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Grass Roots: Labor activists strategize for ‘class war’ ignited by Walker budget bill

What?s happening now in Wisconsin, with thousands of workers flooding the Capitol to protest Gov. Scott Walker?s move to snuff the collective bargaining power of public employees, is much more than backlash against a union-busting maneuver, labor activists and their supporters said Tuesday evening at a forum at the Orpheum Theatre in downtown Madison. It is, they insist, the first counter-strike in a class war being waged against workers.