WP: 200,000 in N.Y. Protest Bush

[kskiska]

President and GOP Convention Unwelcome, Demonstrators Say


Monday, August 30, 2004; Page A01

NEW YORK, Aug. 29 -- By the tens of thousands, demonstrators marched, chanted -- "No More Years!" -- and danced through the streets of Manhattan on Sunday, voicing their anger with President Bush, the war in Iraq and the Republicans' decision to hold a national convention in this most Democratic of urban bastions.

Hundreds of police officers in riot gear lined the sidewalks, SWAT vans idled, and police helicopters whirred overhead. But the protest was as peaceful as it was vast. More than 200,000 demonstrators, according to a police estimate, packed dozens of blocks along Seventh Avenue and snaked down side streets.

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There were scattered arrests at the edges of the protest, but police reported no violence. The march route formed a giant U, running two miles north past Madison Square Garden before hooking south again another two miles to Union Square, where radicals and labor organizers have declaimed for more than a century.

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There were thousands of "John Kerry for President" pins in evidence Sunday, but there was no real sign of a Democratic Party hand at play. Democratic strategists, in fact, have talked of holding their breath, lest the protests dissolve into violence or the Republicans turn them into caricatures of the left. March organizers were critical of Kerry for voting to give Bush the authority to invade Iraq. And Kerry might prefer to eschew the four-member "Communists for Kerry" contingent, whose placards advocated a "France First!" foreign policy.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A45279-2004Aug29.html

[renegade000]

1. well at least this number

is more realistic than "tens of thousands"

[Renew Deal]

2. The Commies for Kerry people are from Protest Warrior.

The dopes in the media blow it again.

[Krupskaya]

3. ABC radio reported...

..."only" 100,000, which was "less than half what organizers had applied for on their permit."

Um, "only"? Jayzus. Glad to see a more accurate count.

[hang a left]

4. There were way more than that.

Anyone who turned on CSPAN and watched that march, for any length of time,would be aware of it.

[bobthedrummer]

5. Man, the streets of NYC were shoulder-to shoulder citizens protesting

this criminal administration, block after block of The People!!!
:bounce:

[Southpaw Bookworm]

6. Bravo!!

We need an applause smiley, because I am so proud of all those folks who protested and rallied and made good use of their First Amendment rights!

[Tight_rope]

7. This is a lie...I watched it on CSPAN...there were way more!