Outside the Capitol Building in Wisconsin - pics

[Kadie]

MADISON, WI - FEBRUARY 26: An estimated 70 to 100 thousand demonstrators rally outside the capitol building protesting the proposed Budget Repair bill on February 26, 2011 in Madison, Wisconsin. Demonstrators have occupied the building's interior for the past 12 days protesting Governor Scott Walker's attempt to push through the bill that would restrict collective bargaining for most government workers. Today's rally was the largest since the protest began.


Opponents to the governor's bill to eliminate collective bargaining rights for many state workers protest outside of the state Capitol in Madison, Wis. , Saturday, Feb. 26, 2011. Union supporters are on 12th day of protests at the Capitol.


MADISON, WI - FEBRUARY 26: An estimated 70 to 100 thousand demonstrators rally outside the capitol building protesting the proposed Budget Repair bill on February 26, 2011 in Madison, Wisconsin. Demonstrators have occupied the building's interior for the past 12 days protesting Governor Scott Walker's attempt to push through the bill that would restrict collective bargaining for most government workers. Today's rally was the largest since the protest began.


MADISON, WI - FEBRUARY 26: An estimated 70 to 100 thousand demonstrators rally outside the capitol building protesting the proposed Budget Repair bill on February 26, 2011 in Madison, Wisconsin. Demonstrators have occupied the building's interior for the past 12 days protesting Governor Scott Walker's attempt to push through the bill that would restrict collective bargaining for most government workers. Today's rally was the largest since the protest began.


MADISON, WI - FEBRUARY 26: An estimated 70 to 100 thousand demonstrators rally outside the capitol building protesting the proposed Budget Repair bill on February 26, 2011 in Madison, Wisconsin. Demonstrators have occupied the building's interior for the past 12 days protesting Governor Scott Walker's attempt to push through the bill that would restrict collective bargaining for most government workers. Today's rally was the largest since the protest began.


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[steve2470]

1. k&r nt

[mzteris]

2. and it was cold as hell and

snowing like a b*tch!!

And still it was a HUGE turnout!

There was a lot of "coming and going", too. I wonder how it would've looked if everyone who went there today were there at the same time.

[AzDar]

3. K & R

:kick:

[gateley]

4. These seriously look like the pics from Egypt! WOW! nt

[myrna minx]

5. Geez - 10 tea baggers stand on a corner and it's breaking news, but

nearly 100,00 people congregate to fight for their human rights and ne'ery a peep from the librul media. :eyes:

[Kurovski]

14. All of media corpse has it in their contract:

make sweet endless mouth love to teabag bottoms.

[myrna minx]

30. .

:spray: I've nothing to add.

[Kurovski]

31. "Fair and balanced" means...

"Properly position Teabagette before commencement."

[myrna minx]

40. "Fair and balanced" means never having to say you're sorry.

:D

[Kurovski]

41. ...because your mouth is too busy doin' the love thang.

[JanMichael]

33. It was the same with the anti-war protests. You get 150k to 750k there and...

...very little coverage occurs AND the 30-50 flag waiving numbshulls get the same of more airtime on all networks.

[Solly Mack]

6. K&R

[intheflow]

7. Wow! I wish we had that kind of turnout in Denver!

Go, Wisconsin! Demand your human rights! :headbang:

[snacker]

8. WOW...

I was there last Saturday and the crowd was gigantic, but from these pictures, I can tell that there were a LOT more people there today....wow, just wow!!!

[liberal N proud]

9. Great to see people standing up to these fascist pigs.

[Oceansaway]

10. thanks...n/t

[Chorophyll]

11. Such great pictures!

I was at the Rally for Women's Health in New York City today and we were definitely feeling the Madison spirit among us. As far as I'm concerned, it's one big issue: the far right thinks it can do whatever it wants and we'll just roll over. But the tide is turning!

Thanks for posting the pix!

[fishwax]

12. k/r!

:woohoo:

[Kurovski]

13. K&R

It's a regular pickpocket's paradise!

[MichiganVote]

15. K&R

[lunatica]

16. MSNBC says it's the largest demonstration so far

[flamingdem]

17. These should be on next weeks Time Cover!

All the drama required, Walker vs. Unions, 100,000 braving the snow but... nah

[Rene]

18. My heart is just bursting with pride and joy at the sight of these wonderful people

There are no words to express what a wonderful thing it is they are doing, for the restoration of the pride of the American Middle Class

[midnight]

24. I feel the same way....

[bluesmail]

19. Kadie you always have the greatest pictures (along with other DUers)! eom

[Bravo Zulu]

20. bravo zulu

[Terra Alta]

21. What an excellent turnout

So many great Americans standing up for worker's rights.. makes me proud to be an American! Just makes me angry the media isn't covering this more.. of course, if it were 100,000 teabaggers protesting something there would be wall to wall media coverage! So much for that "liberal media"!

[progressoid]

22. holeysheeit!

:wow:

[midnight]

23. I have so much gratitude to everyone who has built this message....

[Roy Ellefson]

25. more

I was there last Saturday and today...if there were 70,000 last week there was 140,000 today...definitely twice the size of last week. Came home...fired up...optimistic, turn on the TV and 0 coverage...none, nada, zilch zip. Can you imagine if a tea party rally drew 140,000 people what kind of media coverage they would get? pathetic

[Oak2004]

27. People need to get used to the fact that we don't have a free press

We have Nile TV West. If they will cover us at all it will be to lie about us.

The old tactics where people demonstrate to get media coverage? They won't work anymore.

Don't use the old model. Use the Egyptian model. Protest to gum up the works, and be in it for the long haul. And remember, we are now the media.

Of course, we could get the media's attention, if, say, one of us accidentally scratched a teabagger automobile. Then the media would be talking for weeks about union thugs vandalizing automobiles :grr:

[Kurovski]

28. Can't we just use nukes?

That's what a Teabagger would say. Not me. A Teabagger would say that.

[sabrina 1]

26. Awesome photos! Thank you for posting them!

Walker has started a movement! But not the kind he intended.

So great to see people waking up and not just on the internet.

When the cops today said: "Mr. Walker, we KNOW who you work for" it was simply unbelievable. The Koch Brothers and their ilk are being exposed finally. What they do is undermining Democracy and should be illegal.

No outside enemy could do as good a job of destroying this country if they tried. I don't know how they get away with it, but shining a light on it is a beginning. I hope all these roaches who have been operating in the shadows are forced to come out from under their rocks.

[KharmaTrain]

29. And We'll Be Back Next Saturday...

Sorry folks, no pics but a very uplifting and great time in Mad City the other day. The mixture of young and old...professionals and blue collar and people from all around Wisconsin and the Midwest was a great cross section of not only the people who see their way of life threatened but are what America is about.

Wanker says he'll wait everyone out...find a way to ram through his Koch-eyed plans but we plan to be back next week and even sooner, if needed, to keep reminding him and the other GOTB lackys that their destruction of the working class will not stand.

[malaise]

32. Fabulous

Solidarity Forever!!

[Sanity Claws]

34. Look at the second photo

The people together look like a heart.

[defendandprotect]

35. Congratulations to you all!! Wow!!

[TorchTheWitch]

36. HOLY COW!!! That's WAAAAAY more than I imagined!

and in that ghastly weather, too!

[barbtries]

37. those are great pictures

they really convey the hugeness of the crowd. thank you

[Liberty Belle]

38. Any photographers here? I need Wisconsin photos with reprint rights

for our news site in CA.

[I Have A Dream]

39. I love how they say "70 to 100 thousand" rather than "70,000 to 100,000".

:eyes:

Seems like a small thing, but it really hits you very differently. (At least it does me.)