blue cheddar

Sep 7

Today Friday September 7th at noon we’re singing, again,

for free speech, for our friends who have been arrested and fined, for our rights and yours, for the rights of our children.

We’re singing because freedom of speech is absolutely fundamental to democracy. Without it we are no more than cogs in the machine—no voice, no power, no access.

from Paying the Price for Free Speech by Worley Dervish

See you at the square at Noon - near Lady Forward or inside the rotunda. Madison, WI.

Mar 2

1 year ago. Post-it note at a locked-down Wisconsin Capitol building. “Open for business. Closed for people.”

Feb 27

Knock knock. Who’s there? The people. The people who? The people of WI. [thanks kristi]

Jul 30

Capitol and heart balloon. Together. #wiunion

Older photo but still works for me. Sign: “We are still here”

Jul 17

“This coin was given to all the police from the Capitol Police, State Patrol, UW Police, and Dept of Natural Resources who served in the capitol during the protests! I think it might have been UW Police that gave it out but not confirmed, will update when positive.”

image from the facebook page Shit Scott Walker is Doing to My State

Jun 22

What Chris Reeder read today to begin the noon sing along in the rotunda of Wisconsin’s Capitol building. #wiunion

Jun 18

Brave friends staring at Walker. Madison, Wisconsin.

Jun 2

Some notes on the singing outside of JFC tonight at the Capitol

I was at the area where people are singing loudly right outside of the JFC tonight, and at the tail end of the speeches that occurred earlier. I believe what you are seeing is just old school civil disobedience. Making a presence known, making a ruckus. I think that some are OK with being arrested tonight and drawing attention to themselves and drawing attention to what the JFC is doing to Wisconsin through the budget: desperation. They believe that Walker’s budget is immoral.

It is an interfaith religious group- all ages but leaning a little on the over 40 and over 50 side. Mostly white. A few non-white people. At least 2 of the spiritual leaders are from Milwaukee.

I see some tweets that suggest you think they are capable of shutting down the process. I never heard any comment of that sort. I also see some disapproval - or fear - that acting up will prohibit public access to future meetings. In my opinion,it is not a time to become compliant.

I am not inclined to tell these grown up people to shush or behave. Any more than I would have to the thousands that came before them - many of them decades younger. I do still think it is a time for protest.

Mar 11

I’ll be honest. I’ve never really identified with letting yourself get dragged out of somewhere and risking arrest until seeing this photo. This photo makes me feel emotional: anger, sorrow — but ultimately I feel more decisive. I have a feeling of resolve.

Walker will be gone. When he’s gone, this building is going to be open to its public. Wisconsin’s Capitol building is a metaphor for our access to representative government, to public education, to workers’ rights, to healthcare, to what it means to be a citizen… This man is being dragged out because he’s breaking the rules. But the rules are now being rewritten to break him — us. The rules should thus, peaceably, be broken until they can be rewritten to serve their public. I want to be more like this man. If enough of us do not feel so moved to in solidarity break the rules, we will be singled out and we will be picked off. Dragged out. And we won’t get back in.

latimes:

Photo: Police drag a protester out of the Wisconsin Assembly chamber Thursday. Credit: Carolos Javier Ortiz / EPA

(via wisconsinfuckyeah)

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Today Friday September 7th at noon we’re singing, again,

Some notes on the singing outside of JFC tonight at the Capitol

I write a progressive political blog in Wisconsin: bluecheddar.net
My twitter is bluecheddar1
Visit me on facebook at blue cheddar