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Madison Mayor Paul Soglin threw a hissy fit yesterday about Occupy Madison, which he is determined to evict and close down—end of story—at the end of the month. And boy howdy was Soglin ever on the defensive. When it was suggested that the site didn’t cost the city anything, he said, “That is one...
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The night before: Arthur of the facebook page Shit Scott Walker is Doing to My State had a brief conversation with Senator Sanders at a fundraiser Friday night. 1:35 minutes Later Senator Bernie Sanders, the man many consider to be the most outstanding progressive in Washington D.C., appeared at the...
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Here’s a slideshow. If you’d like some easy-to-share and downloadable images, check out the facebook album HERE. I’d like to write something wise about the damage done inside the Capitol today. But I’m getting some video together. For the moment I’ll just say that I am still the same person I was and I...
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I’m here at Madison A.K.A. Walkerville in the midst of a growing budget protest. Here is a brief video which explains why some people are wearing pink togas and armbands today. It also includes a statement from John “Sly” Sylvester of WTDY 1670 about why it is important to be here today. [youtube Gv_NIz15f1s...
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A few videos from yesterday at Walkerville. The second video, which is the full speech delivered by Russ Feingold, is from Defend Wisconsin. When Russ walked into the space people became alert and electrified. A woman standing in front of me would interject “YES!!” and “THANK YOU!!” regularly. In this first video Russ says...
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A guest post from Jim Mueller: Here is what could happen now that the Republicans will be in Extraordinary Sessions: They do not want to let the Democrats rip about the Budget piece by piece on camera and win over people who haven’t been paying attention. So the Republicans need a distraction, large...
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I listened to the WORT FM show “In our backyard” tonight to catch up on what happened to two journalists pictured in this video who were arrested. While the two reporters were charged with disorderly conduct, I think that the officer is the one who acted in a disorderly manner. He waved the two...
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Here’s an interview of John Nichols discussing Walkerville, today’s march against Walker’s budget, and Wisconsin Act 10. I was doing some live Ustreaming and ran into him on Carroll Street. http://soundcloud.com/bluecheddar/interview-of-john-nichols-at He’ll be in Washington D.C. tonight to stand with National Nurses United. More information on a national registered nurse rally is HERE. If...
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I”ll do my best to deliver some live content from today’s march against Walker’s budget in Madison 11:30AM-ish today, which SHOULD stream right out of this blog It’s always a bit dicey to commit to delivering live content. Let’s just say that...
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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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Photos from the NOI 5/12 “Organizing the Occupation” panel at UW Madison, with my notes. Reminder: I am usually only paraphrasing the speakers. Skip to the end for the twitterati contact info. I’ve heard NOI is making a video of the panel available later this week. My notes from “Organizing the Occupation”: 5:10pm Tom...
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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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Today at approximately 1:30PM, a caravan of people arrived at Wisconsin’s Government Accountability Office with boxes of signatures to recall Green Bay Senator Robert Cowles. Volunteer Jonah Lenss had the happy honor of submitting the 26,000 signatures on his birthday. The Committee to Recall Cowles had to gather 15,960 signatures by May 2nd. A...
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Here we go. Yet another quickly planned who-the-heck-knows-how-this-will-go event: I’ll be at the Barrymore Theater on Atwood 4:30PM and into the evening taking part ina ”town hall” with Ed Schultz. I’ll be interviewing people – sending easily digested audio to SolidarityWisconsin.com and then tweeting those brief interviews out to you – - I hope....
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I have video. I have audio. I have photos. They all should be compiled into a multimedia schmorgasbord. But it takes so much time to wrestle with this stuff. Just thinking about it… I need to relax and have a beer. So, for the moment, here are a few photos and comments. Part 1...
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I’m going to say 100,000. I see reports of “over 85,000″ but as I saw no helicopters flying overhead, meaning we had no professional estimates, the evaluation by someone who’s been to every single historic Saturday labor rally in Madison, Wisconsin is good as any. I spent the day at Madison, Wisconsin’s largest rally...
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Police drag a protester out of the Wisconsin Assembly chamber. (Carolos Javier Ortiz / EPA / March 10, 2011) Please note: I advocate non-violent civil disobedience and only as a last resort. My boyfriend laughed when he saw this. I didn’t. I’ve never really identified with letting yourself get dragged out of somewhere, breaking...
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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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The restaurant where Walker was supposedly booed is 1 block from Madison’s Capitol building: “ground zero” for protest against Walker’s radical “Budget Repair Bill”. I’m a little doubtful this really happened because – well – is he really so ignorant that he thinks he can relax in public anywhere on the Isthmus of Madison...
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Some people leave a wake of garbage in their path. Reminds me of Pigpen from Charlie Brown . Andrew Breitbart spoke at Madison, Wisconsin yesterday to approximately 3,500 Tea Party and Pro-Walker people. They were there to do their darndest to match the numbers of Progressives, workers, and students that have rallied since last...
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