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Posted on 05/21/2012 10:13:04 AM PDT by BO Stinkss
Every weekday at noon, several dozen Wisconsinites gather at the state capitol in Madison to translate their anger into song. Sometimes the venue is inside the gleaming capitol rotunda, where thousands bedded down on the marble floors last winter to protest Governor Scott Walker’s fiscal reforms. Sometimes they meet outside in the square, by a weather-worn memorial dedicated in 1893. The hour-long protest is dubbed the Solidarity Sing Along, and it began on March 11 of last year as a way to sustain the spirit of protest kindled by Walker’s “budget repair” bill. On a beautiful day last week, about 60 people basked in the sunshine, crooning and dancing to folk tunes with tweaked lyrics that blasted Walker and his conservative benefactors, the Koch brothers. The protesters—a mix of grandparents, twenty-somethings, aging hippies and blue-collar professionals—blew vuvuzelas and trumpets, jangled tambourines and passed out songbooks to gawking onlookers. They hoisted signs denouncing conservative groups and Wisconsin’s Republican legislators. There was a stuffed monster from Sendak’s Where the Wild Things Are, and placards spoofing Walker’s campaign slogans. Some of the protesters were upset over the restrictions Walker applied to public workers’ negotiating rights. Other groused about his disregard for the environment, or the ongoing “John Doe” grand jury investigation that has ensnared several former staffers. Still more blanched at cuts to education or budget reductions that favor the wealthy. Wisconsin’s progressive activists have enough grievances that there’s no agreement on which to redress first.
(Excerpt) Read more at swampland.time.com ...
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How subtle!
And drivel as well.
Thank you for the correction
This post stinks like CRAP!
Wisconsin: Time bemoans Demorats splintering the anti Walker coalition.
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