Seasoned protester "struck by the participants' maturity and seriousness"

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Antiwar demonstrators in New York impress seasoned Portland protester
After marching in Sunday's protest, Fred Faveluke was struck by the participants' maturity and seriousness

Monday, August 30, 2004
JEFF MAPES

NEW YORK -- Electrician Fred Faveluke has often participated in antiwar protests back home in Portland, but he said he never saw anything quite like the march he took part in Sunday in New York City.

Besides its sheer size, Faveluke said he was impressed by the seriousness and maturity of the demonstrators who sought on the eve of the Republican convention to show the depth of opposition to the war in Iraq.

"There would have been a larger contingent of troublemakers in Portland, I believe," said Faveluke, an intense, soft-spoken 32-year-old who is taking a week off from his job to demonstrate at the convention. He has frequently participated in demonstrations sponsored by the Portland Peaceful Response Coalition.

Sunday's march, he said, was "a very mainstream, family-oriented event . . . I didn't see anybody making trouble."

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