Action Alert: October 27th

The NYC turnout was amazing, there were too many people for me to even estimate, i checked on the Oct 27th website, and there were apparently about 45,000 people there. I know its not really tht much considering the size of NYC, but it was the first really big demonstration, and i think its awesome tht many people showed up. The one thing I'm mad about is the lack of press coverage, i know it was just yesterday, but i could not find one online article about the rally, i saw one or two that were written before the rally that just said it was happening. Oh, well... maybe I'll be able to find an article when i get the Newspaper later today. As for the lack of communication with the other side... I dont think a peace rally is really the best place to have communication with the other side. That should be saved for debatges and conferences.

 

i know, wasn't he hilarious? even better were the mother and son who followed us in their truck when we marched. i heard the son say, "oh, you're a real man, you write poetry!" to somebody. he actually mocked OUR turnout when it was only him and his mom there.

i'm wondering if i saw you? from the back of the group during the march, i was the second person carrying the preamble from the front. i also went out to the plant. where were you?

 

I left after the rally. Had some trouble with my leg, and didn't have any of my hydros with me. I saw the kid and his mom. They both drove by me and flipped me off when I was leaving. I just find it funny that the people who were telling us to get out of Jonesborough weren't even from there. Most of the locals were pretty nice.

I was the one standing at the police barrier with the sign "THE WAR IS OVER! CALL BUSH AND LET HIM KNOW." One of the things that bothered me was that the local media barely interviewed the protestors, but I saw them mike and interview the idiot with the flag.

See my other posts for my attitude of the whole thing.

 

I went to the march in Los Angeles and it was awesome! There were over 100,000 people there, and the march streched for blocks and out of sight. It was incredible and intense. At the end there was a die-in, and these thousands of people lay down in the street. I am proud of everyone that came together to fight for freedom from this tyranny! I just wish it would have gotten into the news...

 

We cannot allow these protests to get violent. How can possilbly ask for peace and then get violent ourselves? We'd be Hypocrites. Keep war protest Peaceful, if we get enough people we wont need media coverage. DOnt get me wrong i agree with the rest of your post. its bullshit that there was no media coverage, but we cannot go around blowing shit up.

 

^But we have to do something. I talked to a guy in the media who was at the protest in Jonesborough, and he told me that the reason the media hardly covers the movement is because it's not interesting enough. I mean, I don't want to see violence, but there has to be more to do than just sit around and do nothing. All we have now is paralysis. No one making any sort of move.

 

We can't give up. No matter what kind of censors, violence or shit we are faced with, we must continue forward. yes, we can fail, but only for now, there is always the future for victory. If we do not change the world over night, it isn't a failure, but at least we can give eachother as fellow activists and concerned citizens hope and support. Every little thing counts.

I was very surprised that there is nothing to be found really on the internet or news about the protests, we must change this. Try out Project Occupation. Look it up.

 

I know we have to do something, all i was aying tis that violence is not the answer. We need to do something, but idk what tht is

 

do things like the truth commericals...like stage a tribal dance or something..lol...shit they did back in the 70's and everything, going to washington, and just playing music,smoking, sharing, protesting, all that shit man...gotta go back to the old days, just research, if you build it...they will come

 

I seriously, SERIOUSLY doubt that there is any sort of document preventing - or even discouraging - publication of anti-war protests.

I wasn't able to find anything on the Oct. 27 protests, but just five days before that, the media published accounts of the No War, No Warming protest in D.C. There were a lot of press people there, and the story was even on the "front page" of Fox New's website.

I agree that the press has not done a very good job publicizing these protests, but I think that it's because they're no longer "new" and "interesting." People have seen protests before, and unless we're doing something innovative, like the organizers of No War, No Warming did, then it will be hard to get the press to notice us. The media has become a profit-making business. If no one watches the news, advertisers won't pay money to the news companies for advertising time. They show useless stories about celebrities, and not about protests, because that's what people want to watch.

And "giving aid and comfort" to "enemies" of the U.S. has always been illegal. It's called treason, and it's defined as such in the U.S. Constitution.