The UW-Madison Teaching Assistants Association and Madison Teachers Incorporated received an award in Washington D.C. Wednesday for their protest efforts last winter against Gov. Scott Walker's budget bill.
The TAA accepted the Letelier-Moffitt Human Rights Award on behalf of the Wisconsin Progressive Movement.
The award, presented by U.S. Rep. Tammy Baldwin, D-Wis., is given to human rights movement leaders in the United States and the Americas.
According to a statement from the TAA, the protests sparked a national movement, which ""continue[s] to challenge an unjust status quo and breathe new life into the progressive movement.""
The University of California- Berkeley Labor Center also recognized the TAA in September for ""carry[ing] out acts of immense courage"" during the protests, the statement said.
