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Thunda Around The Rotunda- April 30th - Raging Grannies and Senator Erpenbach

... forgive me ... I have heard this group many times ... called "The Raging Grannies" I think ... shot from side of speakers area 2:38 pm... then Senator Erpenbach ... several clips

Remember: Start - Thunda Around The Rotunda - April 30th - Madison WI Capitol 00001.MTS

Thunda Around The Rotunda- April 30th

Cycles/Hogs Start on to Square coming up South Hamilton St - Shot from King and Main 4/30/2011 2:19pm (more later or see wi1848forward) - Supporting Workers Rights ... coming on for about 10minutes ... more with stragglers ... parked all around the square ... both sides on some blocks (Mifflin and Carroll)

Organizer's site: Thunda Around The Rotunda- April 30th

Update 1/30/2012: Do it again and tractors too!

4/30/11 -"Thunda Around the Rotunda" to Rumble into Madison Saturday

Next weekend 4/30 Sat ... more than just boom boxes!  From Center for Media and Democracy's PR Watch ... click the title! From the source -

On Saturday, April 30, the fight for collective bargaining will bring a different type of activist to Madison’s Capitol Square. As many as 10,000 motorcyclists from around Wisconsin and across the Midwest will ride in support of Wisconsin workers at the “Thunda Around the Rotunda” event.

Eric J. Hartz, a Madison Public School Teacher, organized the “Thunda Around the Rotunda” with a motorcyclist friend. “This is a grassroots event,” he said. “There is nobody funding this.”

According to Hartz, it started with motorcyclists talking and getting together on social networking sites, and soon, “groups of 100 here and groups of 100 there” were signing up to attend from Wisconsin, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota and Illinois.

The #Walker Problem 4/30/11 -"Thunda Around the Rotunda" to Rumble into #Madison Saturday #WI 1848 Forward

Slide Show - Annotated Timestamped Pictures 4/16 Two Rally Day - Madison

There seems to be such an interest in pictures ... I have gone through and added them to Picasa as a public album and put them on the blog as well.  You can click on the thumbnail slide show on the blog (up above) ... it will open another window and you can take it from there!  When there are gaps time wise it is probably because I switched to video mode. Or ...

4/16/2020 ... some of this is inoperative since Picasa doesn't exist anymore.

 Picassa - afternoon Tax day 4-16 just photos

Cut and paste if link does not work???

https://picasaweb.google.com/WmAGates/MadisonWICapitolTwoRallyDayAfternoonTaxDay416JustPhotos#

I'm still experimenting ... a map might be added ... and I wonder if Google Maps or Earth would be able to take you through the space via the Street View feature. 

Aerial View of King St Capitol Approach!

Yes you can use the Street View but the aerial view above is probably what you want!  Now when someone talks about crowd size you can draw your own conclusions .... I'll get some dimensions eventually!

Revision -Those cement squares can probably hold sixteen people tightly packed!  They actually are a little over 4 ft. sq. and there are 301 squares in the rectangular space (7 x 43 squares).  At 16 per square no one could move.  At half that it would be very difficult to move about without sliding between people.  Four to five is probably reasonable packing but still dense ... so if the space described is "full" figure 1500 people.  Spillage is another thing?!

How to Calculate Crowd Size at Big Events, Like the Inauguration - Poynter.org

After looking at the above article my estimates seem at least reasonable maybe a little less ... and a lot of space was taken up by the camera platform.

4/16/2011 Photos - Rallies in Madison WI

Click to Zoom!

4/16/2011 Photos - Rallies in #Madison #WI #2011 #Walker resentment