Thursday, February 17, 2011

"What's Disgusting? Union-Busting!"

From the Nation:

"I have never been prouder of our movement than I am at this moment," shouted Wisconsin AFL-CIO President Phil Neuenfeldt, as he surveyed the crowds of union members and their supporters that surged around the state Capitol and into the streets of Madison Wednesday, literally closing the downtown as tens of thousands of Wisconsinites protested their Republican governor’s attempt to strip public employee unions of their collective bargaining rights.

30,000 people in the freezing fucking cold on a weekday. That's Solidarity.

TPM has the photo gallery.

Here's one gallery from the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, and another one here.

I can almost hear the ghost of Bob LaFollette telling Walker: You're toast, bro.

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