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Madison, Wisconsin needs a Tahrir Square. « Fred Klonsky's blog

Madison, Wisconsin needs a Tahrir Square. « Fred Klonsky's blog

Madison, Wisconsin needs a Tahrir Square.

Who would have imagined that teachers and other public employees would be forced to work at the point of a bayonet?

Last week, the newly elected Republican governor of Wisconsin, Scott Walker, said that he would balance the state’s budget by outlawing the collective bargaining rights of the state’s unionized public employees.

Today it is reported that Walker (now renamed “Hosni” Walker) has threatened to call out the National Guard to