Did I miss it? Protest in England should have been BIIIIG news!!

[revcarol]

Nobody showed up?

Crowds only 100,000? What's the story?

Where are the pics?

[revcarol]

1. Dastardly bumping own thread...

and how about the world-wide protests to be held October 25? Who's planning for these?

[DemBones DemBones]

3. Big protests in Europe, too. I saw a little coverage, have

forgotten what channel. Should catch Journal on LinkTV tonight, or BBC news.

Haven't seen any mention of Dennis Kucinich introducing a bill to repeal the Patriot Act, even though this happened on Wednesday.

DUers seem absorbed with the new battle between Clark and Dean.

[JohnKleeb]

6. my grandma mentioned it to me

[FlashHarry]

2. Not covered by 'librul' media.

My mom mentioned this on the phone today. She said she saw it on the Internet and in the crawl on CNBC, but nowhere in the mainstream newscasts. How surprising.

[MoonRiver]

4. People have been too busy bashing and spreading gossip about

Clark to bother with such trivialities. So just stfu about all that international crap and get on the hate mongers bandwagon! ;)

[Cha]

8. Poor Clark.

[jonnyblitz]

12. yeah its only clark bashing going on...selective in what u see i notice.

typical.

[Imajika]

5. The media in the US reported...

the crowds were 10,000 in London the last time I saw any mention of it. Actually, I saw almost no stories about it on American TV.

The London police estimated the crowd at 20,000.

Protest organizers claimed 100,000.

It didn't seem to get much play in the American media. Not surprising really.

Here is the BBC report:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3143062.stm

Imajika

[Cha]

9. It gets so bizare that the news says one amount of protesters...

the police say another amount and then the organizers come up with hopefully a more accurate number! Jeez!

[Imajika]

15. Yeah..

I usually split the difference, but err on the side of most police estimates.

Police often underestimate the crowd and organizers usally inflate the attendence. The problem is that if the police lowball protest estimates too often they just might be held accountable, organizers of protests can say whatever the heck they want and really don't have to answer to anyone.

I think the protests in Europe this week didn't get as much play because they don't yet compare to the anti-war protests before the Iraq war. If they get to that size again, I suspect the coverage will be better. The media really has to be let by the nose to these things, especially the American media.

Imajika

[SoCalDem]

10. Here's the video link.. watch the protest

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/video/39387000/rm/_39387698_demo18_young_vi.ram

[Cha]

13. Love it! Thank you!

they want blair to go down...and more protests when bush goes to London ...WooHoooo!

[Maple]

7. It was big news

just not in the US.

[Cha]

11. I read about it yesterday on DU!

And the day before that I was posting with a Brit DUer about him going and about the Feb.15th Protest all over the World...He was in England and I was in New York City!


I hope the Brits oust blair and we will do our part and send bush back the brush.

[protect freedom impeach bush now]

14. at least it was mentioned in US news

last Fall the largest anti-war protest took place
in London, approx 400-500,000, AND the New York Whore Times
failed to report it - no photo, no story, no mention at all.

And the NYWhoreTimes has an bureau office in downtown London.

(but it was frontpage news in LATimes)

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here's a protest sign from last year



http://www.democraticunderground.com/cgi-bin/duforum/duboard.cgi?az=show_thread&om=13608&forum=DCForumID60

kudos to NNNOLHI

[chookie]

16. More important stories to cover:

Who cares about 100,000 people marching in London against the war on Iraq when a couple hundred have gathered in Alabama to ensure that a statue of the Ten Commandments (which makes anything in the Vatican look like Barbie furniture by comparison) stays in the court house there?

/sarcasm off