They call themselves the Cuddle Puddle.

Source: Slate

Das Capitol
How a bunch of pro-union, anti-Republican protesters turned the hallways of the Wisconsin state house into a commune.
By David Weigel

Posted Friday, Feb. 25, 2011, at 1:02 PM ET

MADISON, Wis.—They call themselves the Cuddle Puddle. They did not come up with the name.
There are 10 of them, and they were among the first people to start camping out in the Capitol building.

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You can walk the halls 100 times and not lose your sense of wonder and amazement at the occupation of Wisconsin's state
Capitol. It's hard to admit this without it sounding like an endorsement of the pro-labor, anti-Republican stance of the protesters.
It's not. It's just that things like this don't ever happen in state capitols.

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In the center: a "family area." It's a safe space with no cameras allowed, where children frolic, play with communal toys, or rest on yoga mats.
I'm bonked in the head painlessly by a ball tossed by a child being watched by Trina Clemente. "I'm a student right now," she says, "because
there are no jobs."

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7:45 a.m.: The doors to the Capitol are about to open again, and before they do I take a quick survey of the feeding/sleeping areas. Some of the
sleepers, roused, are doing TV interviews through heavy eyelids. The food has been replenished, with stacks of bagels and cream cheese in the
breakfast nook. (There's no fresh coffee just yet.) There are rumors, as there are every day, that the Capitol will be closed to protesters, but there's
a massive rally planned for Saturday. Tom Bird, the first of the Cuddle Puddle to wake up, stops me and speaks happily about the sleep he managed
to get, after Democratic staffers left and handed him and other protesters the cold remainders of their Ian's Pizza.

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=439x500639

link to cuddle puddle pictures

I wonder when Governor "Shit for Brains" Walker, will know that he opened up a very big can of getting
his own ass whipped like a red headed step child on a rented mule? Apologies to red headed step
children and rented mules too.

The freaking police all over Wisconsin are coming to join the cuddle puddle too. :bounce:

it's called a tweedle beetle cuddle puddle noodle poodle bottle muddle!

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

That is fabulous!!!!

Because you should be! Brilliant!!

:toast: :yourock: :rofl:

not cold staff leftovers :(

Wonderful thing they are doing. ♥

;-)

Saw photos somewhere around here today with one of these students wearing a shirt that said just that.

I think the term originated with the Rainbow Family and the National Gatherings that take place. Much walking and fireside visiting takes place at night and sometimes, you just can't make it back to your camp or kitchen to sleep. The dawn always finds 500 or so people in a cuddle puddle of sleeping bags and blankets, dogs too in what is designated 'Main Meadow'.
The Sisters find safety in the numbers too.

Good on these fine citizens for making this kind of sacrifice, I hope someone brought "Apples to Apples"!

--about what they did to support Wisconsin workers.