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= Knowing Through Multiple Paradigms = = Wisconsin's Budget and Budget Repair Bill and Its Effect on Education =

** Knowing the Happenings Through Opinions of Respected Professionals **
Robert Bruno

Lynn Adler

Harold Meyerson

Diana Ravitch -1

Diana Ravitch - 2

Deborah Meier

= Knowing the Fiscal Conservative's/Republican's Budget Crisis Through Video =

Governor Scott Walker speaks on Unions and Balancing the Budget
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Protest Coverage from an Anti-Protest Perspective
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Is Collective Bargaining a Human Right?
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Governor Walker's Press Conference on Wednesday February 16, 2011
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==FOX News (O'Reilly) talks to Reporter Mike Tobin: "Angry Mobs Come After Me - Try to Shut Down My Reporting" February 28th (A Liberal Aside: In the last minutes off the video, you will see a FOX reporter being pushed - look to the top right corner of the picture to see Palm Trees in background. On Feb 16, it was snowing in Madison) == media type="youtube" key="QXMwjUuPFg0" height="390" width="480"

Wisconsin Congressman Paul Ryan (R) Describing the Protest at Wisconsin's Capitol
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Fox and Friends Interview Gov. Scott Walker on Budget Repair Bill and Wisconsin Protests
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Glenn Beck Strikes Back at Protesters who Compare Walker to Mubarak
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= Knowing the Impact Through Letters of Support for Teachers = From Dr. Dan Nerad, Madison Metropolitan School District Superintendent

From Madison Metropolitan School District Board of Education

= Knowing Madison and the Capitol through Pictures and Signs =







More Pictures and Signs:
Photo albums:

**Graphic to compare total compensation packages between comparable public and private positions. **
(coming soon) (having some technical trouble)

= Knowing The Democratic Viewpoint, the Madison Culture, and the Government Workers Through Video =

Jesse Jackson addressing protesters outside of the Capitol on Thursday February 17, 2011
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** Jesse Jackson singing with protesters inside of the Capitol on Thursday February 17, 2011 **
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**Fox News Reported about Riots at the Capitol; Protesters Responded with this: **
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Fox News Reported Lied about Madison Capitol (note the Palm Trees in the Background)
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A 2 minute response from a life long Wisconsinite to the FOX news "Palm Trees in Wisconsin"
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Postmodern Look at the Budget Repair Bill: What is Happening Related to Power and Truth?
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**Postmodern Look at the Budget Repair Bill: Who Benefits and Who Loses Power? **
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Postmodern Look at the Budget Repair Bill: How does Wisconsin Culture Create Wisconsin Reality? (Truth is a social construct.)
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=** Knowing Through Our Obsessions with Celebrities as they Speak during Rallies at the Capitol ** =

Michael Moore speaks at the Capitol on Saturday March 5 (about a 30 min segment)
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==** Tony Shalhoub ( best known as the star of M'Monk')presents 'The Birth of a Movement' at the Capitol on Saturday March 12 to over 100,000 people (about a 2 minute segment) ** == media type="youtube" key="j0nYt1IhOfI" height="390" width="640"

==<span style="font-size: 1.3em; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** Susan Sarandon interview with The Nation after speaking at the Capitol on Saturday March 12 (about 4 minutes) ** == media type="youtube" key="PjSwjpwbT-o" height="390" width="480"

1. Wisconsin Ranks #42 in the amount of debt is carries. To place this number in perspective with other midwestern states, Illinois is #4, Minnesota is #32, Iowa is #39, Michigan is #27, Ohio is #44, and Indiana is #8. <http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/1740/1/?redirectURL=http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2010-08-16/ranking-states-with-most-debt/>

2. How the estimated $3.6 million dollar budget shortfall over the next two years is calculated by the Legislative Fiscal Bureau in January 2011. <http://factcheck.org/UploadedFiles/2011/02/shortfall.pdf>

3. A larger budget shortfall of $5.9 million was projected by Doyle at the start of the 2009 - 2011 fiscal cycle. <http://www.doa.state.wi.us/debf/pdf_files/bib.pdf>

4. A comparison of the Ohio anti-union bill and the Wisconsin anti-union bill: <http://www.thedaily.com/page/2011/03/03/030311-news-union-chart-1-1/>

** Knowing the Happenings Through Essays of NLU EdL Beloit Cohort **


=<span style="font-size: 1.066em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">** Knowing the Happenings Through other artists' interpretation via Video and Music  ** =

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media type="youtube" key="CHkIcBU3iFk" height="390" width="640" Three days of footage (Feb 15-17) from the Madison, WI protest against the SB11 budget repair bill. media type="custom" key="8670786" Two days of footage (Feb 18-19) from Madison, WI protest against the SB11 "budget repair bill." Thanks to Michael-Bryan Byers-Dent for the song inspiration. media type="custom" key="8670782" We are peaceful. We will stay peaceful. Around four days of footage (Feb 20-24?) from Madison, WI protest against the SB11 "budget repair bill." media type="custom" key="8670776" This is the time when the stripped bill was being pushed through Senate and Assembly. Walker wanted protesters confined to outside. This one focuses primarily on the scenes outside the Capitol building. This fight isn't over, it just started. We need to keep our heads high, keep fighting, and make sure to get everyone to vote Kloppenburg on April 5 <span style="background-color: #e7fa29; color: #0000ff; font-size: 1.3em; font-weight: normal; margin: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 5px;">media type="custom" key="8670774"

== "This is what creativity looks like" <span style="color: #222222; font-family: Arial,'Lucida Grande','Lucida Sans Unicode',Helvetica,Verdana,sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 16px;">A time-lapse protest video. It is fun. == media type="youtube" key="SFl8hU5vOus" height="390" width="640"

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<span style="color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 120%; line-height: 18px;">Candidate Scott Walker made a video called "Taking Our Government Back" during his campaign. We felt the context of the audio was poignant considering the new movement now Governor Walker has created. We took the audio and made this new version. We like to call it "Taking Our Government Forward <span style="font-family: arial,sans-serif; line-height: 18px;">." You can view the original here: <span style="background-attachment: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-image: initial; background-origin: initial; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-color: initial; border-left-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-top-width: 0px; color: #4272db; font-size: 13px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-top: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-top: 0px; text-decoration: none;">@http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45EiHHAuzW4

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