There are still over 15 million unemployed Americans, nearly 6 job-seekers for each opening, and about 100,000 workers entering the job market each month.  Public services and education are being wiped out.  Corporate greed and Wall Street recklessness put the squeeze on working people and have created the worst economic crisis in a generation.  Big corporations shipped jobs overseas and Wall Street speculators took more and more of our wealth, getting rich quickly at the expense of workers and families.

But this is not news.

What has developed is the upsurge of workers, youth, and the communities we all live in to Occupy Wall Street, and to be in solidarity with these actions around the country.  This momentum came just in time, as workers around the country have begun to fight back in bigger and more coordinated ways—understanding that the fight is over who has control over what happens in our workplaces and our communities — working people or Wall Street corporations.

Last winter in Wisconsin and in nearly every state, we saw a breathtaking show of militant resistance to attacks on

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