Madison, Wisconsin: University Archives and Records Management Services
Summary
In his 2013 interview with Spring Greeney and Joslyn Mink, Kevin Gibbons describes his role as co-president of the Teaching Assistants’ Association (TAA) during the 2011 Wisconsin protests over the Budget Repair Bill proposed by Governor Scott Walker. Gibbons describes his rationale for participating in the protests, sensory details of being inside the Capitol building at that time, and the impact the protests had on the State and on his own life.