So what happened with yesterday's World Can't Wait Protests?

[crikkett]

We took the day off to walk paperwork through various beauracracies. How interesting it is to interface with your government through holes in a wall.

I know protests are underreported but this was supposed to be a big deal! I didn't hear one peep about "World Can't Wait" protests in any of the news I watched last night.

Please, fill me in!!

[NoPasaran]

1. Turns out the world decided to wait after all n/t

[Webster Green]

2. Market Street in San Francisco was shut down by protesters..

Some protesters were planning to spend the night camped out in Justin Herman Plaza on the Embarcadero. I don't know how many protesters showed up for the march and demonstrations.

The media seems to have gotten instructions from Karl to ignore the protests.

[iconoclastic cat]

3. Didn't you hear? They drove out the Bush regime!

/snark

[G_j]

4. "Thousands nationwide protest Bush's policies "

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20061005-1959-bushprotests.html

Thousands nationwide protest Bush's policies

By Lubna Takruri
ASSOCIATED PRESS

7:59 p.m. October 5, 2006

Associated Press

WASHINGTON – Hundreds of people called the Bush administration's policies a crime and held up yellow police tape along a three-block stretch in front of the White House on Thursday as part of a nationwide day of protest against the president.

The 500 demonstrators were among many who gathered for similar events in more than 200 cities to protest Bush on issues ranging from global warming to the war in Iraq.

<snip>
An estimated 800 people, mostly college age, chanted “Impeach Bush” and carried signs, including one that read: “We Can't Wait for 2008.”

Hundreds marched in Los Angeles, carrying caskets draped in U.S. flags to a federal courthouse, where protesters held a mock marriage of church and state.

Dozens of University of North Carolina students walked out of classes in Asheville, N.C. In Chicago, thousands of people flooded Michigan Avenue waving anti-Bush signs.

<snip>

[fasttense]

5. We went to a local rally.

About five cops were there to watch about 200 protesters. A lot of young college kids there. We were there at noon and had to leave at about 2:30. More people were expected for an all night vigil. This was in Asheville, NC. Some plain clothes cops were there taking names. I'm sure it was DHS.

[G_j]

7. yes, happy to see

Asheville pull through again, especially the students.

[Webster Green]

9. "Some plain clothes cops were there taking names." (HUH?)

Sounds unconstitutional to me. What reason do they have to be taking names of demonstrators?

[Crandor]

6. It's probably for the better that the media didn't cover it

World Can't Wait is a front group for the Revolutionary Communist Party. All they can do is hurt the credibility of the anti-war movement.

[Capn Sunshine]

8. Because we have so much to fear from Communists

After all, they might figure a way to take over our economy and flood our stores with cheap crap made by child labor.

[G_j]

10. OMG!

that would be simply awful!

[Crandor]

12. China is not really communist anymore

and besides, I am not saying that communists are still a threat, because they aren't. It's just a bad idea, politically, to be associated with any enemies of the US, even if the time has long passed since they could do anything.

[Clark2008]

19. You missed the point.

The point isn't that China is or is not a communist country. The point is that American corporations - the so-called standard-bearers of our economy - are doing far worse to this country than the communists ever did.

[Webster Green]

13. Holy crap!....I bet those dirty hippies were involved as well...

Are you stuck in some kind of time warp?

:rofl:

[magnolia]

14. Technically I agree with you.

But, the coverage I saw on CNN (I think) showed huge crowds of protesters in NYC and Washington with anti-Bush/anti-war signs. The average viewer wouldn't know the details about the organizers. What they saw was a lot of people who were very angry at Bush. And that's a good thing.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

18. Do you think...

...that the average viewer's mind is going to be changed by seeing this?

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

15. A great big chunk...

...of the anti-war movement already has no credibility due to its flirtations with Ramsey Clark, the World Workers Party, the Mumia people, etc.

[Dick Diver]

11. I apologize for showing my ignorance regarding this, but...

wasn't this supposed to be a world-wide event? If so, were there marches in other countries, the UK or France, perhaps?

[gratuitous]

16. Police arrested 10 demonstrators in Portland

Breathless reporting by the local news folk from the "scene," which was actually an intersection going about its usual Thursday afternoon business as the demonstration had broken up a couple of hours earlier. Cops arrested 10 people, mostly it seems, out of a feeling that they should do something.

[bluetrain]

17. I posted my experience here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=364x2330428

[OutNow]

20. Austin Texas

I went to the World Can't Wait rally at the state capital yesterday. My guess is there were about 600 people. That's quite good for a weekday rally. Lots of different signs supporting various progressive causes. That's good, room for everyone who hates the Bush regime! Quite a few supporters of the 9/11 conspiracy groups. Since Alex Jones lives in Austin that's not surprising either. It was very good that all these groups that don't always get along were able to agree on the central theme - Drive Out the Bush Regime.

BTW, the RCP may be the conveners of the World Can't Wait campaign, but I don't have any problem with that. It it's true, this is the best political work they've done in 30 years. Even better, I didn't hear one word about the Gang of Four. :-}

Overall - a good rally in Austin.

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