On [*Democracy Now!* this morning](http://www.democracynow.org/2011/3/10/this_is_a_class_war_michael), Michael Moore spoke not only about the recent rush through of the Wisconsin bill (see [what’s happening since last night in Wisconsin](http://www.democracynow.org/2011/3/10/outrage_in_wisconsin_thousands_flood_capitol)), but also of the Michigan bill that was passed yesterday by the Michigan Senate, allowing the governor there, apparently at any time, to do all kinds of things like: appoint emergency financial managers who could break union contracts, replace mayors, city councilors, school board (basically local elected officials) with corporate or other replacements. Michael Moore suggested that we need a pro-democracy government as much as elsewhere. He asked the American public to “get up off your couches, please!”

The budget woes of the country are now being used full tilt against labor, and it’s threatening to happen elsewhere. Will the non-unionized, especially professionals and professionals-to-be (= many students), liberal or not, continue to think they can consolidate their future within a present system that accelerates division in the name of a unifying, all-swallowing global market?