Photos From Protest In Solidarity With Wisconsin Workers

95% of the attendees were 35 and older. Where are our younger citizens when our republic needs them? This is the time. This is the turning point at which we have a chance to change society toward an ecotopia void of capitalist destruction. Please youth... join the fight! We need you!

but was there in spirit.
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this gathering sponsored by the Democrats was all about how evil the Republicans are and how lucky we are to have the great Jerry Brown as our Governor in California. The organizers said nothing about the devastating budget cuts Brown will impose nor did they acknowledge the reality that the unions in Wisconsin have already conceded and said they'll allow the governor there to cut benefits, gut pensions, and lay off workers; just like Jerry Brown. There was no call for a General Strike, no demand that Brown raise taxes on the rich, no demand for free health care, free public transportation, - just more of the same old BS about how the Democrats will save the "middle class." The organizers themselves are not even working class people so the rally petered out with no call for further action, no organizing for a Labor Party, no planning for the General Strike and civil disobedience that will be needed, and certainly no call for the "change we need": a break from the Democrats and their worthless front group MoveOn.uberalles.

As we were discussing in our MoveOn meeting yesterday (in which we were planning the next street events on March 15), no one could have predicted how fast the uprisings in Egypt and Libya occurred. As in V for Vendetta, it is said that sometime, somewhere, someone is going to make a stupid mistake. And then the dominoes will fall. The point being, no one can say when the last straw will be added but we have to be ready to join together in solidarity.

Some of the unions are mentioning general strike, WHICH YOU DID NOT HEAR AT ALL A COUPLE MONTHS AGO. Many representatives of the unions are coming to our meetings now and pledging their support for the events. So unless you really were not paying attention on Saturday, you KNEW that EVERYONE left KNOWING this was just the START of things to come.