As in the song "Lawyers In Love" we have a land, a nation with too many in high places willing to do anything for money neglecting people, honor and principle but a change is coming. No more falling for the lie of living only individualistic and independent lives leaving us divided and conquerable by powerful special interests but a people, a nation collaborating for the greater common good in various groups all across the nation. A land of people working together to help one another with a vision moreover as Jesus would have us be. Love, Mercy, Forgiveness, Kindness....something about another Land. The change is coming

Sunday, March 13, 2011

150,000 in Madison Wis. Continue Protest For Workers Rights

150,000 protestors, the largest yet, assembled in Madison Wisconsin Saturday to show opposition to the states new anti-union bill removing collective bargaining rights for government workers and to show support for the 14 Democrat senators returning from their own exile protest.
There are those who love to claim this is only a republic so satisfied with the corporate union busters buying off Republican congressmen that ignore,on ideology, what the people want 3 out of 4 years but I guess we will find out soon just how much of republic we are stuck with or how much of a democracy we can make.

2 comments :

David Wilson said...

yes, the first struggle is to realize that growth cannot proceed indefinitely, and the second is to agonize over unions - not clearcut by any means, so many union members see themselves as entitled bourgeois, meanwhile, in the lower strata, the unemployed, homeless (I watched one day as the police in Houston cleared them out from under an overpass not far from the KBR Tower where I worked at the time), all of those who have fallen through the numerous cracks ... the question of what to do with unions is hard to call

here in Toronto the Greenpeace office is among several buildings dominated by union offices - and listening to environmental activists talk about the 'raprochement' that has gone on between green & labour ... well, you hear a lot of it, and frankly it makes me sick, the auto union guys feel it is 'de rigeur' to ride around in the biggest SUV they can find, and they offer very little beyond a desperate desire to keep on keepin' on

oh well, always good to pass by this way and find you still here, be well, David.

Doug said...

Great to hear from you David.
A little history is wise in considering the fate of unions but I will get back and add more to do justice here.