"We must close union offices, confiscate their money and put their leaders in prison. We must reduce workers salaries and take away their right to strike."
-Adolf Hitler, May 2, 1933
100,000+. Largest protest since Vietnam. Media ignores it.
My aunt in Madison asked me over facebook almost nonchalantly to come up and see this today. I decided to do it entirely on a whim. I'm sure she was just as surprised as I was. This issue itself does not directly affect me as an Illinoisan, and that fact carried over while I was there. I didn't chant or pump my fist to a drum beat, or hold any signs, or really do anything an actual protester would typically do. I was just there. I felt like I was an observer. And it was amazing. I really feel like this is bigger than unions. This was the beginning of the liberal pushback against the Tea Party and the corporate psuedo-fascists who control them. And I'm extremely grateful to have been a part of it. Here are the photos I took. And here's a couple videos I found. In the first video, if you pause at about 12 seconds in, we were somewhere on the right side of the screen.
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