Political activism to me implies that you are actively promoting a particular solution. These guys are promoting an anti-solution. They have no solution. They want a continuation of the endless dinner buffet that they've been pillaging for years, and now that the buffet is out of food, somehow it's the buffet's fault, and their solution is "keeping giving us food" without bothering to realize there's no food to give. I guess that's activism. But it's fucking dumb activism.
A birthplace of the progressive movement is crackling with a fervor not seen in decades, as students from the famously liberal University of Wisconsin team up with unionized state workers for demonstrations against collective bargaining rights pushed by the state's new Republican governor. The biggest rally yet is expected Saturday, along with an influx of conservative counter-protesters.
As many as 40,000 people swarmed the Capitol on Friday, raising the noise in its rotunda to earsplitting levels as they rallied to block Republican Gov. Scott Walker's efforts to ease Wisconsin's budget woes by cutting many government workers' pay, benefits and bargaining rights.
No stranger to political unrest, Madison has seen activists take to the streets to protest the Vietnam war, support civil rights and oppose cuts in social services. Riots ensued 15 years ago when police clamped down on an annual block party that began as an anti-war protest in 1969.
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