Ready to rumble: Coming together to fight attacks on working people

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from the Detroit Metro Times:



Ready to rumble
Coming together to fight attacks on working people

By News Hits staff
Published: March 30, 2011


Occasionally, the doom and gloomers here at News Hits witness something that actually gives us hope.

Friday evening at Central United Methodist Church in downtown Detroit was one of those times. What we saw was a room full of people ready to fight.

Actually, most in the crowd have been engaged in the good fight for a long time now. What's changing are the conditions around them, with the attacks on working people and the poor gaining steam — from the efforts to curtail the collective bargaining rights of public employees in Wisconsin to Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder's plan to tax pensions and slash school funding at the same time he wants to cut taxes on businesses.

Complacency is a hard thing to shake. As long as the threat is to others instead of ourselves, a lot of people are willing to turn a blind eye to problems and go along with the program. But when it is your job that has been lost, or your home that is being foreclosed on, then the motivation to fight back becomes intense. .............(more)

The complete piece is at: http://metrotimes.com/news/ready-to-rumble-1.1125292

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1. The People of Wisconsin support the People of Michigan !!! n/t

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2. K&R

Fight back, Michigan!