Let the Marches Begin

Ideas and Issues Protests

New York In Chicago the other day everyone was over the moon about the huge numbers of people (over 150,000) that hit the streets in the city to send the message into the spring air that it was way past time to address and resolve the immigration issue. Why were the numbers so large there? …

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Arguing Numbers

Protests

San Francisco Something called ANSWER was the organizer of the anti-war march in the Bay Area recently. The Chronicle allowed one of their representatives some space on the op-ed page of the paper the other day. I was curious in our search for an anti-war movement in America, what case they would argue. It was …

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Pentagon Protest II

Personal Writings Protests

New Orleans Hope springs more eternally than, well, spring it seems. At the best one could say that the 40th anniversary repeat of the March on the Pentagon from the same date in 1967 as this weekend was beaten by the weather. Reports estimated that there might have been between 10,000 and 20,000 in Washington, …

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