A couple hundred gathered on the Capitol Square over the weekend for the Occupy Wall Street Movement’s Global Day of Protests events. On the State Street side of the square, signs blasting corporate America and conservative politicians were taped up.

Speakers, like retired Reverend Carson Dary of Madison, also focused on the upcoming recall effort against Governor Walker.

“Shout it the heavens let me hear it,” yelled Dary. The crowd replies, “Move On!”

AUDIO: Dary bashing corporate America and Republicans :19

Politicians at the event included Democrats Mark Pocan of Madison and Jon Erpenbach of Waunakee.

Saturday’s event had a much smaller showing than the protests in Madison from earlier this year. Meanwhile a few hundred also turned out in downtown Milwaukee for such a rally. Organizers say there are over 800 “Occupy Wall Street” groups throughout the country.

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A bill being offered at the Capitol would reinstate collective bargaining rights for public employees in Wisconsin. The legislation from state Representative Mark Pocan and state Senator Fred Risser, both Madison Democrats, would repeal the anti-union provisions of Act 10, which essentially eliminated public employee unions and their right to collectively bargain. The bill includes provisions on how unions are certified, the collection of union dues and the ability to collectively bargain for working conditions. The authors say it will have 45 legislative co-sponsors, but Risser and Pocan concede that with Republicans in control of both chambers, its chances of advancing are not likely.