WISCONSIN: “Expect calls for a General Strike Tuesday”

[Scuba]

http://www.bluecheddar.net/?p=41845

The following comes from the post “GENERAL STRIKE” at The Devil’s Advocates Radio Network – Wisconsin:

Madison-A unanimous vote of three represented labor unions and other assembled activists (at a hastily called luncheon #crute was invited to attend) to support a #GeneralStrike .

A General Strike was the only unifying strategy discussed to block Right-to-Work #RTW, $300 UW System cuts, $127 K-12 cuts, killing the Kenosha casino and 10,000 jobs, failure to expand Medicaid, and cuts to Senior-care and disability programs. Expect calls for a General Strike Tuesday when the AFL-CIO rallies opposition to the Republican fast-tracking of #RTW Tuesday at the Wisconsin State Capitol.

GO HERE to learn more about the Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday rallies in response to the hasty unveiling of Right To Work (For Less) legislation in Wisconsin.

[PearliePoo2]

1. Whoa! All I can say is:

BRING IT BROTHERS AND SISTERS!

[alterfurz]

2. aux barricades, citoyens!

[socialist_n_TN]

3. I'm all for it......

but we'll see what the response is. I hate to be negative, but considering that the USW is not even all out in their strike when workers' very LIVES are in danger, I don't expect much from the AFL-CIO.

I guess we'll see.

[Adrahil]

9. Same... I'd love to see it, but doubt much will happen. n/t

[WillyT]

4. HUGE K & R !!! - THANK YOU !!!

[HereSince1628]

5. FWIW, these are mostly the same organizations that started the protests against Act 10

that turned out over 180000 people on one day.

Can it be done again? Only one way to know...

[MillennialDem]

6. This is the only way to beat people like Walker. He doesn't care about protests. But if enough

of us strike and shut down the state, we win.

[zeemike]

16. Totally agree.

It is the ONLY way we can win.

[MillennialDem]

21. The danger is of course he wants to fire a bunch of people for striking (if public sector)

and have corporations fire people in the private sector for striking. But if we stand in solidarity where so many of us strike he can't fire us all (without a giant blowback and basically giving us all our jobs back when the state implodes) we win.

These things, revolutions, mass strikes, etc tend to happen very slowly and then suddenly. I'm hoping this is the match in the powder keg.

[zeemike]

22. And striking the match is long overdue.

But he counts on being able to divide people.
And he will have all the help he needs with the media.

[MillennialDem]

27. Hopefully we can get the fight for $15 people involved too

[Augiedog]

7. If.....

(If) Governor and potential presidential candidate Scott Walkers equating unions with the terrorist group ISL doesn't get people motivated I can't imagine what would. Taking this literally would mean that he thinks killing Union members is an appropriate response to union activities, and we have seen that movie before. If you can look in Walkers eyes and see any sense of humanity there I will be surprised, I know one 80 year old woman who calls him "dead eyes", and she is one of the nicest people I know who never calls people names.
A general strike is and well should be the proper response to the right wing lunacy that has stolen the Wisconsin soul. So called right to work legislation is nothing more than thinly veiled slave labor law. if it is not possible for a person to actually strike, like being retired, a symbolic representation needs to be established that shows support for the right of people to associate with those whom they chose, in the fashion they chose and for the welfare they see as needing attention. A general strike now may very well prevent the iron boot of republican suppression crushing the soul of Wisconsinites and taking the heart out of the daily working persons life. This is for your future and your children's future. It will be very difficult to undo the harm the Republican Party and especially Scott Walker has done, so an once (general strike) of prevention is worth a ton of lamenting what could have been and should have been, if only....

[ibewlu606]

8. SOLIDARITY!

For things to change, workers must unite and demand change. Alterfurz, I am digging that Wobblies poster.

[TBF]

10. Bring in the tractors -

If Walker manages "right to work" and cuts the University budget substantially Wisconsin will be in shambles. And it's not like Walker cares because he is already busy running for president with his "family values" schtick. It is time to shut it all down.

[Scuba]

11. Love that pic.

[tomsaiditagain]

12. Crimes of the Koch Brothers

The people of Wisconsin should keep rising up against the tyranny of the Koch Brothers until it breaks those who support the anti-American ways of these criminals.

[Half-Century Man]

13. This could kill Scotty's ambitions for POTUS, or ensure them.

There hasn't been a successful general strike for decades in the United States. If one happens under Scoff Wanker's watch, his funding takes a massive hit. If there is a call for one and it doesn't happen, his credibility among the investor class soars. That being said

DO IT! I'm in, lets go.....

[RoverSuswade]

14. I am just amazed this man is still in office

let alone he would even be considered for POTUS.

[mountain grammy]

15. Bring it on, and hoping for the best.

are there not enough Democrats to deny a quorum or did Walker change that too?

[Hoppy]

17. Will DU'rs contribute to a strike fund to support those workers?

[mopinko]

18. if asked i am sure they would

we are a generous lot.

[Jack Rabbit]

19. Go for it, People

K/R

[lutefisk]

20. Brinksmanship... things have reached the breaking point

As commander-in-chief of the Wisconsin National Guard, the Governor may order the Guard or a portion of the Guard into active duty in the following circumstances:
- In the event of: War, insurrection, rebellion, riot, invasion, terrorism, or resistance to execution of the laws of the state or of the United States....

Emergency Management

Would Commander-in-Chief of the Wisconsin National Guard Scott Walker get hourly briefings from his "Adjutant General"? This would be his moment...

[ND-Dem]

23. I just recently learned that wisconsin is the state which had the last socialist governor (in 1960)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Zeidler

also the largest number of socialist governors.


I hope some of that history rubs off for victory.

[Scuba]

24. Zeidler was Mayor of Milwaukee, but never governor. Milwaukee thrived in those days.

During his regime, Milwaukee doubled the size of its library system, built new housing for veterans and low-income people, public swimming pools, maintained and expanded an incomparable park system that he inherited from the city’s previous socialist mayors Emil Seidel and Daniel Hoan, and constructed a variety of major projects like the Milwaukee Arena. Zeidler also launched an aggressive annexation program that doubled the city’s area and thus helped to contain white flight and make municipal services infinitely more cost-effective.

Moreover, he was also an unflinching advocate of racial justice in housing. His racist critics attacked Zeidler with rumors that he had posted billboards in the South urging African-Americans to flock to Milwaukee.

It is hard to look back at the Zeidler years without seeing them through a haze of nostalgia and feeling the immense setbacks afflicting workers and the poor. Milwaukee, long known as an industrial powerhouse, has lost some 75,000 manufacturing jobs since 1979, with some of its best-know firms like Johnson Controls and Master Lock now employing more workers in low-wage Mexico than Milwaukee. The incomes of city families, once supported by unionized industrial and public-sector jobs, are now less than half of the surrounding suburbs. The privatization trend has even reached Milwaukee’s water system, now run by the French firm Suez.

Source no longer found, sorry.

[ND-Dem]

25. yes, brain fart.

[Lifelong Protester]

26. I do feel a headache coming on....

[MillennialDem]

28. We need to strike and we need to stick together. We need the people fighting for $15 minimum wage to

join us as well.