Madison is alive with labor action -- not just at the Capitol Square - but in the city's communities where people are organizing to assist the thousands of union supporters protesting Gov. Scott Walker's budget repair bill they say would gut labor unions.

And local unions are calling on members to assemble over the weekend for emergency strategy sessions.

With the help of Regent Market Coop and Arboretum Cohousing, Rebecca Krantz and her husband Don delivered a car load of food to the Teaching Assistants' Association at the Capitol Thursday night. Krantz had boiled dozen of eggs, which were met with enthusiasm by demonstrators sugared up by snacking all day, she says.

IWW, Industrial Workers of the World, is welcoming members from all over the Midwest - Nebraska, Minnesota and Illinois - who are coming to join the protests. Organizers on Friday say they were finding places to bed up to 30 visitors.

IWW leaders called an emergency meeting for 2:30 p.m. Saturday at the Madison Labor Temple, 1602 S. Park St.