Labor protests draw thousands across United States

[steve2470]

http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/26/us-wisconsin-protests-idUSTRE71O4F420110226

(Reuters) - Thousands of people rallied in cities across the United States on Saturday against a Wisconsin plan to curb the power of public sector unions that has sparked similar government efforts in other states.

Protesters see the proposals as an effort to weaken the labor movement. Other states considering similar proposals include Ohio, Tennessee, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa and Kansas.

"We all support the people in Wisconsin and all over the country where labor is being threatened, and we know that the real agenda of the (Wisconsin) governor and many others is just to destroy unions," said New Yorker Judith Barbanel.

Barbanel, an English language teacher at the City University of New York, joined several thousand people at a "Save the American Dream" rally at City Hall to show solidarity with protesters in Wisconsin.

[rfranklin]

1. Multiply times 100 for true crowd numbers...

As usual they minimize the numbers. If theis was twenty people at a Tea Party the numbers would be described as millions.

[leftstreet]

2. K&R

[YvonneCa]

3. And almost NO coverage by the ...

...media. Amazingly sad.

[ClarkUSA]

4. Yet when Palin shows up at a rally with 200 teabaggers, it's a non-stop media circus.

Yeah, I trust media narrative, especially when they bash President Obama's "failure of leadership" while fawning over the Teabagger House's obstructionism as some kind of heroic act of selflessness.