>Yoshie Furuhashi wrote:
>
>>You're right, Chuck. I was just so happy to see photos of a decent
>>turnout -- reading a desperate plea from a UFPJ outreach coordinator
>>that ravi posted here made me fear that the crowed might be just a
>>couple of tens of thousands -- that I got carried away when composing
>>the subject line. I didn't hear any news of this on TV, though. Was
>>this covered anywhere?
>
>The turnout was very respectable. The photos I've seen on the wires
>show a packed mass of people stretching for blocks. That's pretty
>good for a protest that didn't get lots of hype and is being
>overshadowed by the big protests coming up on Monday.
We couldn't go because we were, I blush to admit, at a wedding, but people who did go say it took about an hour-and-a-half for the full march to pass. And the crowd was much more racially mixed than in earlier demos.
Doug