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It was a great day this Saturday for the friends and family at Firedoglake and its family of sites; we had attendees at solidarity rallies literally from coast to coast. On Sunday we’ll front page all the coverage our community members and contributors have submitted as we countdown to 4:00 p.m. CST when the capitol police in Wisconsin may attempt to shut down the capitol building.
Here’s the line up you can expect:
Nashville’s Solidarity With Wisconsin — Check out masaccio at Tennessee’s capitol with Mrs. masaccio; such a cute couple of “radicals.”
#WIUNION – Denver Solidarity Action — Community member Kelly Canfield attended the rally in Denver where it was sunny in more ways than one today.
NY Hearts Wisconsin — watertiger snaps great shots in NYC along with a choice LOL photo.
CA Unions & Others Demonstrate In Support Of WI Protestors @ Capital — Mary McCurnin rallied in Sacramento and took a lot of nice photos to share with us.
A Southeast Rally in Solidarity with Wisconsin — Community member Jim Hickey captures the energy of union workers rallying in Atlanta, Georgia; it’s a good sign in a state where only 4 percent of workers are union members.
You can read these already as they are published right now. Share them widely with friends and family since the mainstream corporate media decided that without crazy teabaggers, these demonstrations of free speech in action weren’t worth covering. Au contraire, mon freres — these events were extremely important and deserve wider coverage.
And don’t forget David Dayen’s coverage at the News page; David has been in Madison since Wednesday getting us live coverage from the capitol.
Did you attend a rally on Saturday? Write a diary and share it with us and we’ll try to promote it before 4:00 p.m. CST tomorrow.
Thanks to all of you who took to capital cities today to show your solidarity!
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Sweet newz! Grazie!
For the folks in Madison:
http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com/
We had a great turnout here in NY City, near City Hall. Unofficial estimate put the crowd at over 10,000. After that we joined the protesters at Foley Square who were standing against the Republican assault on Planned Parenthood. Probably like many of the anti-war demonstrations, the MSM will downplay the protests, but I had the feeling of a real awakening taking place among America’s working and middle class people. Like the man in Tunisia who set himself on fire and set the whole country off, Wisconsin may have started something that the Republicans may come very much to regret.
Great, I’m looking forward to it.
Where was the million nationwide? Jeebus, you would think with organized labor enduring their own “Pearl Harbor” the nation would respond as if it was…uh…like…uh…Pearl Harbor.
Oh well at least there were Hitler and Nazi references abounding, and what would a protest be without those?
Welcome, Congresswoman Blackburn!
Thank you, Rayne. I was all packed up and ready to drive 200 miles roundtrip until the snow hit. I’ve been bummed out all day that I wasn’t present and accounted for.
Spent the day finding out the names of front groups for Kochroaches, Chamberscum and the lot. They sure have pretty names,…Center For Consumer Freedom, Center For Union Facts, Americans For Tax Reform, Employment Policies Institute Foundation…..just to name a few.
Great! I am looking forward to seeing everybody’s posts, videos and photos.
toooo funny, my new morning workout video, ha!
Sadly, MSM won’t be reporting it properly, if anything more than a mention.
NPR continues mistakenly reporting Walkers ginned up budget scare for the next biennium. $3.6B shortfall only exists if all new spending increases requested, above current biennium levels, is actually granted and promised to state agencies. That was never in the cards from either party, here. Focused several letters there yesterday. Bastards don’t even have a phone number to reach a real person.
Some places got as many as 1000 protesters! Seems the union support is tepid at best. Next issue.
It either took off and went truly national or it was going to be killed. Goodbye union representation. Hello serfdom. Amazing how easily the sheep give up things that were literally fought for by their predecessors.
Apparently you’re having difficulty with reading and analysis. Jim Hickey’s post clearly indicated that Georgia’s union members only represent 4 percent of all workers; this is not because there’s no union support, it’s because Georgia is a so-called right-to-work state and legislation in that state does not support unionization.
Why would that be? Perhaps in that state elected officials have been bought-and-paid-for by businesses to prevent pro-worker policies, just as Koch Industries has attempted to do in Wisconsin.
I recommend spending some time contemplating the meaning of the word correlation.
Yeah, ditto, there’s no way I could get to the capital and back in the snow and cover the rally safely. You can help today by tweeting and sharing these posts from the events, though, since the media has frozen out coverage of the rallies.
Keep hammering on this, use Twitter and Facebook to help promote the coverage of these rallies and tell the media they are still screwing up. Thanks!
Thanks to FDL for coordinating the coverage. Love all the sites so far and the pictures radiating happy faces – that was the experience in Santa Fe along with a variety of signs. Got absolutely no coverage on the local CBS affiliate connected to FOX – probably because there was one brief speech calling them out that received its due in boo’s. The NBC affiliate did cover it though, so kudos to them even though they didn’t cover the loudest chant which was “RECALL!” for both our governor and Wisconsin’s.
by the time these actions were announced on Tuesday, I had already committed to working a double yesterday and was unable to participate – I am SO loving the diaries from firedogs around the nation – plan to FB and retweet all the dispatches !
and here, my contrarian sisters and brothers – I do not give a shit whether these efforts are “successful” or not – this, motherfuckers, is what it means to die on your feet and not live on your knees
w00t! ;-)
Most thoughtful and properly focused article about the extent of the damage to Wisconsin that Governor Kocksucker (from one of those rally posters shown at FDL) has unleashed is at this link.
http://www.thedailypage.com/isthmus/article.php?article=32445
I put up my version of our protest in S.F. in Mary McCurnin’s comments section.
Political Loudmouth.com has pictures of the S.F. rally, here:
http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=290911&id=281168802721
Good afternoon, cbl, et al:
“…this, motherfuckers, is what it means to die on your feet and not live on your knees”
I copy that, and I “raise” you five, cuz I (we) ain’t dead yet… (listening to Alice in Chains’ “Rooster” :*)
Plus, we’re not just talkin’ “surface freeze” here — AFAIK, it’s been a SOLID media blackout of any labor movement coverage.
Why are you censoring my comments, Rayne?
~~~Mod Note: Rayne is not the Moderator. Dial the venom back and remove the chip from your shoulder.~~~
Rafe and canadianbeaver
I can’t speak to anywhere else, but here where I am, there were two rallies this week; I went to the one on Tuesday. There were a few thousand on Tuesday, and I’m sure much more yesterday.
One thing you have to consider is that many, many, many people who sympathize with a cause don’t know that a rally is happening, and don’t find out until later, because of lack of media coverage, and that they would have gone if they’d have known. As opposed to right-wing rallies that get it 24/7 on local talk radio and Fox News.
One more thing, is that where I am, there are rallies all the time, so there’s really not a lot of novelty to attract a lot of passersby. So the people who did show up, really believed in the issue
And that for every person that does show up, there are at least 50 or 100 who would have gone if they’d have known, or could have made it.
words to live by!
I will not be a Koch Whore!