Posted on 10/21/2002 5:38:41 AM PDT by kristinn
Thousands plan to rally in Washington this weekend in the capital's first mass protest of a potential war in Iraq.
Saturday's protest is set to coincide with marches in San Francisco and abroad, including events in London and Tokyo. The rally's sponsors predict that, in all, hundreds of thousands will participate.
All of the rallies are being planned by the same coalition of antiwar and anti-racism groups that organized a pro-Palestinian march here in April. Police estimated that that event drew 75,000 participants.
Organizers of Saturday's protest say that more than 250 buses are bound for Washington. About half will come from college campuses, the time-tested spawning pools for protest movements. But a significant fraction of the rest, organizers said, are coming from the mosques and Muslim associations that rallied with the coalition under the Palestinian flag in the spring.
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A counter-demonstration is planned by the D.C. chapter of Free Republic, the national conservative group, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at 17th Street and Constitution Avenue NW.
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Thank you for posting this. It's more ammunition for the attack. Encourage everyone who can to be there on time. I promise you a slam-bang, take-no-prisoners beginning for the day's festivities.
How curious it is that the Washington Post did not happen to notice that the Congress of the United States voted overwhelmingly in favor of the Administration's intention to topple the blood-thirsty dictator of Iraq, free his people, and destroy his weapons of mass destruction. How the Congress votes is USUALLY a pretty good indicator of how the people really feel -- especially with an election right around the corner.
Congressman Billybob
Hey, way to demonstrate that their allegiance is to the United States, and not the third world sh*tholes they came from. We ought to ship these disloyal bastards home.
Where are the other conservative activists groups in America?
That's just the WP's way of letting the other media know where the clean porta-potties are.
Sitting on their think tank.....
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