35 blocks, that’s over 1,000,000 people!

[KelleyKramer]

They are reporting on Indy media radio that it stretches over 35 blocks, that’s 1 and half MILES and over 1,000,000 people.

Folks this is now bigger than the New York record-setter last year.

Wish I had the money to go, a big congrats to everyone who is there.

If you havent already, turn on C-Span... Just incredible, Awesome!

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[ikojo]

1. It brings tears to my eyes watching this on C-SPAN

via the Internet. People just keep coming and ocming.

I loved it when the girl says, "you suck ABC, yes you do!"

PRECIOUS!

TELL THE TRUTH TO THE CORPORATE CONTROLLED MEDIA!!!

THANK YOU to all the protesters!

[7th_Sephiroth]

12. we have a million man army

if only they would throw down and end this BS now

[59millionmorons]

2. Wow

You can't pay for this kind of intertainment.

[KelleyKramer]

3. A few more photos...

Check these out ...



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On C-span you can hear them chanting Fox News Sucks!

Woohoo~!!

[happynewyear]

10. gives me hope & makes me proud to be an American!

and I mean it!

GOD BLESS AMERICA!

Have faith, this great evil we have encountered will be defeated!

Thank you New York! Thank you!!!

:D

:dem: :kick:

[sattahipdeep]

4. President Al Gore ... The real

president...must have tears in his eyes. He
knows he was ripped off and Bush was appointed.

What a demonstration of a lousy appointment.

[wellstone_democrat]

5. Local Fox just said 20-25 Thousand !

Husband heard it and switched back to CSpan where he looked at the overhead shots and started laughing---seems he knows something about crowd estimates (he's a statistician) and said: 1 million is low-balling it but reasonable...

"Fox *wishes* there were only 25K there...."

[nostamj]

9. well, you heard the crowd...

FOX NEWS SUCKS
FOX NEWS LIES

[iconoclastic cat]

11. Hey, w_d, could you ask him for clarification for the math-challenged?

Why does he think that 1mil is an under-count?
Thanks!

[wellstone_democrat]

25. he said that NYC blocks wall to wall equals

approximately 25K people (more if you squeeze 'em in) and that you have to figure the block size (DC has bigger avenues so the numbers are different.

Basically, he was going by the estimates of the length, the time past the camera and the per block average of 25K====frankly, I'm math challenged so I take his word. His conclusion...1.5 million CONSERVATIVELY today given the density of the crowd

I'd ask more but he's off on the bike.

What a day, eh? Makes me feel hopeful.

[happynewyear]

13. fuc fux news

More lies from the lying liars. So what else is new?

F U C K FOX NEWS, F U C K FOX NEWS!!!

:dem: :kick:

[spotbird]

23. The moran at Fox likely doesn't know how to read the extra digits

between 25,000 and 250,000.

There is no way anyone, even Fox, could guess this crowd at 25,000.

[KelleyKramer]

24. Fox News = Baghdad Bob

Just a perfect example of how Fox News hates their viewers, they know the Freepers are ignorant and they can lie to them at will.

Let them tell their fairy tales.

[iconoclastic cat]

6. I wonder how accurate that count is.

I hope it triples!

[homerthompson]

7. let me throw this wider angle shot in here

Edit: somebody already did. never mind.

[in_cog_ni_to]

8. This is just amazing

and makes me long to be there! Absolutely incredible!

[KelleyKramer]

14. Can somebody 'capture' the feed from cspan??

The images are just incredible, hopefully someone knows how to capture that and save it for posterity.

Getting goose bumps just watching, wish I could be there.

[KelleyKramer]

15. Live radio feed from the ground

Check this out, really cool to listen to while watching the cspan video.

http://liveradio.indymedia.org:8002/rnc2004-hi.mp3.m3u

[Lefty48197]

16. I heard about 30,000 to 40,000 per block at the protest last year

and that was about 1.5 million or so. The Republicans must feel really out of place in NY this week! Good job protestors!!!!!!!

[KelleyKramer]

18. That would put today at about 1.5 million

Yep, cant help but wonder what those Repubs think watching 100's of thousands of people march by... for hour after hour... thousands and thousands as far as the eye can see.

[Warpy]

17. Thank gawd for the traffic cam

The "news" media haven't considered this news, not yet. You'd think over 500,000 (conservative estimate) people doing anything all at once would be newsworthy.

They'll probably spend the entire newscast tonight interviewing some fat halfwit for Bush trying to counterdemonstrate.

[jimshoes]

19. Kind of like Woodstock for truth

4 days of peace & truth

[Eloriel]

20. I REALLY didn't think it would be that big

Must be giving the Bushies some pause about now, ya think? Hehe.

Beautiful, beautiful people, too -- "we call ourselves Americans." (A Howard Dean quote contrasting Bush's Pioneers and Rangers).

[KelleyKramer]

22. Me neither..

Just didn’t seem to be that much 'buzz' leading up to this like there was during the marches last year.

Sure am proud of 'em though.. Should send a loud message to the pearl and diamond earring Repubs!

The cspan coverage is awesome!

[Nordic]

30. I was hoping for 2 - 2.5 million

Just sorta what I felt would happen

[Christof]

21. If there's more than a million people protesting...

it should give the people around the country something to think about.

I didn't even hear of ten protesters at the DNC.

[Christof]

26. What was the record-setter last year?

[KelleyKramer]

27. Estimated at 1 million...

It was probably more, but NYPD did everything they could to keep them separated into different groups so it was hard to get a good estimate.

Looks like this one is going to blow those numbers away.

This one has had 10's of thousands flowing by for FOUR hours and theres no end in sight.

[AnnInLa]

28. I wonder if bu$h can FEEL the WAVES and WAVES

of disgust????? Or do they let him watch tv?

[KelleyKramer]

29. He's only going to be in NYC for 4 hours

The Coward from Crawford will only be there for four hours.

They'll probably keep the motor running the whole time.. Friggen wussie.

Think I saw a news report that it’s the shortest time any president attended his convention in the history of the US

[RainDog]

31. and there are soooo many of us in America who are not there

the protestors are just a sampling of the millions and millions who know that George Bush has got to go.

thanks for the reports, everyone.

I turned on c-span just now. the protestors have been passing the c-span camera for three hours. THREE HOURS.

just saw-

"God's way is love. Not war."

beautiful banner

that's the real old time religion. all who use religion as an excuse to kill will have to answer to their God, and I've got a feeling god might not like what George and the fundies are doing in god's name.

Jerry Falwell and Boykin and on and on should bow on their knees and ask god for forgiveness for using Christianity as an excuse to murder and torture and rape.