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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal>Photos and article courtesy of today’s (February 27, 2011) Spokesman-Review.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>---------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Opponents of a bill to limit collective bargaining rights for many state workers protest outside the Capitol in Madison, Wis., on Saturday.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img width=620 height=411 id="Picture_x0020_0" src="cid:image001.jpg@01CBD642.67B3E6E0" alt="protest-madison0227_t620.jpg"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://media.spokesman.com/photos/2011/02/27/protest-madison0227_t620.jpg">http://media.spokesman.com/photos/2011/02/27/protest-madison0227_t620.jpg</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>---------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Labor union supporters demonstrate Saturday across the street in Olympia from protesters against unions and in favor of the effort to limit collective bargaining for Wisconsin government workers.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><img border=0 width=620 height=420 id="Picture_x0020_1" src="cid:image002.jpg@01CBD642.67B3E6E0" alt="olympia-rallies0227_t620.jpg"><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><a href="http://media.spokesman.com/photos/2011/02/27/olympia-rallies0227_t620.jpg">http://media.spokesman.com/photos/2011/02/27/olympia-rallies0227_t620.jpg</a><o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>---------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Unions muster Boise rally<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>BOISE – Nearly 400 union supporters demonstrated at the Idaho Statehouse on Saturday, carrying signs that said “Save the American Dream.” <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>The rally was part of a nationwide effort by labor and political groups to show solidarity with protesters in Wisconsin, where Republican Gov. Scott Walker is backing legislation that would strip unions of most of their collective bargaining rights. <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Adrienne Evans is the executive director of United Vision for Idaho, one of the organizers of the rally. She told the Idaho Statesman that state budget problems are being used as a reason to dismantle employee bargaining rights.<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>---------------------------------------------------<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Seeya round town, Moscow<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Tom Hansen<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>Moscow, Idaho<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>“I think it is just stupid economics for a government to approach economic management from a strand of thinking regarding unions as enemies.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal>- Bob Hawke <o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>