Grab your tents and sleeping bags!
Join Walkerville – a tent ‘city’ set up to call attention to Gov. Walker’s horrendous budget, which calls for devastating cuts to education, health care and other programs middle class families rely on.
Since locking down the Capitol to the people of Wisconsin, GOP Legislatures are planning to pass their radical budget in the dead of the night with no citizen participation. Without witness they are gutting our schools, crippling our communities and eliminating programs for the poor and elderly.
We will make our voice heard and serve as a reminder that the majority of Wisconsinites do not support this budget proposal. The action will begin this Saturday, June 4, at 7:00 pm and continue indefinitely until the budget is passed. Each day will have a theme and educational program.
Please bring your own tent and sleeping bag. See you there!
Who: Concerned citizens of Wisconsin
What: ‘Walkerville’ Tent City
Why: Protest Gov. Walker’s poor budget choices which pay back his wealthy political donors at the expense of our children, our families, and our communities
When: June 4, 7:00 pm continuing until budget is passed
Where: The Capitol, top of State St. near Mifflin
Location: The proposed camping area, across the street from the state Capitol, includes: North Carroll Street from State Street to West Washington Avenue; South Carroll between West Washington and Main Street; West Mifflin Street from State Street to Wisconsin Avenue; and East Mifflin Street from Wisconsin Avenue to North Pinckney Street. It also includes the “30 on the Square” cul-de-sac at 30 W. Mifflin St. and the Philosophers’ Stones area between the Wisconsin Historical Museum and Myles Teddywedgers Cornish, 101 State St.
Saturday June 4 – Tent city opens
- 7:00 p.m. tent city opens
- 7:30 p.m. Briefing on Tent city
- 7:30-9:00 open mike event (why I am here)
Sunday June 5 – K12 Education
- 3-5 Press Kick off of Tent City with communal meal (teachers and education support professionals)
- 9:00 p.m. movie Freedom Riders
Monday June 6- Public Services
- 11:30 am March Against the Budget
- 12:00 pm and 7pm, Program (state workers/Council 1, local/county services, police and fire)
Tuesday June 7 – Healthcare
- 12:00pm and 7pm, Program
- 1:00 pm Press conference at the Capitol on immigration
Wednesday June 8- Higher Ed
- 12:00pm and 7pm, Program (including technical college members)
Thursday June 9- Democracy/Corporate Power
- 12:00pm and 7pm, Program
- 9:00 pm Screening of Too big to Fail with speaker
Friday June 10 – Anything Goes Friday
- 12:00pm and 7pm, Program
Saturday June 11 – Social & Economic Justice
- 12:00pm and 7pm, Program
(Top Photo: Walkerville. Picture taken by Mad Thinker (John) )
Great Work People. I made hundreds of of phone calls from N.Y. to Wisconsin for the recall of repug gov's. I love you people. Never give up. Because of you, we have 6 winning recalls coming soon with Walker next to go!
Posted by: Jeffrey | 06/04/2011 at 01:21 AM
It is so heartening to see that the fight goes on. Walker and his Republican rubber stamps have to see that this populist movement will not go away quietly, we won't become apathetic, and we won't be "asleep", as Dan Kapanke hopes, on recall election day. A great progressive movement has been awakened by these anti-worker and anti-middle class proposals.
Walker is trying to take away the security and dignity of public employees by reneging on the agreements made for our wages and benefits. It is about power. It is about eliminating union dollars that support progressive candidates. It is about a cynical attack on WORKERS who make up the middle class in Wisconsin, and outsourcing those jobs to private companies for lower pay and fewer benefits. This what Walker means by "open for business". These are the new jobs he will be "creating". The ploy is to shrink government from within, by driving state workers into early retirement, gutting services, eliminating decent programs, and then he can say-"look what we did in Wisconsin", as he moves on to be a Tea-Party darling in Washington. He thought he could push this agenda through when we weren't paying attention. He was wrong.
Posted by: Larry Klawiter | 06/04/2011 at 05:45 AM
The tent city is a great way to let Republican know we haven't gone away. Everyone who has made a sign, signed a petition, or gone to a rally, are citizens of "Walkerville"
Posted by: Larry Klawiter | 06/04/2011 at 05:50 AM
That's OUR HOUSE! We pay rent on it all the time.
Posted by: rachael taylor | 06/05/2011 at 12:47 PM
Broke is broke??? Is the state of Wisconsin really broke Golden??? Corporations are making record profits, plus getting tax breaks at the same time that education takes a 900 million dollar hit and health care and other public trust monies that provide needed aid to the least of our fellow citizens is drastically reduced. My 82 year old mother didn't drive this state to the brink of being "broke." My salary and benefits as a unionized public school teacher didn't "break" this state. If we really are "broke", and I don't believe we are, then yes I want a tax increase. I just got mine to the tune of $4500. Did you get yours? If the repugnatins have their way you will, in the form of more handouts to the people who are responsible for wreaking the economy.
Posted by: rick evans | 06/05/2011 at 10:27 PM
This is a concerted and coordinated effort on the part of the National Republican party to get their radical anti-government, anti-social agenda through. It is no coincidence that all the newly elected Rep govs are doing the same thing in their respective states. THIS IS NOT ABOUT THE BUDGET!!! This is all about an agenda. A very bad agenda.
And the people in those states do not like what these new govs are doing - people of all political persuasions.
They should be doing what they said they would do and that is to work on the jobs issue. Instead they are trying to kill unions and public education and health care. They are insidious and they are going to regret their radical actions.
Posted by: Cindy B | 06/06/2011 at 09:52 AM
Despite slashing education, health care and public services for local communities, Scott Walker, often met by protesting citizens, has been spewing talking points and spin at events around the state. Now, we have a chance to speak out on how we have been impacted by his devastating policy changes.
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