We are Wisconsin
Subtitle: the Wisconsin uprising in the words of the activists, writers, and everyday Wisconsinites who made it happen
By: edited by Erica Sagrans
Publisher: Tasora Books
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Minneapolis, MN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9781934690482
Subjects: Labor unions; Collective bargaining; Employee rights; Political participation; Politics and government
Description: In February of 2011, the people of Wisconsin changed the political landscape in America overnight. In response to their governor's move to strip workers of the right to organize, Wisconsinites fought back occupying their Capitol for days on end and protesting in record numbers. Provides an up-close view of the struggle, in the words of the grassroots activists, independent journalists, and Wisconsinites who led the fight. Alongside the real-time story of the Capitol occupation told by those on the inside, this collection looks at what happened, what it means, and what comes next. From publisher description.
Table of contents: title: Foreword / -- by John Nichols; title: We will fight, we will win  -- by Erica Sagrans; title: On an ex-girlfriend, a 96-year-old labor journalist, and burning down the forest  -- by Mike Elk; title: What democracy looks like :; title: The incredible ecosystem of the Wisconsin State Capitol  -- by David Dayen ;; title: Das Capitol  -- by David Weigel ;; title: The unbreakable culture of the occupied Capitol  -- by Ben Brandzel ;; title: Walker is waking up Wisconsin's organized labor movement  -- by Emily Mills ;; title: The view from inside the Wisconsin State Capitol  -- by Mike Elk; title: Dear Scott Walker :; title: It's a farmers' issue  -- by Tony Schultz ;; title: Dear Scott Walker  -- by Sigrid Peterson ;; title: My manifesto, or why I fight for workers rights in Wisconsin  -- by Joanne Staudacher ;; title: America is not broke  -- by Michael Moore; title: Do not retreat, retweet :; title: #WIunion  -- by Natasha Chart ;; title: Giving a face to the protest : interview with videographer Matt Wisniewski  -- interview by Erica Sagrans ;; title: Prankster Ian Murphy talks about calling Scott Walker  -- by Elizabeth DiNovella ;; title: Koch whore  -- by Ian Murphy; title: The Wisconsin 14 :; title: The Senator from Bay View: Chris Larson fights for worker rights in Wisconsin  -- by David Dayen ;; title: Live from an undisclosed location  -- by Senator Kathleen Vinehout ;; title: If DC Democrats want to fire up the base, they have to pick a fight  -- by Chris Bowers; title: From the Middle East to the Midwest :; title: We stand with you as you stood with us  -- by Kamal Abbas ;; title: Cairo in Wisconsin  -- by Andy Kroll ;; title: An Egyptian spring and a Wisconsin winter  -- by Alexander Hanna ;; title: The Cairo-Madison connection  -- by Noam Chomsky ;; title: From Cairo to Madison: hope and solidarity are alive  -- by Medea Benjamin; title: What's the matter with Wisconsin?; title: All's noisy on the Midwestern front  -- by Andrew E. Kersten ;; title: La Follette's Wisconsin idea  -- by Peter Dreier ;; title: The Wisconsin uprising: why Madison?  -- by Dan S. Wang; title: Resistance is spreading :; title: OccupyWA : statement from the protesters occupying the Washington State Capitol ;; title: Wisconsin : the first stop in an American uprising?  -- by Sarah van Gelder ;; title: The resistance has begun  -- by Allison Kilkenny ;; title: How Wisconsin gave birth to the American dream movement  -- by Billy Wimsatt ;; title: Time to reclaim the American dream  -- by Van Jones; title: The revolution will not be phonebanked :; title: Lessons of the Capitol struggle  -- by Elizabeth Wrigley-Field ;; title: Wisconsin's lost strike moment  -- by Dan S. Wang and Nicolas Lampert ;; title: Wisconsin and beyond  -- by Kim Moody ;; title: The Wisconsin uprising is a bottom-up movement, should we hope DC leaders don't get in the way?  -- by Mike Elk ;; title: What next : mobilizing or organizing?  -- by Monica Adams; title: On Wisconsin!; title: Return to Wisconsin : the beginning or the end?  -- by Andy Kroll ;; title: 50 days of Wisconsin labor solidarity have changed my life  -- by Jenni Dye ;; title: Postcard from a new American progressive movement : the Wisconsin strategy  -- by David Dayen ;; title: There will always be a tomorrow  -- by Daniel Schultz; title: The spirit of Wisconsin -- by John Nichols.