"We Love UW" protest against Scott Walker's budget repair bill

On Valentine's Day (Feb. 14), 2011 - hundreds of UW students, faculty, staff, and supporters gathered at the Memorial Union to march to the Wisconsin Capitol and hand delivered thousands of Valentine's cards expressing support for teachers statewide. This was in response to Gov. Scott Walker's proposed bill to strip public employees of collective bargaining rights, etc.

All footage copyright Emily Mills, 2011. Please ask for permission if you'd like to use any/all of the clips separately.

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[drumheadcircle]

UW- imported richy white snob and yuppie kids of reptilians. WE LOCALS don't like you. You turn our rivers to plastic and beer...not to mention all the pills you kids smoke and take- U are POLLUTION to us.

[MegaJustGeorge]

For those of you who are right-wing and post on this video, if you think these students are radicals, and you don't like them, then why did you watch the video?

For the record, I believe in what these students are doing, and I agree with them in what they are doing.

[joinrevolution]

Why are they all so upset about what the Republicans are doing or trying to do? THEY VOTED FOR THEM! For my entire life my husband and I have voted against our own best interests. We are upper middle class, college educated people, and we ALWAYS vote for candidates who try to help the poor, the elderly, children, veterans, etc... Then these same folks turn around and vote Republican and cry when they get hurt. I give up.

[hellotommy]

Unions are scum to American taxpayers. Unions keep America from prosperity by waste and fraud. Americans are done giving these freeloaders a ride on our backs. Democrat "extremists" are losing all credibility with their embrace of Socialism in our republic. It is time for people to stop these political radical extreme democrats from running from the process of governing for the people and stop the propaganda through the lamestream media. Americans are not fooled by these scams. 2012 Revolution!

[upsguy03]

Wisconsin just needs to seriously raise its taxes. Double sales taxes/income taxes. Double DMV fees, start taxing groceries. Walker should leave the unions alone, and fix the deficit by having Wisconsin residents pay what they should in taxes. Wisconsin should mirror Illinois.

[hellotommy]

@USASecretHistory I explain the Mortgage crisis is the strart of the recession. Read it and weep...

[hellotommy]

@USASecretHistory I agree speculation buying a major body of crisis. But activists like ACORN controlled who got CRA mandated loans. Banks paid them not to follow up on threats of costly, frivolous complaints. The numbers are staggering & the impact cannot be overestimated! Husock reports in 2000, 760 mill commitment from Bank of NY, First Union 13 bil, etc. “CRA is the backbone of everything we do.” said Tom Callahan exec dir of the Massachusetts Affordable Housing Alliance.

[hellotommy]

Yesterday soft and cuddly government program is today’s financial chainsaw massacre. American people must demand a return to fiscal sanity, the Marxist/Socialist social justice movement is destroying the culture, economy and The 111th Congress,barely two weeks into the Obama era, it enacted an $800 billion stimulus bill, the largest in American history.

[hellotommy]

@USASecretHistory Well intentioned at the outset, CRA was hijacked by the political Left & driven to this place & time by the unscrupulous with no regard for the consequences. In 1977 banking was heavily regulated. CRA required banks to report compliance. These requirements drastically changed in 1995 under Clinton’s adm. The National Community Reinvestment Coalition a foundation-funded umbrella group for community activist groups that profit from CRA has strong influence on a bank’s CRA rating.

[hellotommy]

@USASecretHistory Countyrwide alone wrote hundreds of thousands of subprime mortgages dooming what I believe are innocent customers with loans that begin with low interest rates then balloon into unaffordable notes - was the detonator that triggered the financial meltdown. Everybody bloated up on other people’s money in the banking and loan world thanks to both parties of Government. Then what? Bailout! With tax dollars! gov. must balance the books for a while, stop funding corruption w/tax$.