National AFL-CIO--- still trying to manipulate and control working people

Alan L. Maki

So, what is going on in Wisconsin as far as who is trying to manipulate and control the grassroots and rank-and-file movements and for what purposes? Here, on Ben Manski's FaceBook posting from Madison, Wisconsin, we are beginning to get some insight---

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    Alan L. Maki 

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    "Ben Manski @Justin - Justin -- good question. Ask the national (not Wisconsin) AFL-CIO that question. We offered to end our rally early, and to save costs by sharing a stage with them. IBEW was very happy to do that. But they got vetoed by national AFL-CIO, who said that our speakers at our rally could not speak unless they "adhered to [their] talking points" -- meaning that the students could not speak about student issues, the farmers could not speak about agribusiness, etc . . ."
    
    Two rallies were held the day Michael Moore spoke. 
    
    I have been saying right along this is all to contrived to be coincidental that the issue of financing these dirty wars is being left out of the discussion.
    
    We saw the exact same thing at the "One Nation Working Together" rally in Washington--- had it not been for Harry Belafonte having the courage to properly place the issue of these wars in the proper perspective it would not have been done.
    
    This manipulation and control has to end; the way to do this is for working people to come to demonstrations and protests with signs articulating things properly: "End the Wars, tax the rich to fund social programs."