Wisconsin Movement Against Scott Walker, Privatization IS The New Civil Rights Movement

I caught the noon-time talk radio programming transition long enough Monday on AM 620 WTMJ between conservative talkers Charlie Sykes and Jeff Wagner to hear them stumble around a true fact while reassuring each other that things are going to be all Right.

As they pooh-poohed the power of protest and political recall energy building across Wisconsin since Scott Walker pushed through his rollback of collective bargaining rights and introduced a far-right state budget proposal, Sykes belittled the idea that what was happening was a new civil rights movement.

Then I walked over to UWM for a rally, and I do not recall ever seeing in my 28 years in Milwaukee such a big and diverse crowd (A cell phone picture of just a fraction of the group).
Blacks. Whites. Latinos. Oldsters. Students. Teachers. Women. Men.

United.

You know what? It is a new civil rights movement - - based on workers' rights to organize and students' rights to an affordable education so they can find gainful employment and have the voice that Walker's union-busting would deny them.

Sykes had the right wording but the wrong analysis. I'm sure he wasn't in the crowd, but had he stopped by, he might have seen what's happening out there, and what is going to roll down on his side of the electorate beginning right in UWM's backyard, on April 5th, when Scott Walker's clone Jeff Stone, Republican Assemblyman from Greendale, is defeated to replace Walker as Milwaukee County Executive.