The “Cheddar Revolution” Will Not Be Televised
Saturday, 500-700 people rallied at the Iowa Statehouse in support of Wisconsin Democrat State Senators and public employees fighting their newly-elected GOP governor who is trying to eliminate collective bargaining. And it just so happens that the Iowa GOP is also thinking along those lines. House Study Bill 117
The Sunday Des Moines Register did not report on this Iowa event,
part of a nationwide protest that took place at state capitols and major cities in all fifty states. But they did run an AP story of some tea partiers in Arizona who entertained a couple of GOP presidential wannabes. Paul Krugman's blog yesterday:except on Fox, which portrays them as thuggish and violent. What
that makes me think of is January-February 2003, when anyone watching
cable news would have believed that only a few kooks were opposed to the
imminent invasion of Iraq. It was quite spooky, realizing that hundreds
of thousands of people could march through New York, and by tacit
agreement be ignored by news networks whose headquarters were just a few
blocks away. And it’s even more spooky to see it happening all over again.” LINK
Last night, as the Wisconsin protesters prepared to be arrested and thrown out of the capitol, there were no live feeds to be found anywhere except for by one man, http://qik.com/Brandzel,
a protester with an i-phone. The Maddow blog posted the URL allowing
80,000 to watch live when no mainstream media was covering except for
Fox who was reporting that “maybe a dozen” protesters were left inside the
rotunda, when there were in fact hundreds, calling them “thugs” and
alleging violence.
The networks are probably deeply regretting that they spent so much time covering Egypt, the perfect role model for a peaceful revolution by the people. Their corporate masters weren't predicting this.
A Wisconsin protester put it best: “If the unions go, the democratic party goes too, and I prefer at least a two-party state, or even a three-party state, but not a one-party state.” Here's
video from David Thournout who has been attending the Madison protests.
As you all know by now, the Wisconsin protest and the supporting protests around the country, are about more than state
budgets.
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If the Egyptian people can bring down a dictator after 30 years of police state rule, why can’t state employee unions bring down this Governor or at least start a Governor recall effort. This is the United States of America, re-learn how to do it yourself.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2011-02-22-poll-public-unions-wisconsin_N.htm
Poll: Americans favor union bargaining rights, By Judy Keen and Dennis Cauchon, USA TODAYUpdated 2/23/2011 2:00:45 PM, MADISON, Wis. —
Americans strongly oppose laws taking away the collective bargaining power of public employee unions, according to a new USA TODAY/Gallup Poll. The poll found 61% would oppose a law in their state similar to such a proposal in Wisconsin, compared with 33% who would favor such a law.
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