Roger Bybee

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Roger Bybee is a Milwaukee-based writer whose work has appeared in In These Times, Z Magazine, The Progressive, American Prospect, Dissent, Yes! and other publications. He wrote a chapter on corporate power and Scott Walker’s policies in the new anthology, It Started in Wisconsin, edited by Paul and MaiJo Buhle (Verso Press, 2012). He edited the weekly Racine Labor in Racine, Wis. for 14 years.

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Paul Ryan Carpet-Bombed His District's Factories, Then Strafed First Aid Stations

(6) Comments | Posted August 27, 2012 | 10:29 AM

Before Paul Ryan was anointed as the Republican vice presidential candidate, Ryan reigned as the GOP's resident economic genius and "leading intellectual."

However, this praise from major media outlets has long been divorced from the reality 1,000 miles away back in Ryan's 1st Congressional District in southeastern Wisconsin. Even while...

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Walker's War Against Workers Spreads to the Private Sector

(303) Comments | Posted May 11, 2012 | 8:48 AM

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker -- now facing an unprecedented recall election June 5 -- launched nothing less than a war against the state's public employees in early 2011.

Utilizing hardball tactics, Walker managed to win passage of his bill crippling the activities of public employee unions, but not without the...

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