>I should have clarified what I meant when I asked why the anti-war
>coalitions aren't protesting in the Midwest. The anti-war movement could
>see a big boost in numbers and recognition if it organized protests in
>*cities* around the Midwest and South. Instead of organizing buses from
>the Midwest to take people to Washington, DC, why not organize buses to
>bring people from the East Coast to protests in Columbus, Detroit,
>Chicago, Nashville and Kansas City? There are plenty of symbolic targets
>in these cities to organize protests around. All of these cities have
>local anti-war and peace groups. Large protests in these cities would
>get more coverage by the media, because they would be unusual and
>because the media tunes out protests in D.C. as being the same old
>protest in Washington.
yeah, but it's the numbers. with large coastal cities, you automatically have a lot of people who will come out for a protest, people who don't have far to travel. People who head to the coastal cities to protest are often combining the visit for other reasons, or just to go to DC, NY, SF.
I don't understand why there are more coordinated efforts across the nation -- like we staged just before the Iraq war.
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