Bus Route Around Capitol

Bus Schedule for Protests to Protect Worker Rights

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Updated as of 2/24 at 14:00 on AFSCME website


Madison Bus SHUTTLE Thursday, 2/24 – Friday, 2/25
Spot Time: 8:30 am
Stop Time: 7:30 pm
Pick up Location:
1) Westside 2 buses: AFSCME and Alliant Energy Center to Butler and E Washington, Madison (2 blocks from the square) bus runs every 30 minutes all day

2) Eastside 4 buses: East Towne Mall (In Lot By Dick’s Sporting Goods ) to Butler and E Washington, Madison (2 blocks from the square) bus runs every 20 minutes all day


Saturday, February 26th
Madison Bus SHUTTLE
Spot Time: 8:30 am
Stop Time: 7:30 pm
Pick up Location:
1) Westside 2 buses: AFSCME to Butler and E Washington, Madison (2 blocks from the square) bus runs every 30 minutes all day

2) Eastside 4 buses: East Towne Mall (In Lot By Dick’s Sporting Goods ) to Butler and E Washington, Madison (2 blocks from the square) bus runs every 20 minutes all day


All busses will DEPART from Madison for home at 5pm
De Pere /Appleton 1 bus
11:15 am Park & Ride – De Pere @ SU 41 and County G
11:35 am Park & Ride – Appleton @ US 41 and CR E/Ballard Rd
Butler and E Washington, Madison (2 blocks from the square)
Leave Madison 5:00 pm


Superior 0 bus
WILL know by 10am on Friday 2-25-11
7:45am Wessman Arena @ 2701 Catlin Av - Superior, WI 54880-5132
Butler and E Washington, Madison (2 blocks from the square)
Leave 5:00 pm Madison


Wausau Bus 1 bus
LOAD 11:15am Labor Temple @ 318 S 3rd Av - Wausau, WI 54401-4638
Butler and E Washington, Madison (2 blocks from the square)
RETURN 5:00 pm Madison


Stevens Point 1 bus
LOAD 11:30am UW-Stevens Point @ 1015 Reserve - Stevens Point, WI 54481-3866
Butler and E Washington, Madison (2 blocks from the square)
RETURN 5:00 pm Madison


Eau Claire Bus 2 buses
LOAD 10:30amLabor Temple Lounge @ 2233 Birch St - Eau Claire WI 54703-3481
Butler and E Washington, Madison (2 blocks from the square)
RETURN 5:00 pm Madison


LaCrosse Bus 1 bus
LOAD 11:30am Valley View Mall @3800 SR 16 -La Crosse, WI 54601-1826 (Between Sears & Theatre)
PU-2 Kwik Trip in Tomah
Butler and E Washington, Madison (2 blocks from the square)
RETURN 5:00 pm Madison


Manitowoc Bus 1 bus
LOAD 11:00 Park and Ride I43 and US 151
Butler and E Washington, Madison (2 blocks from the square)
RETURN 5:00 pm Madison


Oshkosh Bus 1 bus
LOAD 12:00 pm Park & Ride @ US 41 & WI-44/91- Oshkosh
Butler and E Washington, Madison (2 blocks from the square)
RETURN 5:00 pm Madison


Milwaukee
BUS#1&2 - Milwaukee, WI
LOAD 11:45am AFSCME Counil 48 @3427 W St Paul Av -Milw, WI 53208-4124 PU-2 12:15pm Pettit National Ice Arena @ 500 S 84th - Milw, WI 53214-1400
Butler and E Washington, Madison (2 blocks from the square)
RETURN 5:00 pm Madison


BUS#3 - Milwaukee, WI
LOAD 11:45am UW-Milwaukee @ 2200 E Kenwood Blvd - Milw, WI 53211-3361 PU-2 12:20pm Park & Ride @ I-94 & Barker Rd - Waukesha, WI 53186 (WI DOT Lot 67-35) ... aka Goerke's Corner
Butler and E Washington, Madison (2 blocks from the square)
RETURN 5:00 pm Madison

Union Strong!

Indiana Deputy Attorney General Fired Over Tweets

Indiana Deputy Attorney General Fired Over Tweets
By wibc.com and wire service reports
2/23/2011

Tweeting that police should, quote, "use live ammunition" against protesters in Wisconsin has cost a deputy attorney general his job in Indiana.

Jeff Cox was fired by Attorney General Greg Zoeller after a staff member at the political news website Mother Jones communicated with Cox about the protests.

Cox called the demonstrators in Wisconsin "thugs" and "political enemies," adding quote, "you're darned right I advocate deadly force."

Zoeller's office released a statement saying quote, "We respect individual's First Amendment right to express their personal views on private online forums, but as public servants we are held by the public to a higher standard, and we should strive for civility."

Milwaukee Police Deployed to Capitol

As reported in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel 02/23/2011

MILWAUKEE COUNTY

Milwaukee police deployed to Capitol

A "Major Incident Response Team" from the Milwaukee Police Department will be sent to Madison to help maintain order at the Capitol, the department announced Wednesday.
The 37-member unit will be deployed in response to a mutual aid request from the state Department of Administration, according to a police department news release.
The Capitol has been the scene of massive demonstrations by opponents of Gov. Scott Walker's budget-repair bill.
"Our officers will assist in ensuring that the rights of all parties in this debate are respected and protected," said Milwaukee Police Chief Edward A. Flynn.

Feel Like You Were There: WI Firefighters March in Solidarity 02/20/2011

Boycott Koch

Here are some of their products:

If you use these products, seriously think about finding a different brand. You know, I looked through this lists and there is hardly anything on this list that I currently buy, so I'm ahead of the game!

The Repair Bill Just Keeps Getting Worse

First I would like to thank the 14 Democratic Senators for doing what needed to be done to slow this bill down.You have done what I have been waiting for democrats to do for a long time - play hardball. I applaud you.

Every day new, horrible things are being brought to light about this bill. Right now people are concentrating on the union busting portion of the bill, but there is another power being stripped from the people -- their public utilities. Having public utilities keeps people's energy costs down and prevents private monopolies from coming in and holding the citizens hostage.

Walker has, through this bill, given himself the power to sell all state owed power plants to whoever he chooses and for whatever price he chooses. He is basically stealing the power plants from the people. No one but Walker will have a say in what happens to these plants if this repair bill is passed.

Right here in River Falls we have one of these power plants - on the UW- River Falls campus. This power plant helps keep the cost of running UW-River Falls low. That power plant will be sold - and not even necessarily to the highest bidder as the condition of the sales will be no-bid.

How can Walker argue that he's selling the plants to raise money for Wisconsin when he won't even sell them to the highest bidder? The fact is that he already knows exactly who he will give them to. There is great speculation that it is to be the Koch brothers. They already own several energy industries in Wisconsin and this would give them the holy grail of energy. Walker is set on selling off Wisconsin to those who paid to get him into office.

This is completely ridiculous and unacceptable. He has put so many terrible things into this bill that it is difficult to fight them all without diluting the message. But people need to know about this, so please be sure to pass this along.

There was a great piece on this at Daily Kos: The Koch Brothers' End Game in Wisconsin. Go there, read it, and pass it around!

Please, everyone, take a moment to thank our Senators who made a really tough but necessary choice:
Tim Carpenter
P:608-266-8535
P:800-249-8173
F:608-282-3543
Sen.Carpenter@legis.wisconsin.gov
Spencer Coggs
P: 608-266-2500
P: 877-474-2000
F: 608-282-3546
Sen.Coggs@legis.wisconsin.gov
Robert Wirch
P: 608-267-8979
P: 888-769-4724
F: 608-267-0984
Sen.Wirch@legis.wisconsin.gov
Robert Jauch
P: 608-266-3510
P: 800-469-6562
F: 608-266-3580
Sen.Jauch@legis.wisconsin.gov
Mark Miller
P: 608-266-9170
P: 877-862-4825
F: 608-282-3556
Sen.Miller@legis.wisconsin.gov
Lena Taylor
P: 608-266-5810
F: 608-267-2353
Sen.Taylor@legis.wisconsin.gov
Kathleen Vinehout
P: 608-266-8546
P: 877-763-6636
F: 608-267-2871
Sen.Vinehout@legis.wisconsin.gov
Julie Lassa
P: 608-266-3123
F: 608-267-6797
Sen.Lassa@legis.wisconsin.gov
John Erpenbach
P: 608-226-6670
P: 888-549-0027
F: 608-266-2508
Sen.Erpenbach@legis.wisconsin.gov
Jim Holperin
P: 608-266-2509
F: 608-267-0309
Sen.Holperin@legis.wisconsin.gov
Fred Risser
P: 608-266-1627
F: 608-266-1629
Sen.Risser@legis.wisconsin.gov
Dave Hansen
P: 608-266-5670
P: 866-221-9395
F: 608-267-6791
Sen.Hansen@legis.wisconsin.gov
Tim Cullen
P: 608-266-2253
P: 800-334-1468
F: 608-267-5171
Sen.Cullen@legis.wisconsin.gov
Chris Larson
P: 608-266-7505
F: 608-266-7483
Sen.Larson@legis.wisconsin.gov

Busy With Protests, Updates to Come

but just wanted to say that I just became a huge fan of Representative Gordon Hintz!




Well, I hope that you were able to see the video while I had it up as WisconsinEye, a PUBLIC station that streams video of the capitol going-ons for the purpose of keeping the people informed and keeping the government transparent has taken this down due to copyright issues. Seriously?? It is video taped in the first place to allow the public to see what their elected representatives are doing for them, and then they decide that this can't be shown because of copyright issue? It should be FREE FOR ALL! This is purely ridiculous. And DemocraticUnderground agrees.

Well, you can still see the shorter version that for some reason MSNBC is allowed to keep showing:

Equal Rights, Moving Forward

It was so satisfying seeing congress finally do away with the discriminatory Don't Ask Don't Tell policy, but the full impact of what that might mean for the future of the continuing fight for equal rights for all citizens didn't sink in until I read about Mark Ketterson's story.

Mark Ketterson was legally married to John Fliszar, a highly decorated US Marine, when John died of a heart attack in July 2010. John's dying request was that his ashes be interred at the Naval Academy in Annapolis of which he was a 1971 alum. Once Mark provided documentation as to his relationship with John, not only did the Academy accept Mark's request, they presented the folded flag to him at the ceremony - a tribute the military gives to the accepted next of kin of a veteran.[Go here to read the full story.]

The whole process was so procedural and normal, that it truly gives me hope for the future of equal rights.