{"id":5022,"date":"2011-06-06T01:23:17","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T08:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=5022"},"modified":"2011-06-06T01:23:17","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T08:23:17","slug":"a-new-town-in-fitzwalkerstan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2011\/06\/06\/a-new-town-in-fitzwalkerstan\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Town in Fitzwalkerstan"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new town had cropped up in the Corporate Dictatorship of Fitzwalkerstan, formerly known as Wisconsin.  It\u2019s purpose is to give Scott Walker the credit he deserves for the policies he has enacted there.<\/font><\/p>\n

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\"6walkerville\"Eighty years after Hoovervilles sprung up around the country, and four months after tens of thousands descended on the Wisconsin state capitol, progressives have a new home in what they’re calling Walkerville.<\/p>\n

The Madison tent city is named in honor — or, more accurately, in defiance — of Gov. Scott Walker, who became an icon for conservatives and lightning rod for liberals after he pushed through a controversial new collective bargaining law earlier this year.<\/p>\n

David Boetcher, one of Walkerville’s coordinators, said the aim is to recapture the spirit of Hoovervilles, the shanty towns that popped up and were named to tweak President Herbert Hoover’s perceived inaction in the Great Depression’s early years<\/strong>. Since Saturday night’s kick-off, about 80 tents have sprung up in and around State Street in Madison, with a handful of people sticking it out throughout but mostly fresh rounds of activists rotating through on a daily basis.<\/p>\n

"Just like the original Hoovervilles in the 1930s, we wanted to create that type of atmosphere without being destructive," said Boetcher, a government affairs coordinator for the IBEW union.<\/p>\n

Some major differences, of course, are that Walkerville will only be up for two weeks, its participants generally can go home, and it is more of a staged political event\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Right now, it is a staged political event, both appropriate and worthy of support.  But if Walker and his minions stay in power, Walkervilles will become a most unpleasant reality.<\/font><\/p>\n

Every Republican in office is one Republican too many!<\/font><\/h5>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A new town had cropped up in the Corporate Dictatorship of Fitzwalkerstan, formerly known as Wisconsin.  It\u2019s purpose is to give Scott Walker the credit he deserves for the policies he has enacted there. Eighty years after Hoovervilles sprung up around the country, and four months after tens of thousands descended on the Wisconsin state […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}