UPI: Thousands protest at Michigan statehouse *March 17, 2011-* Thousands of union members and other protesters crowded the Michigan statehouse Wednesday for a demonstration against Gov. Rick Snyder's proposed budget. The rally was noisy, but mostly peaceful, The Detroit News reported. Crowds ...
Think Progress: Property Rights And the Kochs *March 16, 2011-* If I walked over to David Koch’s lawn and tore up all the grass, he’d probably feel that the basic principles of a free market society require me to be punished. After all, that’s his property. And then there’s what happens when the ...
Washington DC Wisconsin GOP Fundraiser protest 3/16/2011 WATCH ON YOUTUBE:
Press Release: USW Slams Walker’s Assault on Democracy *March 10, 2011- * Contact: Wayne Ranick (412) 562-2444 (Pittsburgh) – This statement was released this morning by the United Steelworkers (USW) on actions taken last evening by Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and Republican Senators. In a clear ...
Scholoar As Citizen: Who’s Really Behind Recent Republican Legislation in Wisconsin and Elsewhere? (Hint: It Didn’t Start Here) *March 15, 2011- * A Study Guide for Those Wishing to Know More After watching the sudden and impressively well-organized wave of legislation being introduced into state legislatures that all seem to be pursuing parallel goals only tangentially ...
Thom Hartmann & Rep. Jan Schakowsky - A tax on millionaires and billionaires? WATCH ON YOUTUBE:
Assault on Cub Food Protesters Can you spot the thug in this video? Hint: It's not one of the union guys: WATCH ON YOUTUBE: What happens when you complain to Cub Foods about working conditions for the workers who clean the stores? Protesters and customers found out at a Cub ...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Walker donor wins tax break in budget *March 6, 2011- *Things are tight at the statehouse, but not so tight that Gov. Scott Walker couldn't find room in his proposed state budget to insert a tax break for some in Wisconsin's prefab home industry. And it's a tax break that would benefit ...
Economic Policy Institute: The sad but true story of wages in America *-By Lawrence Mishel & Heidi Shierholz * *March 15, 2011- *Recent debates about whether public- or private-sector workers earn more have obscured a larger truth: all workers have suffered from decades of stagnating wages despite large gains in ...
Grist: Koch-funded group mounts cut-and-paste attack on regional climate initiatives March 16, 2011- Fresh off last year’s successful defeat of federal climate legislation in the U.S. Senate, the oil baron Koch brothers and their dirty-energy buddies are now bent on dismantling one of the nation’s last hopes for doing anything about ...
Talking Points Memo: Protests In Michigan Over 'Financial Martial Law' *March 16, 2011-* Following the pitched political battles over public employee union rights in Wisconsin, Ohio, and elsewhere, another state's fight over finances is heating up. In Michigan, new Republican Gov. Rick Snyder has just passed a bill ...
