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#J17 – A Big Tuesday for People Power
The big story of 2011 was the discovery of strength in numbers. From Egypt to Ohio, we woke up to a world where mass protest and mass action could be a change agent against entrenched, powerful...
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Over 20,000 In Conservative District Wisconsin Want to Oust Leader Fitzgerald
Organizers of the campaign to recall Wisconsin Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald have filed petitions containing an incredible 20,600 signatures with the General Accountability Board (GAB). As...
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1 Million Signatures Submitted to Recall Walker
by Tula Connell – Reposted from the AFL-CIO NOW Blog Wisconsin working people hit one right out of Miller Park: Moments ago, they submitted 1 million signatures supporting a recall election of Gov....
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As Wisconsin Recall Announced, Walker Rakes in Campaign Cash
Scott Walker reacts to the recall announcement on Twitter. With over a million signatures submitted to the state election board yesterday, the effort to remove Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker is...
View ArticleA Shout and a Song from Wisconsin to Working America
The following is a guest post from Jason Roseblum and Chris Reeder, the organizers of the Wisconsin Solidarity Sing Along. As the Wisconsin Uprising nears its first anniversary in defense of workers’...
View ArticleMore Koch Money Pours In to Prop Up Absentee Gov. Walker
What would you do with $700,000? If you’re Charles and David Koch, the oil billionaires behind the conservative front group Americans for Prosperity (AFP), you toss it all into one television ad to...
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At Long Last, Recall Election of Scott Walker Is On
Source: flickr.com via Working America on Pinterest It’s hard to believe that a little over a year ago, very few people outside Wisconsin knew who Scott Walker was, apart from the fact that he was one...
View ArticleParts of Infamous Wisconsin Anti-Worker Law Struck Down by District Court
On Friday afternoon, the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Wisconsin struck a blow to two key parts of Act 10, the anti-worker “budget repair bill” that set off the historic protests last...
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To Wisconsin Republicans: Fake Elections Are Not Free
Once again, the working families of Wisconsin have used their constitutional right to express their disapproval with sitting State Senators by gathering thousands of signatures and triggering...
View ArticleWalker Repeals WI Equal Pay Protection
by Donna Jablonski – Reposted from the AFL-CIO NOW Blog Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, who is facing a recall election, quietly repealed a state law making it easier for pay discrimination victims to...
View ArticleSupreme Court Decision Brings Wisconsin A Step Closer to Suppression-Free...
Flashback: Wisconsin Republicans rammed through Act 23 in May 2011, by cutting off debate and calling the vote to cheers of “Shame!” The Wisconsin state Supreme Court said on this morning that they...
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Fake, Money-Wasting Wisconsin Candidates Allowed on Ballot
In Wisconsin, the state General Accountability Board (GAB) voted unanimously to allow six “fake Democrats” on the May 8 primary ballot. The election board’s decision came in response to a legal...
View ArticleVoter Suppression Law Not In Effect for Wisconsin Recalls
The rollercoaster of the Wisconsin recall process continued Thursday when the schedule set by Dane County Circuit Judge David Flanagan confirmed that the state’s voter suppression law will not be in...
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Working America Members See the Walker Agenda Clearly
The actions of Governor Scott Walker and his allies in the legislature have made existing political divisions in Wisconsin even more acute; we don’t expect the polarization to be alleviated any time...
View ArticleNational Police Officer Organization Urges Wisconsin to Recall Walker
Since he took office, Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker has tried to break worker solidarity. In fact, the bill that started it all, the union-busting Act 10, sought to peel off public safety workers...
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