Pictures from Topeka, KS rally

It was wonderful. About 1000-1500 there supporting workers and 3 teabags. Very cold but the crowd was enthusiastic. We heard from wonderful musicians, labor leaders and several elected officials. And of course, the signs were great! In the Koch's home state!

First the teabags. Loved this first sign. Look closely at the last word. Looks like he changed his mind about spelling? LOL








KS House Democratic leader Paul Davis. He's a member of AFT :)

Well, but for the three loser Teabaggers.

with Brownback's name on it.

Reminds me of Billionaires for Wealthcare.

Brownback, brown paper bag-who'd know the difference? Either one will do what the Koch Bros tell it to.

want to do that in ICT

The grammar police are giving this guy a free pass today.

Awesome activist. Great stories. He used to live in Alaska and fought Palin. Really great guy!!

They REALLY hate the Kochs, and probably know them better than any of us do. I'd love to know the story behind the poster, "Fred Koch tapped my phone"

Several of us were curious about it.

Sam Brownback

how to make it more painful for the rich to keep waging class war than for them to live with public worker pensions, social security, and organized labor.

Rallies don't do that.

Boycotts do that. Bad PR (for them) does that. Educating their clients does that.

M. L. King said that street protest only brings the power structure to a state where it's ready to negotiate. It is only a means to start a process.

Let's face it, Walker is going to win. He's going to strip Wis. public workers of the right to organize. That's what the Koch's and the rest of the filthy stinking rich paid him to do and once these right-wingers get bought, they stay bought.

The only thing that might de-rail the reich-wing is to ramp up the heat like say, a nation-wide general strike, in which we pledge not to buy ANYTHING until Walker backs off.

i am going to have to get a unions make us strong t shirt made up for my summer vacation to the usa this year

the teamsters are involved, this is very good. if the teamsters call a strike business will grind to a hault very quickly and governments will make concessions very quickly as well. WORLD WORKERS UNITE!

I spent most of my time standing to the left of that tree on the left side of your 7th picture.

It was the same in our state. We had more thousands than they had hundreds (mostly bussed-in).

even Topeka is pretty red. It was a drizzly, icy day and Democrats had an advantage since we happened to be having our convention that day just a few blocks away. Still, I am not sure they even filled two busses from the convention.