Echo commentator discusses Wisconsin column

Mar 29 2011 David Poulson 2 Comments

Echo commentator Gary Wilson’s take on Wisconsin environmental rollbacks picked up some attention from Changing Gears: Remaking the Manufacturing Belt. That’s a project using journalism and public engagement to look at the future of the industrial Midwest.

It turns out that Gary’s got a pretty good radio voice. Hear him elaborate on his Echo column.

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Gary Wilson said:

To my point about regional enviro organizations sitting on the sidelines while Wisconsin rolls back enviro protections – check out this commentary from the AFL-CIO.

http://blog.aflcio.org/2011/02/21/attack-on-labor-six-reasons-sustainability-activists-should-care/

I’ve had a like/dislike relationship with unions in general, but this post is on the mark.

Gary Wilson

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# 29 March 2011 at 7:07 pm

Paul said:

Gary Wilson is a tremendous resource in these troubled times. Thank you for pointing out that link to union and environmentalist cooperation. Even tho I have been aware that they have often been on the same side of issues, it never occurred to me how critical that alliance is. All progressive groups are under attack from GOP politicians and their corporate masters. The reason, GREED of the 3% of our population who now control 90% of the wealth of our nation, but, who want it all. Our democracy is being replaced by a plutocracy, wherein we will all work for the benefit of the upper class, with minimal wages and no benefits except to trade at the company store. We are being dragged back to the good old days of the late 1800s and early 1900s when the robber barons reigned supreme.

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# 31 March 2011 at 5:17 pm