***** WISCONSIN LiveStream Blog *****

[L. Coyote]

LIVE from the Capital in Madison, from inside the People's House:

http://www.livestream.com/theuptake

Recently reported:

* Police locking down the bathrooms.

* Police opened the doors and let more people in.

Perhaps this thread can better serve us than one hundred threads. Please help keep this going with the latest news.

[L. Coyote]

1. Totally different energy, totally different movement today, "Republicans broke the law"

Advocating for a general strike .... statewide and nationwide.

[L. Coyote]

58. Wisconsin ASSEMBLY LIVE online here:

http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110310/GPG0101/110310059/NOW-Watch-Wisconsin-Assembly-session&odyssey=nav|head&template=artinteractive

[blogslut]

2. cool

That uptake feed is awesome Currently they're replaying reaction's to yesterday's vote - taped yesterday. My hope is they go back to live coverage right soon.

Here's my live twitter thang just to help keep up: http://blogslut.com/blogslut

[L. Coyote]

3. Former Madison Mayor: Walker now at "61-63% " unapprovability rating

Support for teachers is almost universal in Wiscobnson. Popular support has not moved Walker or Republicans in the Senate.

Walker "has these conversations with Ronald Reagan, who is advising him on what to do ..."

[L. Coyote]

4. Current feed is replay from last night.

[blogslut]

5. Protestors being carried out

More than one tweet from my thang is reporting this.

[L. Coyote]

6. Brietbart: "A mob currently controls the Wisconsin capitol building...."

America 2011: Security Forces Struggle to Get Control of Wisconsin Capitol
http://biggovernment.com/publius/2011/03/10/america-2011-security-forces-struggle-to-get-control-of-wisconsin-capitol/

Check out the way this is being spun, and the kind of comments posted "Liberals are violent people."

[PA Democrat]

13. Doesn't Breitbart have a KKK meeting he needs to attend?

[Waiting For Everyman]

24. To the RWers, any non-astroturf event would = a "mob"

[L. Coyote]

7. After GOP Strips Bargaining Rights, Unions Launch Morning Protests Across Wisconsin. Strikes Next?

After GOP Strips Bargaining Rights, Unions Launch Morning Protests Across Wisconsin. Strikes Next?
Thursday = Mar 10, 2011 = 1:47 am
By Art Levine = http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/7041/after_gops_union-stripping_unions_launch_9_a.m._protests_across_wiscon/


In the wake of the Wisconsin's Senate end-run to strip public employees of collective bargaining rights, thousands of angry protesters descended again on the state capital. (See video above of protest in downtown Madison immediately after the Wis. Senate voted late Wednesday.)

And the top labor unions are organizing state-wide protests Thursday morning, providing information on websites (also here) and social media sites such as Twitter.

State Senator Tim Carpenter (D-Wisc.) put the issue bluntly on MSNBC: "This is our Pearl Harbor of workers' rights. The governor has really been out of bounds with a sneak attack in the middle of the night without any public notice, without any input from many hundreds of thousands of Wisconsinites who have expressed their views. It's a sad day for Wisconsin."

With thousands rushing to to the state capitol building and pushing through police-guarded doors, anger is running so high that AFL-CIO activists posted this advisory: "Keep it peaceful, brothers and sisters. That's who we are." ..........

[L. Coyote]

8. Walker on the radio:

http://players.jbgmedia.com/WTMJ/player.html

[dixiegrrrrl]

9. Live CNN: people facing lines of police at locked door.

http://www.cnn.com/video/flashLive/live.html?stream=stream1&hpt=T1

crowd singing "Which Side are you on?" to rows of police at door.

[dixiegrrrrl]

10. State troopers are blocking the media from the Assembly. On whose orders unknown.

State troopers are blocking the media from the Assembly. On whose orders unknown. This is unreal. #wiunion

[suffragette]

17. Found a little more on this

http://host.madison.com/ct/news/local/govt-and-politics/article_1bde688e-4b23-11e0-a0e3-001cc4c03286.html
10 a.m. — Rep. Joe Parisi, D-Madison, said he and the Rev. Jesse Jackson were denied entrance to the Capitol at both the King Street and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard entrances.

"We were told the building is closed to everyone right now," Parisi told a large crowd outside the King Street entrance. "I’d like to be let in so I can at least vote on this bill."

Meanwhile, reporters trying to cover a press conference Thursday morning by Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca, D-Kenosha, were denied entry to the Assembly parlor where the press conference was scheduled.
~~~
Wisconsin State Journal reporter Mary Spicuzza confirmed reporters were not being allowed into the press conference.

[L. Coyote]

21. FELONY?? "reporters were not being allowed into the press conference"

Use of color of law to deny a right is a felony!

[dixiegrrrrl]

22. Press conference with no reporters???

DERP

[suffragette]

40. Bizarre, isn't it?

[dixiegrrrrl]

11. People begging line of police:

" join us"
"don't follow illegal orders"
"Whose side are you on"
Loud chant" OPEN OUR DOORS"
"This is against the rule of law"

[Wisconsin_2_Nation]

12. THX!

n/t

[Fearless]

14. Show your support for a general national strike...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x604515

(Excuse the tooting of my own horn, but this is important.)

[L. Coyote]

15. LIVE NOW from outside, chanting "LET US IN"

[L. Coyote]

16. Jesse Jackson "Two Billion dollars a day in Afghanistan"

[L. Coyote]

18. Jesse Jackson was denied access to the building! Building closed to elected representatives now!!

[blogslut]

19. Live (working) CNN Feed from outside the Capitol

No sound:

http://cnn.com/video/live

The crowd of protestors out front has grown quite a lot sonce I started watching it a half hour ago.

[L. Coyote]

20. The UpTake is LIVE. $192,000 withdrawn from MNI bank so far.

MNI Bank is a Walker supporter.

[blogslut]

23. Yay!

CNN killed their feed. The bastids.

[Courtesy Flush]

25. Jesse Jackson injecting religion

It's not a church meeting!

[dixiegrrrrl]

26. Wisconsin Protests Occupy M&I bank branch, M&I 2nd biggest contributor to Walker

Wisconsin Protests Occupy M&I bank branch, M&I 2nd biggest contributor to Walker #wiunion @smwia http://twitpic.com/486xck

[eowyn_of_rohan]

27. On our way to the Capitol now

We were there last night til 2:00am so got a slow start today. My voice is SHOT so will have to bring noisemakers.

[dixiegrrrrl]

30. Brave you. 24 degrees, I heard.

Thank you for attending, know that I am with you in spirit.
Do ya need anything???

:yourock:

[eowyn_of_rohan]

35. Veritable heat wave!

:fistbump:

[dixiegrrrrl]

28. 1600 students walk out of 2 schools:

YOUNG PEOPLE! 1000 students have walked out of Madison West HS and 600 from Madison East HS http://bit.ly/dMDymI - #WiUnion

[blogslut]

29. WI GOP faltering?

According to staffer, there are not enough Assembly GOP members in Capitol to begin the session. #wiunion

http://twitter.com/jvanegeren/status/45903401439072256
twitter of a reporter from the Capital Times: http://twitter.com/jvanegeren

[highplainsdem]

31. Speaker Fitzgerald: protesters don't represent the 5.5 million residents of the state.

zschultz15 zac schultz
Speaker Fitzgerald: protesters don't represent the 5.5 million residents of the state. #wiunion
7 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply


This was apparently during a talk with media in his office:

MSpicuzzaWSJ Mary Spicuzza
Speaker Fitzgerald is about to talk to media in his office. #wiunion
16 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[highplainsdem]

32. Just spoke to east high students who say 3/4 of their school walked out and are at the capitol too

chunnamark Marv Griffin
Just spoke to east high students who say 3/4 of their school walked out and are at the capitol too #wiunion
17 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Repl

[hotforteacher]

36. This will be the biggest civics lesson of their entire lives. n/t

[Waiting For Everyman]

33. One group stripping another of established rights is not legitimate.

It's a fundamental violation of core democratic principles. One step beyond that, if it's allowed, is total tyranny.

18 people meeting in secret and taking away the long-established legal rights of an entire sector of people, can not ever be allowed. Even more ridiculous, the bill the Repubs passed was written AFTER the vote.

If that's legal, then our Constitution is worthless.

[L. Coyote]

46. This is what the slaves said for 4,000 years. Let's not go back to that situation

by faltering at the wrong moment in history.

[highplainsdem]

34. Rep. Roys: Speaker told DEMS there will be 2 hours of debate on bill to strip collective bargaining

jvanegeren Jessica VanEgeren
Rep. Roys: Speaker told DEMS there will be 2 hours of debate on bill to strip collective bargaining rights from public workers. #wiunion.
3 minutes ago Favorite Retweet Reply

[dixiegrrrrl]

37. Great pic:

[blogslut]

39. Sweet!

You found it!

[dixiegrrrrl]

38. Police escorting marching students who walked out of school!

From Michael Moore of @MMFlint:

Hundreds of students at Madison West High have just walked out & r marching 2 Capitol bldg--& police r escorting them! #wiunion

[suffragette]

41. "Wisconsin Dems On Their Way Home"

TPMDC

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/melissa_jeltsen/2011/03/06-week/
Wisconsin Dems On Their Way Home
Melissa Jeltsen | March 10, 2011, 12:53PM

Three weeks after he left the state, WisPolitics reports that Dem State Sen. Jim Holperin is returning home--and that he expects other Democrats to head back as well.

Holperin said that a majority of the Democratic caucus met Wednesday and agreed to return to the state after the Assembly voted through the anti-collective-bargaining provision that was passed by the Senate Wednesday night.

They got it from here:
http://budget.wispolitics.com/2011/03/holperin-on-his-way-home.html

Anyone seeing this elsewhere?

[dixiegrrrrl]

42. Yeah..all over Twitter.

[dixiegrrrrl]

43. Crowd IN Capitol bldng so loud drowning out remarks on Assembly Floor.

Crowd in building so loud those in antechamber can barely hear remarks on floor.

GOP objects to Jesse speaking. Wow. Classy.

#wiunion tweet

[dixiegrrrrl]

44. WI GOP: We Didn't Have To Provide Notice For Key Committee Meeting On Union Bill

State Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald's (R) office released an counter-argument to one particular Dem objection: That the sudden conference committee would have violated the state's open meetings laws.

At last night's conference committee (video below), Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca (D) strenuously argued that the conference committee violated the state's open meetings law, which requires at least 24 hours notice before a government meeting, unless there is good cause to act more quickly. Instead, only about two hours notice was supplied for this meeting. As the Capital Times reports, many opponents of the bill are already mobilizing challenge the bill on this basis, that a key meeting to pass the bill was illegal.

In response, as WisPolitics reported last night, Fitzgerald's office released a message from Chief Clerk Rob Marchant, saying that the conference was subject to different rules -- the ones governing special sessions of the legislature -- and that no advance notice is required at all.

http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/03/wis-senate-we-didnt-have-to-provide-notice-for-key-committee-meeting-on-union-bill.php

[dixiegrrrrl]

45. Fitzgerald admits union busting is to prevent Obama from winning Wis. in 2012.

Here's what Fitzgerald said, via Think Progress:

Well if flip the state senate, which is obviously their goal with eight recalls going on right now, they can take control of the labor unions. If we win this battle, and the money is not there under the auspices of the unions, certainly what you’re going to find is President Obama is going to have a much difficult, much more difficult time getting elected and winning the state of Wisconsin.

Here is video of that:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLJdijPEBJE&feature=player_embedded

[fishwax]

64. I think all they've done is guaranteed that Obama (and every other Dem on the ticket) sweeps in 2012

:kick:

[L. Coyote]

47. Any other LIVE streams out there? REPLAY now.

[L. Coyote]

48. Barca files complaint with district attorney on controversial Capitol vote

Barca files complaint with district attorney on controversial Capitol vote
JUDITH DAVIDOFF | The Capital Times | (24) Comments | Posted: Thursday, March 10, 2011 11:43 am
http://host.madison.com/ct/news/local/govt-and-politics/article_edd8ffae-4b3f-11e0-9f0f-001cc4c03286.html


Assembly Minority Leader Peter Barca, D-Kenosha, filed a complaint Thursday morning with the Dane County district attorney charging that the Joint Conference Committee that convened at 6 p.m. Wednesday and passed an amended version of Gov. Scott Walker's budget repair bill is in violation of the open meetings law.

The complaint states that Assembly Speaker Jeff Fitzgerald and his brother, Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, and others "knowingly attended the meeting in violation of the Open Meetings law" and are subject to penalties identified in state statute.

The complaint asks that the actions taken at the meeting be declared void.

District Attorney Ismael R. Ozanne confirmed this morning that he had received the complaint and that his office would be reviewing it, noting that either he or Attorney General J.B. Van Hollen has authority to do so.

=================

Of course, the AG is a Walker crony and co-conspirator in attempting to abuse color of law to arrest Dem Senators.

[L. Coyote]

49. LISTEN: Wisconsin Public Radio anytime with Live Streams!

http://wpr-ice.streamguys.net/wpr-ideas-40.m3u

NPR was just on with Wisconsin report. Weather now, freezing rain predicted

[L. Coyote]

50. Senate Dems returning from Illinois

Associated Press madison.com = Thursday, March 10, 2011 11:05 am
http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/article_e026bccc-4b38-11e0-8e55-001cc4c03286.html


Wisconsin Senate Democrats who fled to Illinois three weeks ago are coming back.

Sen. Jim Holperin said Thursday that he was on his way home to Conover and other Democrats were either on their way back or would be leaving soon.

He says there was no reason for them to stay away any longer since Senate Republicans passed the bill without them on Wednesday night.

...............

[L. Coyote]

51. Wisconsin Assembly in session; watch it live NOW

http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110310/GPG0101/110310059/NOW-Watch-Wisconsin-Assembly-session&odyssey=nav|head&template=artinteractive

[L. Coyote]

53. "destroying the Democratic Party" = calling a spade a spade

[Ava83]

52. Article

I hope I am posting this in the right place but this is an excellent article on Wisconsin by the Guardian.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/cifamerica/2011/mar/10/wisconsin-usa?CMP=twt_gu

[L. Coyote]

54. Great ... "Scott Walker's real agenda in Wisconsin ... open the state up to a corporate asset-grab"

[L. Coyote]

55. ACLU Madison: "It's official. Police unloading crowd control gear at Wisconsin St entrance."

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x606567

[L. Coyote]

56. LIVE NOW: Motion to remove the Speaker of the State assembly

http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20110310/GPG0101/110310059/NOW-Watch-Wisconsin-Assembly-session&odyssey=nav|head&template=artinteractive

[L. Coyote]

57. Debate on the Bill for two hours now

I have to check out for a while. Keep this alive.

[alfredo]

59. kick

[eowyn_of_rohan]

60. The rally is heating up - Shouting MOVE YOUR MONEY

reference to closing bank accounts at M&I, like the firefighters did today (to the tune of about $190,000)

[eowyn_of_rohan]

61. 6:20-- Hundreds of Protestors in Capitol chanting "Hell No We Won't Go"

They are refusing to leave though ordered to. Wish I were in there with them...nobody is being allowed in now, of course.

[spotbird]

62. thanks. nt

[eowyn_of_rohan]

63. you're welcome - actually they have all left peacefully now...

so much for "hell no we won't go"...