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Make The People Pay

Paul Craig Roberts
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27513.htm



A Time for Resistance

By Katrina vanden Heuvel

Wisconsin's Republican governor and Republican-dominated legislature are moving to destroy organized labor, moving to abolish democratic rights that were the essence of the New Deal, and treating working-class Americans as though they were meaningless in our country's mosaic.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27514.htm



Noam Chomsky: 'Democracy Uprising' in the U.S.A.?

By Democracy Now!

Noam Chomsky on Wisconsin's Resistance to Assault on Public Sector, the Obama-Sanctioned Crackdown on Activists, and the Distorted Legacy of Ronald Reagan.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27506.htm



Public Worker Protests Spread From Wisconsin to Ohio

In Columbus Ohio, about 3,800 state workers, teachers and other public employees came to the statehouse for a committee hearing. President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner, an Ohioan, argued over whether the bills are 'an assault on unions.'

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=washingtonstory&sid=a6jskX_gPvVc



WI Governor's Fake Budget Crisis: Gave Tax Breaks to Wal-Mart to Further Real Agenda -- Union Busting

I have been attending the rallies, watching the coverage, reading the blogs and comments and come to the conclusion that most people don't know the true horror of this bill.

http://bit.ly/h5cmfI



Boehner: 'So Be It' If Federal Workers Are Laid Off

House Speaker John Boehner expressed little sympathy Tuesday for federal workers who lose their jobs as the result of Republican budget cutting.

http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2011/02/15/boehner-so-be-it-if-us-workers-are-laid-off/


From Information Clearing House

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Volunteers of America

William Rivers Pitt, Truthout: "Did you hear about the uprising? Not the one in Tunisia, or Egypt. No not the one in Libya, though what has been happening there is certainly riveting. Thousands of protesters took to the streets in several cities, defying the forty-year rule of Muammar el-Qaddafi under threat of death. Not the similar one in Bahrain, where several died and many more were injured. Not the similar one in Yemen, which has been going on for more than seven days. Not the really interesting one in Iran, which has been a long time coming, and which prompted the ruling elite to call for the immediate murder of anyone and everyone who is not down with the sickness. Not the one in Iraq, which involved a demand from the city of Baghdad for one billion dollars from the United States of America, to pay for the damage done to the city from the war."

http://www.truth-out.org/volunteers-of-america67884



Democratic Senators Leave State to Stall Bill as Mass Protests Continue

Yana Kunichoff, Truthout: "In a continuing attempt to stall a vote on the anti-union bill proposed by Gov. Scott Walker, the 14 Democratic senators have left the state with state troopers dispatched by Republican Senate leaders on their heels. Without at least one additional senator in the chamber, the GOP does not have the majority quorom to vote on the bill, which has been called the biggest assault on worker's rights in Wisconsin and would effectively strip collective bargaining rights from most public-sector unions. Wisconsin was the first state in the nation to give all public-sector workers bargaining rights in 1959."

http://www.truth-out.org/democratic-senators-leave-state-stall-bill-mass-protests-continue67905



Why Do They Hate Social Security?

Joe Conason, Truthout: "Among the mysteries of modern politics in America is why so many of our leading pundits and politicians persistently seek to undermine Social Security, that enduring and successful emblem of active government. In the current atmosphere of budgetary panic, self-proclaimed 'centrists' are joining with ideologues of the right in yet another campaign against the program - and yet again they are misinforming the public about its purposes, costs and prospects."

http://www.truth-out.org/joe-conason-why-do-they-hate-social-security67889



Waist Deep in the Washington Quagmire

Tom Engelhardt, TomDispatch: "Here's the latest news from Congress, in case you've been in Afghanistan for the last couple of weeks. A debate about slashing the federal budget is now upon us, while fears of a possible government shutdown as spring approaches are on the rise. The Republican leadership of the House of Representatives originally picked $40 billion as its target figure for cuts to the as-yet-not-enacted 2011 budget. That was the gauntlet it threw down to the Obama administration, only to find its own proposal slashed to bits by the freshman class of that body's conservative majority.They insisted on adhering to a Republican Pledge to America vow to cut $100 billion from the budget."

http://www.truth-out.org/waist-deep-washington-quagmire67898

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Democrats with Backbone Cheered by Wisconsin Workers
http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/02/18

Ed Schultz Talks with John Nichols about the Wisconsin Protests
http://www.commondreams.org/video/2011/02/18

'First Amendment Remedies': How Wisconsin Workers Grabbed the Constitution Back From the Right-Wing Royalists
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/18-7

Across the US, GOP Lawmakers Build States of Denial
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/02/18-9



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