On Saturday March 26th thousands rallied in Neenah, Wisconsin to stand together against Gov. Walker and Sen. Republican’s extreme attack on Wisconsin's families. On Day 41, The Rally was brought to The Valley as the energy from Madison transferred to the Fox Cities. Union workers, non-union workers, students and activists were joined by mothers, fathers, grandparents, children, veterans and concerned citizens to raise their voice against Gov. Walker’s plans for our state. Plans that would limit the rights of workers, deprive our communities of needed services, harm our children’s education and hurt our state’s most vulnerable citizens.
“We are here today to stand up against Gov. Walker’s extreme power grab,” said Corey Otis, Appleton School Teacher and WEAC Fox Valley President. “How can you publish language late at night when everyone else is sleeping just to get your way? That is not democracy. This rally, today, this is democracy and today the fight continues. We have a lot of work ahead of us but we are energized, we are speaking out, we are informing our neighbors, and we will take our government back this summer.” Mark Westphal President of the Fox Valley Labor Council called Gov. Walker’s tactics “downright shameful. He is putting corporate interests above the interests of teachers, nurses, fire fighters, and everyday working people and it is not right.”
Oshkosh Rep. Gordon Hintz also addressed that crowd explaining “when you go after rights, when you attack everyday people, they will stand up and fight back.”
“Now is our time” explained Mike Bolton, USW District 2 Director. “Now is our time to stand up. Now is our time to fight back. What’s happening here is not the progressive Wisconsin I know and love; the Wisconsin whose motto is forward. It is time to take our state back. I ask everyone to join me in the streets as we knock on however many doors it takes to reclaim our state.”
“We are making history for union workers, we are making history for non-union workers and we are making history for America’s middle class,” exclaimed Phil Neuenfeldt, President of the Wisconsin State AFL-CIO. “We will continue to fight for our rights as workers and for our rights as the working class. The world is watching and we are showing the world that we will not be silenced, we will not give up, and we will not go away.”
For video of Saturday's rally click here.
For photos from Neenah click here.
Keep it up, don't stop until they give back what they've taken.
Posted by: chad | 03/28/2011 at 05:03 PM
AFL-CIO needs twitter, facebook, etc. share buttons so we can easily share and help wake up America. Main Stream Media is not reporting, or reporting negatively, and that is what people are hearing the most, not so much the truth at all is found in my searches over the last week or more. I would like to know if the media black-out of these important events is part of the so called New World Order and if this is what people can expect with appears to be a hostile take-over of American rights.
Posted by: TessTyFy | 03/28/2011 at 05:29 PM
The Tea Party Poem
By TJ 3/28/11
We went to town hall meetings
with weapons on our hips
and right wing leaning lies
spewing from our lips
He's a black man from Kenya
and he ain't one of us
he done got educated
and he doesn't spit or cuss
He would give rights to women
and take away our guns
and make the color of his skin
the color of the sun
Now we ain't all that racist
and it's true we like NASCAR
we get our news from Faux
while drinking at the bar
We need to crush the unions
with their fancy jobs and all
so the Koch brothers can live
above the polluted mall
Friends from Oregon and Washington support you. Rock on
Posted by: Tommy J Skiens | 03/28/2011 at 09:46 PM
Hey, great poem))
Posted by: online writing | 03/30/2011 at 12:03 PM
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