150,000+ (!) March for Peace In DC

[PalJoey]

Posted: 9/24/05 at 11:30pm

Updated On: 9/25/05 at 11:30 PM

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 9/24/05 at 11:31pm

Peace is on the way!!! Thanks to all that took the time to tell our government the truth!

[bta212]

Posted: 9/24/05 at 11:34pm

hear hear! Kudos to those who got off their a**es and did something for all the rest of us who didn't.

[cathywellerstein]

Posted: 9/24/05 at 11:38pm

i was there!

i wore my LENNON NEW YORK CITY shirt with ripped jeans and aviator sunglasses. i felt very hippie. it was an awesome experience.

[bta212]

Posted: 9/24/05 at 11:41pm

Well done, cathy--thanks.

[cathywellerstein]

Posted: 9/24/05 at 11:49pm

you are completely welcome.

if i had more time i would have brought my boom box and played some lennon songs and handed out daisies...which was my original plan. but i had to get in some sleep hours. then i had to get back for my show.

but it was still a great experience and i'm so glad i was a part of it.

bush isn't even in DC today. but i hope this makes some sort of an impact.

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 9/24/05 at 11:56pm

cathy - he does not care. he was in colorado for a fake nonsense oversight of the hurricane and then off to texas for another round of fakeness.

[cathywellerstein]

Posted: 9/24/05 at 11:57pm

boo.

i know.

now that his "kingdom" of texas might be ruined, he's putting all his efforts into saving it.

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 9/25/05 at 12:06am

that is the truth.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 9/25/05 at 12:16am

Bill Maher called George Bush a "category-5 president"

[brdlwyr]

Posted: 9/25/05 at 12:18am

PJ - I would call you a category 5 truth teller!

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 9/25/05 at 2:57am

True DCer: My first thought was that the Metro must have been a beeyotch today.

cathy, just because the prez wasn't there doesn't mean no one took notice, it's definitely on all the local news and everyone that works in the area or was a random tourist will pay attention. Even if a president were there, people marching on DC is nothing new, so it's not like they would go out of their way to check it out.

[PalJoey]

Posted: 9/25/05 at 9:28am

WaPo: "Protest organizers estimated that 300,000 people participated, triple their original target. D.C. Police Chief Charles H. Ramsey, who walked the march route, said the protesters achieved the goal of 100,000 and probably exceeded it. Asked whether at least 150,000 showed up, the chief said, "That's as good a guess as any."

[bta212]

Posted: 9/25/05 at 11:12am

And where the f***k is the loyal opposition?

They're all pussies.

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/12715260.htm

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 9/25/05 at 3:08pm

Thanks for not putting the 300,000 guess in the thread title. I always believe the police's estimates, never the protestors.

The protestors unintentionally exaggerate the numbers since none of them are used to having to estimate hundreds of thousands of people. Police deal with marching and protesting all the time. They are in constant communcation with each other, and their intentions for estimations (crowd control, security, etc.) require them to get a more realistic number than the protestors who just want to swell their numbers.

[Auggie27]

Posted: 9/25/05 at 7:45pm

I was there, too. With a busload from Union Country, NJ. Grannies, teachers, even a Republican. And many first-time marchers. And on the way home, we realized we were a small microcosm of sorts. Like everyone we saw there. Like the march on the RNC in New York last year, this wasn't a compilation of "fringe" elements, but was instead a cross-section of "mainstream" Americans.

Forget the estimates. The turnout was extraordinary.

Let me point out something more critical: everyone I talked to on my bus said he or she was representing at least ten of his friends. There was a strong sense of that "representation" concept. People attended who could spare the time, who were in better health, or just felt more compelled -- but they all stood tall for people in their own towns, communities, professional circles. And guess what we felt--what was the overriding emotion? We felt patriotic. We felt like what we were: Americans.