> >Gee, will NARAL protest Bush's recent bombing of Iraq? Don't count
> >on it, it's obviously go nothing to do with a "radical right agenda".
> >
> >-Brad Mayer
>
> NARAL on its own wouldn't have mentioned the bombing of Iraq, but at
> the protest a bunch of different groups showed up (the turnout was
> about 100), with a few NARAL activists in attendance dwarfed by
> others.
>
> Sullivant Elementary School, which Bush visited, is surrounded by
> low-income, predominantly African-American neighborhoods, so lots of
> African-American showed up, with signs highlighting black
> disfranchisement.
Did that (above) get any media exposure?
-Brad
> A motley crew of local leftists (mainly religious lefties),
> naturally, brought signs protesting the bombing & made sure they were
> visible to TV cameras -- which got us a precious media exposure of
> less than one second. :(
>
> Yoshie
>