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This DOA policy change is aimed at cracking down on freedoms in the Capitol building, especially protests, and specifically what I’ve been told is the world’s longest running labor protest, the Solidarity Sing Along. Here are the main points from a 22 page DOA policy for use of Capitol and state buildings of Wisconsin...
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There have been some strange, long nights in the Assembly, but last night was one of the strangest. The Assembly was due to come back into session at 6:30pm, and people began filing into the gallery by 6:10pm. As the guests were waiting to watch the proceedings, they broke out in “Solidarity Forever” before...
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From WFIC The Wisconsin Freedom of Information Council is deeply concerned about the arrests of citizens for filming the Wisconsin Legislature, a right expressly afforded by the state’s Open Meetings Law. “These arrests appear to violate the spirit and the letter of the Open Meetings Law which, ironically enough, was passed by the Wisconsin...
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Video and text below are from Arthur Kohl-Riggs. Keep up with developments on this story at Arthur’s facebook page Shit Scott Walker is Doing to My State Backup link to video-A day without rights in the Wisconsin State Assembly Originally a video very similar to this one was posted on youtube but WisEye reported...
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This is a post by Jim Mueller. On the Anniversary of Ben Masel’s birth, Katy and I were at the Capitol with a sign showing a picture of Ben holding his “This is a test of the emergency free speech system” sign. That sign was the one he held at his last protest at...
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It wasn’t so long ago that I ran a guest post from Bruce N. But something just happened to him that I think is important. Actually, what’s more important is the way that he has handled it. I stood in mostly light rain on Capitol Square yesterday, my usual Saturday space at the Farmer’s...
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I’m pleased as punch to welcome Chis Reeder to the 10AM Solidarity Wisconsin online radio show today. Here’s a link to the archived show. If you haven’t heard of the Solidarity Sing Along group, it might be because you’re not from Wisconsin or Spain. Yes-Spain! The pro-union songsters who sing at Wisconsin’s Capitol building...
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Jim Mueller will be a guest on today’s live online talk show, Solidarity Wisconsin. He’s been very active in volunteering for the Kloppenburg/Prosser recount. Below is the letter he submitted to the Wisconsin Government Accountability Board which asks for reforms in our electoral process – a process he sees as downright messy in its...
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I’ve been mucking around in 1904 Wisconsin’s junk drawer looking for my spare pair of keys and the original “Wisconsin Idea”. While I was in there, I found this: a photo and an account of UW Madison students trying to put out a fire that had erupted in the Capitol building. UW Madison students...
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Ben Masel is the guy that gathered this small band of rabble-rousers in the Capitol. It’s worth watching this to hear Ben yelling outside Walker’s office. And of course he’s a wonderful speaker enjoying the freedom and the theatrics of what we were doing. I also value what Jeremy has to say here. Tuesday...
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When the Capitol has been occupied with drums constant and chanting and when I can read the pieced-together posters and manifestos stuck on the walls, I’ve experienced a recharge of spirit. It is like nothing I’ve experienced in life. It might be like learning how to ride a bicycle for the first time and...
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The videographer Matt Wisniewski has captured the elusive beauty and Solidarity that thousands have sheltered and tended here. This is a fragile fire that people across the state, the nation, and the world have watched and now call their own. This has been the heart of Wisconsin’s Capitol building and the heart...
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