Huge Obstacles to Beating Scott Walker in Wisconsin Recall

Community Organizing Ideas and Issues Voting Rights

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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Republican Anti-worker Perversions in Wake of Wisconsin Anti-Union Laws

Labor Organizing National Politics

New Orleans    A year ago new Governor Scott Walker led the Wisconsin legislature in a bitter, highly contentious and contested, battle to attack public employee unionization.  The headlines a year later focus on labor’s efforts to recall the government.  What happened to the workers in Wisconsin in the face of these new laws?  Short answer:  nothing …

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