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Surprise! There's gonna be an antiwar protest in Washington...
Protesters hope as many as 100,000 people will converge on the U.S. capital on Saturday to demonstrate against a possible U.S. attack on Iraq. Demonstrators from as far as Chicago and Minnesota will come to Washington, many by bus, to gather by the Vietnam war memorial on the Mall and then march to the White House. Speakers will include civil rights leader Jesse Jackson. "This is going to be an ugly, unnecessary fight. Most of the world is saying no to it," Jackson told reporters. "Preemptive one-bullet diplomacy, we cannot resort to that.""We should just give them money. I have some friends who can handle the deal for you..." A tandem demonstration â expected to be equal in size to the gathering in the nation's capital â will take place in San Francisco on Saturday. In San Francisco, is it? Well, they've never done anything like that there before... Have they? "There is incredible momentum against (President George W. ) Bush, that will culminate in a massive outpouring that we hope will be big enough to challenge and stop war plans against Iraq," said Tony Murphy, one of the protest's organizers. "This has the potential to be as strong a movement as that against the Vietnam war in the 1960s," he said, "I mean, like, this could be really big! We could be on the teevee and everything!" Hours before the march in Washington was due to start, several thousand protesters were assembling on the National Mall. Some carried signs reading: "No Proof, No War," "Bush Sucks" and "Sacrifice Oil for Justice." How about "They only kill each other"? How about "We don't care what happens in an obscure country on the other side of the world"? How about "No Justice, No Peace, No Sense"? Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2002-10-26 |
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