How Corporations Are Killing Wisc. Public Schools
Posted: December 21, 2013For over two decades, Wisconsin, and particularly the city of Milwaukee, has served as the national laboratory for voucher and charter school policy projects. The Republican...
View ArticleWisconsin's GOP Escalates Its War on the Poor
Posted: January 9, 2014On the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon Baines Johnson's declaration of war on poverty, Republicans on the Wisconsin State Budget Committee made it their mission to hammer...
View ArticleRepublicans Fire Another Shot at Wisc. Public Schools
Posted: January 21, 2014Wisconsin Republicans are at it again, and their knives are out for the state's public school funding.Topics: EducationPoliticsWisconsin Wire
View ArticleThe Real State of the State: Wisconsin Edition
Posted: January 28, 2014Last week, Governor Scott Walker stood before a joint session of the Wisconsin State Legislature and announced that he intends to slash the tax bills of Wisconsin's wealthiest...
View ArticleJudge: Walker's Plot to Arrest Critics is 'Unconstitutional'
Posted: February 6, 2014Over 100 people showed up to the Solidarity Sing Along in the Wisconsin Capitol on Thursday to celebrate a ruling by Dane County Judge John Markson that declared Governor Scott...
View ArticleCreative Protests Hit Scott Walker in Wake of John Doe Emails
Posted: February 26, 2014As the unethical and possibly illegal behavior of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and his administration comes under public scrutiny with the release of documents relating to...
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An Über Battle
Posted: November 19, 2014They've been seducing city governments for the past year. Image credit: LyftTopics: CorporationsCultureEconomyLaborUnions
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Young, Gifted and Black Coalition Holds Inauguration Rally
Posted: January 7, 2015As Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker and the Republican-dominated legislature took their oaths of office on Tuesday promising to extend their austerity and privatization agendas, a...
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Walker's State of the State: The Packers and Freedom
Posted: January 14, 2015Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker hit a new low in political theatre last night at his 2015 State of the State address. Image credit: Rebecca KembleTopics: Civil LibertiesCivil...
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Wisconsin's Controversial Schools Bill
Posted: January 23, 2015“My son and his school are not for sale,” said Peg Randall Gardner of Milwaukee, ten hours into a hearing on AB1, Wisconsin’s latest school privatization bill. “These are real...
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Walker Has "The Right Stuff" For GOP Presidential Bid
Posted: February 9, 2015As of this writing Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has yet to formally declare his bid for President in 2016, but that hasn’t stopped him from campaigning for it. Arguably, he’s...
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Right to Work Passes Wisconsin Assembly
Posted: March 6, 2015Wisconsin became the twenty-fifth "right-to-work" state this morning after an all-night State Assembly hearing. Image credit: Rebecca KembleTopics:...
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Students March for Tony Robinson
Posted: March 10, 2015Yesterday my daughter and hundreds of her classmates at Madison East High School walked out of school and marched nearly three miles to the Wisconsin State Capitol in honor of...
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Walker’s Total Destruction in Wisconsin
Posted: July 21, 2015It was a banner week for the billionaires who have invested in Governor Scott Walker, the Wisconsin state legislature and the Wisconsin Supreme Court.Topics: Money in...
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Back Home, Walker Pushes What Dems Describe as “The Corrupt Politician...
Posted: October 26, 2015I overheard one Republican legislators say to a staffer:"We just made one of the most unbelievable, colossal mistakes in history."Topics: CourtsDemocracyMoney in...
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Reviving Grassroots Democracy
Rebecca KembleHow one progressive responds to the pressure of loyalty to a party she no longer belongs to.Topics: ActivismCivil LibertiesCorporationsDemocracyElectionsLobbyingMoney in Politics
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Support Indigenous Struggles Against Corporate Onslaught
Rebecca KembleDuring this week marked by Columbus Day, indigenous people show us the way forward.Topics: ActivismClimate ChangeCorporationsEnvironmentNative Americans
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What’s at Stake at Standing Rock
Rebecca KembleThis is about unprecedented indigenous unity as people gather in prayer and ceremony to stand for their lives, our lives, for the life of everyone downstream.Topics:...
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