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| Protesters Spread Out Across Capital |
| 2002-04-21 |
| Marching with puppets and placards and armed with many messages, tens of thousands of protesters joined forces on a warm spring Saturday to demonstrate peacefully against everything from U.S. policy in the Mideast to globalization and corporate greed. Sounds like protest for the sake of protest, doesn't it? Protesters massed at sites across the city, then swarmed down Pennsylvania Avenue toward the Capitol, in an eclectic crowd that mixed young communists, Black Panthers and "Raging Grannies." People came in busloads from around the country to show there are vibrant opposition views in the United States. This is pretty long. Click here for the entire core dump. |
| Posted by:Fred Pruitt |