'This Is What Democracy Looks Like' in Wisconsin, as Largest Crowd Yet—80,000—Opposes Union Busting
The Nation/Information Clearing House / John Nichols
23-Feb-2011

"The Nation" - -Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker finished a bad week with a misstep that emphasized his inability to generate support for his attempt to strip the state’s public employees of collective bargaining rights. First, the governor’s radical proposal [1] went to such extremes in its anti-labor bias that it sparked a protest movement so large, so steady and so determined in its demands that it is now commonly compared with the protests that have rocked Egypt and other Middle Eastern countries.

 

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