The puppets are coming! The puppets are coming! Corporate puppets Sarah Palin and "Americans" for "Prosperity" are rallying at our Wisconsin State Capitol tomorrow.
COUNTER PROTEST THE CORPORATE PUPPETS
Dump Tea! Dump Palin!
NOON, SATURDAY, APRIL 16th
WI STATE CAPITOL, STATE STREET CORNER
BRING PUPPETS -- sock puppets, hand puppets, marionettes, shadow puppets, finger puppets and muppets!
BRING LIBERTY BELLS -- that means cowbells, dinner bells, doorbells, jingle bells, you name it, and let's ring in Wisconsin's independence from corporate rule!
WISCONSIN WAVE
We Won't Pay for Their Crisis!
http://www.WisconsinWave.org
I could not resist this. We watched The Ed Show the other night. Ed was at the Barrymore Theater in Madison this past week. It was great! The crowd loved him and were electrified to see the Wisconsin 14 on stage! What a night! Prior to the live feed from Madison, a segment of the grilling Scott Walker took from Dennis Kucinich aired on Ed's show. This clip is worth the watch.
http://www.care2.com/causes/politics/blog/wi-union-killer-bill-saves-no-money-gov-admits-video/#comment-1947403
It's affirming, energizing and supportive to be involved in an awakening. Whatever happens, it is good to see and feel The People coming in to the streets from our long slumber. We're rubbing our eyes and looking around. Where have we been? What have we been doing? What has been happening while we took a very long nap? Who is in charge of our government and what are they planning to do to our freedoms and our democracy? What should we do? How do we join hands and stand against the undermining of the middle class? Where are our voices? What do they sound like when we raise them in protest?
I asked many of these questions early on. They're still worth asking as the recall efforts and gatherings and counter protests continue. They are always worth asking on a continual basis because they are the questions that need addressing if we are to keep an active citizen-based democracy in our country. The forces of change are gathering. This is an important year for citizen input and action. We must not return to the shady grove where we just recently came awake and allow ourselves to fall back into complacency.
Yesterday I met my sister at a funeral home in Beloit to finalize arrangements for our parents when they make their final transition. There was the matter of them being in another state and the initial arrangements being in Beloit. Our meeting with the funeral director, no matter the oddities of that and the strangeness of the conversation, ended on this note. He asked if I lived in Janesville. I said I did. He asked if I liked Janesville better than Beloit. I said I did not make too much of a distinction, that I felt both communities were struggling economically. He said he thought Beloit was a far better place to live. He then launched in to a brief diatribe on public employees and how their greed has impacted small business. This man had met us for what we believed was a scheduled appointment since my sister had called and spoke to him two weeks before in dirty, cat-hair laden sweat clothes and could not for many moments remember us or understand why we were there. When he did finally tumble, he made several remarks that were not particularly supportive of those who are making final arrangements for their parents. In small context, I am not sure that the public employees are the real problem for this man and his business. Certainly not the first ones on the list of potential improvements he could make. In larger context, the mantra of the Repubs is sounding notes in little corners of little places like Beloit. The mantra is what we've been talking about for weeks now. Public employees are raping the rest of us, demanding more, doing less. Their pension funds are wiping small businesses off the map and causing the state to go bankrupt. This man, in his less than professional manner, parroted the tea party line. I was struck with how we can still be snoring while standing up!
So, the tea party, in the persona of Sarah Palin herself, is in Madison today but The People are also there with cowbells and puppets and signs. It's about 40 degrees today with winds and rain. Perfect weather for Wisconsinites!
Power To All The People!
p.s. Can't let this get away. Check this out! From care2 yesterday -
Via The Progressive:
On Tuesday, the state assembly passed a bill, 59-35, that will not only void Milwaukee’s ordinance; it will also prohibit all other cities and counties in Wisconsin from offering paid sick leave on their own. The state senate passed the bill earlier in the year, when the Democrats were in Illinois. This “is an assault on democracy, local control, and working families,” said Dana Schultz, lead organizer for 9to5, National Association of Working Women. 9to5 was one of the prime movers behind the ordinance. “It’s just outrageous,” says Ellen Bravo, who helped found 9to5 and served as its national director until 2004. “They couldn’t convince the voters, and they couldn’t convince the court, so they went to the people they know they had in their pocket.”
What are these people thinking??!!
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