"Pull Together" Wisconsin Farmers Protest Gov. Scott Walker
Just as the powers-that-be falsely portrayed Occupy Wall Street protestors as "hippies," Scott Walker originally tried to caricature the WI Protest marchers as out-of-touch liberal Madisonians. This tractorcade, which drew in farmers on tractors who drove unprotected in the cold from miles around, debunked that image, and made it clear that this was a movement that involved Wisconsinites from all over the state and all walks of life. It also re-energized the Midwestern traditions of a farm-labor coalition, shining a light on the economic distress facing family-owned farms.
from the Vimeo page of Michael Kienitz
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