In Dallas, organizers est. 3,200, police est. 1,100. I'd say it was about 2,000. Not a bad turn out for this very conservative city. Being in the belly of the beast as we are, and not in a coastal city with much of a liberal tradition, it was pretty cool. Probably the largest anti-war demo since the early 70's here - speakers included labor and religious leaders. Of course, the Dallas Morning News gave almost as much column space to 4 counter-demonstrators as they did to the main demo itself....
Brian
On Sat, 15 Feb 2003, J Cullen wrote:
> Austin, Texas, turned out several thousand people (organizers claimed
> 10,000, though it was probably closer to 5,000) in chilly, overcast
> but dry weather for a rally at the Capitol. About a dozen speakers
> ranged from US Rep. Lloyd Doggett (D-Austin) to local Greens,
> University of Texas Campus Coalition for Peace and Justice, local
> church people and somebody who I think was identified as a socialist,
> although I didn't catch her name or which flavor of socialism.
> Speeches and musical interludes ran about two hours, which was about
> an hour too long, as some in the crowd began to chant "Less talk,
> let's walk!" after about an hour and a quarter. Then the boisterous
> but orderly crowd marched the mile or so down Congress Avenue to Town
> Lake on the Colorado River. No problems with police (at least that I
> saw). The only counter-demonstrators I saw were a couple of guys
> with a John Birch Society "Get US Out of the United Nations" banner.
>
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