I love to see people fight the system and the Man. I also think that this could had been avoided had folks put this type of energy when it came to supporting candidates that they believe. That includes financially, when their candidate need campaign funds, and getting voters to the voting booth.
However, this is where we are. This article by Josh Healey, gives a good summary of what the Union is dealing with in Wisconsin.
For most of the last decade, I lived in the crazy, cold, contradictory state that is Wisconsin. I wrote research papers in Madison, performed poems in Milwaukee, walked picket lines in Jefferson, organized student conferences in Eau Claire, led artistic workshops in Green Bay, spoke at my roommate’s wedding in Merrill, and went camping with my future wife at Black River Falls.
A big-city kid from the East Coast, I never fully got used to the overwhelming whiteness of Wisconsin — the winter, and yes, the people. But I eventually learned how to wear five layers in February, and that amidst the farms and abandoned factories, there was a working-class people with a strong populist ethic. As my freshman roommate from Wausau once told me, “Josh, I don’t follow politics. I just hate corporations.”
For the rest of the article, please click on the link below:
http://joshhealey.org/2011/02/17/class-warfare-in-wisconsin/
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