47,000 rally against the confederate flag in South Carolina

[Scott Marshall]

I talked to some relatives last night who marched in the protest in 
Columbia, South Carolina against the confederate battle flag. They say the 
47,000 figure is probably an under count as that number was the official 
police estimate. In any case they are in rapture that this was the greatest 
demonstration they've ever seen in SC. They were greatly heartened by the 
number of young folks involved including white youth.

This is another big sign of the rising tide of activism that is emerging. 
It can't be separated from the WTO demonstrations in Seattle. This is no 
time to be wallowing in 'decline of the left' conventional wisdom.

On second thought, this probably is just another ritual-let-off-steam 
thingy and well within the norms of ruling class control. yea....silly me, 
probably doesn't mean a thing. Why did those people even bother?