Hundreds demonstrate in Hudson, Wi (photos include Fight like an Egyptian)

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.workdayminnesota.org/index.php?news_6_4771

By Barb Kucera, Workday editor
20 February 2011

HUDSON, Wis. - Bill Tomberlin isn’t a public employee or a union member. But the Hudson resident joined hundreds of others Saturday to protest Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker’s attempt to strip government workers of their collective bargaining rights.


Jayme McKenna, of AFSCME Local 66 in Duluth (above), was among those demonstrating Saturday in Superior near the campus of the University of Wisconsin. Joel Sipress (below), president of the newly organized faculty union at UW-Superior, addresses the crowd.

“It affects me as an American worker,” said Tomberlin, who works for a roofing company. “If they pass a bill that takes rights away from union members, who’s next?”

Several hundred Wisconsin workers, joined by supporters from Minnesota, held up signs on the Carmichael Road bridge over Interstate 94 and marched to the government center. A smattering of people supporting Walker also held up signs.

About 50 people also demonstrated in Superior, Wis.

In Madison, protests continued Saturday for the fifth straight day, with a crowd estimated at 70,000 filling the Capitol rotunda and surrounding streets.

When asked why he was demonstrating, Tomberlin replied, “I’m doing it for her,” and pointed to his seven-year-old granddaughter, Madison, who held a sign that read, “Walker makes George W. Bush look like a genius.” Cars honked as they passed the group.

FULL story and photos at link.

[Oceansaway]

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