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  • Politics pervasive at Madison's Freakfest

    10/31/2011 5:35:29 AM PDT · by WOBBLY BOB · 1 replies
    pioneer press ^ | 10-30-11 | ap
    You knew it was coming. Max Slesarev, 29, a UW-Madison employee, showed up at Madison's Freakfest Saturday dressed as "LRB-1383." That's the formal name of the budget repair bill, the mix of measures that balanced the state budget but drew tens of thousands of protesters to the Capitol earlier this year. Public workers such as Slesarev took pension and health insurance hits. Friends swirled around him Saturday with a giant plastic cleaver, encouraging passersby to "kill the bill." The annual Halloween party on State Street always boasts a political bent - it's Madison, after all - and this year was...
  • Occupy Madison loses permit (Busted for lewd activity and littering)

    10/29/2011 9:34:50 AM PDT · by Thunder90 · 19 replies
    The "People's" Daily Cardinal ^ | 10/27/2011 | Taylor Harvey
    Snip- "City officials temporarily denied Occupy Madison a new street use permit Wednesday after protesters violated public health and safety conditions and failed to follow the correct processes to renew or amend a permit..." "A neighboring hotel's staff alleged voiced concerns about having to recently escort hotel employees to and from bus stops late at night due to inappropriate behavior, such as public masturbation, from street protesters."
  • Communism and human nature (Bolshie Mod sez, Arise ye kittens of the earth!)

    04/05/2005 10:50:57 AM PDT · by Sammy sam · 153 replies · 8,234+ views
    Many argue that communism will never be possible because of "human nature". The essence of this false argument is the belief that a communist society would consist of an all-powerful central government that would tell everybody what to do--and would therefore undermine the creative initiative of individuals and the search for happiness. • This argument is based on two false assumptions: (1) It assumes that a communist society will look like the former Soviet Union, or the current China, North Korea, etc (ie: corrupt police states with a feudal-style ruling class) (2) It assumes that people will only work in...
  • Red Alert... list of Left groups plan to surround the Whitehouse on Sept 24th

    07/14/2005 12:53:28 PM PDT · by Thunder90 · 127 replies · 8,101+ views
    Here is the list so far for sponcers to this hate America fest: ANSWER Code Pink UFPJ NION Al Awda World Workers Party Ruckas Revolutionary Communist party Moveon.org ACORN Campus Antiwar Network International Socialist Org Greens Party Muslim Student Association CPUSA
  • Protesting the Protesters part 2

    04/19/2003 2:03:26 PM PDT · by Dutchgirl · 7 replies · 199+ views
    Brain Terminal ^ | 4/14/03 | Evan Coyne Maloney
    Click on the link for a flash file of the second part of the famous "Protesting the Protesters" interviews.click here