Madison The life-and-death struggle in Wisconsin to turn back the radical and sweeping rightwing program of Governor Scott Walker being waged by progressive forces is entering another set of critical challenges. The primary to choose a Democratic opponent to Walker votes on May 8th only weeks away with the general election a month later on …
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Coming into Wisconsin at Ground Zero of Class War in America
Milwaukee I couldn’t resist an invitation to speak at a panel on ACORN and community organizing this weekend at a conference of historians largely because it was being held in Milwaukee and it gave me an excuse for several days to see what was really happening here at ground zero in the class war that …
Go Players! Beat Owners!
New Orleans Not surprisingly the NFL players and owners marched into the abyss yesterday in another high-profile fight over the value of collective bargaining, though in this case in order to hold on to what they have meant tactically decertifying the union and filing an anti-trust injunction against the owners. In Wisconsin even giving financial …