The state of Wisconsin is in an uproar because its governor has proposed cutting teacher benefits to balance the budget and strip them of bargaining rights currently afforded them by the teacher’s union. Teachers are on strike, parents are figuring out what to do with their kids who are home from school and 14 state senate democrats have fled Wisconsin to avoid a vote on the proposal. All this because in the face of a fiscal crisis, Gov. Scott Walker has turned to quite possibly the most hot-button sources of revenue: education and organized labor.
These teachers are pretty ticked off, and their ire has inspired musicians to produce or reproduce protest music for a whole new generation of righteous rabble-rousers. [READ MORE HERE]
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