...the Strategic Importance of...
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WE ARE WINNING: THE PEOPLE REJECT BUSH IN NYC AND AROUND THE WORLD
A popular resistance to the war and domestic repression will energize tens of millions alienated from any political action, and will let people under threat of American cruise missiles and F-16s know that we do not consent. We are not "good Germans" doing the leaders' business. We are a free people whether the government gives us permission or not. If we have to choose between the warmongers and the world: we choose the world. Our audience is small town America, the city we live in and the rest of the world. The conservatives are a tiny minority and the liberals defeated.
We believe another world is possible and we're going to show it tomorrow. We will not allow police to suppress the will of the people. We are marching and the world will know. With their help, we can win.
See you in the streets.
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~If wishes were horses....we'ld all be neck deep in horse shit.
I shouldn't be cynical. Anything that doesn't charge admission, takes people away from their tubes and has them walking should be wildly encouraged no matter how pointless.
~From someone who was there...
"Back from the protest march in front of the Republican Convention
Headquarters, along with a quarter million protesters yelling "Liar!
Liar!" in front of Madison Square Garden.
I see the CNN news report on it saying "thousands of protesters" were marching, and focusing entirely on a little fire and some smoke that was a few blocks away from the marchers. Our radio news commentators we listened to on our headphones spent the three hours we were in the march snearing at the marchers, making fun of them, saying "they seem to be purposely going slow along the march in order to attract more attention," and similar lies and put-downs.
Ah, American democracy!
Still, this is just a year and a half after the start of the Iraqi war, and it was an inspiring protest march; after a year and a half of Vietnam, there were few sizeable protests..."
via: psychohistory list @ topica
See also: About 200 Arrested in Anti-Bush Protest
New York police reported arresting around 200 people during a day of protest against President George W Bush on the eve of the Republican national convention.
"Most of the arrests were for disorderly conduct and occurred away from the march itself," city police commissioner Raymond Kelly told reporters.
AFP reporters said the throng exceeded 100,000 with New York's Seventh Avenue jammed for more than 20 city blocks and more people streaming into the procession well into the afternoon.
~At that rate by Friday the NYPD should have around 1,400 protestors in custody. Will the Yankess let the police use Yankee Stadium?
From the Scotsman: 100,000 March Against Bush in Manhattan
The overwhelming theme was against the president. "Elect a madman, you get madness," read one banner. "Let’s solve the real intelligence gap," said another, beside a picture of Mr Bush with a red line through him.
Police have warned they have the capacity to make 1,000 arrests each day of the convention, and have already tested their apparatus of plastic handcuffs and makeshift cells (Saturday night)on cyclists who ended a mass ride around Manhattan with a sit-down protest.
Arrests started when one officer was hit with spaghetti. Police then started loading cyclists into specially prepared arrest buses, and piled confiscated bikes on to a lorry. By the end of the evening, 264 had been charged with breach of the peace.
Officers are also taking photographs of the demonstrators - a strategy intended, they say, to protect police against accusations of brutality. Helicopters were also hovering over protesters yesterday.
Inside the convention arena, a collection of Wall Street banks have got together to provide shelter for the delegates who do not want to stray into the activist-laden streets of the city.
Laying on a steady flow of champagne-charged receptions designed to run around the clock, any vaguely senior Republican involved in regulating banks has found a soirée in their honour.
The late-night parties are followed by breakfast seminars held at a selection of Manhattan’s swankiest venues.
Some 5,000 Republican delegates arrived in New York yesterday, greeted by volunteers carrying "welcome" placards.
~Swanky soirees. "Buddy can you spare a dime?"
List of Major Protests Planned During the RNC
Posted by Cieciel at August 30, 2004 10:09 AM