I attended the rally in downtown Columbus, Ohio today. Our SB 5 has yet to be voted on- the final hearing is expected on Tuesday, and a rally is planned for that day. The crowd grew over the course of hour and a half I was there.
Thus far the city's newspaper, the Columbus Dispatch true to form has yet to have any news on the rally; instead they only have a link to a report that SB5 would have "saved an estimated $1.3 billion in 2010 on health insurance and automatic pay increases if the limits imposed by Senate Bill5 were in effect." However, the state's portion of that would only have been $217 million; the rest of that would be from local workers- teachers, policemen, firefighters, sanitation workers, utility delivery workers...
An effort planned for after the rally was a coordinated campaign to knock on the doors of the senators, at home, to deliver the message of opposition to the bill.
Below are photos from the rally this afternoon. Links to Wisconsin were evident- I even saw a cheesehead, though regretfully didn't get a photo.