"Besides labor unions, environmentalists, gay and lesbian groups, and antiwar activists took part in nationwide rallies"
Gee, why would the Globe want to scrub-a-dub-dub that out?
"Wis. volunteers keep protest going as movement spreads
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Nearly two weeks after the start of massive protests against Gov. Scott Walker's proposal that would strip nearly all public employees of their collective bargaining rights erupted, a network of volunteers has emerged as the skeleton that keeps the daily demonstrations alive.
Related: Wisconsin Democrats Waylaid by Republicans
As the protesters get waylaid by the agenda-pushing corporate media.
Widespread protests began Feb. 15, with 13,000 people attending rallies in and around the Capitol. Crowds peaked at 70,000 a week ago, a few thousand of which were tea party counter-protesters.
Since then, crowds outside the Capitol have dipped significantly, although thousands of protesters packed the building and surrounding streets on Saturday, while thousands of others demonstrated in support of them in rallies planned for all 50 states.
The crowds are GROWING and they showed up in a SNOWSTORM!
WTF, readers? The paper lies about wars, economy, environment, and now protests?
Is there NOT ONE THING they will tell the TRUTH about?
Is there ANYTHING they will NOT SPIN to suit their AGENDA-PUSHING PURPOSES?
Outside the Statehouse in St. Paul, Minn., about 1,000 people waived signs of support for the Wisconsin protesters and chanted "workers' rights are human rights." Democratic U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison addressed the rally and encouraged the protesters to keep up the fight.
Then he's a subversive inciting rebellion, isn't he?
Similar rallies took place in Denver, New York City, Lansing, Mich., Harrisburg, Pa., and elsewhere.
In Ohio, thousands of union members and environmentalists rallied outside the Statehouse in Columbus against proposed legislation similar to Wisconsin's that would abolish most collective bargaining rights.
Maybe we should be THANKING the Wisconsin governor for BRINGING Americans TOGETHER!
Ah, yes, the natural LAW of OVERREACH and UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES!!!!
Back in Madison, Carol DeGrave, 53, a middle school media coordinator in Green Bay, held a sign that read "Stay Strong, Stay Long!" She said she's protested for the last three days because she's afraid that without collective bargaining, her school district will cut her position.
Capitol police have allowed protesters to stay 24 hours a day and hundreds do most nights. But police plan to end the sleepover at 4 p.m. Sunday, setting up a potential showdown in what has been a relatively incident-free protest....
Related: Wisconsin police join up with anti-Walker protesters
Don't you just love the Boston Globe and its censorship, obfuscations, and omissions? I know I do.
What I CAN NOT FIND on the WEB even as I am STARING AT IT in my PRINTED PAPER:
Besides labor unions, environmentalists, gay and lesbian groups, and antiwar activists took part in nationwide rallies.... "
Gee, LOOK at THAT, Americans! SOMETHING on which we ALL AGREE!!!
Related: Wis. demonstrators flood Capitol as movement grows (By Richard A. Oppel Jr. and Timothy Williams, New York Times)
Normally I do not read a NYT update in the Boston Globe, but what the heck?
MADISON, Wis. — With booming chants of “This will not stand!’’ at least 70,000 demonstrators flooded the square around the Capitol yesterday afternoon in what local authorities called the largest protest yet in nearly two weeks of demonstrations....
But a SIGNIFICANT DIP according to my printed PoS!
A spokesman for the Madison police, Joel DeSpain, who provided the crowd estimate, said there had been no arrests during the rallies.
The demonstrators in Madison — joined by sympathy protests in state capitals around the country— were loud but peaceful, according to police.
But there was some unease and confusion over the fate of what has become the heart and soul of the protests: Whether the hundreds of people who have spent the night every night in the hallways, and public areas of the capitol building will be forcibly evicted beginning this afternoon.
Okay, this is the NYT's chance. Tell us the COPS are JOINING the PROTESTERS!!!
Later, Jim Palmer, the leader of a large law enforcement union, said that he has been told that the Capitol police were backing away from the plan, and he expected that protesters would still be allowed to spend the night inside.
“Now it sounds like they are going to let people stay,’’ said Palmer, executive director of the 11,000-member Wisconsin Professional Police Association. The police may only ask for people to “voluntarily comply’’ with requests to leave the building, he said. He added that his union and other labor leaders have urged their members to comply with whatever the police ask....
Why would the NYT be any different than it's bastard stepchild the Boston Globe?
Supporters of the Wisconsin protests gathered in capitals across the nation, from Albany to the West Coast.
One of the largest was in Columbus, Ohio, where several thousand people protested a similar labor bill under consideration there. Teachers, firefighters, and other public workers also held rallies in cities including Denver; Topeka, Kan.; Harrisburg, Pa.; and Olympia, Wash., the Associated Press reported."
And here is further food for thought: The AmeriKan tyrants can FORGET ABOUT DEPLOYING the POLICE and ARMY AGAINST US NOW! No FALSE-FLAG TERROR or other such nonsense is going to JUSTIFY CLEARING and OPPRESSION their American brothers and sisters. The WINDOW is CLOSED and the LIES WILL NO LONGER WORK!!
