NYC - 7-10,000 protesters in miserable rain (Re: Where Are the Protesters??!

[Nathan Newman]

Hi all, I just got back from five hours in miserable rain doing legal
observing where we had something like 7,000 folks protesting (on the
conservative side of estimates) at Times Square and surrounding areas.
Quite amazing since it was freezing rain the whole time.  The cops were
pretty damn bad, penning folks up as usual.  The twist was when people
wanted to leave to march on the sidewalks down to Washington Square park,
they would let them out of the pens-- they let only ten at a time leave
every minute or two in order to break the numbers and encourage folks to
drift off rather than march.

But a good sign for what will hopefully be hundreds of thousands on
Saturday.

----- Original Message -----
From: "mike larkin" <mike_larkin2001 at yahoo.com>
To: <lbo-talk at lists.panix.com>
Sent: Thursday, March 20, 2003 7:15 PM
Subject: Where Are the Protesters??!

I've gone to a couple protests here in CT since the
bombing started last night, and the turnout has been
low to non-existent.  These articles confirm that,
outside places like San Francisco, the numbers
nationwide are indeed low, so far.  Where is
everybody?

http://salon.com/news/feature/2003/03/20/protest/index.html

http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/03/20/sprj.irq.war.protests.ap/index.html

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