Wisconsin “Budget Repair Bill” Protest + Tom Morello live from Madison protests

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ mgwisni | February 21, 2011 Three days of footage (Feb 15-17) from the Madison, WI protest against the SB11 budget repair bill. You can see all the amazing emails I’ve been receiving from people all over the country here: http://mgwisni.posterous.com/

How the Koch Brothers Remade Wisconsin Politics by Billy Wharton

by Billy Wharton Guest Writer Dandelion Salad Examiner.com February 22, 2011 On July 11, 2008, Douglas Bullock, then a resident of N7523 Summit Rd, in Plymouth, WI, wrote a check for $2.31 to new Political Action Committee (PAC) in Wisconsin.  This was the opening contribution to the Koch Industries Inc. PAC, a political force that [...]

Massacre in Libya + Khaled Mattawa: Libya is Forever Changed

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Democracy Now! Feb. 21, 2011 Massacre in Libya: Witnesses Say Protesters Have Taken Control of Benghazi Despite Gov’t Violence After a week of deadly unrest in the North African country of Libya, tens of thousands of people celebrated Sunday as they retook the streets of the eastern city of Benghazi. Residents say some soldiers [...]

A New American Workers’ Movement Has Begun by Dan La Botz

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ Crossposted with permission from www.socialistproject.ca/bullet/ by Dan La Botz Socialist Project | The Bullet solidarity-us.org, February 17, 2011 February 21, 2011 Thousands of workers demonstrated at the state capital in Madison, Wisconsin on February 15 and 16 to protest plans by that state’s Republican Governor Scott Walker to take away the state workers’ union [...]

African Americans and the struggle for socialism, 1901-1925 By Abayomi Azikiwe

http://dandelionsalad.wordpress.com/ By Abayomi Azikiwe www.workers.org Editor, Pan-African News Wire Feb 19, 2011 In 1901 the Socialist Party of America, after much ideological and political struggle, emerged as a coalition of various factions within the socialist movement. It had conservative, moderate and revolutionary tendencies within its ranks. Eugene V. Debs, an organizer of workers in the [...]