From Memphis to Madison: Civil Rights, Labor Rights, Voting Rights | The Nation

From Memphis to Madison: Civil Rights, Labor Rights, Voting Rights | The Nation

"Jackson could have gone anywhere on the forty-third anniversary of King’s assassination.
But he chose to be in Wisconsin, where workers are still protesting Walker’s agenda and preparing to head to the polls Tuesday for elections—especially a hard-fought Supreme Court contest between a justice who has long been allied with the governor (David Prosser) and a challenger who is backed by Walker’s critics (JoAnne Kloppenburg)—that will send the first signal about the electoral power of the new worker-rights movements that have erupted in states across the country.
For Jackson, the issues in play in Wisconsin made it precisely the right place to remember Dr. King and to carry the civil rights leader’s activism forward."