Wisconsin's Coalition Against Corporate Power

guardian.co.uk — The streets of Madison, Wisconsin are teeming— with people, placards, even farmers' tractors — in a moment of democratic uprising unlike anything in recent memory. This spontaneous eruption of massive popular resistance, with hundreds of thousands of people from all walks of life demonstrating for weeks on end, was sadly not enough to stop the state from stripping workers of their rights. Yet it has given birth to a newly engaged and radicalize working class in Wisconsin and kindled a broader democracy movement whose impact will be tested both in its immediate response to these attacks and its ability to sustain itself and progress as a popular movement.

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