All these governors pissing off the working folks are waking the Sleeping Giant...

[Dappleganger]

...keep at it, the people are coming to their senses. If the president and congress continues to do what they're doing, it'll end up on The Mall.

The Giant is beginning to stir, people.

[Starry Messenger]

1. k&r

[malaise]

2. Time for workers to learn these words

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kYiKdJoSsb8

[roguevalley]

23. good motto for the oppressed: I'd rather die on my feet a free man

than live on my knees as a slave. Emiliano Zappato. Its been my life's motto and frankly, it once was the dems pov. FDR and HST dems anyway.

[malaise]

24. I'm really shocked at the way the left has run from its

ideals - across the globe.

[fascisthunter]

3. yes, they are.... the right wing is too nuts to realize it

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. It is lovely actually

and I know that the battle has just begun

[fascisthunter]

5. indeed

;-)

[RKP5637]

6. It's about time. The majority in this country should be really pissed off by now,

really pissed off and tired of the endless Bull Shit!

[Kingofalldems]

7. I've met many fellow union members who actually believe

republicans are on their side. This will be a lesson to them.

[RKP5637]

18. And eventually the RW will wake up and realize they're being had and manipulated. It's

not like all of the RW is exclusively in the top 2% of the wealth of this country. When the LW and RW realize they have many of the same issues some politicians are going to have hell to pay for the situation they have placed this country in .. including wall street and the banksters will be in the same boat as many of the creepy politicians.

[lob1]

8. The people will wake up, they will protest and protest

and protest until the government falls...and the American media will refuse to cover it.

[bluestateguy]

9. Maybe, but I don't think that giant is so giant anymore

and I see them going back to sleep soon anyway.

[starroute]

26. I've noticed that you tend to be on the pessimistic side

If you think the American working class is too small and complacent to expect anything out of, what do you have to offer as an alternative?

[Newest Reality]

10. Wake-up Call?

There is a time when the heavy-handed servants, who don't serve the people's best interests, need to be reminded that it is a matter of numbers in the end.

There are far more of us than them and all that really keeps them in their positions is a very thin line of cooperation and acknowledgment of the laws that we agree to uphold in the long-run. The less they respect that whole idea and use their positions to game the entire spectrum of laws and agreements, the more they are asking the people to compare a tangible, physical presence to more abstract ideologies, laws on paper, and even the consent to be governed.

[PeaceNikki]

11. It's already happening here in WI. Keep watching this week while the budget bill is in committee

They're expected to vote by end of week and THOUSANDS will be there:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x554337

[Dappleganger]

13. Yes it is...

and it's going to be happening quite soon here in FL too.

[PeaceNikki]

14. Solidarity, Dappleganger.

We'll be there with you fighting the good fight.

[Dappleganger]

21. Back at ya, PeaceNikki!

We have to stand together!

[nadinbrzezinski]

15. WI is just the first stop

:-)

People asked when... well when is NOW.

I even blogged about it.

http://nadinbrzezinski.posterous.com/on-winsconsin

And will keep doing it.

[Dappleganger]

19. You've been saying it for awhile...

keep at it. :)

[Manifestor_of_Light]

12. dad is smiling from heaven.

Dad was a union organizer in the 1930s. Told me about getting your head busted open if you showed up on a picket line against Crown Central Petroleum. Houston Ship Channel. They had lockouts at Crown that lasted for years.

There was one labor lawyer in town, Arthur Mandell, of Mandell & Wright. Everybody who got dragged off to jail had to post a hundred dollars in bail money. Nobody had any money so Sophie Mandell, the lawyer's wife, bailed everyone out.

This was the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union. Now replaced by PACE.

[Dappleganger]

16. What a wonderful father!

They understood what sacrifice meant. I think that Egypt has been a huge inspiration to me on the importance of numbers and standing together. But none of it matters unless we GO with our signs and let the Giant make its mark.

[Blue Owl]

17. Yes they are

K&R

[arbusto_baboso]

20. Have the righties finally over-reached?

And is it now time to (metaphorically speaking) chop off their hands?

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

22. These governors need to start cutting from the top

and not from the bottom, not off the backs of the workers and the poor, just who do they think buys all the goods that corporations need to sell.
TIME TO RISE UP !

[BearArms]

25. Completely Agree

I feel it down in Texas...it won't be much longer before people realize what's going on. Unfortunately I'm afraid that people will have to lose their jobs and things will have to get even worse before they get better. But they will get better.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

27. Hi there Bear fellow Texan!

Dad was not only a union organizer, he was a pipefitter for thirty years at one of the stinkin' refineries that line the Ship Channel. He refused to let them promote him beyond shift foreman.

he went to law school at night on the G.I.Bill, and became an attorney. He was FORTY when he graduated from law school and passed the Texas Bar Exam. For fifteen years, until he took early retirement at 55, he did rotating shift work AND practiced law as well.

And my folks got a 4% V.A. mortgage on a $9,000 house. Those two programs, the G.I. Bill and the V.A. mortgage, got my parents into the middle class.

[socialist_n_TN]

28. We can only hope! If nothing else, maybe it'll get...........

our side up and at 'em. And MAYBE, it'll wake up a few of the "Reagan Democrats" about who's side they SHOULD be on.