It Started in Wisconsin: Dispatches from the Front Lines of the New Labor Protest

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Michael Moore a filmmaker author and progressive-radical commentator on politics has written and occasionally starred in documentary films. He directed and produced Bowling for Columbine Fahrenheit 9/11 Sicko and Capitalism: A Love Story. Mari Jo Buhle is Emeritus Professor of History and American Civilzation at Brown University. Her books include Women and American Socialism and co-edited with Paul Buhle the Encyclopedia of the American Left. She lives in Madison. Paul Buhle is the author or editor of more than three-dozen books. Formerly a Senior Lecturer at Brown University he produces radical comics today. He founded the SDS Journal Radical America and the archive Oral History of the American Left and with Mari Jo Buhle is coeditor of the Encyclopedia of the American Left. He lives in Madison Wisconsin. Ashok Kumar is a former Dane County Supervisor (District 5) and was the Education Officer of the London School of Economics Students' Union during the height of the UK student unrest in 2010. Charity A. Schmidt is a PhD student in Sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She is an active member of the Teaching Assistants' Association (TAA) and continues to organize with various community groups in the ongoing Wisconsin struggle. David Poklinkowski is a member of the Executive Board of the South Central Federation of Labor has been President and Business Manager of IBEW Local 2304 in Madison since 1985 and has been Secretary of the Utility Workers Coalition-a coalition of utility unions from across the Midwest-since 1992. Frank Emspak emeritus faculty UW School for Workers is currently the producer of Workers Independent News (WIN) headquartered in Madison. Gary Dumm a comic artist and long-time collaborator with the late Harvey Pekar drew large portions of Students for a Democratic Society: A Graphic History and has contributed widely to other comic art anthologies. Kim Scipes is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Purdue University North Central in Westville Indiana and Chair of the Chicago Chapter of the National Writers Union. His latest book is AFL-CIO's Secret War against Developing Country Workers: Solidarity or Sabotage? Mary Bottari is the Director of the Center for Media and Democracy's Real Economy Project and works on the CMD websites PRWatch.org Sourcewatch.org and BanksterUSA.org. Matthew Rothschild has worked at The Progressive since 1983 and has been the editor since 1984. He is the author of You Have No Rights: Stories of America in an Age of Repression and the editor of Democracy in Print: The Best of The Progressive Magazine 1909-2009. Nick Thorkelson the first Underground Comix artist in Madison drew The Underhanded History of the USA and illustrated The Earth Belongs to the People. Patrick Barrett is Administrative Director of the A. E. Havens Center for the Study of Social Structure and Social Change and an instructor in the Latin American Caribbean and Iberian Studies Program at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Roger Bybee edited the weekly Racine Labor 1979-93 and served as Communications Director of three statewide pro-labor organizations. He is a freelance writer based in Milwaukee. Ruth Conniff is the Political Editor of the Progressive. In 2011 the editors of Madison Magazine named Conniff's coverage of the crisis in Wisconsin the Best in Madison. Sharon Rudahl an art editor of the Madison alternative weekly Takeover has contributed widely to comic art anthologies and wrote and drew A Dangerous Woman: The Graphic Biography of Emma Goldman. Simon Hardy is a spokesperson for the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts (NCAFC) in the UK a student at Westminster University and a member of the group Workers' Power. Tom Morello the lead guitarist of Rage Against the Machine now records under the name Tom Morello: The Nightwatchman. His most recent album is World Wide Rebel Songs. John Nichols is the Washington correspondent for The Nation magazine a contributing writer for the Progressive and In These Times and the associate editor of Madison Wisconsin's Capital Times. He's the author of several books including The Death and Life of American Journalism The Genius of Impeachment and The S Word.