Not to be lost in the news: a crowd officially estimated as up to 100,000 people rallied Saturday in Madison, Wisconsin to demonstrate their disapproval of the tactics and union-busting intent of Governor Scott Walker and the GOP--a protest bigger than those during the Vietnam War, when Madison was a center of such gatherings. Protestors included a tractor convoy of farmers supporting their union neighbors. Meanwhile, if there was any doubt that union busting by state government is a coordinated GOP plan, Think Progress has found that such bills in several states contain nearly identical language. But the quote of the week came earlier, just as the Wisconsin Senate was finishing up its extralegal and undemocratic actions on behalf of wealthy outside interests, when school-age children joined their union parents in protests at the state capital. "I'm learning so much about the government that I never knew," said Chelsea Clark Edmiston, 14.
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