[Peace-discuss] Anti-war march winds through Loop

[David Green]

Just to interject that the late Kopkind's compilation, The Thirty Years War, is the best journalism that I've ever read on the 60s and the decades surrounding it. It reads like both good journalism and good history.


"C. G. Estabrook" <galliher at uiuc.edu> wrote:  The late Andrew Kopkind said the rule was to double police estimates, 
halve organizers' estimates, and split the difference. That would come 
to 12,500. --CGE


Morton K. Brussel wrote:
> Objective reporting!---5000 attended? UGPJ estimated 30,000.
> What one expects from the Chicago Trib.
> 
> On Oct 30, 2007, at 11:53 AM, Robert Naiman wrote:
> 
>> http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-rallyoct28,0,4350674.story
>>
>> Anti-war march winds through Loop
>> Thousands gather in Chicago -- and across the country -- to protest
>> the United States' continued involvement in the war in Iraq
>>
>> By Gerry Smith
>>
>> Tribune staff reporter
>>
>> October 28, 2007
>>
>> Leonore Lee was among the thousands rallying in Chicago on Saturday to
>> protest the war in Iraq. Amid the crowd carrying signs marching down
>> Ashland Avenue, the 65-year-old from Milwaukee called the event "the
>> most powerful expression of power to the people."
>>
>> "It shows our solidarity and makes me love this country even more," 
>> she said.
>>
>> The day of speeches and demonstrations was part of a national day of
>> action demanding an end to the five-year-old conflict.
>>
>> Police estimated about 5,000 people attended the event, which began in
>> Chicago's Union Park before winding through the Loop and ending at
>> Federal Plaza.
>> ...

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