{"id":16140,"date":"2019-12-19T23:42:49","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T04:42:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/2019\/12\/19\/democrats-back-anti-protest-law-in-wisconsin\/"},"modified":"2019-12-19T23:42:49","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T04:42:49","slug":"democrats-back-anti-protest-law-in-wisconsin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/2019\/12\/19\/democrats-back-anti-protest-law-in-wisconsin\/","title":{"rendered":"Democrats back anti-protest law in Wisconsin"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Dec.By LUCAS ALAN DIETSCHE<\/strong><\/p>\n

Superior, Wis., is ground zero for the fight against fossil-fuel capitalists. Enbridge continuously presses forward with the line that its oil pipeline replacements and expansions will bring jobs, economic prosperity, and the safe transportation of fossil fuels.\u00a0Husky Energy, even after\u00a0the disastrous explosion at its refinery in 2018, is rebuilding\u00a0the facility with\u00a0a future that will include deadly hydrogen fluoride.\u00a0Adding insult to more insults,\u00a0the refinery uses Canadian\u00a0tar\u00a0sand oil as well as fracked shale oil, both of which contribute heavily to climate change.<\/p>\n

Capitalist politicians of both the Democratic and Republican parties have their own fossil-fuel agenda.\u00a0That includes creating criminal laws to defend that agenda.<\/p>\n

Recent developments in Wisconsin\u00a0have shown that reactionary politics can stem from the Democratic Party as much as the Republican.\u00a0 The Democratic Party simply does not care about the interests of unions, environmental justice activists, people of color, and Indigenous peoples.\u00a0Those radicals who are working to re-make the Democratic Party into a progressive\u00a0force\u00a0will always have to confront the\u00a0fact that the party is locked in to serving the interests of the big corporate party donors.<\/p>\n

Democratic Governor Tony Evers recently signed into law the \u201cWorker Safety and Energy Security Act” (AB 426). The new measure expands a 2015 law to make trespassing on or damaging any energy or water company property a felony punishable by up to six years in prison and a $10,000 fine.\u00a0In short, the law is anti-protest, anti-civil-rights, and anti-fightback against environmental pollution.<\/p>\n

The bill was presented by united action by both major capitalist parties under the pretense of protecting workers from water protectors and climate justice activists.\u00a0Evers and his supporters wish to use the bill\u00a0to\u00a0divide\u00a0trade-union oil and construction workers from radical climate justice activists. Nevertheless, the law goes hand in hand with the union-busting law signed in 2011 by Republican Scott Walker.<\/p>\n

Protection of workers is what socialists will continue to strive for, but not at the expense of the fundamental right to protest. This legislation is pointed at the heart of the Indigenous people\u2019s right to defend their historic lands against environmental devastation.<\/p>\n

AB426 was inspired by the corporate-dominated American Legislative Exchange Council (infamously known as ALEC), with the help of the American Petroleum Institute and capitalists in the oil and gas industry. The bill was introduced by two Democratic state senators from Milwaukee (Chris Larson and Jason Fields), using the rationale of worker safety and landowner protection.<\/p>\n

Representative\u00a0Jason Fields, a co-sponsor of the legislation, said that his parents were activists for civil rights in the 1960s.\u00a0He stressed\u00a0that protesters must advocate non-violence, like Martin Luther King Jr. did. However, some who oppose the bill have pointed out that King would have been arrested under the new law.<\/p>\n

The law is racist since it protects predominantly rural white landowners in Wisconsin but does not take an account of the Bad River and other Indigenous tribes fighting to protect their landowner rights against trespassing violations from the Enbridge Line 5.<\/p>\n

No \u201cprogressive\u201d Democrats spoke against the bill before\u00a0it was signed by Governor Evers. The Wisconsin ACLU has published a statement stating that it criminalizes the fundamental right to protest and freedom of speech.\u00a0Bad River leaders have stressed that Enbridge has assaulted their land.<\/p>\n

Workers, Indigenous people, and climate justice activists must not let capitalists divide their shared interests.\u00a0Everyone needs clean air, water, and land to survive.\u00a0We must not let the capitalist parties of whatever stripe speak for marginalized communities who protest the blind pursuit of profits.<\/p>\n

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By LUCAS ALAN DIETSCHE Superior, Wis., is ground zero for the fight against fossil-fuel capitalists. Enbridge continuously presses forward with the line that its oil pipeline replacements and expansions will bring jobs, economic prosperity, and the safe transportation of fossil fuels.\u00a0Husky Energy, even after\u00a0the disastrous explosion at its refinery in 2018, is rebuilding\u00a0the facility with\u00a0a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13882114,"featured_media":14937,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[30825,30840],"tags":[27980],"class_list":["post-16140","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-environment","category-labor-2","tag-wisconsin"],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"3.0.2","language":"es","enabled_languages":["en","es"],"languages":{"en":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"es":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/workersvoiceus.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/dec.-2019-wis.-labor-lucas.png?fit=1024%2C678&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdQxqk-4ck","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16140","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13882114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16140\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14937"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/workersvoiceus.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}