So, hundreds of people (estimates vary wildly depending on the source) hit the streets of Winnipeg on Saturday to protest against corporate greed and a disparate range of issues including social justice, the environment, government accountability and even the dismantling … Continue reading →
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Pushed to the Left and Loving It: Grassroots at the Real Grassroots. What a Novel Idea
The Occupation of Wall Street protests are growing, and appear to have staying power. Without the corporate funding of the Tea Party, they started with just a small group and an idea.Taxpayers were forced to bail out Wall Street, and yet Wall Street no…
Continue readingRed Tory v.3.0.3: Occupy Bay Street?
The launch of Canada’s “revolution” against the “1 percent” is planned for October 15th. Unfortunately, they can’t even seem to get the URL of the website correct… So, not off to a terribly auspicious start on the organizational front. Unless … Continue reading →
Continue readingProgressive Proselytizing: Wall Street protests, Obama, and changing the political conversation
In some ways it is not appropriate to give too much undue attention to the current Wall Street protests in New York that are spreading around the US and into Canada. Doing so deemphasizes the very large amount of consistent and meaningful citizen acti…
Continue readingExcited Delirium: #occupywallstreet grows while MSM misses the message
Why is mainstream media ignoring the #OccupyWallStreet protests?
Continue readingCheney speech: c’mon Calgary, you can do better than this
Only about 50 protesters showed up to Cheney’s Calgary speech, a dismal showing compared to the far more sizeable crowd at his Vancouver speech the night before. I realize Calgary is a conservative city but with Nenshi, I thought things were changing.E…
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: I think less of you!
If you are a member of Le Bon Mot Book Club, I think less of you! Instead of scratching our heads wondering what kind of avaricious, bottom feeding, social pariah pays $500 to listen to Dick Cheney — an alleged war criminal — speak… *cough* I encourage Canadians to write
Continue readingLeDaro: Interesting Headline: "Have Canadians Got Their Heads In The Oil Sands?"
There have been a lot of protests against The Oil Sands in US including some celebrities like Daryl Hannah who were arrested in front of the Whitehouse; however, Canadians are silent on the issue. Has Harper successfully silenced opposition to Tar Sand…
Continue readingsomecanuckchick dot com: Nymwars
I have deleted my Google+ account, as well as my Google profile — in protest and with extreme prejudice. Based on its real name only policy, I cannot in good conscience continue to be a part of Google+. What is Google+? What are the Nymwars? Should Google+ reverse its real
Continue readingPolitics and its Discontents: Shaking Up The Complacent
If anything will defeat us as a progressive nation, it is the complacency and defeatism of the electorate. Feeling powerless, something I am convinced the extreme right wants us to feel, contributes to low civic and political engagement and, of course…
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INTERNATIONAL POLITICS BAHRAIN:TELL US WOMEN’S WORLD CUP PLAYERS TO SUPPORT THEIR FELLOW PLAYERS IN BAHRAIN:As this is being written the US Team at The Women’s World Football Cup has advanced to playing in the finals against Japan. With each advance th…
Continue readingA BCer in Toronto: Navigating the anti-Harper protest line (video)
After venturing off campus Friday afternoon to have a drink with an old Carleton friend, I returned to the conference centre to find the road out front closed and filled with about 200 protesters there to greet Stephen Harper who was due to speak to de…
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Brigette DePape speaks out
Why I did it: Senate page explains her throne speech protest – thestar.com: Brigette DePape I am moved by the excitement and energy with which peoplefrom all walks of life across this country greeted my action in theSenate.One …
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: Brigette DePape: Silently speaking truth to power
Brigette DePape: Silently speaking truth to power | rabble.ca
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Brigette was fortunate to have found herself in an unusual position – privileged yet powerless. On the one hand, she was honoured to have been selected as a Senate page, a position …
Driving The Porcelain Bus: Senate protester DePape offered job by Michael Moore
Doc maker Michael Moore backs rogue page over stunt – thestar.com
“For a young person to do that and to do it peacefully, and quietly and with grace, I thought it was a very powerful moment,” Moore told The Canadian Press on Sunday from New York. …
They Call Me "Mr. Sinister": Will You Break A Butterfly On A Wheel
There is a lot of clucking going on about Brigette DePape’s protest in the Senate. First, let me say, I admire the hell out of that kid. What she did took more courage than most of us possess. She put her future on the line, knowing the consequences, …
Continue readingDriving The Porcelain Bus: A Senate page is fired for saying what most Canadians are saying
Senate page fired for anti-Harper protest – Politics – CBC News
Brigette DePape, a Senate page, stood on the Senate floor during the Governor General’s reading of the speech from the throne holding a Stop Harper sign. She was nearing the end of her …
Continue readingpunditman: Wisconsin’s Political Crisis Is A Good Deal More Serious Than Its Fiscal Crisis
Peacenik thinks that if public sector collective bargaining can be destroyed in Wisconsin, then public sector collective bargaining can be destroyed anywhere in North America, including Canada. There are lots of movies about the development of unions in North America. Watch one. It was a tough battle. And now after
Continue readingpunditman: Wisconsin’s Political Crisis Is A Good Deal More Serious Than Its Fiscal Crisis
Peacenik thinks that if public sector collective bargaining can be destroyed in Wisconsin, then public sector collective bargaining can be destroyed anywhere in North America, including Canada. There are lots of movies about the development of unions in North America. Watch one. It was a tough battle. And now after
Continue readingpunditman: Wisconsin’s Political Crisis Is A Good Deal More Serious Than Its Fiscal Crisis
Peacenik thinks that if public sector collective bargaining can be destroyed in Wisconsin, then public sector collective bargaining can be destroyed anywhere in North America, including Canada. There are lots of movies about the development of unions in North America. Watch one. It was a tough battle. And now after years of having the right to bargain collectively, the right to join a union, and the right to worker safety laws, it is now all at risk. Some wingnut in Missouri is even trying to ban child labour laws. And who is standing up to defend worker rights. Is Obama? Is Bill Clinton? Is Hillary? A lot of common people are, along with the captain of the Green Bay Packers. If the governor of Wisconsin wins this battle, the United States of America will make Libya look like a tea party. Not today. Maybe not tomorrow. But sooner than anyone wants. Collective bargaining is part of the fabric of society. Rip it apart, and watch out.
MADISON – Wisconsin’s Legislative Fiscal Bureau was created in 1968 by a Republican governor, Warren Knowles, and a Republican-controlled state legislature.
The purpose was to establish a non-partisan agency that would provide honest fiscal analysis and information for Wisconsin Legislators. Across more than four decades, the bureau has done just that, earning the respect of legislators from both parties, including a young Scott Walker, who frequently cited the bureau when he served in the state Assembly.
Less than a month ago, a Fiscal Bureau memo reported that the state had a $121.4 million surplus through the remainder of the current fiscal year.
That is a fact that is now under attack by Governor Walker, who the conservative publication Human Events refers to as the “new hero” of the Republican right. Walker argues– as Republicans and Democrats have acknowledged for some time — that the state’s fiscal house is not in order and that unsettled issues relating to a payment due Minnesota after the canceling of a tax agreement, as well as rising health care and prison costs, could well create a shortfall before the end of the year.
So it is possible that Wisconsin might need a budget repair bill of the sort Walker has proposed before the fiscal year is finished, as it has in many years.
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