In The USA: the Next Revolution

[AdamG]

Got Neighbors?
Jus' sayin'....

Egyptians form makeshift militias to stop looters
As police disappear from residential streets, communities take law into their own hands against armed gangs

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011...litias-looters

[slapout9]

Interview of economist Jeffery D. Sachs on the Great Game at home.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gW6Lu...layer_embedded

[slapout9]

Protesters took over the Capitol of..........Wisconsin to protest budget cuts. MSNBC "The Ed Show" has reported as many as 30,000 people were protesting outside in the Snow with more planned tomorrow. The Ed Show also reported that there are reports that the Governor has manufactured the budget crisis in order to gain concessions from the Unions. Links to the Ed Show reports are not available yet(should be later) but I did find a link to this article.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/l...,3272758.story

[jmm99]

212 Chicago Tribune links to this story.

This headline and story, Obama says he's monitoring tensions in Madison, calls Walker's measure 'assault' on unions, says it all - politics as usual.

MILWAUKEE (AP) — President Barack Obama says he's monitoring the tensions in Madison. That's where protesters are criticizing efforts to eliminate collective bargaining rights for state employees.

Republican Gov. Scott Walker is pushing the measure, which would also increase how much public workers pay for their pensions and health care. Thousands are protesting at the Capitol in Madison.

In an interview with WTMJ-TV, Obama says everyone has to make adjustments to new fiscal realities. He notes that he imposed a two-year freeze on pay increases for federal workers, and says adjustments like that "are the right thing to do."

However, he says making it harder for public employees to collectively bargain "seems like more of an assault on unions."

Obama adds that public employees shouldn't be blamed for larger budget problems.

Slap, I fear Wisconsinites will disappoint you as revolutionaries; and will not walk like Egyptians.

Scott Walker (R) won last fall over Tom Barrett (D) - 52% to 46%. Barrett was a strong candidate - and personally has some guts. In 2009, Barrett went to the rescue of a lady who was being assaulted and was injured.

Cheers

Mike

[slapout9]

jmm99, that is what drew my attention to it. When you think of all the places where a Civil Disturbance was/is likely to happen, Wisconsin would not be at the top of my list. Plus if the size (all total to be 30,000 people) is true? That is a good sized protest for most of the media to be largely ignoring. Another point and again IF it is true that the Governor cooked the books in order to manufacture a budget crisis that could have some serious consequences.

[slapout9]

Link to a much smaller protest in Minnesota.


http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?news_6_4762

[jmm99]

We are speaking of Madison, Wisconsin - with a long history of protests with far more violence than this one. All I see currently is a union demonstration, akin to picketing.

In Madison, that is chump change. E.g., Dow riot (1967):

Definition: Anti-war protest on the University of Wisconsin's Madison campus, Oct. 18, 1967. When hundreds of students protesting recruiters from Dow Chemical, the makers of napalm, blocked access to the University's Commerce Building, Madison police removed them by force. Dozens of students were beaten bloody, tear gas was used for the first time in an anti-war demonstration, and 19 police officers were treated at local hospitals. The violence of the event is credited with politicizing thousands of previously apathetic students and helping to transform the Madison campus into one of the nation's leading anti-war communities

and, ratcheting up from that one, The 1970 Bombing of the Army Math Research Center at the University of Wisconsin:

In 1969-1970 a radical group called the New Year's Gang protested U.S. involvement in Vietnam with a series of firebombings in Madison, Wisconsin, which climaxed in the destruction of the Army Math Research Center and several other buildings on the University of Wisconsin campus. The August 24, 1970, explosion took the life of a physicist, injured several people and destroyed valuable research material. The core members of the gang, led by Karl Armstrong, fled to Canada, where they found refuge in Toronto's antiwar underground. Arrested in 1972, they were extradited to Wisconsin, tried and convicted.

PS: The Ed Show should be watched for fun - not for news content.

Cheers

Mike