In Indiana, thousands of people rallied at the statehouse in Indianapolis Thursday against measures that would weaken unions and public schools. The head of Indiana’s AFL-CIO, Nancy Guyott, addressed the crowd above a banner reading, “Hoosiers Standing Up for the Middle Class.”

Nancy Guyott: “Let’s let the word go out to the Wall Street robber barons, to the out-of-state special interests, and to the political ideologues who seem to care more about politics than people: that the working men and women of Indiana have come back to take back the people’s house for the people of Indiana.”

All but three Democratic members of the Indiana House remain in neighboring Illinois to deny Republicans a quorum to vote on the proposals.