Video & images from today’s rally at the Capitol

Approximately 1,200-1,500 people rallied at the state Capitol today to protest GOP budget cutting proposals for public workers and services for children, the needy and the elderly.

I’ll have a complete story in tomorrow’s Great Falls Tribune.

In the meantime, here are some videos and photos from the event.

Here’s a video of demonstrators marching around the Capitol. It gives you a taste of the signs people were carrying as well as the size of the crowd:

Singler-payer advocates rally in Montana

Single-payer advocates held rallies in front of Sen. Max Baucus' field offices around the state on Friday. At the Helena event, protesters chanted "Hey hey, hey ho, health care's a right that's worth a fight," among other clever ditties, as they held signs criticizing Bacaus' refusal to include single-payer in the national health care reform debate. Labor leaders and human rights groups said Baucus will ignore single-payer at his own political peril. More on the Friday's protests in Saturday's dead-tree edition of the Tribune.