Daily Archives: August 5, 2011

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Help with the Final Recall Election GOTV Push

It’s the final push. Now is the time to Get Out The Vote for the recall elections! Elections are on Tuesday, August 9, and the TAA is helping make a final push this weekend. While Tea Partiers are dumping huge amounts of money to defend union-busting Republicans, we have the numbers. Already over 1,000,000 doors…

August 5, 2011PoliticalBy TAA-Madison

Wisconsin and Egypt: A tale of two uprisings

TAA co-president Alex Hanna is currently conducting fieldwork in Egypt. He recently blogged about the experience for the Isthmus’ Daily Page: The comparison between Cairo and Madison has been made on more than one occasion, by high-profile figures from state Senator Lena Taylor (D-Milwaukee) to Code Pink activist Medea Benjamin. It’s overwrought and problematic on…

August 5, 2011Press CoverageBy TAA-Madison

A De Facto Union

TAA co-president Adrienne Pagac was quoted in a recent article in The American Prospect about union organizing after Wisconsin Act 10 stripped us of the majority of our collective bargaining rights: Adrienne Pagac, co-president of the 3,000-member Teaching Assistants Association, expects her union’s membership will make a decision at a meeting July 27. One member…

August 5, 2011Press CoverageBy TAA-Madison