[Reader-list] anti-war protests in the US

[zehra rizvi]

i cant believe they didnt even mention times sqaure!!!  yesterday, rainy and 
horrible as it was, everywhere i went, everyone was saying, times square, 
five o clock....
union sqaure is not a big space and also, its easier for the police to stand 
there and keep 'control'.  in the morning, (i work by union square) coming 
out of the subway, i saw about 40 cops standing there...no people, just 
cops...later, as the afternoon wore on, more and more people gathered..
i dont know numbers on times square but we did manage to stop traffice and 
immoblize that part of the city for a bit.
there was a candlenight vigil in washington square park after (downtown, in 
the heart of the nyu campus) that was supposed to start at 8 but till 8 30 
there was only about 30 of us.

let's see what happens on the 22nd.

philly was amazing, it made the news here.  nyc protest got VERY little 
coverage and the numbers were wrong.  we had arrests and some violence but 
again, i havent been able to hear or read much about it.

z.rizvi

>From: Avishek Ganguly <avishek_ganguly at yahoo.co.in>
>To: reader-list at sarai.net
>Subject: [Reader-list] anti-war protests in the US
>Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 03:46:46 +0000 (GMT)
>
>
>Hi
>here's some stuff on the anti-war activity in the US
>today...may be even sharing them with you all might be
>a vent for the desperate feeling of outrage and
>helplessness...but this is still only CNN (forget Fox
>News!)-- so that explains the possibly fudged anti-war
>figures and the carelessly strewn bits about how there
>have been an equal number of pro-war rallies too!
>
>peace
>Avishek


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