Wisconsin Is a Battleground Against the Billionaire Kochs' Plan to Break Labor's Back

AlterNet | Feb. 18, 2011 (News Analysis)
The war on Wisconsin employees isn't just about the budget or Wisconsin: Koch toady Gov. Walker is just one soldier in the billionaire's offensive to kill labor.

As some 30,000 protesters overwhelmed the state capitol building in Wisconsin today, Democratic state senators hit the road, reportedly with State Police officers in pursuit. The Dems left the state in order to deprive Republicans the necessary quorum for taking a vote on Gov. Scott Walker's bill to strip benefits and collective bargaining rights from state workers. Full Story »

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Posted by: Posted by Dwight Rousu - Feb 18, 2011 - 1:26 AM PST
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Edited by: Dwight Rousu - Feb 18, 2011 - 1:29 AM PST

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Fred Gatlin
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 by Fred Gatlin - Mar. 8, 2011

This articles tone seems overly strident but seems factual.

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Julia Willebrand
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 by Julia Willebrand - Feb. 19, 2011

It's a polemic not a news story. And a poorly written one at that. While I completely agree with the thrust of the article, it contained too few supporting facts or sources to be considered a news report. For example he says, a Gov. Walker bill is a "business coddling initiative" but fails to include any info on how business is coddled.

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Dwight Rousu
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 by Dwight Rousu - Feb. 21, 2011

Stan reports on the political fire behind the posing of the politicians. A strong view that contrasts with the mamby pamby mainstream right wing corporate press.

The war on workers that started with Reagan firing the traffic controllers has largely decimated organized labor in the private sector. Now the big money in the Corporation Owned Party (COP) is being spent to elect stooges to destroy public sector unions. The top richest 2% is trying for complete capitulation of the poor an middle class, and a return to a feudal system of princes in guarded compounds preying on the hapless peasants. Also little reported in the press is the aspect ... More »

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Jon
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 by Jon - Feb. 20, 2011

This is a fight that is necessary for all middle class working and non-working people. These people are trying to destroy all unions and destroy working wages, jobs all to lline their own pockets.

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 by Neil Webb - Feb. 19, 2011
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