I was at the Jubilee 2000 protest Sunday on the Mall. Very sedate, law-abiding event, as you might expect from a colation whose members include the Sisters of Charity. The whole event lasted from 12:00 until 4:30, when we marched up the Hill and formed a human chain around the Capitol Building (symbolizing the chains of debt, you know).
Turn-out was pretty good for such a windy day. Very eclectic group og people, a big labor presence (I'd say about a fourth of those attending were wearing labor jackets), the Franciscans, scattered anarchists, pierced individuals of indefinite political persuasion, nuns, middle-aged members of the CPUSA wandering about passing out the "People's Weekly," as is their wont, members of various and sundry religious orgenizations, Friends of the Earth, etc.
Quite a coalition we've got going here.
>From: "Chris Kromm" <ckromm at mindspring.com>
>Reply-To: lbo-talk at lists.panix.com
>To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
>Subject: A16 -- word on the street?
>Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 14:40:05 -0400
>
>Anybody in D.C. (or with contacts in D.C.), any news on
>demonstrations/activities there so far?
>
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