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Saturday, February 19, 2011

Schools Matter: Koch Bros. Own Wisconsin's Scott Walker and the Demonstrators Who Support Him #wisolidarity #wiunion #weac

Schools Matter: Koch Bros. Own Wisconsin's Scott Walker and the Demonstrators Who Support Him

Koch Bros. Own Wisconsin's Scott Walker and the Demonstrators Who Support Him

The Wisconsin chapter of the Billionaire Boys Club bought themselves a governor last Fall who is proving to be a quick study for the script that the Koch henchmen have written for him. Their effort, however, to roll back labor arrangements to the 19th Century was a slight misjudgment, you might say.

The violated workers of Wisconsin and America have been been awakened from their historical anesthesia (Freire), and they are carrying the fire once more. What are two befuddled oligarchs who made their billions by poisoning our mother earth to do in the face of people re-committed to the political struggle for fairness and equality and sanity in the workplace?

Well, of course, they call out their paid demonstrators to march in favor of their bought Governor. From Think Progress:
Wisconsin’s newly elected Republican Gov. Scott Walker is facing a growing backlash over his