"A roaring river of demonstrators," estimate 500,000 (Int. Tribune)

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Mammoth anti-Bush protest greets Republicans in New York
Robert D. McFadden The New York Times

NEW YORK A roaring river of demonstrators surged through the canyons of Manhattan on the eve of the Republican National Convention in the city's largest political protest in decades, a raucous but peaceful spectacle that pilloried George W. Bush and demanded regime change in Washington.
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On a sweltering August Sunday, the huge throng of protesters two miles, or three kilometers, long marched past Madison Square Garden, the site of the convention that would open Monday, and denounced President George W. Bush as a misfit who had plunged America into war and runaway debt, undermined civil and constitutional rights, lied to the people, despoiled the environment and used the presidency to benefit corporations and millionaires.
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The protest organizer, United for Peace and Justice, estimated the crowd at 500,000, rivaling a 1982 antinuclear rally

The protest organizer, United for Peace and Justice, estimated the crowd at 500,000, rivaling a 1982 antinuclear rally in Central Park, and double the number it had predicted. It was, at best, a rough estimate. The Police Department, as is customary, offered no official estimate, but one officer in touch with the police command center at Madison Square Garden agreed that the crowd appeared to be close to a half-million.
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1. Speaker interrupted

and a music cue. To mark time.

I loved the brother singing 'takin it to the street'
I don't think these folks see a lot of the street. Nor do I think that
the actual 'doobie brothers' would be very welcome here.