I promise I'll blog about music and sneakers next week...

Just words on cardboard, sure. But wouldn't it be cool if all citizens were more empathetic and less suspicious of other peoples and cultures; instead of seeing them as subjects of leaders and extensions of polices?

Another at SOURCE.

Happy Friday

It's Friday so let's focus on Wisconsin, which is surprisingly giving me the warm and fuzzies.

The video below shows firefighters - LEAD BY BAGPIPERS!!! - walking into the state capital building to join their fellow public workers, who have taken over the retunda. Why is this so important? The voice explains:

"The bagpipers and the uniformed men you are seeing coming into the rotunda right now are firefighters, they are getting huge applause because in this bill they are technically exempt from [Gov.] Walker's proposals. But there has been a huge showing of firefighters in this area."

If you didn't catch that, it's important because the Governor exempted these unions.  These unions, however, protested in solidarity nonetheless.  

SOURCE 

If you are confused about the bill, here's one quick article.  But to understand what's actually going, this may help 1) a month ago Wisconsin was set to have a $120 million budget surplus for the year and 2) watch this (after the jump)