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MadisonWorld: A Future Where Corporations Have Human Rights ... And Humans Don't

By Richard (RJ) Eskow
March 11, 2011

Today we saw state troopers in Madison tearing peaceful protesters out of their own capitol after the Senate voted to deprive them of their rights.  Video footage of that event should come with a label:  Brought to you by the State of Wisconsin, a wholly owned subsidiary of Koch Industries.

Right now Wisconsin is serving as the prototype for United States 2.0, a newly reconstituted nation where corporations have all rights of personhood without any of the responsibilities - and people have all the duties of personhood without any of the rights.

Welcome to your future.  They're preparing it for you right now in America's heartland. more »

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On Women’s Day, GOP Attacks Women

By Leo Gerard
March 7, 2011

Not like Valentine’s Day, which is about love and chocolate, or Mother’s Day, which is about sentimentality and breakfast in bed, International Women’s Day is about equality and autonomy.

The first commemoration occurred on March 19, 1911, a time when most governments in the world, including the U.S. more »

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Impressions of the DC Protest Supporting Wisconsin

By Joe Firestone
March 5, 2011

Last Saturday a protest expressing solidarity with the one in Madison, Wisconsin called “The Rally To Save the American Dream” occurred at DuPont Circle in Washington, DC. The protest was short, beginning at 12:00 Noon and ending at roughly 1:30 PM. It was organized by a coalition of progressive organizations including Move-on and Democracy for America. more »

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Scott Walker's Health Care Hypocrisy

By Daniel Marans
February 28, 2011

If Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is so concerned about the price of public sector workers’ health care benefits, why isn’t he clamoring to cut underlying costs?

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Unions badgering Wisconsin's finances?

By Dean Baker
From politico.com
February 18th, 2011

politico.com — You have to give Gov. Walker and his wealthy patrons credit. Here we have a situation where Wall Street fat cats wrecked the economy - people like Richard Fuld, Robert Rubin, and Angelo Mozilo - and they've somehow managed to blame schoolteachers and the highway patrol.

Now we have a situation where the villains are sitting on their hundreds of millions of dollars, while tough guys like Gov. Walker are beating up school teachers to take away their $2,000 a month pension. And, the best part of the story is the Walkers are being heralded as statesmen for their efforts.

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Pension Envy

By Dave Johnson
January 11, 2011

Since the 80s many employers have stopped offering health care, pensions and other benefits to their employees. Many are also cutting pay and hours, while increasing the workload. So more and more people are hurting. As more and more of us fall further and further behind, corporate/conservative propagandists use resentment to drive anti-union feelings. more »

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Blaming The Economy's Victims For Economic Crimes

By Dave Johnson
December 21, 2010

Blame the unions, blame the unemployed, blame loans to the poor, blame the government... As income and wealth increasingly go to a few at the top public anger is directed at the economy's victims. more »

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When unions mattered, prosperity was shared

By E.J. Dionne Jr.
From washingtonpost.com
September 6th, 2010

washingtonpost.com — All but forgotten is the fact that our nation's extraordinary prosperity from the end of World War II to the 1970s was in significant part the result of union contracts that, in words the right wing hated Barack Obama for saying in 2008, "spread the wealth around." A broad middle class with spending power to keep the economy moving created a virtuous cycle of low joblessness and high wages.

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We are a union household

By teacherken
From dailykos.com
September 6th, 2010

dailykos.com — Our governments are short of revenue, and even unionized workers in the public sector face job elimination and furloughs. The governments are short of revenue because of continuing unemployment, lack of profit sharing with those helping by their productivity increase the profits while corporations sit on massive amounts of cash, give bonuses to executives who cut jobs, and ramp up their political spending to continue this inequity thanks to a horrid Supreme Court decision that gives a corporate "person" disparate political influence.

These things are wrong.

These things need to change.

Without unions these things not only will not change, they will worsen.

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Labor Day: Labor Got It Right -- Who Could Have Known?

By Dave Johnson
September 3, 2010

"Who could have known?" That's the cry from the big-corporate and DC elite as the economy and the environment and so many imporant things crash around us. more »

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