[2011]
Lyrics by Sam Rasiotis
Music by Sam Rasiotis, Sean Wiggins and John Coakley
Album: 30th Ave. Heartache

February 2011 - Republican Wisconsin's governor, Scott Walker, provided the starkest expression of the real state of class relations in the United States by vowing that he would answer any resistance by mobilizing the National Guard..
The last time that the National Guard was employed this way in Wisconsin was after the 1886 Haymarket massacre in Chicago, when state militiamen were called out to shoot striking steelworkers in Milwaukee.
Scott Walker's threat is not idle. Class tensions in the United States today are sharper than at any time in the past three quarters of a century. Social inequality and the concentration of wealth by the top 1 percent – which now controls well over one third of the country's wealth – are more extreme today than at any time since the “Gilded... (continua)