The hundred-thousand-plus crowd that filled downtown Madison, Wisconsin, this weekend is being touted as an answer to the Tea Party rallies that cropped up around the country last year. The pro-labor Madison crowds were larger than any of the Tea Party rallies last year, including the one hosted by Fox personality Glenn Beck in Washington on 12 September 2009.
As protests in Wisconsin continue over a proposed scaling back of collective bargaining for the state’s public employees, Minnesota’s elected leaders are weighing in on both sides. Reps. Keith Ellison and Tim Walz have sent their support, while Gov. Mark Dayton said that curtailing workers rights would not happen in Minnesota. Potential presidential contenders Tim Pawlenty and Rep. Michele Bachmann have sided with Wisconsin’s Republican governor, Scott Walker.
A series of FBI raids on residences of peace activists in Minneapolis and elsewhere Friday morning sought information on whether local residents are providing “material support” for groups in Colombia and Palestine the U.S. government has deemed “foreign terrorist organizations.” But individuals whose homes were raided and their supporters claimed their travels were peace-oriented and that law enforcement was engaging in harassment.
Rep. Keith Ellison says the anti-Muslim fervor currently being seen around the country is “religious bigotry, nothing more, nothing less,” and in an interview with the BBC he pointed to Fox News as a contributing factor in the…
Same-sex marriage supporters plan to protest speakers at the University of St. Thomas on Saturday. The Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis have invited two leaders of the fight against same-sex…
Hundreds gathered at the Minnesota Capitol on Thursday for a Tax Day Tea Party to express their displeasure with President Obama and the economic policies of Democrats. While no politicians were invited to speak, Rep. Michele Bachmann phoned in a message to attendees, calling Democrats “piggies” who look at Tea Partiers as “chumps.”
I’m seeing contradicting stories on Friday’s news that Tim Pawlenty was among some 30 governors to receive letters threatening removal from office if they don’t resign. He was, but…
“We will fight, fight, fight – and make sure to get conservatives running for office and get the 219 traitors who voted for this thrown out of office. We will never give up,” said Don Blackford, a 49-year-old federal government employee from Logan who protested outside of President Barack Obama’s health care rally in Iowa City Thursday.
Before a crowd holding signs that read “Damn this federal government to hell” and “The citizens must declare war on their immoral, corrupt, Marxist government,” Republican Rep. Michele Bachmann addressed around 1,000 people Saturday at a “Kill the Bill” rally against Democrats’ health care reform measures at the State Capitol.
Rep. Michele Bachmann told controversial radio host Glenn Beck on Friday that she’ll be holding another “House Call” tea party in Washington on Wednesday, the same day as President Obama’s State of the Union address.
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