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goteam

Portland Peace March, part II

Mar 17, 2003 13:15

I didn't have a camera at the Portland anti-war rally and march on Saturday (March 15), but I took pages of notes, mostly on the signs and slogans I saw around me. Now judging by the livejournal comments I've posted, emails I've sent out, and Everything2 homenode update I've posted today, I feel like writing more about the experience, so here's ( Read more... )

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chocolatesmudge March 17 2003, 16:06:04 UTC

Sounds like it was quite the experience. I'm feeling kind of lame for not going, although the St. Paddy's parade was a lot of fun.

Glad to see you made your bus and are indeed back in Eugene. I hope Iggy forgave you guys for leaving him.

goteam March 17 2003, 16:11:26 UTC

Actually, we did miss our bus --- it was just pulling away as we got into the station. But fortunately we met up with qousqous and he showed us an excellent all-you-can-eat Chinese Buffet so we had a great dinner and took the 5:40 bus into Eugene instead. It wasn't an express, so we didn't get in until 9 something, but Iggy was glad to see us and we played with him and he purred and purred and slept on the bed. So yay!

sillygoosegirl March 24 2003, 23:15:04 UTC

I heard that the cops say there were about 15,000 people there and the organizers say that they expected 40,000 people and got more. Go figure.

goteam March 25 2003, 11:03:16 UTC

The cops always undercount these things, the organizers always overcount. The media take some kind of average of those estimates, I guess, so that's the numbers I posted. The New York Times in particular has gotten a lot of crap for poor coverage of anti-war activities and has lately been trying to improve its act. Also I tried to post a big wide range to show that there's lots of variation in how these kinds of things get reported. Yeah.