***** Wisconsin Protest March 12 LIVE Blog *****

[L. Coyote]

I heard "150,000 strong" at this hour.

Let's create a unified thread rather than a hundred threads.
Add your uptakes and updates, photos, and more. Add your X-POsts here too.

LIVE Stream: http://theuptake.org/



The action will begin soon, 2 PM in Madison.

[MedleyMisty]

1. On the uptake feed

I can finally hear what I've seen people tweeting for a couple of days.

Car horns honking to the tune of "This is what democracy looks like!"

:)

[Jackpine Radical]

2. OK by me.

[L. Coyote]

3. That's truly choice!

Luv the missing tooth :rofl:

[hwmnbn]

5. PERFECT!!!

Alfred E. Wanker!

[JohnnyRingo]

11. Kudos

It dovetails nicely with Walkers "what me worry" style of governance.

Like a kid who learns by sticking a paper clip in a wall socket, he is likely shocked by the current backlash of what he thought was a no-brainer decision to short circuit the state's labor agreements. Now he faces a legislative house fire that threatens to leave his fellow Republicans homeless.

I'll be emailing that pic to my friends if you don't mind.

[Jackpine Radical]

15. If I hadn't wanted to spread it, I wouldn't have posted it.

Free to one and all. My first project with my new Photoshop Elements.

[Generic Other]

22. Nice Job, JackPine!

The resemblance is striking!

[L. Coyote]

4. They plan to play the 14 Senator's presser before the 2 PM events begin.

[Jackpine Radical]

10. WORT is saying the Fab 14 be on the square at 3.

[L. Coyote]

14. 14 Senators PRESSER VIDEO here: Coming Up = Live Coverage

14 WI Dems News Conference Click To Watch
http://theuptake.org/uptake2-channel-click-to-watch/

[senseandsensibility]

6. I tthought it already started.

:shrug: If it hasn't started, is that why no corporate media is covering it?

[L. Coyote]

7. There is a break now. Speakers were at the podium until a short while ago.

Scheduled events resume at 2 PM local, in a few.



Everyone will be going home to milk cows around six PM :rofl:

[senseandsensibility]

8. Thanks. I'm time zone challenged. What is that Pacific time?

Noon?

[L. Coyote]

12. Yes, Madison is Central time, two hours ahead of us Westies

[dixiegrrrrl]

9. More pics at this thread :

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x625411

[L. Coyote]

20. Check out Michael Moore's site too

http://michaelmoore.com/

[dixiegrrrrl]

31. Thank you!!!

[L. Coyote]

13. 'Upwards of 150,000 people will show up around the capital of Madison today'

http://www.presstv.ir/usdetail/169599.html

LiveStream NOW: "largest protests across the country in recent history"

[L. Coyote]

16. Tractorcade taped footage NOW = 14 Senators Presser LINK is:

http://theuptake.org/uptake2-channel-click-to-watch/

Republicans just love to dismiss the ongoing pro-labor protests in Wisconsin, accusing unions of busing in demonstrators from out of state. But they're gonna have a much harder time of it this Saturday at 12:00 noon, when thousands of farmers descend on the state Capitol in what is being billed as the Farm Labor Tractorcade.

Translation: Workers of the Wisconsin unite


According to the protest's Facebook page, over 3,500 people have already confirmed that they will be attending the event, and while I suppose they won't all be riding in on farm equipment, that's still shaping up to be a helluva lot of tractors rumbling in solidarity with state workers, and the rights of all Wisconsinites to bargain collectively.

FACEBOOK page: https://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=191135844260755
Join the Farmer Labor Tractorcade
6,488 Attending

[L. Coyote]

17. Presser being replayed NOW on the main channel. LINK:

http://theuptake.org/

[myrep]

18. "99 Weeks" - A song for the unemployed.

A song for the unemployed. Solidarity.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ARFjqjwhsE

[Ellipsis]

19. According to The Beer Party: WALKER TO BE IN WASHBURN, WI TONIGHT

According to The Beer Party: WALKER TO BE IN WASHBURN, WI TONIGHT Funeral procession being organized from WITC Superior to the Steak Pit Restaurant. Pass it on!!!

[L. Coyote]

21. Live Reporting from the Wisconsin Protests

http://www.prwatch.org/news/2011/03/9944/live-reporting-wisconsin-protests

[Ellipsis]

23. Statement from Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald from the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Madison -- Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald issued a withering statement Saturday ahead of the return of the 14 Democratic Senators to the state Capitol.

He called the Senators "the most shameful 14 people in the state of Wisconsin" and said it was "an absolute insult" to hundreds of thousands of Wisconsinites that the Senators ran away to Illinois to block Gov. Scott Walker's budget-repair bill.

Fitzgerald wrote: "To the Senate Democrats: when you smile for the cameras today and pretend you're heroes, I hope you look at that beautiful Capitol building you insulted. And I hope you're embarrassed to call yourselves senators."

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/news/117854133.html

[L. Coyote]

25. Never has a fight for rights been lost in Wisconsin, so this clown should wake up to the law

and try to comprehend what human rights means!!

[L. Coyote]

24. Sen. Bob Wirch brought up the UN Declaration of Human Rights and Papal Encyclicals

Universal Declaration of Human Rights: "Everyone has the right to form and to join trade unions"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x621314


Catholic Encyclicals
http://www.papalencyclicals.net/

[wellstone dem]

26. I am so proud of Wisconsin. On Wisconsin!

I'm proud to live next door. No more Wisconsin jokes.

[wellstone dem]

27. LOL Thank you to all the slobs in Wisconsin!

Cause I'm one too.

[wellstone dem]

28. We want to unite

We want to fight
We want to get back worker's rights!

[L. Coyote]

29. TWO CHANNELS are:

14 Senators replay = http://theuptake.org/uptake2-channel-click-to-watch/

LIVE NOW = http://theuptake.org/

ALSO: http://theuptake.org/category/states/wisconsin/

The crowd just booo'ed FOX and is chanting "FOX NEWS LIES"

[wellstone dem]

30. MONK!!!!

"What an incredible privilege it is to be standing in the footsteps of the Wisconsin 14."

[BuelahWitch]

32. His sister is an educator!

:bounce:

[senseandsensibility]

36. Is he from WI?

I've always liked him.

[Poiuyt]

43. He's from Green Bay

I believe his brother lives in Appleton right now.

[L. Coyote]

33. This is a fight ... for human rights"

[wellstone dem]

34. He introduces a union thug, his sister

He is really good.

[L. Coyote]

35. I'm getting agitated already!! Lose of human rights does that to me.

[L. Coyote]

37. Introducing Marty Hill, AFSCME Council President "Day 27"

They have been wrong with everything all along the way

"The Wisconsin 14 provided time for our movement to rise up, and rise up we did."

"They can never take away our resolve to continue fighting for front line workers .... but they cannot."

LIVE STREAM: http://theuptake.org/category/states/wisconsin/

[senseandsensibility]

38. Love these old time union guys

Very effective.

[L. Coyote]

39. "To Scott Walker and his band of Liars and Thieves"

You will not steal the heart and soul of Wisconsin because we are the heart and soul of Wisconsin

"one day longer, one day stronger"

http://theuptake.org/category/states/wisconsin/

[wellstone dem]

40. We are all Wisconsin Teachers

Whether we drive a school bus or a snow plow, make meals, take care of the elderly, or lead a kindergarten class--we are all Wisconsin Teachers!

[L. Coyote]

41. "Just like Joseph McCarthy, he will go down in history ... " Text "WI" to 225568

If you lose thew sound feed, click refresh

Text to this number:

225568

Just send this text:

WI

And you will be kept informed.

[wellstone dem]

42. 8000 people volunteered to work on the recall--just today.

WOW.