***Official Strike and Protest Announcements***

[madmax]

Please post dates, times, cities of strike plans, protests and other activities associated with WISCONSIN and UNION activities.

Will be used to paper the internet, FB, tweets...

SOLIDARITY

[Cleita]

1. K&R

[mike_c]

2. Take Class Action April 13....

April 13 is a day of action across CSU campuses in California. Rallies on individual campuses will be designed to highlight California Faculty Association (CFA) and other bargaining unit unions' efforts to secure fair contracts and the need to insure fair and affordable access to higher education for California students.

Link for additional information about CFA and April 13: http://www.calfac.org/

Solidarity!

[madmax]

3. Anything happening tomorrow?

Friday - school walk outs? I'm looking for a thread that I may have seen on DU

[Webster Green]

8. There's a call for high school students to stage a nationwide walkout.

2 PM Friday.

[cleanhippie]

15. A call by who? From where? Link?

[Webster Green]

19. I've heard it in quite a few places.

Thom Hartman's show, and I think someone mentioned it on Bill Press' show this morning. I read it on DU last night as well.

[Webster Green]

20. Link...

Michael Moore mentioned it on Rachel's show last night. I forgot about that one.

I googled for you. You owe me. :P

http://innertubes.wordpress.com/2011/03/09/national-student-walkout-planned-by-madison-wisconsin-high-school-students/

[cleanhippie]

21. Hehe, thanks. I do owe you one.

Hope you didn't think I was beating you up, I really did just want to know where you had heard it.

[abelenkpe]

4. Difficult to understand why this isn't already going on

But I'm not in Wisconsin so any news would be helpful.

How to help from elsewhere etc...

[nadinbrzezinski]

5. My sig, for the strike fund

[madmax]

11. Good one - if this goes on for a while.

imho - We can NOT afford to lose this. Wisconsin is ground zero. If they win - it will be Raygun and the ATC all over again.

[nadinbrzezinski]

16. I suspect that they are expecting that

and will be surprised when it quite does not play that way.

The ATAC strike got zero support... this is organic in ways I have not seen outside history books. The war has been joined. People FINALLY get it.

Read the Fourth Turning for a cheap Toynbee like explanation of what is going on.

[madmax]

7. FB removed strike info from a thread

Some people would like a heads up to find rallys, protests and information so they can attend if possible.

I know DU wouldn't censor that type of info. Gathering it and posting it - join in. Spread the word.

[madmax]

9. If you have a FB page post info there.

It will travel ;) The internet gives us a long reach, no matter where we are.

[Tx4obama]

6. Link to recall info

http://www.recalltherepublican8.com/

[socialist_n_TN]

10. March 15th in Nashville, TN between 12N and 1 PM........

at Legislative Plaza. It's an AFL-CIO rally supporting collective bargaining rights in Tennessee and all across the nation. It's a Tuesday and we're hoping for 1k people DURING THE WEEK IN THIS DEEP RED STATE! If you're close come join us!

There'll be more actions and rallies coming up. I'll keep y'all posted.

[madmax]

12. Wow TN that's great. nt

[socialist_n_TN]

13. Actually that will be the fourth I've been to in the last.........

month and each one has been bigger than the last. Except the one today and that was only because it was organized in less than 12 hours and it's a VERY cold and rainy day. We had 50 people or so today, including a couple of state reps in spite of the weather and the lack of notice.

[madmax]

14. Hopefully we can get the word out sooner

people finding out too late and missing the opportunity.

You Rock socialist_n_TN :patriot:

[socialist_n_TN]

17. Thanks. I consider this the defining fight of my old age.........

:) The civil rights struggle was just SLIGHTLY before my coming of age and the anti Vietnam War was my first taste of activism. This is every bit as important as that.

[Viking12]

18. Part of the Bill passed last night gives them the authority to fire anyone that strikes in any way

March 9, 2011, Page 16:

3. Discharge of State Employees
Provide that, during a state of emergency declared by the Governor under the state of emergency management law, an appointing authority may discharge any employee who does any of the following: a) fails to report to work as scheduled for any three days during the state of emergency and the employee's absences from work are not approved leaves of absence; or b) participates in a strike, work stoppage, sit-down, stay-in, slowdown, or other concerted activities to interrupt the operations or services of state government, including specifically participation in purported mass resignations or sick calls. Provide that engaging in any of these activities constitutes just cause for discharge.

-snip-

Under current law, the Governor may issue an executive order declaring a state of emergency for the state or any portion of the state if he or she determines that an emergency resulting from a disaster or imminent threat of disaster exists. Generally, a disaster is a severe or prolonged, natural or human-caused, occurrence that threatens or negatively impacts life, health, property, infrastructure, the environment, the security of this state or a portion of this state, or its critical systems.

http://legis.wisconsin.gov/lfb/2011-13%20Budget/2011_03_09%20Modification%20to%20SS%20SB%2011_AB%2011.pdf

[madmax]

23. Sounds like a page out of Raygun's playbook. nt

[madmax]

22. SEIUWI website listing for Wisconsin

http://www.seiuwi.org/

Listed by districts planned activities. GO 'SCONSIN!!

[madmax]

24. Here's a link to Facebook that has a

schedule of events planned in Wisconsin.

http://www.facebook.com/?ref=home#!/pages/Center-for-Media-and-Democracy/26791377138