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Wisconsin! in one week, tens of thousands of workers and their families have made history. In the face of the most aggressive anti-worker bill in modern history, teachers, janitors, clerks, plumbers, steelworkers, teamsters and many more have stood together above party lines and pushed union leaders and politicians where they weren’t willing to go. Rank-and-file workers, students and grassroots activists have led the way and the establishment has only moved because we fought to get here. With a vote on the bill coming soon, we have to stick to our guns and keep our eyes on the prize!

The budget crisis is a fraud. As the Cap Times points out, Walker took a $121.4 million surplus and turned it into a deficit with “$140 million in new spending for special-interest groups in January. If the Legislature were simply to rescind Walker’s new spending schemes the ‘crisis’ would not exist.”

We know that when cities and states come up short its because Wall Street banks stole our money, we’re in two trillion-dollar wars and because the wealthy don’t pay their share. Two-thirds of Wisconsin corporations pay zero taxes!

George W. Bush was the keynote speaker at the anti-abortion Celebration of Life Event at Conseco Fieldhouse in Indianapolis, Indiana on April 15, 2010. While 4,000 "pro-lifers" paid $30-$70 apiece to hear him speak, George W.'s visit was also greeted by a sprited group of around 20 protestors opposing his anti-women's rights stance, along with noting his nefarious activities in launching the war against Iraq and his general lying to the U.S. and world publics about what he was up to.

The demonstration was organized with little publicity and on short notice by Amy Shackelford, a soon-to-graduate senior in social work at Indiana University-Purdue University in Indianapolis (IUPUI). She also contacted and spoke before local media, and a story and pictures on the demonstration were posted the next day in the Indianapolis Star. Local TV news also interviewed her.

The demonstrators were overwhelmingly young, although there were seven older persons who also protested, long-standing Indianapolis political activists; the demonstrators were also overwhelmingly female, and the demonstrators were united in opposing both Bush's anti-choice stance as well as his criminal acts in launching the war in Iraq. Opposition to both was vocally expressed by the demonstrators, and the demonstrators' signs echoed both oppositions. Among the protestors was Allison Luthe, Community Organizer for Central Indiana JwJ. Many of the protestors were Amy Shackelford's fellow IUPUI students.