What was the first political rally you went to?

Seems like a nice complement to the other thread.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=105x859251

Mine was MayDay rally against the Vietnam War May 1, 1967.
Held simulataneously in NYC and San Francisco.
I was at the one in San Francisco.
My parents took me.
Coretta Scott King was the featured speaker

[DuctapeFatwa]

1. to re-crown Ashurbanipal

[jpgray]

3. No, you're thinking of Nebuchadnezzar's kegger (nt)

[Supply Side Jesus]

2. Protest at Chinese embassy

I was there with my parents. Marched on the the embassy because of some Bethlehem steel issue shortly after Tienanmen square. We were in DC for USWA convention.

[pmbryant]

4. Howard Dean's 'Sleepless Summer Tour' last year

My second rally was the Kerry rally in San Antonio last Saturday.

:bounce:

Peter

[ikojo]

5. My first big rally was in January 1991 in DC protesting

George Bush the I war on Iraq. It was awesome being around so many people who felt the same about Bush the I.

[neverborn]

6. Anti-war rally

Downtown Peoria. All uh .. 10 of us? :Xx

[TheMightyFavog]

7. Labor Day,1996. Clinton kicks off his re-election campaign in Green Bay

I came within 2 1/2 feet of shaking his hand.

[Lefty48197]

8. That would be the Hash Bash

in Ann Arbor

[Bill of Rights]

9. Anti Ronald Reagan rally

in Minneapolis. This was in 1980 and I was a freshman in college. He was speaking to business leaders at the Curtis Hotel (or was it the Leamington) and about 30 of us were rallying outside the building.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

10. Lula campaign, 1989

Yeah he was already running for prez THAT far back.

[gula]

11. Against the invasion of Czechoslovakia, 1968

Was only a kid then but we had a few children in school whose parents had fled the invasion of Hungary in 1953, so I guess that made us more aware of what wa going on. Had a Czech flag on my bike for years.

[liberalhistorian]

12. I was four years old and

my parents took me to a rally and vigil on Vietnam Moratorium Day at Northern State College in Aberdeen, South Dakota, where my stepdad taught English.

I don't remember, of course, but my mom and stepdad said I was really into it, and I haven't stopped since!

[m-jean03]

13. FTAA protest at the Peace Arch in Blaine, WA

August 2000, I think?

[fudge stripe cookays]

14. Last summer July 2003

First, Howard Dean at Dallas City Hall. Then, it was Howard here, Howard there, Howard in Iowa, Howard in Iowa.....

And the redistricting rally at the state capitol in Austin.

Took me awhile to become political, but I jumped into the deep end when I finally got there.

[La_Serpiente]

15. When I was in the 9th grade

1998. I was protesting the imprisonment of Mumia-Abu Jamal in Waikiki.

[proud patriot]

16. Sometime in June of 69

I was born in May of 69 in SF Ca to 2 two hippies
so chances are pretty good that summer .

[PartyPooper]

17. Hubert Humphrey at UT (University of Tennessee, Knoxville) in 1968.

[Renew Deal]

18. Dukakis

My greek dad was so proud.

We support the Grreeeeks!!!

Be prround!

[OhioStateProgressive]

19. Bill Clinton

Lawrence County Fair, Pennsylvania, in 1992...my mom and dad wanted to go, I was only 14, but it was kick ass.

[CanuckAmok]

20. Vancouver's "Riot at the Hyatt", December 8, 1998.

A demonstration in response to protestors being maced at an anti-APEC demonstration the summer previous.

The "Riot at the Hyatt" was outside the Hyatt Regency, where Prime Minister Jean Chretien was the guest of honour at a $1000/plate Liberal Pary fundraiser. The police started attacking peaceful demonstrators, and a riot ensued.

Good times in Canuckistan! I'll be at the next one, too.

Details here:

http://www3.bc.sympatico.ca/isitt/apec.htm

[SmileyBoy]

21. 'Yes On Proposition 7" rally at the Fargo Civic Center in 1988

I was 6 years old.

I have NO idea what Proposition 7 was, but my mom had a bunch of buttons and stickers for it, and she was on the campaign committee. No doubt it was a Democratic thing, because I remember Senator Dorgan speaking at that rally.

[mykpart]

22. Youn Democrats rally for

Lyndon Johnson, 1964. I was a senior in high school.

[Zomby Woof]

23. September 1985

An anti-apartheid rally at my college.

[nickgutierrez]

24. February 15, 2003

First big anti-war protest in Chicago.

[Michael Costello]

25. Gerry Adams 1994

When Gerry Adams first visited the United States in 1994. He ended the speech saying "Let the first colony of England, also be the last one". My family went to that.

The second rally I went to was the anti-WEF one in New York City in February of 2002.

[Kickin_Donkey]

26. A spontaneous anti-Reagan rally ...

the evening after Election Day in November 1980. I was a freshman at the University of California at Berkeley only weeks off the farm. Sitting in my dorm room with my roommate and doing my homework ... noise of a crowd approaching and chanting in the darkness. It was a spontaneous march of hundreds (thousands?) of people protesting the election of Reagan. The marchers were chanting, "Hey, hey, ho, ho, Ronald Reagan's got to go." I walked out onto the dorm balcony, and marchers implored me to join them. I did. It snaked through the South Side of campus, through the campus to the North Side, and back south. It was invigorating.

If that's not what you'd call a rally, I remember going to anti-apartheid protests in front of Sproul Hall (administraion building) that rocked Berkeley and many other campuses in the spring of 1985.

Those are the two big early big political rallies in my life off the top of my head, but between 1980 and 1985 I probably dropped in on other political rallies on the Berkeley campus, which were plentiful.

[NoPasaran]

27. March & rally against the Shah, El Paso

Must have been 1975 or 76

[VOX]

28. May 1968 -- Eugene McCarthy at Cal State Northridge...

First time I'd seen police with scoped rifles on rooftops. Strange, sad year.

[blindpig]

29. Earth Day, 1970, Baltimore, Hopkins Plaza n/t

[SCDem]

30. Peaceful Protest against First Gulf War in Claremont, CA 1991

It was the summer before my freshman year in high school so it must have been in 1990 or was it 1991. I went by myself but saw my eighth grade social studies teacher there and his wife. It was peaceful, no arrests or anything. I walked a couple miles from my home to get there and then walked back after it was over.

[GreenPartyVoter]

31. First one was in college, an AIDS awareness march.. last one

was this past summer when I heard Jim Hightower speak.