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Gov. Scott Walker gets checked, Mic Checked!

When Wisonsin Governor gave a speech at Chicago's Union League Club the morning of Nov 3rd, he has some unexpected guests: Stand Up! Chicago

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Peter Burgess

When Wisonsin Governor gave a speech at Chicago's Union League Club the morning of Nov 3rd, he has some unexpected guests: Stand Up! Chicago

Another view of the same event:

http://www.truth-out.org/occupy-chicago-calls-out-gov-scott-walker/1320439036 Occupy Chicago Calls Out Gov. Scott Walker Friday 4 November 2011 by: Matt Renner, Truthout | Video Occupy Chicago protesters interrupted Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker at a breakfast event Thursday hosted by the Union League Club of Chicago. Progress Illinois estimates that 70 of the breakfast guests were actually protesters, who use the now famous 'people's microphone' to express their dissent to Governor Walker's anti-union policies and to drown out the attempts by the governor to speak over them. The video is below: (Full Disclosure: The author of this piece has been involved in some organizing aspects of the Occupy Wall Street demonstrations.) This work by Truthout is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 United States License.