protesting week 6

The Alec group was discussed by UW Madison Professor Bill Cronon in his new blog, Scholar as Citizen. I looked through his blog, and at first dismissed it as crazy conspiracy theory. However, after posting about the ALEC group, our friend Bill Cronon's employer, the UW Madison, was served with a Freedom of Information act request from the Walker administration, and then the ALEC group took down their website. Cronon discusses this extensively on his blog, but to me this drastic action by the far-right shows that they do indeed have something to hide. I have long suspected that this was not about the budget, but now we have evidence about the true motiovations behind this administration. In other news, We participated in our first march last Saturday. I have been singing with a group in the rotunda everyday at 12, and they were asked to lead the crowd in some songs before the march. I didn't get to actually be with the crowd, but we still had fun. The kids played during the rally, then we waited until the very end before we joined in. We wanted to make sure we had plenty of room so no one would get lost. There wasn't any problem with the march. There were lots of people, but everyone was super nice and helpful. When I had to pick up a kid, someone even carried my sign for me. We had never walked down state street before, and so we discovered this lovely badger sculpture. Maddie loved the Badger statues.

This week, a small cold crowd gathered, as a group from whitewater finished their walk and hand delivered letters to two senators and two assemblymen. The walkers wore their robes and hoods! there were about 30 of them. It was a great statement. Jut one of the many demonstrations that are happening everyday all around the state.

Some person made a SHAME cake, and was serving it to all the protesters on Saturday. It was a cute little act of protest, and since it was 20 degrees, the cake tasted pretty good.

This was up on a window a few weeks ago, but I like it.