Thousands of protesters travelled to Madison on Saturday for the anniversary of Governor Scott Walker’s attack on Wisconsin workers by stripping collective bargaining rights. Members of The Milwaukee Branch of the NAACP stood strong a year ago and continue to stand against the governor’s extreme policies that continue to hurt Wisconsin and especially Milwaukee. The [...]

Hundreds of Wisconsinites gathered outside the capitol building in a makeshift tent city with the purpose of bearing witness to Republican’s reckless action to crush education, health care and programs for senior citizens. Nicknamed “Walkerville” by a local activist – a reference to the tent cities created by Hoover’s reckless actions during the Great Depression [...]

By Lynda L. Jones They have been dubbed the ‘Fab 14’, the Democratic Senators that left the state and forced the GOP, and Governor Scott Walker to slow down their efforts to push through the Budget Repair Bill. After the governor and the GOP legislators met behind close doors last week, and privately developed a [...]

The city of Madison, Wisconsin is ground zero for the nationwide plan to eliminate and abolish the power of unions in our country. The Wisconsin State NAACP Youth Council joined more than 100,000 people in Madison, Wisconsin on March 12, 2011 to protest the bill passed by Governor Scott Walker eliminating Collective Bargaining and limiting [...]

NAACP Units from across Wisconsin marched to the State Capitol Feb. 26, 2011 to participate in a rally in solidarity with Wisconsin’s public employees and support the rights of all employees to collectively bargain. Accordingly, the NAACP urged the Assembly and Senate to reject the proposed “Budget Repair Bill”. The bill threatens to effectively extinguish [...]

Madison: Over 700 participants held a demonstration outside of the inauguration of Governor Scott Walker to demand that he be held fully accountable for creating family sustaining jobs. Walker promised to create 250,000 jobs during the campaign but has thus far offered no policy prescriptions capable of achieving this result. Participants waived signs reading “We [...]