Wednesday, 23 February 2011

UPRISINGS: FROM THE MIDDLE EAST TO THE MIDWEST

UPRISINGS: FROM THE MIDDLE EAST TO THE MIDWESTBy Amy GoodmanPosted on Feb 22, 2011As many as 80,000 people marched to the Wisconsin state Capitol in Madison on Saturday as part of an ongoing protest against newly elected Republican Gov. Scott Walker’s attempt to not just badger the state’s public employee unions, but to break them. The Madison uprising follows on the heels of those in the Middle East. A sign held by one university student, an Iraq...