Wednesday, February 23, 2011

From Madison to Manhattan, Workers Defend Union Rights

by Kanya D'Almeida from IPS.

This journalist examines labor protests and Gov. Walker's actions in Wisconsin and discovers a class war.
Seen through this broader lens of Walker's political allegiances, the events in Wisconsin take on a different light.

As political columnist Sally Kohn points out, the crisis in Wisconsin "isn't about budget deficits or government spending or even public employee benefits. It's class war, wherein the big business, conservative Right tries to pit working class Americans against one another so that the super-rich can continue to pilfer our private and public coffers for their own boundless gain."