Police at the state Capitol in Madison, Wisconsin, arrested a number of people Monday during the latest Solidarity Sing-Along, a peaceful singing protest against Republican Gov. Scott Walker held each week day in the rotunda. The singing has been a fixture at the Capitol for more than two years since the mass mobilization against Walker’s anti-union policies. But protester Steve Burns says police have arrested more than 100 people in a crackdown that began late last month.

Steve Burns: “This is the culmination of a two-and-a-half-year struggle for free speech. We’ve been in a struggle with the Walker administration that’s attempted to put a Capitol access policy in place that restricts people’s use of the people’s house as a forum for free speech. And so this latest escalation includes arresting people and then citing us for a violation of the permit policy of the Walker administration. We see sing-alongs popping up in other places. We’ve heard there’s a Michigan sing-along; there’s a Texas sing-along. People need to reclaim their state capitols. There are states that have even more restrictive laws than we have, and it’s time that the people take back their capitols as the people’s house.”