Posts Tagged ‘Wisconsin’
The “Miami Model” and Bahrain; Europe; Walker
(1) Timoney and Bahrain: (Note today’s possibly irrelevant image–can’t remember where I downloaded it, but it was apparently found in a police van in lower Manhattan recently.) The other day I linked to an article from the Atlantic that gave a useful account of the recent history of police tactics with respect to large protests. ...Read more.
New Issue; Bill Black on Le Show
(1) May/June issue in the mail: E-subscribers have received their May/June issue, and print subscribers should be receiving it shortly. I posted John Miller’s column, No Fooling–Corporations Evade Taxes, last week. Today I posted Randy Albelda’s comment, Teachers, Secretaries, and Social Workers: the New Welfare Moms?, and also Barry Deutsch’s latest ‘toon. Many thanks to ...Read more.
Friends with Benefits; Unpaid Work; Events; etc.
(1) Friends with Benefits: A nice and timely post from the Focal Point blog at Big Think (which is where the photo above comes from; credit goes to Luminis Kanto): Friends With Benefits: Why Private Sector Workers Should Care About Public Sector Unions Lindsay Beyerstein on March 10, 2011The Republicans are trying to pit private ...Read more.
Vegan Protest Fuel in Madison, and more
(1) Vegan Protest Fuel: Today’s syllogism: “All Wisconsinites may be cheeseheads, but not all Wisconsinites eat cheese,” therefore, vegan demonstrators need an alternative to the pizzas from Ian’s Pizza that so many people have thoughtfully donated to the efforts in Madison. Our friend Hillary Rettig is one of the people behind the Vegan Protest Fuel ...Read more.
Activists Shut Down BoA Branch in D.C., and more
(1) NPA Activists Shut Down BoA Branch in D.C. From today’s Democracy Now!: Activists Shut Down Bank of America Branch in D.C. in Tax Protest In Washington, D.C., 600 activists with National People’s Action shut down a branch of Bank of America Monday to protest the bank’s record of dodging taxes. National People’s Action recently ...Read more.
March/April issue: Tax the Rich!
I have lots of stuff to link to; I hope to get to them soon. I have been working to get the March/April issue to the printers (which happened this morning) and to get material from the new issue posted to the website (which happened just now), including our Tax and Deficits Activism Kit, which ...Read more.
Obama’s Budget; Wisconsin
(1) Obama’s Budget: Our trustworthy source for analysis of Obama’s 2012 budget proposal: The National Priorities Project: Presidents Budget 2012: Values By The Numbers Feb. 18, 2011 National Priorities Project offers four detailed analyses of President Obama’s $3.7 trillion budget for Fiscal Year 2012 focused on: expenditures, revenue and deficits, the impact of federal spending ...Read more.
Wisconsin, Tim DeChristopher, etc.
(1) Protests in Wisconsin against Republican Threats to Labor: Earlier today I spoke with Roger Bybee, who’s written articles for D&S over the years, often on labor-related topics, about the situation in Wisconsin, where the new Republican governor, Scott Walker, has been busy blaming unionized public-sector workers for the state’s budget woes. The latest gambit ...Read more.
Go! You Packers! Go!
The Superbowl is underway, and I’m rooting for the Packers, because they have no owner–or rather, as left sportswriter Dave Zirin explained in a recent New Yorker blog post, they are owned by the fans. Now that Wisconsin has a right-wing governor and state legislature, I love that their beloved team is publicly owned and ...Read more.
