report from DC

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Tue Apr 23 07:33:55 PDT 2002


rickling at softhome.net wrote:


>Doug Henwood writes:
>
>>Lots of people we talked with in DC over the weekend said the
>>100,000 claim was wildly exaggerated. And I believe our own Chuck0
>>confirmed this.
>
>100,000 is my estimate. The DC Metro Police, as reported by the
>Washington Post, put the number at 75,000. The march from Freedom
>Plaza on Pennsylvania Ave. to the west side of the Capitol on
>Saturday started around 1:30 pm. At 3:00 pm, people from the
>convergences at the ellipse and the Sylvan theater were still making
>the turn by the White House on to Pennsylvania, having yet to arrive
>at Freedom Plaza.

The 100,000 controversy was over the Zionist rally, not this past weekend's events.

Doug



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