[lbo-talk] What's the Matter with New York City?

[Yoshie Furuhashi]

Wojtek posted a BBC story about immigrant rights march in New York  
City, which says "thousands" demonstrated.  Commenting on the same,  
Democracy Now! says "tens of thousands" marched: <http:// 
www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=06/04/03/1318256>.  Whichever  
figure you take, the turnout is a lot smaller than in LA.

Also, anti-war demonstrations on 18-19 March this year had a couple  
of thousands demonstrating in New York City, which is in the same  
league as the demo in Columbus, Ohio and a lot smaller than the  
10,000-strong rally in Portland, Oregon.

Whenever New York City has demos that consist of mainly New Yorkers,  
as opposed to "national" mobilizations that draw out-of-towners, New  
York City demos are a lot smaller than the ones in other big cities  
like Los Angeles and Chicago and even smaller cities like Portland  
and San Francisco.

What's the matter with New York City?

Yoshie Furuhashi
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