NYC Anti-war Demonstration
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- eyoto
Anyone go today? I just got back ...and i'm wondering how many folks attended. It was a beautiful site looked like 10s of thousands of people.
- exador0
was just reading about it....
looks as though there were about 100,000 ..but there's been no official figures yet
- HIVE70
i heard that NY had like 100,000 people out and London had almost a million. Makes you think twice about war.
- modulate0
i have read reports that as many as 400,000 here in NYC. since the police were so hostile, many of the protestors could not assemble in the "pen" the cops set up.
it stretched from 49th all the way to 72nd.from the NY Times: "Crowd estimates are often little more than politically tinged guesses, and the police did not provide one. Organizers said that more than 400,000 people attended and, given the sea of faces extending for more than a mile up First Avenue and the ancillary crowds that were prevented from joining them, the claim did not appear to be wildly improbable."
- modulate0
I was so stoked on the mood today. From Brooklyn coming via the train to Manhattan. everyone seemed to be on the same page.
it was pretty incredible.of course CNN painted the protest in a totally negative light. trying to make in sensational and "dangerous" to get viewers
- spk0
10000+ here in minneapols. colder than a witches t*t too...
nice turn out.
learn a little more about why this war is wanted so bad in the whitehouse:
- spk0
a photo from chilly minne.
- ********0
AMSTERDAM: 70.000 souls.
LONDON: WAY OVER 750.000 !!!
BAGHDAD TOPS: 1.000.000 !!!!!
no...wait...
BARCELONA: 1.300.000 !!!!!!!!!!
DAMASCUS: 200.000
AUCKLAND: 5.000
MELBOURNE: OVER 150.000
BERLIN: 500.000 !!
BRUSSELS: est. 45.000 - 100.00
PARIS: 250.000
VANCOUVER: 25.000
MADRID: 600.000
ATHENS: 50.000
ROME: 1.000.000 !!!
( early conclusion so far:
the countries backing US policy had by far the most protesters!
(Germany excluded!) )SEOUL: 2.000
TEL AVIV: 3.000 (Jews and Arabs marched together)
TOKYO: ? (anyone got figures?)
sources: REUTERS, NU.NL, BBC NEWS, UNITEDFORPEACE.ORG
Bush/Blair: Think again!
- vena0
i was in nyc today, and it was really kinda silly. some people had signs i totally did not understand...
like this one old guy.. "HOW DID OUR OIL GET UNDER THEIR SAND?"
i mean, wasn't it supposed to be an anti-war rally? that sounds pro-war...
i dunno, i was only there as a stop on the way to brooklyn :)
- ********0
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Vena...don't get mad at me about the PBS post.... it was not supposed to look as messy like that.... sorry.:(
- vena0
what does it say next to my name on the bottom left?
i don't handle the PBS :)
- ********0
phew....
I will sleep well then.....
:)
- turd0
i saw that one too, vena. basically a rephrasing of "no blood for oil."
a couple of my faves was strapped to 2 12-year olds:
"BEHIND EVERY BUSH THERE'S A TERRORIST"
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"DRUNKEN FRAT BOY DRIVES COUNTRY INTO DITCH"
- unfittoprint0
see? demonstations are fun!
- ********0
Did we set an all-time placards-record today? Thanks to all the eps/pdf/gif/flash posters that were available on the net for printing at home?
I like this Flash poster-print app that was made by Chris MacGregor of Flazoom.com:
http://64.70.140.219/feb15/
- clint0
i was on the demo in london, it was amazing, even with the official figure of 750000 people, it's more than any other demonstration ever seen in this country! all streets in the center where completely blocked with people of all ages and colours... inofficial voices speak of 2 million people, it's probably something inbetween the two numbers. blair+bush, think again, do we still need war in modern times?
- unfittoprint0
They once were good friends... what happened? girl thing?
- clint0
you'll probably find similar pictures of bush and osama, it's not a joke!!