Next Prey in Gov. Walker’s Corporatist Sights: University of Wisconsin-Madison

Source: Indypendent

After ramming through their bill to strip almost all public employees of union rights, Gov. Scott Walker and his band of Republican minions are continuing their offensive to re-configure institutions not driven by the profit motive—in this case, the University of Wisconsin’s flagship campus in Madison. Their goal is to shield the university from public accountability and re-shape it to meet the needs of major corporations.

...Despite the unanimous opposition from the Board of Regents, chancellors at other UW campuses, and unions like the Teaching Assistants Association, Walker and his allies like Biddy Martin are steaming ahead with their plans for re-shaping UW-Madison to serve as a school that will help corporations generate bigger profits.

The pro-corporatization forces, calling themselves the New Badger Advocates, have assembled a massive 14-member lobbying team with heavy Republican connections headed up by Brandon Scholz, former director of the Wisocnsin Republican Party and a lobbyist for Georgia Pacific (owned by the David and Charles Koch) and the Wisconsin Collectors Association, which represents debt-collection agencies, as Horn has documented..

...In essence, a mysterious group of funders is proposing to make a public institution much less public and much less transparent. Yet the public has no chance to evaluate their motives and how that would shape their plans for UW-Madison.




Read more: http://www.indypendent.org/2011/03/28/next-prey-in-gov-walkers-corporatist-sights/

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This hurts worst of all...

Tuition will skyrocket if this goes through...

Thugs will retain a majority in the UW governing board.

Funding for the University of Wisconsin system will be cut by $250 million--$125 million in Madison

The UW-Madison has always been free from corporate domination, as was formed under the "Wisconsin IDea" (fulfilling public needs rather than enhancing profit).

The UW-Madison’s “Wisconsin Idea” website under “Building Wisconsin’s Economy,” now reads: "UW-Madison is a powerful economic engine for the state of Wisconsin. … Direct services to the business community are keeping the state competitive."

WE MUST NOT LET THIS HAPPEN.

And build a new stadium named after the Koch Brothers.

Maybe the 14 will have to escape to Ill again to prevent this from being passed.

is legitimate or not. Nerve-wracking around here to say the least...

It's gotta be stopped HERE, in Maine, in Ohio, in Michigan - everywhere it raises it's ugly head.

I hope that no good piece of crap has an aortic aneurism that is about to burst. He can't be gone soon enough, though I fear now that even if he were to disappear from the picture, he has already emboldened other repukes to pick up right where he left off.

Some of the brighter ones might conceive of the idea that they'd be putting
nails into their own political-life coffins, if they did that.

the opportunity to study at such a prestigious university in their microbiology department.

She's worked so hard to get where she is. Really ticks me off.

We have learned two very painful lessons with our roller coaster ride with walker. Those lessond being, VOTE, and NEVER VOTE REPUB

weaken UW and Madison because they are bastions of liberalism.

for that "permanent Republican Majority" that they are after.

all we have heard from the far right Republicans is to fear threats to our national security.

There was the dreaded communist threat, the loss of national sovereignty due to the United Nations membership threat, the Muslim terrorist threat and the illegal alien threat.

As it turns out, those very far right Republicans warning us of all these threats turned out to be the greatest threat of all.

And they are making good on their threat right now.

Keep in mind His Excellency was himself a C average student who was booted out of college for CHEATING.

And this guy's gonna reform the UW system, is he?

Wisconsin -- you just gonna sit back and let this POS fuck up your shit?

RECALL HIS ROTTEN A$$.

they have to get into the streets or their futures are screwed!