On a grassy hill spilling from the state Capitol down toward Carroll Street, two dozen protesters ? a mother and her eighth-grade daughter among them ? sat around a lantern for a nightly “town council” meeting led by a large, bearded man in a “Vets for Peace” T-shirt. A younger man with a spiked mohawk walked by on the sidewalk holding a “Free Solidarity Hugs” sign. Across the street, a UW-Madison graduate student sat beside a four-person tent brushing his teeth while reading Hunter S. Thompson by headlamp. Welcome to bedtime in Walkerville.
Office of Strategic Communication