Posts Tagged ‘wisconsin’

Over 100,000 Gather in Wisconsin Capital

Sunday, March 13th, 2011

(This is what democracy looks like.)

The largest crowd to date descended on Wisconsin’s capital, demonstrating against the government’s attempts to cut collective bargaining rights.

Despite weeks of rallying by protesters against the anti-union legislation, the unpopular bill was signed into law on Friday following potentially illegal procedures undertaken by the state’s Republicans.

Wisconsinites are not alone in their struggle as many states across the US face nearly identical anti-labor bills.

These new legislative attacks, tantamount to class warfare, are a last-ditch effort coordinated by US Billionaires and their cronies to shift the political pendulum as far to the right as possible while they still can.

There is a revolution taking place all over the world, and today’s oligarchs are growing increasingly weary of what this new era will mean for them.

The Internet is making tremendous potential available to us, giving us the means to ensure an equitable distribution of the products of humankind’s labor. The era of exploitation is over. A more just global civilization is emerging as we awaken for the first time as a species.

Charlie Sheen: Distraction of the Day

Thursday, March 10th, 2011

(idk… kinda looks like a trend)

Sure, a lot of people enjoy rubbernecking a celebrity train wreck as it happens, but why has there so much Sheen-noise being made as of late? Probably because there’s nothing like a sex-crazed maniac, high on tigerblood, to keep the public distracted from actual news-worthy events.

Every day, more soldiers and civilians are dying in expensive wars for which public support has all but evaporated.

Revolutions have sprouted all over the Middle East, with freedom fighters showing the world how to demand democracy from the system.

Perhaps most important to the American population are the huge uprisings which started in Wisconsin and have spread to cities around the United States.

This is why the mainstream media focuses on Sheen and whatever other nonsense they can find. Because if they were to really report on the important issues, the social consciousness might become overwhelmed by an epidemic of revolutionary spirit.

And this is exactly what the powers that be fear the most – an engaged and empowered civilian population fighting for their rights.