"From Wisconsin to Wall Street, an Economic Reckoning"

"Both the defense of unions [in Wisconsin] and Occupy Wall Street, which is broader in its definition of the problem, are responding to two or three decades of increasing economic inequality and, until fairly recently, the inability of progressives to address those things."

With the rise in participation by labor union groups, many news media have started to comment on the similarities between the two movements. What are your thoughts on these comparisons? Why didn’t the Madison protests produce change? How can this be rectified with the Occupy Wall Street protests? What do you see being the future of Occupy Wall Street? What other progressive causes and groups might find a home with this group?

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