Videorecordings, 2003.

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Videorecordings, 2003.

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VHS videotapes of speakers at the 2003 Fighting Bob Fest, a "Progressive Chautauqua" conducted in the memory and spirit of Wisconsin's preeminent Progressive, Robert M. La Follette. Hosted by one-time Wisconsin gubernatorial candidate Ed Garvey, the speakers included Lois Marie Gibbs, Russ Feingold, Bert Grover, Bernard Sanders, John Nichols, and Jim Hightower. The speakers critiqued the record of the Bush Administration on the environment, labor issues, political tactics, foreign policy and trade, and deregulation and provided a general indictment of the 21st Century corporate financial climate. Discussed are the economic and social justice movements, including the Tyson strike of 2003-2004 in Jefferson, Wisconsin.

6 videorecordings.

Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Wisconsin Historical Society, Newspaper Project

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Feingold, Russ, 1953-

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Russell Dana Feingold (born March 2, 1953) is an American lawyer and politician. A member of the Democratic Party, he served as a U.S. Senator from Wisconsin between 1993 and 2011. Born in Janesville, Wisconsin, he graduated from Craig High School there before earning a B.A. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a B.A. from Magdalen College at the University of Oxford, and a J.D. from Harvard Law School. Feingold worked as an attorney at the private law firms of Foley & Lardner and La Fol...

Garvey, Ed, 1940- .

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Gibbs, Lois Marie

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Nichols, John A., 1939-....

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Student at University of Maine. From the description of Folklore paper, 1964. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70951950 ...

Hightower, Jim, 1943-

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Grover, Bert.

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Sanders, Bernard Wayne

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Fighting Bob Fest.

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