Channel 3000: Judge Issues Restraining Order To Block Collective Bargaining Bill Dane County DA Filed Lawsuit *March 18, 2011-* A Dane County judge issued a restraining order on Friday to block publication of the state's collective bargaining law. Judge Maryann Sumi issued the order to temporarily block the law as Dane County ...
Labor Notes: Ohio Governor Gets 3,000 Boos March 18, 2011- Ohio Governor John Kasich delivered his “State of the State” speech March 8 with all the pomp expected of a new governor setting his agenda. But 3,000 union members and allies—led by 2,000 firefighters along with teachers, state ...
Thom Hartmann vs David Selig on class warfare WATCH ON YOUTUBE:
The Progressive: Wisconsin Teacher in Apparent Suicide, “Distraught” Over Walker’s Cuts *March 17, 2011-* Jeri-Lynn Betts, an early childhood teacher in the Watertown, Wisconsin, school district, died on March 8 of an apparent suicide. A colleague says she was “very distraught” over Gov. Scott Walker’s attacks on public sector workers ...
WA Rally to Protect our Future WATCH ON YOUTUBE:
AlterNet: Wisconsin Recall: Tea Party Express Warns GOP In Danger *March 17, 2011-* In an urgent e-mail to its members, the Tea Party Express warned: For the past two weeks Democrats have out-hustled, out-worked, and out-fundraised Republicans in the RECALL campaigns that are being launched against Gov. Walker and ...
Think Progress: Koch Industries: 'Carbon Dioxide Is Not A Pollutant' *March 18, 2011-* John Hinderaker, who works for a firm employed by Koch Industries, argues that efforts to regulate the greenhouse pollution of the petrochemical giant are wrong because “carbon dioxide is not a pollutant.” “Climate change is not ...
Cenk Uygur: Effort To Recall Republican State Reps - The Nation's John Nichols WATCH ON YOUTUBE:
Think Progress: Who Is Bankrolling A Lawsuit To End The Ban On Foreign Money In U.S. Elections? *March 18, 2011-* When President Obama warned that the Supreme Court’s *Citizens United* decision “will open the floodgates for special interests — including foreign corporations — to spend without limit in our election,” conservatives began damage ...
The Fight Goes On: Save Ohio Anti-union TV spot by FreedomWorks (Astroturf organization founded by the Koch brothers) coming soon to Ohio WATCH ON YOUTUBE:
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Dane County judge halts collective bargaining law *March 18, 2011- *Dane County Circuit Judge Maryann Sumi issued a temporary restraining order Friday, barring the publication of a controversial new law that would sharply curtail collective bargaining for public employees. Sumi’s order will prevent ...
Think Progress: Palm Trees Come to Cleveland: FreedomWorks Uses Discredited Footage in New Ohio Anti-Union Ad WATCH ON YOUTUBE:
RAW Story: Koch-founded group recycles misleading video to support union-busting in Ohio *March 18, 2011-* A new ad out of FreedomWorks, the political advocacy group funded in-part by arch conservative billionaires Charles and David Koch, rankled critics Friday for recycling footage from a California protest to smear union workers in ...
