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Anatomy of a protest: From a simple march to a national fight

Anatomy of a protest: From a simple march to a national fight

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DAN SIMMONS | dsimmons@madison.com | 608-252-6136 | (6) Comments | Posted: Sunday, February 27, 2011 7:17 am

In the largest rally to date, thousands of opponents of Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's budget repair bill gather for protests at the Wisconsin State Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin Saturday, February 26, 2011. John Hart - State Journal.John Hart

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On Feb. 7, with Wisconsin united in the afterglow of a Green Bay Packers victory in the Super Bowl, brand-new Gov. Scott Walker convened a dinner meeting of his Cabinet at the Governor's Mansion.

Walker held up a photo of President Ronald Reagan, who had famously fired striking air-traffic controllers, and said his plan to sweep away decades of protections for state public employees in a stop-gap budget bill represented "our time to change the course of history."

"It was kind of the last hurrah before we dropped the bomb," he said.

The budget-repair bill, which would strip most