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A Shout and a Song from Wisconsin to Working America

The following is a guest post from Jason Roseblum and Chris Reeder, the organizers of the Wisconsin Solidarity Sing Along.

As the Wisconsin Uprising nears its first anniversary in defense of workers’ rights – and keeps getting stronger – we wanted to send a shout and a song out to all the fabulous organizers and canvassers and subscribers at Working America. We know that you are out there day in and day out to educate working Americans about how the 99 percent are losing out to an ever-more concentrated, ever more self-interested, and ever more exploitative one percent in this country.

We are working to unseat the union busting and democracy-busting governor of our state, Scott Walker. In fact, we just gathered a million signatures – percentage-wise, the most in the history of this country – to force a Recall Election this spring. We believe that we can unseat the man who boasted that he had “dropped the bomb” on public sector unions. When he called it a “bomb” he also declared that he was going to “change the course of history” by pummeling working men and women – by denying workers their voice at the workplace.

In common with you at Working America, we hold a solemn commitment not only to protect the voice of workers in this country, but to amplify and deepen workers’ voices. We believe in a sweet land of liberty. Of this, and of thee we sing. Without robust union democracy in the United States, we wouldn’t have democracy at all.

Thank you for all your help in this work – come join us every weekday at noon at the Capitol Building in Madison. Solidarity!

-From your friends at the Wisconsin Capitol Solidarity Singalong

Tags: Wisconsin, Wisconsin Recall