Thousands Protest Bush's Inauguration

[Warren Stupidity]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=514&e=12&u=/ap/20050121/ap_on_go_pr_wh/inaugural_demonstrations

Oh look: AP finally noticed that there were nationwide protests yesterday.

[Just Me]

1. I rated it a 5!!!

This is the first time I have ever read an article in CM that acknowledges protests across the whole country.

[Spike from MN]

2. Great collection of pics.

Thanks for the link. Nice to see the pictures of people protesting in other countries. Hey, I guess Dubya really is a uniter. The entire world is united against him and his bastard administration. ;)

[EC]

3. Chicago Tribune

had a good article too. Good photos, 21 of them:

photos: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sfl-inaugurationprotests,1,6066735.photogallery?coll=chi-news-hed


article: (need to register)

Hundreds decry Bush in Evanston

Sue Laue
Published January 21, 2005


Several hundred Evanston Township High School students walked out of classes Thursday to protest President Bush's policies.

"Bush went to Iraq for no reason. There are no weapons of mass destruction. He lied," said Katlen Castillo, a 16-year-old sophomore.

Miriam Mondragon, a 15-year-old freshman, agreed, noting, "The walkout is important because Bush doesn't control everything in the United States. We have a right to say what we want. He's acting like a dictator, sending too many troops to Iraq and hurting too many families."

Students left the school at 9:45 a.m. but returned by early afternoon. They will be marked absent, school administrators said, and only eight absences are allowed per semester.

more http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-0501210326jan21,1,5923241.story?coll=chi-news-hed




Anti-Bush groups demonstrate across nation

By Frank James and Andrew Zajac, Washington Bureau. Stephen J. Hedges, Andrew Martin, Rudolph Bush and William Neikirk in Washington, Michael Martinez and Vincent J. Schodolski in California, and Patr
Published January 21, 2005


WASHINGTON -- The deep divide in the American electorate was on display Thursday as thousands of Americans noisily protested against President Bush at his second inaugural here and at demonstrations across the nation, mainly in opposition to the war in Iraq.

At times the protesters were so boisterous that they managed to distract many in the audience outside the Capitol listening to the president's inauguration speech. Occasionally they got into shouting matches and even fisticuffs with Bush supporters.

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After clearing security screeners who used metal detectors and pat-downs to check everyone on the parade route, demonstrators unfolded signs with anti-Bush messages, such as "What Would Jesus Bomb?" Others read, "Mandate Schmandate" and "Stop Mad Cowboy Disease."

"We're not giving up. There are a lot more battles to fight," said Ian Meyer, a 19-year-old North Carolina State University student. He and some friends drove more than 260 miles, much of it on icy roads, from Raleigh, N.C., to join the protest.

more... http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0501210322jan21,1,4416135.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed

[mcscajun]

4. I couldn't give it a 5...only 4

They spend graf after graf talking up numbers across the country...then somehow...only mention 'hundreds' in the single mention of the D.C. demonstrations. They gotta catch the clue train.

[gatorboy]

5. I caught that as well.

Where's the numbers for DC? :shrug:

[Warren Stupidity]

9. I didn't - good catch

The numbers for DC would be very difficult to calculate as our own little police state did everything it could to make sure that any one concentration of protestors was relatively small.

But as long as some of the Unaware learned today that there is no consensus, that there is no mandate, that a lot of people around the world, including a lot of americans, are really angry about this regime and its catalog of misdeeds, the protest was a success.

[Catfight]

6. What were the viewer ratings of the inauguration? I bet it was low

viewership and that's why no one is reporting it.

[central scrutinizer]

7. info on our local protest

http://www.dailyemerald.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2005/01/21/41f0c6cfd59da

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excerpt:

University law professor Garrett Epps was among the speakers at the inauguration protest. Epps said government "thugs" are "building a wall of secrecy" around wrongful practices at Abu Ghraib and elsewhere.

"As a nation with full knowledge of what was being done, we voted to approve it," he said.

Epps likened America to Italy during the 1920s and Germany during the 1930s, admonishing the members of the crowd to ask themselves what they will do to counter wrongful practices.

[Vidar]

8. The students are really the best part of this news. Thanks for posting.