> You'd think it would take minimal incitement to get howling mobs in
> the streets demanding a New-New Deal or New Any-Damn-Thing-At-All.
A change in labor law in France (population: 60 million) -> 1.5 million in the streets <http://mrzine.monthlyreview.org/unef190306.html>
Milosevic's funeral in Serbia (population [counting Montenegro]: 11 million] -> 60,000 in attendance <http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/asection/la-fg- milosevic19mar19,1,6432113.story?coll=la-news-a_section>
Kurds angry with the PUK and the KDP -> 2,000 riot and demolish the Halabja monument in Halabja (population: 60,000) <http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/EKOI-6N34NF?OpenDocument>
The Iraq War, torture, indefinite detention, illegal wiretapping, threatened sanctions on Iran, health care costs out of control, pensions melting down, house princes beginning to deflate, etc., etc. "1,200 or so" in NYC (population: 8 million) <http://select.nytimes.com/gst/tsc.html?URI=http://select.nytimes.com/ 2006/03/21/nyregion/21nyc.html>
What is wrong with this picture?
Yoshie Furuhashi <http://montages.blogspot.com> <http://monthlyreview.org> <http://mrzine.org>