Wisconsin Democrats are expected to turn in a truckload of signatures today in their recall Governor Scott Walker effort. While the exact number of signatures collected is still uncertain – organizers claim they have collected far more than the needed 540,000 signatures to trigger a recall against both Governor Scott Walker and Lieutenant Governor Rebecca Kleefisch. In fact – the number of actual petitions being turned in today weighs over a ton according Wisconsin Democratic Party officials. This all started because Governor Walker decided to attack working people last year – triggering a national backlash against Conservative anti-union policies that’s led to two Republican state senators in Wisconsin being recalled – a radical anti-union law in Ohio being repealed – and now a pending recall election against Walker himself. But don’t expect this to be easy – Walker has been out of the state raising money from millionaires and billionaires to keep his job. And this recall election will undoubtedly be the most expensive one ever as those same corporate millionaires and billionaires are determined to win this proxy war against the middle class.

-Thom

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The Daily Stack

Quote: "Peace, which costs nothing, is attended with with infinitely more advantage than any victory with all its expense." -- Thomas Paine.

Hour One: Who’s afraid of “The Tempest”?
- Jeff Biggers, Investigative journalist / author

Article: "Who’s afraid of “The Tempest”? Arizona's ban on ethnic studies proscribes Mexican-American history, local authors, even Shakespeare" by Jeff Biggers.

Article: "Shakespeare work axed in Arizona schools as law bans 'ethnic studies'" by Nina Golgowski.

Article: "The Tempest".

Article: "Breaking: The "Madness" of the Tucson Book Ban: Interview With Mexican American Studies Teacher Curtis Acosta on The Tempest" by Jeff Biggers.

Article: "Gingrich: I ‘Don’t See’ Why Calling ‘Food Stamps’ An African-American Issue Is Insulting" by Ian Millhiser.

Article: "Perry Suggests Turkey Being Run By ‘Islamic Terrorists,’ Should Be Kicked Out Of NATO" by Ben Armbruster.

Article: "Gingrich cheered as he rejects race claims over call for poor children to work as janitors" by Louise Boyle.

Article: "Romney Admits His Tax Rate Is About 15 Percent, Lower Than Many Middle Class Families" by Pat Garofalo.

Article: "Democrats to file 1 million signatures for Walker recall" by Patrick Marley and Jason Stein.

Article: "Mitt Romney offers crash course in the Mittenese weasel hedging" by Jed Lewison.

Article: "TRANSCRIPT: Fox News Channel & Wall Street Journal Debate in South Carolina".

Article: "Chris Hedges: Why I’m suing Barack Obama over NDAA" by Gaius Publius.

Book: "Suicide of a Superpower: Will America Survive to 2025?" by Patrick J. Buchanan.

Movie: "Red Tails".

Article: "Jesse Russell".

Article: "Santorum Staffer Says Women Shouldn’t Be President Because It’s Against God’s Will" by Marie Diamond.

Hour Two: Employee Rights Act...another phrase for union busting?
- Mark Williams, Former Chair-Tea Party Express

Video: "Employee Rights Act: Repair Shop".

Article: "Preamble to the Constitution of the United States".

Site: "Working America".

Article: "I Picture This World" by Joyce Fields.

Poem: "The People Yes" by Carl Sandburg.

Event: "January 17 - Occupy Congress".

Event: "January 20, 2012 – Move to Amend Occupies the Courts!".

Event: "January 21, 2012 – Occupy the Corporations".

Talk Radio News Segment:
- Victoria Jones, White House Correspondent

Book: "Self Empowerment: Nine Things the 19th Century Can Teach us About Living in the 21st " by B. Anne Gehman and Ellen Ratner.

Article: "Mitt Romney Cops To Tax Rate ‘Closer To 15%’ And ‘Not Very Much’ From Speaking Fees" by Tommy Christopher.

Article: "Gingrich pushes Romney to release tax returns before South Carolina primary" by Jonathan Easley.

Article: "Economic unfairness, not overregulation, is the problem" by Greg Sargent.

Article: "GOP Strategist Frank Luntz: ‘Conservatives Should Not Be Defending Capitalism’" by Faiz Shakir.

Article: "Republicans resume sparring with Obama on debt" by AFP.

Article: "Tea Party House Members Even Wealthier Than Other GOP Lawmakers" by Seth Cline.

Article: "Congress Returns With Disapproval At All-Time High" by Benny Martinez.

Hour Three: MoveOn blackout 1/18 to protest internet censorship (SOPA)
- Garlin Gilchrist, II, MoveOn.org

Article: "Wikipedia blackout to go ahead as tech firms rail against Sopa proposals" by Dominic Rushe.

Article: "Why Google And Facebook Need To Go Dark To Protest SOPA" by E.D. Kain.

Article: "Google Joins Mass Online Protest Against SOPA/PIPA" by Carl Franzen.

Site: "MoveOn.org - blackout".

Site: callcongress.org.

The good: "Stephen Colbert’s Super PAC: Vote for ‘Herman Cain’" by Courtney Subramanian.

The bad: "Dobbs Calls Scott Walker "Arguably One Of The -- If Not The Best -- Governors In The Entire Country"" by Media Matters.

The very, very ugly: "Fox's Liz Cheney: Obama "Is On The Brink Of Doing To The U.S. Military What Our Enemies Have Been Unable To Do"" by Media Matters.

Book: "The Last Hours of Ancient Sunlight: Revised and Updated: The Fate of the World and What We Can Do Before It's Too Late" by Thom Hartmann.

Book: "Attention Deficit Disorder : A Different Perception" by Thom Hartmann.

Book: "Ishmael" by Daniel Quinn.

Crazy alert: "Cuccinelli fears flood of rats, vermin from D.C. into VA" by Mark Holmberg.

Read an excerpt here, and buy the book!

Hour Two: Montana vs. U.S. Supreme Court
- Jeff Milchen, American Independent Business Alliance

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