University of Wisconsin State-wide Walkout Thursday

[Jacob F]

Please spread the word - Students will walk out of all UW schools on
Thursday at 12 in opposition to Governor Scott Walker's budget
proposal that will break unions.

[Vanessa Vaile]

Thanks for the updates ~ keep them coming. I just re-posted to adj-l list and blogging at New Faculty Majority.

Vanessa

[Jacob Flom]

3,000 UW-Milwaukee students walked out yesterday and passed this proclamation to governor walker: http://sds-mke.blogspot.com/2011/02/uwm-walkout-proclamation-to-governor.html

Hundreds of Milwaukee high school students risked punishment to walk out and march miles to the UWM rally.

Video from UWM Walkout: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vxW3whe2sdg

Jacob
Milwaukee SDS

On Thu, Feb 17, 2011 at 6:17 AM, Vanessa Vaile <vaness...@gmail.com> wrote:

Thanks for the updates ~ keep them coming. I just re-posted to adj-l list and blogging at New Faculty Majority.

Vanessa

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[Wesley Strong]

This is such amazing news coming out of Wisconsin. We should hold it up as a model of success even though it hasn't finished yet! Occupying a state building for several days? Awesome.

Wes Strong
860 916 2761

[Vanessa Vaile]

Agree ~ I am so encouraged by this. Here's an update (possibly already outdated)

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/18/us-wisconsin-protests-idUSTRE71H01920110218
http://www.npr.org/2011/02/18/133864095/the-nation-how-constitution-helps-wisconsin-win
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-02-17/public-employee-union-protests-spread-from-wisconsin-to-ohio.html

Good on site, non-msm updates following on twitter, #wiunion, #notmywi, #SOState

But the assault on teachers (and, by extension, education) and other
public workers is under way in multiple states. Bills that would in
one form or another roll back labor rights and wage standards have
recently been (or will soon be) introduced in Alaska, Arizona,
Colorado, Connecticut, Hawaii, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Maine,
Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nevada, New
Hampshire, New Mexico, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota,
Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, and West Virginia.

Might be an idea to get early resistance strategies in place ~ and use
this momentum to build them into March actions.

Vanessa

[Vanessa Vaile]

PS - hashtag correction

#StateSOS

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