I think it is pretty ironic that other "priest's forums" have joined in with the Milwaukee priests. First off, those other "priest's forums" are the ones who usually back the dissenting groups right off and fight for "transparancy" and openness in the hierarchy - but good luck finding out which priests belong to those groups.
Second, it sickens me that this stuff is now done via the media... these "priest groups" seem to have a direct pipeline to all the newspapers and release these statements or letters to the media at the same time they give it to the bishop - the letter written asking Cardinal Law to step down was released to media before the Cardinal ever saw it himself.
Shades of the way Humanae Vitae was treated by the theologians... they made their statements (and took out a full page ad in the NYTimes) denouncing it.
For those traditionalists who think that things were hunky dory in the 1950s, the Humanae Vitae ad shows that that an underground movement for "reform" had long been building, since the 1930s if not since the 1830s.