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SHRED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-11 09:27 PM
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100,000 protest Wisconsin law curbing unions
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THANK YOU WISCONSIN!!!!


* Bigger protest than during Vietnam era, police estimate

* Wisconsin battle has ignited national struggle

By James B. Kelleher

MADISON, Wis., March 12 (Reuters) - Up to 100,000 people protested at the Wisconsin state Capitol on Saturday against a new law curbing the union rights of public workers that is seen as one of the biggest challenges in decades facing U.S. organized labor.

Madison police spokesman Joel DeSpain estimated the crowd at 85,000 to 100,000 people, which would top the size of protests in Madison during the Vietnam War.

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/03/13/usa-wisconsin-idUSN1227540420110313


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rzemanfl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-11 09:29 PM
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1. Way less tear gas than in the sixties too. n/t
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HereSince1628 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-11 09:30 PM
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2. Some of that million dollars damage done to the Capitol Grounds.
It really looks irreparable...don't it?

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Lefta Dissenter Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-11 09:41 PM
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4. if we include the cost
of cleaning the white tennies that were tromping through the mud today, the cost will be WAAAAAAY up there.

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HereSince1628 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-13-11 07:48 AM
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7. Yes,, and cleaning the leather shoes...well there you go
this could be billions.
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SHRED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-11 09:37 PM
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3. WHERE IS THE COVERAGE?
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SHRED Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-11 09:41 PM
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5. If there were 100,000 tea baggers there...
... both CNN and Fixed Noise would be all over it. They would be marveling that at the three week mark it is still going on.
They would devotes hours to it.
But there isn't, so they aren't.
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chill_wind Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-12-11 10:04 PM
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6. K & R. WI. You do us all proud
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