collective Bargaining to a Vote | Mother Jones - http://goo.gl/YOnHi#wisolidarity #wiunion #weacabout 1 hour ago · reply
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coopmike48 Is Ohio Senate Bill 5 Union Busting? - Yahoo! News -http://goo.gl/rhX2X #wisolidarity #wiunion#weacabout 1 hour ago · reply
crooksandliars.com - Fox News broke this bulletin about an hour ago. It stems from a video posted by the MacIver Institute Wisconsin alleging that a doctor is signing bogus excuses for teachers protesting in Madison. B...


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abcnews.go.com - By DEAN SCHABNER, KEVIN DOLAK, CHRIS BURY and OLIVIA KATRANDJIAN Feb. 19, 2011 Some Wisconsin doctors threw their support behind teachers protesting the Republican governor's efforts to strip union...


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blog.nj.com - Published: Sunday, February 20, 2011, 6:41 AMDaniel DiSalvo, an assistant professor of political science at City College of New York, studies the labor movement. He wrote an article in the fall iss...


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chicagotribune.com - By Dan Hinkel Tribune reporter 7:24 p.m. CST, February 19, 2011


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larryferlazzo.edublogs.org - Feb 19 2011 Larry Ferlazzo Here’s an MSNBC video saying that 70,000 people attended Saturday’s protest against Gov. Walker’s plan to end collective bargaining. Other media outlets estimate the tota...


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northjersey.com - MADISON, Wis. — Thousands protesting Gov. Scott Walker's plan to cut the state budget and reduce collective bargaining rights met supporters of the Republican plan face-to-face on Saturday. A spoke...


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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - bigeducationape.blogspot.com -bigeducationape.blogspot.com -reuters.com - Sat Feb 19, 2011 4:08pm EST * Tea Party-backed rally outnumbered* Atmosphere friendly despite confrontation fears By James ...


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jsonline.com - Feb. 20, 2011 10:17 a.m. | Charles Woodson of the Green Bay Packers says he's with working families in Wisconsin. In a statement released Sunday morning by the National Football League Players Asso...


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bigeducationape.blogspot.com - SATURDAY'S CAPITOL SQUARE DEMONSTRATIONSLaw Enforcement Praises Protesters' ConductOn behalf of all the law enforcement agencies that helped keep the peace on the Capitol Square Saturday, a very si...


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philly.com - Posted on Sun, Feb. 20, 2011 WASHINGTON - Organized labor is trying to reenergize and take advantage of the growing backlash over the wave of antiunion sentiment in Wisconsin and more than a dozen ...


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news.yahoo.com - By TODD RICHMOND and JASON SMATHERS, Associated Press Todd Richmond And Jason Smathers, Associated Press – 28 mins ago MADISON, Wis. – Sometimes they cursed each other, sometimes they shook hands, ...


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americanchronicle.com - By Bill Glauber and Don Walker, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Feb. 20--MADISON -- To Richard L. Trumka, president of the national AFL-CIO, the showdown in Madison between Republican Gov. Scott Walker ...


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modeducation.blogspot.com - March is the National Month of Actions to Defend Public Education. For more information, check the websites below.


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mystateline.com - Reported by: Marty KasperSaturday, February 19 2011 For the sixth day in a row public workers in Wisconsin have packed the states capital, demanding that governor Scott Walker give up on eliminatin...


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journalgazette.net - Some 7,500 labor supporters waved signs and shouted “Veto!” as they marched into the Indiana Statehouse to protest a right-to-work bill, the first approved in an industrial state.The year was 1957,...


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34years.tumblr.com - 0 notes February 19, 2011 I’m watching events in Wisconsin with interest. The governor and legislature were elected with, what they believe, are mandates to cut costs and reign in expenses. However...


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wkyc.com - MADISON, Wis. -- Both sides in the protests over union rights in Madison are expected to face a new foe on Sunday: the weather. The National Weather Service is forecasting snow mixed with freezing ...


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