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Posts Tagged ‘ free speech ’

Shall Never Be Abridged

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September 25, 2012
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On Sunday, the Wisconsin State Journal featured an article by Nico Savidge with the headline “Tighter rules for Capitol protests not unlike many other states’.” On seeing this headline, my first reaction naturally was “Oh, well then, that makes it okay.” Not. The headline in Monday’s Pierce County Herald (Ellsworth, Wisconsin) read “Protesters at...
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“What Were You Arrested For, Kid?”

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September 19, 2012
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I shake my head every time I think of Wisconsin Capitol Police Chief Erwin’s heavy-handed crackdown on the singing citizens in the Capitol. Before Erwin began arbitrarily handing out citations, we were a small, stalwart, ragtag bunch. I couldn’t make it every weekday, so for a while I came once a week; then when...
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Thank you, Chief Erwin!

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September 7, 2012
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Thanks to Chief Erwin and his saber rattling, more than two hundred sign-wielding singers showed up today to sing in the People’s House. As we have often done, we began by reading Article 1, Section 4, of the Wisconsin state constitution: State Rep. Chris Taylor showed up and told us that she met with...
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Paying the Price for Free Speech

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September 7, 2012
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I have half-joked for decades that one of the items on my bucket list is to be arrested for civil disobedience. The civil rights movement and the anti-war protests happened while I was safely ensconced in junior high and high school. I got to college in time to see one lone streaker torpedo across...
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Nobody Buys DOA Disinformation at Wisconsin Capitol

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December 7, 2011
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About 30-50 people gathered in the Capitol building’s basement this morning to question Chief Tubbs and a Department of Administration rep. on a new policy that will — among other things — force protesters at Wisconsin’s Capitol building to pay for additional law enforcement and treat groups of 4 or more people as “rallies”....
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Samantha Masterton: “I was arrested for taking pictures”

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November 10, 2011
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This is written by Samantha Masterton and has appeared in the Wausau Daily Herald: On Nov. 1, the first day it was legal to carry concealed guns in Wisconsin, I was arrested. I had traveled to Madison to participate in Concealed Camera Day, an organized protest against concealed carry and the unconstitutionality of Assembly...
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A day without rights in the Wisconsin State Assembly

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October 24, 2011
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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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Ben Masel, constitutional activisit, has passed on. Remember Ben Masel.

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April 30, 2011
Ben Masel, constitutional activisit, has passed on. Remember Ben Masel.

Ben came to Madison by way of the largest mass arrest in U.S. history in Washington D.C. on May Day 1970. He was locked up with about 100 UW Madison students.  They were there to protest the Vietnam War. “I’d heard good things about the town and so I decided to throw a college...
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