Happy Labor Day--There is Power in a Union (Billy Bragg)

REPORT: The American Middle Class Was Built By Unions And It Will Decline Without Them | AlterNet

REPORT: The American Middle Class Was Built By Unions And It Will Decline Without Them | AlterNet

Madison Rally Bigger Than Biggest Tea Party Rally | Tea Party and the Right | AlterNet

Madison Rally Bigger Than Biggest Tea Party Rally | Tea Party and the Right | AlterNet

Police estimated up to 100,000 people turned out in Madison, WI yesterday to protest Gov. Scott Walker’s (R) assault on unions, making it bigger than any protests the city has witnessed, even those during the Vietnam War. The Madison rally is part of a much larger Main Street Movement of average Americans demanding fairness in labor laws, social spending, and taxation that has emerged in Ohio, New Jersey, Florida,Michigan, and elsewhere. But yesterday’s rally in Madison is noteworthy because at 85,000-100,000, it was bigger than the biggest tea party protest, the September 12, 2009 rally in Washington, D.C., which turned out only an estimated 60,000-70,000. A photo of the Madison rally yesterday:

For two years, tea party activists and their allies in the GOP have claimed that the hard-right movement represents the true beliefs of the American people. But the crowd in Madison and numerous polls tell a different story.

Class Warfare in Wisconsin

From Madison, Wisconsin to Ohio and beyond, the progressive/left is waking up and the labor movement is fighting for it's existence against corporate-funded attacks on labor and collective bargaining for public workers (and all workers) by Republican (and some Democratic) governors and state legislatures.  It's time for a REAL "tea party revolution" against the corporate elites!

The Labor Uprising in Wisconsin

Showdown in Wisconsin: Are We Ready to Take America Back?

12 Things You Need to Know About the Wisconsin Uprising

Class Warfare in Wisconsin: 10 Things You Should Know

WI Governor's Fake Budget Crisis: Tax Breaks to Corporations to Bust Unions

Wisconsin is Battleground Against Billionaire Koch's Plan to Break Unions

Labor's Last Stand

The Betrayal of Public Workers

Thom Hartmann, Two Paths:  Bust Unions or Raise Taxes on the Wealthy

Robert Reich:  Exposing the Republicans' 3-Part Strategy to Destroy the  Middle Class