With Senate Democrats still missing, the Wisconsin Assembly convened at 9 a.m. Friday to take up Walker's budget-repair bill as activists continue to fill the State Capitol, drinking coffee, banging drums and digging in for another daylong drama.
On the first floor of the Capitol rotunda, Democratic activist Jesse Jackson was cheered by the crowd Friday at noon. Surrounded by people on all sides and peering down at the ground floor from the upper-level railing, Jackson addressed the crowd with a bullhorn and most of his speech could not be heard clearly. But he lead the throng in chants of "we're not going away" and "kill the bill" and in singing the civil-rights era standard "We shall overcome.
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