?I have never been prouder of our movement than I am at this moment,? shouted Wisconsin AFL-CIO President Phil Neuenfeldt as he surveyed the crowds of union members and their supporters that surged around the state Capitol and into the streets of Madison Wednesday, literally closing the downtown as tens of thousands of Wisconsinites protested their Republican governor?s attempt to strip public employee unions of their collective bargaining rights.
Neuenfeldt is not alone. As a seventh-generation Wisconsinite, I have never been prouder of my state.