What's Happening in Wisconsin Explained
| Tue Feb. 22, 2011 6:23 AM PST
Activists protesting new GOP Gov. Scott Walker's anti-union proposals have filled the streets of Madison and occupied the Capitol building for the past week, but Walker is pressing ahead anyway. If you need to know the basics of what's going on in Wisconsin, read on. If you're already up to speed, you can follow the action on Twitter or jump straight to today's updates from our reporter on the ground in Madison.
—With additional reporting by Nick Baumannand Siddhartha Mahanta
The basics:
For days, demonstrators have been pouring into the streets of Madison, Wisconsin—and the halls of the state's Capitol building—to protest rookie Republican Governor Scott Walker's anti-union proposals. Big national unions, both major political parties, the Tea Party, and Andrew Breitbart are already involved. Democratic state senators have fled the state to prevent the legislature from voting on Walker's proposals. And the protests could soon spread