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Opposition from union groups and the bill is on hold until later today. you have thousands of union workers playing a symbolic game of hookie. you have lawmakers leaving their state to prevent votes on bills they know will get passed if there is an up or down vote. daily life has been brought to a standstill. some parents in wisconsin are very upset. what do you do if you are the executive in charge of these states? remember what president reagan did in 1981 with the air traffic controllers. >> ...

A coalition of liberal and progressive groups coming together including civil rights groups, union groups, gay rights groups, environmentalists, just to name a few, all coming together for this rally, really aimed at getting out the vote and stirring the same emotion and the same energy that we have already seen amongst conservative groups and that we have seen here on the national mall with glenn beck and tea parties earlier this summer. the president, naacp as well as ed schultz the speaker he...

Rally today. >> you definitely alluded to it. one month to the midterm elections. that times is no coincidence. today what youre seeing here and behind me, they are getting ready, doing like a pregame show, i guess you would call it before it kicks off at noon eastern. we have a range of liberal leaning progressive groups coming together really pushing a get out the vote message. the groups are arranged union groups, civil rights, gay rights, faith-based groups as well as environmental groups al...

Lieutenant governor bill halter that they think they can defeat blanche lincoln. now, on tuesday, blanche lincoln, right now, is ahead in the polls. on tuesday blanche lincoln needs to get 50% plus one in order to avoid a primary runoff in june. the unions have been pouring lots of money into this race as have the liberal activists such as moveon.org. these are constituencieconstitu that dont think blanche lincoln has been very friendly to the liberal agenda and they dont think shes been very fr...

At 41 past the hour it started with a look at greece today. tremendous demonstrations. police out in force around the parliament after there was an austerity vote during which time it certainly passed by the prime minister leading the charge there in order to try and secure 110 billion euros worth of support to help funnel money into greeces beleaguered financial system. of course, there were a lot of demonstrations, reaction from union groups who in particular didnt want to see pensions cut nor...

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