ALERT 50 State Emergency Rallies Called For.

[sojourner for Truth]

Received this email yesterday. This has been called for at every state Capital on Saturday. Notice the endorsing groups. Clearly NOT just school employees.

"Calling all public school and university employees

In Wisconsin and around our country, the American dream is under fierce attack. Instead of creating jobs, right-wing lawmakers are giving tax breaks to corporations and the very rich, and then cutting funding for education, police, emergency response and vital human and public services. The right to organize and belong to a union is on the chopping block.

The American dream is slipping out of reach for more and more Americans, and we have to fight back.

Along with unions and other organizations around the country, PSE is calling for emergency rallies in front of every statehouse -- including Olympia -- this Saturday at noon to stand in solidarity with people of Wisconsin.

Help demand an end to the attacks on workers' rights and public services across the country. Demand investment, to create decent jobs for the millions of people who desperately want to work. And demand that the rich and powerful pay their fair share.

50-state Mobilization to Save the American Dream Saturday, Feb. 26 at 12pm

Come to Olympia at noon on Saturday to show your support. If you can make it, you are encouraged to wear red to show support for public workers in Wisconsin.

PUBLIC SCHOOL EMPLOYEES OF WASHINGTON, SEIU LOCAL 1948 "

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I did some digging into the origins of this. Apparently Move On is promoting this with Van Jones

Excerpt from speech,Van Jones declared:

"Let Saturday, February 26, 2011, mark the beginning of the national movement to renew the American Dream and return us to the moral center — where everybody counts, and everybody matters."

Another site promoting it.

http://www.justicewithpeace.org/node/2397

"We call for emergency rallies in front of every statehouse this Saturday at noon to stand in solidarity with the people of Wisconsin. Demand an end to the attacks on workers' rights and public services across the country. Demand investment, to create decent jobs for the millions of people who desperately want to work. And demand that the rich and powerful pay their fair share.

We are all Wisconsin.
We are all Americans.

Endorsing organizations include: SEIU, PCCC, Color of Change, CREDO Action, Democracy for America, Campaign for Community Change, National People's Action, TrueMajority, US Action, Progressive Majority, Courage Campaign, and Van Jones"

This was only sampling of the groups involved, this could really swell to something on Saturday. On one of the sites someone posted this could be "Their Tea Party"

And folks from my union chapter think it's only "we" school district employees called to the Capital for the rally. Poor little sheep. WAKE UP!

 

[JF&P]

The Communists are stepping on the gas.

 

[johnnymac]

The leftists lost the elections last November across the board and now are dealing with the outcome. The protests in WI made no difference with the Assembly's vote last night. These protests will only further sour the overwhelming majority publc as the unionists and their leftist allies cause mayhem and disarray across the country.

 

[Dennis Olson]

We're seeing the early stages of the second Civil War...

 

[CRodgers]

Unfortunately the old civil war had a north and south designated with colors. We knew who the enemy was. This time it won't be as easy.

 

[Publius]

Notice how they are twisting the wording of Freedom of Assembly! The right to organize they have, but the constitution does not protect them in any way giving them special rights above the people/state/country in general. You have the constitutional right to join a Union if you so wish, but government is not in any way obligated to provide you with a Union, nor should Unions be allowed to force anyone to join in order to have or hold down a job, thats called racketeering and extortion.

 

[oyster_777]

We're seeing the early stages of the second Civil War...

Yup. Its finally here.

 

[johnnymac]

Notice how they are twisting the wording of Freedom of Assembly! The right to organize they have, but the constitution does not protect them in any way giving them special rights above the people/state/country in general. You have the constitutional right to join a Union if you so wish, but government is not in any way obligated to provide you with a Union, nor should Unions be allowed to force anyone to join in order to have or hold down a job, thats called racketeering and extortion.

All that and collective bargaining is not a right, but a union privilege.

 

[rafter]

This is only the beginning. And there are enough pissed off that once started it won't stop.

 

[brokenwings]

Well my hubby is union and we got an automated call from Jimmy Hoffa asking for us to support Wisc. unions. A guy my hubby works with actually got a call from a live person asking for his support.

 

[ElevenO]

The Communists are stepping on the gas.

Sooner or later they're gonna light a match and then that whole "unintended consequences" thing is gonna come back and bite them when they least expect it.

 

[dstraito]

Unfortunately the old civil war had a north and south designated with colors. We knew who the enemy was. This time it won't be as easy.

They will be driving the Toyota Prius with the rainbow bumper sticker on it.

 

[Anti-Liberal]

They have been 'pushing' us for a while now to get us to react violently and it hasn't worked. Eventually they will start to throw 'hay-makers' because they're not getting their desired reaction and something will have to give. Once we do react violently we'll see their plan unfold faster and be able to understand their end-game better.

 

[johnnymac]

Well my hubby is union and we got an automated call from Jimmy Hoffa asking for us to support Wisc. unions. A guy my hubby works with actually got a call from a live person asking for his support.

This post sounds like something from a Johnny Carson monologue.

 

[jazzy]

In Wisconsin and around our country, the American dream is under fierce attack.


their american dream, mebbe, but not being a union person or state/giv employee, i guess no noe else rates the same piece of pie.

i think in the beginning union were good for protecting workers but it has been bloated way out of control.

 

[johnnymac]

In Wisconsin and around our country, the American dream is under fierce attack.
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i think in the beginning union were good for protecting workers but it has been bloated way out of control.

Which begs the point the unionists can't answer: Who do the public employee unionists need to be protected from? The taxpayers?

 

[sojourner for Truth]

Notice how they are twisting the wording of Freedom of Assembly! The right to organize they have, but the constitution does not protect them in any way giving them special rights above the people/state/country in general. You have the constitutional right to join a Union if you so wish, but government is not in any way obligated to provide you with a Union, nor should Unions be allowed to force anyone to join in order to have or hold down a job, thats called racketeering and extortion.

When I began w/ the school district, our union was great. In the last two years things began to change. State level officials made a deal for us to "join" SEIU. When I received the letter indicating so and our union dues would possibly be increasing, I checked into excusing myself from contributing. The response was yes but I still had to pay out the said amount to an SEIU approved charity in lieu of the union. I must still be in the union to keep my job. After the budget cuts final announcement coming in our district, this may all be a moot point for me.

 

[bobpick]

Which begs the point the unionists can't answer: Who do the public employee unionists need to be protected from? The taxpayers?

Yes. They suck the lifeblood out of the country and get pissed when we say, "ENOUGH".

If your a union member then stand up and say that our neighbors and family can't afford anymore increases in ANYTHING and perhaps it's better to let sleeping dogs lie.

 

[Garryowen]

Well my hubby is union and we got an automated call from Jimmy Hoffa asking for us to support Wisc. unions. A guy my hubby works with actually got a call from a live person asking for his support.

Silly me. I thought Jimmy was gone.

 

[momof23goats]

here comes the riots, then come martial law.

 

[Rex Jackson]

/yawn

blaming it on "Right wing Republicans"....LOL

Apparently today's teachers dont know how to use a search engine for if they did they should google, builderberg, Rothschild, Rockerfeller, trilateral, Kissinger, Vatican, New World Order, Baxter, corruption, Genocide, Oil cartels, Gun cartels, fluoride, fake pandemic, forced vaccinations, drug cartels, banksters, human smugglers, pedophiles, big pharmacy, chemtrails, boys town, bohemian grove,....just to mention a few.

Teachers need to remember that, 'just because they know more than kids do, doesn't automatically make them smart'...

wow, please wake up

 

[Rex Jackson]

here comes the riots, then come martial law.

They wont use martial law. I dont think they could get enough to follow those orders. Thats why Obama wanted his "Obama Army" remember? Which grew to around 1200 people strong before they all quit. None of the cops / national guardsmen I know would obey such orders. I think they would try to go straight to the UN/NATO. Thats when it will get interesting.

 

[Publius]

The problem is with the key people that run these unions, you know the guys that always show up in a limo and wearing very expensive suits and shoes and and some of them have a boss too and its these people we have them to blame for much of this.

 

[mom2many]

I heard on the radio today(KWOS) our rally in MO is the Tea Party Patriots on the Capital from 11-3! Moveon either filed too late to get the permit or they were denied it, I couldn't really tell as the children were all talking at once.

We are thinking about heading up there, I wonder if moveon idiots will still show up and cause a fight.

 

[bobpick]

I heard on the radio today(KWOS) our rally in MO is the Tea Party Patriots on the Capital from 11-3! Moveon either filed too late to get the permit or they were denied it, I couldn't really tell as the children were all talking at once.

We are thinking about heading up there, I wonder if moveon idiots will still show up and cause a fight.

You wonder??? I rather think permit or no permit the criminal element will be there to pick on the weak.

How's the CCW laws there?

 

[Y2kO]

The American people are being duped. In Indiana, for example, the bill being protested by the unions was the 'right to work' bill to prevent people from being forced to have their pay deducted to support a union even if they weren't a member.

The Public Education system is a massive failure pouring billions of dollars ($10,000/yr/student) into football fields and coaches while they graduate functionally illiterate students.

In Indiana, the school systems are fiefdoms that suck the wealth of the entire community in the form of property taxes.

In my own school district, they are currently spending millions of dollars to expand the school while the local population declines because THERE ARE NO JOBS!

Sorry, but it really pisses me off!

We need protesters to protest the protesters!

Put the Public School Systems out of business and we'll all be better off. Start over with local control and small schools, not anonymous warehouses with football teams. Every time they consolidate, it costs the taxpayers more and the pupils become just another number.

 

[Y2kO]

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703530504576164822561737348.html

Union Power for Thee, But Not for Me
If the president is so upset with Wisconsin's labor law reforms, why won't he allow federal workers to bargain collectively?
BY KIMBERLEY A. STRASSEL

The union horde is spreading, from Madison to Indianapolis to a state capital near you. And yet the Democratic and union bigwigs engineering the outrage haven't directed their angry multitudes at what is arguably the most "hostile workplace" in the nation: Washington, D.C.

It will no doubt surprise you to learn that President Obama, the great patron of the working man, also happens to be the great CEO of one of the least union-friendly shop floors in the nation.

This is, after all, the president who has berated Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker's proposal to limit the collective bargaining rights of public employees, calling the very idea an "assault on unions." This is also the president who has sicced his political arm, Organizing for America, on Madison, allowing the group to fill buses and plan rallies. Ah, but it's easy to throw rocks when you live in a stone (White) house.

Fact: President Obama is the boss of a civil work force that numbers up to two million (excluding postal workers and uniformed military). Fact: Those federal workers cannot bargain for wages or benefits. Fact: Washington, D.C. is, in the purest sense, a "right to work zone." Federal employees are not compelled to join a union, nor to pay union dues. Fact: Neither Mr. Obama, nor the prior Democratic majority, ever acted to give their union chums a better federal deal.

Scott Walker, eat your heart out.

For this enormous flexibility in managing his work force, Mr. Obama can thank his own party. In 1978, Democratic President Jimmy Carter, backed by a Democratic Congress, passed the Civil Service Reform Act. Washington had already established its General Schedule (GS) classification and pay system for workers. The 1978 bill went further, focused as it was on worker accountability and performance. It severely proscribed the issues over which employees could bargain, as well as prohibited compulsory union support.

Democrats weren't then (and aren't now) about to let their federal employees dictate pay. The GS system, as well as the president and Congress, sees to that. Nor were they about to let workers touch health-care or retirement plans. Unions are instead limited to bargaining over personnel employment practices such as whether employees are allowed to wear beards, or whether the government must pay to clean uniforms. These demands matter, though they are hardly the sort to break the federal bank.

Which is precisely the point. Washington politicians may not know much, but they know power—in particular, the art of keeping it. Even Carter Democrats understood the difference between being in electoral debt to the unions, and being outright owned by them. And as Gov. Walker will attest, allowing unions to collectively bargain over pay and benefits is allowing them the keys to the statehouse.

Innocent Americans assume that unions use collective bargaining solely to obtain better pay and benefits. Not exactly. The real game is to insist that the dough runs through the union—giving it power over the state.

In Wisconsin, for instance, the teachers union doesn't just bargain for more health dollars. It also bargains to require that local school districts buy health insurance for their teachers through the union-affiliated health-insurance plan, called WEA Trust. That requirement gives the union (not the state) ultimate say over health benefits. It also costs the state at least $68 million more annually than it would if schools could buy the state-employee health plan—money that goes to a union outfit.

Since Washington pols aren't about to let unions run their town, the result is a weird bifurcation. On the state level, union campaign dollars are primarily contingent upon Democrats agreeing to allow public-employee unions to milk taxpayers dry. On the federal level, union dollars are primarily contingent upon Democrats agreeing to pervert federal laws and institutions so that private-sector unions get special privileges over employers and nonunion companies—consider project-labor agreements, Davis-Bacon and card check.

All of this helps explain why Mr. Obama has gone quiet on Wisconsin, and why Organizing for America is scurrying to hide its involvement. The president's initial instinct was to jump into the state, a 2012 battleground area where he might build points with his liberal base.

The White House has since sensed danger. As the world is painfully aware, Mr. Obama is under no obligation to balance his budget. So to whack Gov. Walker for his efforts to do so might strike some Americans as irresponsible, especially as the president is working to convince them that he really does care about deficits.

The other risk: The spotlight turns back to D.C. If the president is so worried about Wisconsin's "assault," why has he never taken up federal bargaining rights? If the Badger State's current system is the gold standard, why has he not replicated it? If it is so important that all parties "sit at the table"—as White House Press Secretary Jay Carney recently lectured Wisconsin—how dare Mr. Obama unilaterally declare a federal pay freeze? (Honestly, the union-busting gall!)

The debate over public-union giveaways has only started. That debate would benefit were Mr. Obama to explain how it is that Wisconsin is wrong to ask for the same budget flexibility that he enjoys as president. If he's unable to do that, perhaps the debate ought to be over.

 

[mom2many]

No, not really it was retorical. CCW laws are great, except on gov. property and any where it's posted "not allowed" like dr. offices. We even have open carry here.

You wonder??? I rather think permit or no permit the criminal element will be there to pick on the weak.

How's the CCW laws there?