Grass Roots: Occupy Madison holds on, hopes for more participants

The movement has stirred some action. Occupy protesters joined a rally at the Capitol on Oct. 15 by the national MoveOn political advocacy group. A week later a march in solidarity with Scott Olsen, the Onalaska-born Iraq War veteran seriously injured at Occupy Oakland, drew about 100 demonstrators. And a teach-in at UW-Madison on Wednesday attracted 35 participants, the Daily Cardinal reports. But overall, Occupy Madison has not attracted the numbers that state officials apparently were gearing up for at the outset of the encampment when they were talking last month about reinstating a police staging area at the Capitol. One noticeably low-profile contingent in the movement has been organized public workers, who attracted thousands of supporters who stood shoulder to shoulder with them against Walker earlier this year.