Rally for America: Chicagoland Chapter [after action report]

Me | 3/22/2003 | RedWing9

[RedWing9]

This is the thread to post after action reports from all the FReepers and for any NEW FReepers who were at the Rally today!

[RedWing9]

Please tell me how I get a higher quality version of this to you.

[harpo11]

Bravo Chi-Town Patriots!!! Most Awesome sight this town has seen in years.

[A Navy Vet]

rhunter@vets4constrestore.org - thanks.

[Dengar01]

Coverage coming up on ABC 7 now.

[822mpwife]

AWESOME!!!!!!! It was just awesome today! I loved being there! And will have pics to post by monday (tuesday at the latest). Fox news sucks though...I can't say it enough! Here come WGN report!

[Dengar01]

Great coverage on ABC 7!!!! showing our large crowds!!!

[Dengar01]

great coverage on WGN too, they are showing our huge crowds but their numbers on us still could be higher. Chicago is seeing we were out today!!!

[Dengar01]

CBS 2 is going to cover us in a few minutes!

[822mpwife]

they say 2500 of us!!!! and showed up all...good for them! more here than on Fox! I looked like an idiot in my interview!...only 700 anti-war!!!! GO FREEPERS!!!! Good job to everyone who worked so hard to organize the rally! It was AWESOME!!!!! wish I would have accepted the invite to speak!

[822mpwife]

still waiting on channel 5 and 7 and 2

[Dengar01]

Still too small numbers on CBS, however, I am now boycotting Fox 32 News. Every single news station in Chicago showed our numbers at our peak visually. Fox 32 showed them before the rally had even started. I do have to say so far CBS 2 has the best coverage right their with ABC 7, I just wish they had their numbers correct. Oh well they made the point we had way more people then the commies.

[822mpwife]

if you want to send a nasty email to fox news...go to FOXCHICAGO.com and click on VIEWER FEEDBACK!

[822mpwife]

Here's the email I sent Fox News....

This is regarding the Support our Troops Rally coverage.
I'm sorry, but you guys interviewed me and nt only did you show only the BEGINNING of the Support our Troops Rally but only a single line from my interview. You made it look like I was there because I was angry with the antiwar protesters, not because my husband is over there fighting this war and I wanted to support him and all the other soldiers. My 3 small children and I are at home wishing he was here! They ask for him every day! And the sooner this war is over the better, but I am proud of his being there. I am proud to be an American! And I am proud to say that I beleive this war couldn't be avoided and Iraq needs to be free! My husband is doing what he's meant to do and what he joined the army to do! His 6 month old daughter won't even know who he is when he comes home, and his children will be afraid every time he walks out the door that he's leaving again. But he's there and we are surviving and I'll do anything it takes to support him and his fellow soldiers. And from the numbers at the rally (which weren't portrayed correctly by you!), there is a majority that will too!
Sincerely,
Ann Mulligan

[Dengar01]

Great letter I sent one out earlier. I've decided to boycott Fox 32 simply because their coverage sucked and was wrong. They smugged the information and even showed the commie scum dressed up in American Flag bandannas portraying them as us.

The other four stations NBC, CBS, ABC and WGN did a good job although I wish their numbers on us were more accurate. I'm going to do some research to find out who is in the hierarchy at Fox 32... they saw what we did today at the rally wonder what they would think of a boycott.
We already know the leftist commies don't watch the news (unless it's MTV news). So if they feared a boycott maybe they would report FACTS.

[unspun]

If you want to see coverage...

...be sure to check out http://www.illinoisleader.com !!

[chicagolady]

I just got home from work and I had my first chance to see the pics, Thanks! They are Great!!

[sistergoldenhair]

We did real good.

Yes, you did. Great news coverage. My best to all participants.
Yep. Ya did real good.

[822mpwife]

The pics look great! I finally got them all to come up, it took about 3 reloads on my computer. But they did...wow there were a lot of us! I was in the middle kind of, I couldn't really tell! The news never reports anything right!

[822mpwife]

Found this on FoxChicago.com---a whole 2 sentences about the rally (more of the protests)

Anti-war Protesters March Across Country

(3/22/03) — Tens of thousands of anti-war demonstrators, spanning 30 blocks, marched down Broadway on Saturday as part of a fresh cross-country protest drive against intensified war on Iraq. Military backers also showed their support in cities around the country.

In Chicago, troop supporters came within 20 feet of anti-war activists outside a federal building. As the protesters shouted, "killers, killers, killers," a military backer yelled back, "idiots, idiots, idiots."

Carrying peace signs and wearing costumes, demonstrators in New York streamed toward Washington Square Park. By midday, police estimated the crowd at 40,000, but within an hour said it had climbed considerably higher. March organizers later Saturday said it was closer to 200,000. "I believe if you really want to show `shock and awe,' you should show love and justice," said Bob Edgar, an officer at the National Council of Churches.

Carol Laverne wore a pair of angel's wings and carried a sign saying "Thou shall not kill." Susan Sonz and her 9-year-old son, Ruben, came to the march from their home near the World Trade Center ground zero site. The boy carried a sign saying, "Ground Zero kids against the war." "We don't want to see more innocent people die," Sonz said. Some celebrities joined in, including actors Roy Scheider, Ossie Davis and Ruby Dee, and singer Patti Smith. "We support the troops, but we do not support the president," said Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., a Korean War veteran.

About 2,000 police were assigned to the rally, including undercover officers with beeper-sized radiation detectors and other counter-terrorism measures. Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly surveyed the march from 35th Street. No arrests were reported, but police chased some protesters who had moved onto a side street away from the park. "Things are peaceful and moving fairly quickly," he said.

In Washington, several hundred protesters, chanting "No blood for oil," strode through the streets and rallied in front of the White House. Their pink and orange signs read "No war against Iraq" and "Money for unemployment, not war." In Lansing, Mich., war supporters rallied at the state Capitol with American flags. Patriotic music rang out, and the crowd of hundreds chanted "USA." Backers of the American military also converged on a baseball stadium in Millington, Tenn., home to a military base, to voice support for the troops.

At the stadium, Ricky Hunt held a poster with an 8-by-10 photograph of a young Marine he knows in Iraq. He also slung a Marine Corps flag over his shoulder. "We're really tired of all the protesters. I don't understand them. I think they ought to remember where they got their freedom," Hunt said. Abroad, tens of thousands of angry protesters from London to Japan again marched against the war. Some denounced their governments for backing the United States.

Since the outbreak of war, peace demonstrations have spread to dozens of American cities large and small in one of the widest outpourings of anti-government protesting in many years. Anti-war activists have blocked traffic, sat in at federal buildings, prayed at somber candlelight vigils, and laid down on sidewalks to symbolize the war dead. Mostly smaller counterdemonstrations have sprung up too, appealing for support of the invasion or U.S. troops. Nearly all protests have been peaceful, though scuffling with police broke out on a few occasions. More than 3,000 arrests have been made, usually as police tried to clear streets and keep buildings open.

[CyberCowboy777]

You got coverage in Portland, OR!

Good coverage -

The Anti's were screaming "KILLERS" at you and you were yelling back "IDIOTS"!

The anchor had a hard time not laughing!