美国人也上街了！威斯康星州7万多民众示威

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美国威斯康星州爆发大规模示威


　　人民网2月20日电 因“工会权”引发的美国威斯康星州工潮19日进入第五天，共有7万多民众利用周末机会前往州议会门前举行示威活动，抗议州政府为削减支出，提出的剥夺政府雇员“工会权”的计划。面对工会的巨大压力，威斯康星州政府表示，不会做出妥协。

　　威斯康星州州长沃克(共和党人)日前表示，将通过剥夺政府雇员工会权利来弥补财政短缺。消息传出后，不但当地众多政府雇员“民怨沸腾”，就连奥巴马总统也公开表示，不支持共和党提出的这项举措，以免类似的示威活动扩散到美国其它有意推行类似做法的地区。

　　沃克表示，威斯康星州政府已经因面临36亿美元财政赤字而“破产”。上述有关工会问题的新规定有望在今后两年中为州政府节省3亿美元。根据该议案，威斯康星州部分政府雇员将失去集体谈判权。另外，政府雇员自己支付养老金和医保费用的比例也将增加。

　　去年11月刚刚当选州长的沃克表示，如果自己提出的议案未在州议会过关，将被迫解雇数千名政府雇员。自15日起，大批教师、学生和狱警聚集在州议会大厦附近示威。工会领袖和示威民众表示，愿就薪金和权益进行谈判，但坚决不能忍受政府剥夺民众的工会权利。

　　由于美国工会组织是民主党的“重要支持者”，因此上述议案遭到民主党人的反对。14名民主党州参议员近日接连“出逃避投”。尽管如此，由于在去年中期选举后，共和党获得威斯康星州议会参众两院控制权，即将于22日举行的投票活动预计将通过上述议案。

　　除威斯康星州外，俄亥俄州、印第安纳州、密歇根州、艾奥瓦州同样提出限制政府雇员集体谈判权的相关议案，结果引发民众示威。另外，内华达州、佛罗里达州等州也正向民众宣传以限制工会权利方式平衡财政。俄亥俄州、田纳西州和印第安纳州也举行了抗议活动。

　　美国众议院议长博纳(共和党人)指责奥巴马和其他民主党人正在四处 “煽风点火”，从而在威斯康星州和其他地区煽动起一场“希腊式”的抗议活动。

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ByStander

这民主党人怎么都这样。按CNN报道，一两年前威斯康星州民主党掌权时，在24小时内不经充分讨论，强行通过了加税10亿的决定。现在他们是少数了，就用这种办法来阻止共和党的法案通过。

金牛银熊

今天的民主党就是流氓地痞的代名词。。。。。。

Jinan90

耐心记者: 中国警察不得不大喊：“你不要推我！”  ZT

"美国大使亲赴北京王府井大街为闹剧打气　　
　 　
　 　
最近国际局势紧张。阿拉伯世界动荡，突尼斯、埃及、也门各国相继发生群众抗议事件。阿拉比群众抗议，有反对阿拉伯世界现政府的一面，也有反美帝国主义的一面。当然美帝国主义也想玩弄诡计，浑水摸鱼，把自己的代理人扶上阿拉伯国家的台面。　　
在这样的大背景下，中国国内的右派、亲美派、美国派、资本主义民主派、资本家利益集团的代表也蠢蠢欲动，想要在国内搞点乱子。他们想，至少要在中国搞点乱子啊，搞乱中国，或者更进一步，把中国共产党搞下去，让资本家上台。所以近几日，我们看到网络上流传一些帖子，“号召”群众上街，在中国各大城市的主要广场街道聚集，而后闹事。　　
　 　
在他们的号召下，昨天，在中国北京的王府井大街，6个或者7个代表美国利益的中国人聚集起来，超过100多个国外记者扛着长枪大炮（摄影器材），美国驻华大使洪博培亲自赶到现场为他们打气。他们要在中国闹事。　　
毫无疑问，美国政府又是此次事件的幕后主谋。美国政府又在赤裸裸的干涉中国内政，他们要搞乱中国。这是世间最卑鄙、无耻的行为。这个号称自由民主（资本主义自由民主）的国家，却是世界上头号霸权主义国家。　　
　 　
此次事件中，中国人民警察表现出了优良的、耐心的工作作风。倒是国外记者尽显野蛮粗鲁作风。　　
因为6个或者7个中国人（美国狗）、100多个国外记者、美国驻华大使的聚集，导致围观群众超过几千人。上百个警察耐心疏导，防止交通拥堵。他们的态度非常耐心。　　
显然，警察的耐心激怒了国外记者。他们希望警察表现的野蛮粗鲁，这样他们就有新闻了，就有借口干涉中国的事情了。所以我们就在现场看到这样一幕，国外记者们推搡警察，妄图激怒警察。导致现场的一位警察不得不大喊：“你不要推我！”　
　
这次事件以闹剧形式流产。美国大使灰溜溜的离开现场。但是在网络上，当我们搜索“茉莉花革命”时候，我们却看到无数的中国茉莉花革命的帖子。在还不到1个小时的情况下，帖子数量之多让人惊叹。他们自言自语，夸大事实，把这样的闹剧说成是革命行动。
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金牛银熊

Wis. GOP ups pressure on Dems to return and vote

MADISON, Wis. – Wisconsin Republicans on Sunday upped the pressure on Democrats who fled to Illinois to return home and vote on an anti-union bill, with the governor calling them obstructionists and a GOP lawmaker threatening to convene without them.

Gov. Scott Walker said the 14 minority Democrats who left Madison on Thursday were failing to do their jobs by "hiding out" in another state. And Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald said his chamber would meet Tuesday to act on non-spending bills and confirm some of the governor's appointees even if the Democrats don't show up — a scenario that should outrage their constituents.

Senate Democrats acknowledged that the 19 Republicans could pass any item that doesn't spend state money in their absence. The budget-repair bill they have been blocking requires a quorum of 20 senators to pass, while other measures require only a simple majority of the chamber's 33 members.

Nonetheless, Democrats said they were standing firm in their opposition to the budget-repair bill, which would take away the right of most public employees to collectively bargain for their benefits and working conditions. Hundreds of protesters filled the Capitol for a sixth straight day, noisily calling on Walker to drop the plan they consider an assault on workers' rights.

Mary Bell, the president of Wisconsin's powerful teachers' union, called on teachers to return to work as scheduled Monday rather than continue absences to protest that have shut down public schools across the state. The Madison district said it would still cancel Monday's classes.

Bell said unions agreed to cuts in health care and retirement benefits that could reduce take-home pay for many workers by about 8 percent, and it was time for the Republican governor to compromise.

In a Sunday morning interview from Madison with Fox News, Walker said he did not believe union leaders were really interested in giving up their benefits and cities, school districts and counties will need weakened unions to cut spending for years to come. Walker said he would not compromise and predicted Wisconsin would pave the way for other states to follow suit, much like it did with welfare reform and school vouchers in the 1990s.

"We're willing to take this as long as it takes because in the end we're doing the right thing," Walker said.

The sweeping measure led to massive protests that started Tuesday and have gained steam, with an estimated 68,000 people turning out Saturday inside and around the Capitol. Most opposed the bill, but the day marked the first time that a significant contingent of Walker supporters showed up to counter-protest.

Sunday's crowd was much smaller, as snow and freezing rain moved the protest inside the Capitol. But the crowd swelled throughout the day, and protesters chanted for hours in opposition to the bill. Another large protest was expected Monday, when many state workers are being furloughed to save money.

Mariah Clark, an emergency medical technician at University of Wisconsin hospital and a volunteer firefighter, said she stands to lose $250 per month from her income with the benefits concessions. Standing on a bench holding a sign reading "EMT. Firefighter. Not the public enemy," she said the pay cut would hurt but that's not why she was protesting.

"I really believe this is about workers everywhere, not just public employees," said Clark, 29. "It's pathetic that in Wisconsin, one of the places where the labor movement started, that this would happen."

Jacob Cedillo Tootalian, a 27-year-old University of Wisconsin-Madison graduate student and teaching assistant, slept overnight in the Capitol for a third time this week as part of a union representing teaching assistants. He said he was worried about paying more for his health insurance and tuition, but what kept him protesting was the possibility of losing the union.

"Normalcy would be nice," he said. "But it seems the governor and the state Republicans are intent on taking these rights away."

The bill would require government workers to contribute more to their health care and pension costs and limit collective bargaining to pay increases less than the Consumer Price Index unless approved in a local referendum. Workers could not negotiate their benefits and working conditions. Unions could not force their workers to pay dues, and would face a vote every year to remain certified.

Walker denied the bill was an attempt at "union busting" and said the measure is needed to deal with the state's projected $3.6 billion budget shortfall for the two-year period that ends June 30, 2013. He told Fox News he hoped the senators would return to work early this week.

Speaking from "an undisclosed location in northern Illinois," Sen. Minority Leader Mark Miller of Monona said he and others would not come back until Walker was ready to negotiate. He said Fitzgerald's threats to pass non-spending measures would not faze them, saying they had the votes to pass even if the Democrats were present.

"The big issue we're dealing with is whether or not we should strip workers' rights and everything else is just a diversion," he said.

Sen. Jon Erpenbach, who remained at a Chicago hotel, said Democrats have reached out to Walker's administration but their phone calls have not been returned. He said it may take a coalition of moderate Republicans in the Senate to try to negotiate an end to the stalemate.

One of them, Sen. Dale Schultz, R-Richland Center, has proposed suspending collective bargaining rights temporarily to get through the state's two-year budget, but then restoring them in 2013.

Also Sunday, cornerback Charles Woodson, a member of the NFL Players Association, became the latest Green Bay Packer to back the public employees' cause. NFL owners and the players' union are locked in their own fight over a collective bargaining agreement. Along with Woodson, seven other current and former Packers have expressed support for the protesters.