Jon Stewart's 'Rally to Restore Sanity' goes global, sparking events all the way to Mt. Everest

[sabrina 1]

Jon Stewart's 'Rally to Restore Sanity' energizes expats from Paris to Prague

Jon Stewart's "Rally to Restore Sanity" in Washington has sparked more than 1,160 mini-rallies in 84 countries, morphing into something of a global political happening.

The last time a political rally in America gained such international traction was during the 2003 protests against the Iraq war, says Timothy Patrick McCarthy, director of the Human Rights and Social Movements Program at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government.

That is pretty impressive!

[BrklynLiberal]

1. Wow. It would be so great if we had an epidemic of reasonableness and sanity

[seabeyond]

2. yea. how fun is that.... nt

[sabrina 1]

3. It is fun, isn't it?

Gives me goose-bumps.

Take THAT, Glenn Beckerhead! :rofl:

[Ruby the Liberal]

4. Whoa - that IS impressive!!

[roguevalley]

5. this gives me hope

[sabrina 1]

6. Me too. It shows the good people are in the majority

worldwide. We just don't scream and yell as loud as they do.

[tblue37]

7. There was a satellite rally here in Overland Park, Kansas, a

suburb of Kansas City.

[sabrina 1]

9. I know they planned lots of satelite rallies for people who couldn't

get to DC. I read about a few of them, one I believe in Chicago.

I wonder when they add up all of those, how many more people 'attended'?

So far, it looks like the Stewart/Colbert rally was three times as big as Beck's and that doesn't count those joining in from around the world and the rest of the country.

Good for Kansas City. Do you know how many people were there?

[tblue37]

11. A friend who drove by later in the afternoon saw about 200 people, he said.

[pokerfan]

17. Seattle

Story: http://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigblog/archives/226680.asp

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ny0r2hgkgAI

[sabrina 1]

23. It looks like that was a big crowd. I hope they count

all these rallies too when they are counting how many people attended. Thanks for the photos.

[Turborama]

13. Was it this one that proud2BlibKansan posted some great photos of in their OP?

Link: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x9421834

[sabrina 1]

15. Hey, Turborama,

thanks for the link. That does look like the Kansas City rally. Nice pictures and once again, the teabaggers are outnumbered by the Sanity Rally! Lol!

[tblue37]

25. Oh, I am sure it would have been--and I also imagine that

by the time my friend passed by the rally, many people would have gone home.

[malaise]

8. Do you know what other global event took place in Africa

on this day in 1974?
The great Muhammad Ali beat Foreman in the rumble in the jungle

No wonder I love October 30.

[sabrina 1]

10. No, I didn't know that ~

Jon Stewart = Ali?

[Motown_Johnny]

12. Christian Science Monitor reporting that... wow

I must admit, I was not expecting that to be the source for the story

[Turborama]

14. K&R Great to hear it went global, I wish I'd thought of setting one up here now

Maybe there'll be something similar for the 2012 race and I can do it then.

:kick:

Thanks for the post, Sabrina. Hope you're having a great weekend.:hi:

[sabrina 1]

16. I wish we had thought of it also.

It would be great to do it in 2012. 84 Countries. I really was impressed. I'm waiting to find some more information on those rallies, which countries etc.

Weekend is going great, thanks for asking ~ :-)

[Odin2005]

18. Sweet!

[Scurrilous]

19. K & R

:thumbsup:

[liberalla]

20. Tucson

Here's a photo from the Tucson rally

The Rally to Restore Sanity and the Election to Preserve It





VOTE !


:kick:

[sabrina 1]

24. That is a very good article. Thanks for the link

From your link:

It was a great deal of fun and I saw a lot of people who might not otherwise be interested in actually participating in politics giving an ear to three hours of fairly sophisticated political satire. I think that's encouraging. It's something. Which is better than nothing.

.....

....... But more the 250,000 people thought it was important enough to show up on the National Mall, and a few hundred here in Tucson. That so many people devoted some time to emphasizing the message that our political culture is a mess and our media is making it worse has got to be significant.

What's the significance? My guess is this: there is a deep reservoir of calm, common sense in the American people. They see that the overheated rhetoric, fear-mongering, jingoism, and out-right lies that pervade our politics and media are not addressing our very real problems.

One thing that is obvious, the media gives so much coverage to the teabaggers and Sarah Palin, people might think that they are in the majority. This rally and all the satelite rallies here and around the world, show that that is far from the truth. It looks like sane people far outnumber the rightwing fringe that the media is so in love with.

[nadinbrzezinski]

26. RUN!!!!! ZOMBIES!!!!!

That is funny.

[jmondine]

21. Top ten protests signs from Mt. Everest sanity rally

10. My teabags are frozen
9. I disagree with you, but I'm pretty sure you're not a Yeti
8. The hell with my country. I want the feeling in my toes back
7. It's hard to scream and curse through an oxygen mask
6. Global warming is real... but I'm STILL f***ing freezing!
5. Will someone tell the Fox “News” host to stop yelling before we all get buried in an avalanche!?
4. Let's see if we can get Beck and O'Reilly to eat the yellow snow
3. Yeah, yeah. Terrorists, socialism, teabaggers, whatever. Just GET ME DOWN FROM HERE!
2. Obama is a secret Sherpa born in Nepal
1. Legalize same sex naked cuddling to fend off hypothermia

[sabrina 1]

22. Those are funny! I like #3!

Any photos from there?

[renate]

27. for real?

Those are awesome lines but wouldn't photos be AWESOME?

If this is true, that there were rallies all the way to Mt. Everest... I have hope again that people really do prefer rationality and sanity to the current political climate. They just aren't able to get them (except on Comedy Central).