• Greens denounce austerity budgets, calling them a ploy to balance budgets on the backs of working people, destroy unions, and enlarge the power of corporations
• Green solution to deficits and economic recession: rescind tax cuts for the rich, end the wars and reduce military spending, enact Medicare For All and public works programs
Green Party leaders declared today that the party solidly supports Wisconsin’s public-sector employees protesting a bill introduced by Gov. Scott Walker to eliminate their benefits and collective bargaining rights. On Feb. 17, the Wisconsin Greens issued a statement affirming that their party “salutes the state’s public workers, and stands in solidarity with their fight to retain full collective bargaining rights with their employers” (http://www.wisconsingreenparty.org/?q=node/97).
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Tony Palmeri
Tony Palmeri, Green Party city council member in Oshkosh serving his second term:
Gov. Walker says he wants to give local governments the tools to balance our budgets — including a hammer to destroy collective bargaining rights. We reject his tools of divisiveness, and instead ask state government for assistance based on Green values, such as fairer distribution of shared revenue dollars to support local budgets; an end to needless budget-busting and polluting road projects; a fairer distribution of tax dollars to support equity in our K-12 system; increased grant money for college students; an end to special-interest tax breaks for the wealthy that drain millions of dollars from the budget; a progressive tax system based on ability to pay; and a green jobs program to help us build a sustainable, economically viable future. These measures, taken together, would save the state money and restore Wisconsin’s tradition as a laboratory for progressive ideas and democracy. Citizen activism has demonstrated, in an inspiring way, that we will not let Mr. Walker and his corporate sponsors bury that tradition.
AJ Segneri, co-chair of the Wisconsin Green Party said:
We in the Green Party are standing out front on this issue by standing with our labor and public service brothers and sisters here in Wisconsin. Read more »
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